It’s not what you think

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It’s not what you think

The First Ten Words by Rich Larson

Chris Cornell, 1964-2017

Chris Cornell died early Thursday morning. He hanged himself in the bathroom of his hotel room in Detroit.

For two days, I’ve been working on a piece to pay tribute to him, and it’s been a struggle. Usually when I have a problem like this it’s because I’m staring at a blank screen trying to figure out what I want to say. That’s not the problem this time. The problem is I have way too much to say.

I’m not going to sit here and claim to have been a huge fan of Soundgarden. I didn’t dislike them, I just had to take them in small doses. I was a fan of Cornell. I love “Seasons,” the solo song he had on Cameron Crowe’s movie, Singles. It’s a droning acoustic song about isolation and the meaningless passing of time. Your basic nihilistic statement written at what was…

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Man Used Internet Registry to Track down and Beat Pedophiles and Sex Offenders With A Hammer

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The “Alaskan Avenger,” a victim of molestation and abuse as a child, is accused of vengefully attacking pedophiles with a hammer, using the online registry to find sex offenders.

According to Alfred NG of NY Daily News, using Anchorage’s public online sex offender registry to locate up to three offenders, Jason Vukovich allegedly broke into his victims’ homes and bashed in their heads with a hammer in June.

NG says, “One of his victims landed on the sex offender registry 10 years ago, after pleading no contest to attempted sexual abuse of a minor.”

“He said, ‘I’m an avenging angel, I’m going to mete out justice for the people you hurt,’” Wesley Demarest, one of the people Vukovich tracked down, told a local news station.

Police said Vukovich was arrested the same night he allegedly hammered in Demarest’s skull. Police also found a notebook with his victims’ names listed in…

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Thinking of Becoming a Vegetarian? Well, You Can’t.

Drexel News Blog

We all have that one snooty friend who is always talking about the ethical reasons for his vegetarianism. Well, now you can prove him wrong.

A new book by Andrew Smith, PhD, an assistant professor of philosophy in Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences who specializes in environmental philosophy, makes the case that there isn’t a morally defensible argument for vegetarianism, and in fact, you can’t even actually be vegetarian. The book,  “A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism,” was released by Palgrave Macmillan this month.

Daniel Quinn, author of the award-winning philosophical novel “Ishmael,” said of the book: “This is one of the most important books I’ve read in the past two decades, and I think you’ll agree, whether you’re vegetarian, vegan or neither. It will change your mind in significant ways (it did mine), and you’ll enjoy the process, even if it means relinquishing some assumptions…

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Akvan Brings Zoroastrian Poetry and Iranian History to Black Metal

These Children of Poetry by The Plastic Clown

These children mount the stage & staple polaroids of hope to pierce youthful breast their blood drips with meaning to flaunt at the spotlight & I remember that I’m selling poison mixed with…

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Paying Call for Submissions – Contrary Magazine pays $20, Deadline Sept. 1, 2015!

Trish Hopkinson

Contrary doesn’t charge fees for submissions, but they do pay contributors. Per their site, payment “for original commentary, fiction, and poetry, Contrary Magazine pays $20 per author per issue, regardless of the number of works or nature of the submission. Reviews and Contrary Blog posts are usually unpaid.”

They also provide detailed information on what they are looking for on the submission page for each genre and even provide the name of the editor so you can successfully create a cover page without guessing to whom you should address it.

For example, for poetry, “We believe poetry is contrary by nature, always defying, always tonguing the tang of novelty. We look especially for plurality of meaning, for dual reverberation of beauty and concern. Contrary’s poetry in particular often mimics the effects of fiction or commentary. We find ourselves enamored of prose poems because they are naturally contrary toward form –…

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9 PAYING Submission Calls Open Now (Deadlines start Sept 26)

Trish Hopkinson

This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines and some have administrative/processing submissions fees of up to $4 as noted below.

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For more paying literary magazines and journals, see Paying Markets for Emerging Poets.

Iron Horse

DEADLINES:

#LikeAGirl Issue (Aug 18 – Sept 26, 2015)

NaPoMo 2016 (Sept 29 – Oct 31, 2015)

IHLR 2016 Trifecta (Nov 3 – Dec 1, 2015)

PAYMENT: $40 per poem, $100 per prose piece

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

NOTES: “We at Iron Horse Literary Review were so moved by the commercial that we’re devoting an entire issue to all the girls and women who are swinging a fierce left or right punch in this world…

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