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Submissions Now Open for Cordite 39: Jackpot!
As with all themed issues of Cordite, we will accept up to five poems per submission. What’s the bigwig in the photograph telling you? Maybe, at some point and in some way, you have hit the jackpot. Perhaps you’ve only …
An Interview with Kent MacCarter
Kent MacCarter is Cordite’s new Managing Editor. In the Hungry Middle of Here, his first collection of poetry, published by Transit Lounge Press, was reviewed in Cordite in 2009. In 2012, another poetry collection, Ribosome Spreadsheet, will be released as …
So long – and thanks for all the poetry!
This issue of Cordite Poetry Review is my last as Managing Editor. After eleven years I feel that the time has come for renewal and fresh energy. Therefore I’m also very pleased to announce, after a lengthy selection process, that …
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Work: A Cordite-Prairie Schooner Collaboration
Cordite is excited to announce a special collaboration with Nebraska-based literary journal, Prairie Schooner. The collaboration, entitled ‘Work’, is the first in what promises to be an exciting ‘Fusion’ series, wherein Prairie Schooner teams up with innovative journals from around …
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Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online
Cordite 37: No Theme! is now online and features forty new works by a whole bunch of poets who got super-excited by the opportunity to send us poems on any theme they liked. Or else, um, no theme at all. …
Coming soon: Cordite-Prairie Schooner Fusion!
Cordite is very excited to be involved in US journal Prairie Schooner’s Fusion series; in fact, we’re the first cab off the rank, with a special WORK co-feature due online in February 2012. The feature will include fifteen poems from …
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HNY 2012 to our contributors and readers
On behalf of the Cordite editorial team and the world’s bison population, I’d like to wish all of our contributors and readers a (belated, but) happy new year, and a glorious 2012! I hope that the new year brings you …
Tiny Steps: the Electr(on)ification of Cordite
Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have we finally broken through that invisible barrier between ‘text-based journal’ and ‘online journal of electronic literature’?
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WordPress Upgrade SNAFU
As some of you may be aware, we use a content management system called WordPress to produce Cordite online. Last week, the latest version of WordPress (3.0) was released, and so we dutifully upgraded the software. Along the way, however, …
Follow Cordite on Twitter!
Those of you who inhabit the Twitter universe will surely be mildly excited (if not perhaps a little bemused) to learn that Cordite now has a Twitter account, through which you can be kept updated as to every single move …
Cordite Editor News
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Cordite editors have been hibernating recently. In one sense, you'd be right. Who could begrudge our reviews editor Ali Alizadeh a well-earned rest after bravely climbing the mountain of submissions we received …
