[David Landrum]

If you're really into Catholic art and literature, you might want to check out Dappled Things, a journal of poetry, essays, and fiction that takes a conservative, old-fashioned Catholic slant. Might be a venue for those who can write in that style (I'm not Catholic but I have enough of a background in religious reading that I can assume that kind of voice and persona). One of my poems, "Roads Walked and Barred," is in the latest issue, Dappled Things . It is a print journal, so of my poem you will only get a few lines--temptation to buy the print copy. But it may be a viable venue for some of the poets on Eratosphere so check it out.

David

[Roger Slater]

My, they don't give much of your poem online, do they? One line? Anyway, I'm intrigued, and glad to see you don't have to be Catholic, since that's not what they say on the site. ("We the editors of Dappled Things invite you, our Catholic brothers and sisters, to sing and shout in our pages about our dappled world. Write about spotted trout and brinded cows, or write about the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We ask only that your work be inspired by your love for Him and His Church in the fullness of her Scripture and Tradition, her sacraments, and her communion of saints")

[David Landrum]

I guess you have to be catholic in the most catholic sense of the word.

[Michael Cantor]

David -

How do you find those publications? I know you're multi-faceted, but this one still has to be one of the strangest pubs you've achieved. Did you notice that you seem to be the only one in there whose poems are not reproduced in full? Does the magazine have a non-believer detector, or is there a special Landrum Rule that applies only to the good stuff? And that some of the others appear to be based on the theory that salvation is found in adjectives? (Check out J. B. Toner.) The magazine has a wonderful title, and congratulations, I guess, but I'm still scratching my head as to how you discovered it, and why I it seems I can bring up every poem but yours.

[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited October 23, 2008).]

[David Landrum]

No real mystery, Michael. I think I found it on Duotrope because I had a couple of poems that I thought might go in a religious publication like this one, and Duotrope has a category, "Religious," you can click in. "Dappled Things" was one of the selections that came up and sounded like a good bet.

As for why the poem is truncated, I'm not sure. Maybe it's just length (it's a pretty long poem)--but I like the idea of an unbeliever detector. Maybe it's the Vatican II idea that I might get to heaven but it will be in spite of my ideas on spirituality rather than because of them. So they can't give full press to the poem, at least not on the internet (it's all there in the print version).

dwl

[Roger Slater]

But the guidelines use a capital C, suggesting that the dappled things observed and versified by the small-c crowd would be of no interest whatsoever. Still, perhaps I will tempt them with translations, since I have several dappled and stippled sonnets by Catholics. I see that the magazine is blurbed by the founder of First Things, which is a nice vote of confidence.

[Michael Cantor]

I have some stapled things - two-page poems. Whaddya think?

[Janice D. Soderling]

I got a whole wastebasket full of crumpled things, but Duotrope don't help me none there.

[David Anthony]

I have some dimpled things.
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