Loose Words Letter #76
The Return
Welcome to the newsletter from Loose Words. These letters used to go out every Thursday to highlight many of our published poems from the week prior. We took a long break, but this is the return. Loose Words is a poetry publication brought to you by Assemblage to capture disconnected thoughts and let them find their form.
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” — Khalil Gibran
We returned. We hope you are still here. We don’t care what Medium is or isn’t. This is our island.
When we do send out our newsletters, we will post a few lines from each featured poem (all friend links so anyone can read them) to give you a preview of the whole. We encourage you to read the full version by clicking in and taking that minute. A one-minute read could change your day.
We Are Back Open For Submissions
Please be sure to read the entire post below if you want to submit poetry to Loose Words. It is imperative that you do. We will know if you don’t. Click the link underneath the image below or click Submit on our homepage if you think you would be a good fit and have been writing on Medium for long enough to understand what it is.
We will also be tagging all of our current poets here (this is a newsletter so there is no money scale to tagging) to make sure they still want to write for us. We know we were gone for a while and we understand if others have left too, but we want to reconfirm everyone’s participation in this poetry collective moving forward.
Featured Poets and Collections Are Coming Back
One of the things we used to do was to have a featured poet and collection in every newsletter. This is coming back soon. Stay tuned. Each newsletter we feature one of our contributing poets at Loose Words on our homepage and in this letter. Collections are groupings of poems with an overall theme. You will find Collections on the homepage underneath the Featured Poems, Notes From the Editor, and Featured Poet sections.
A List of Our Current Poets
You are being tagged here for a reason. It’s because you are currently a poet for Loose Words. Since we took some time off, we want to make sure you still want to write for us. We are looking to make some space for new poets so if you’ve moved on, we understand. Please let us know.
You can send us a private note here, email Jonathan directly to let him know whether you wish to stay or go, or just remove yourself if you wish to. We hope you all stay. We miss you all.
Aaron Quist Aspen Blue dr. d. e. fulford Alexa Thorn Ana-Maria Schweitzer Lance Baker Brian Fehler Blithe Anderson Bradie Bradley J Nordell Bryony Walter Caitlin Kratz Caroline Mellor Cassius Corbin Catherine Caruso Cat Hollyer Connie Song Jennifer Cowie King Deb Ewing Deborah McNamara Dennett Dionne Charlet Hamna Labeeb Eashan Reddy Kotha Elizabeth Helmich Elizabeth Williamson Ell Benjamin Florence Wanjiku Fọlábòmí Àmọ̀ó Georgiana Petec Giulia de Gregorio Listo Gail Walter Ioana Andrei Melissa Jac Gautreau Jessica Lee McMillan Joe Barca Juliette Roanoke Kara B. Imle k. sona Kyla Sawyer Lark Morrigan Lavender Nightmares Lisa Alletson Lubna Yusuf Megan Minutillo Melinda Smith Melissa Kerman Milana Bojinovic Mary Jones Virginia Roces Never Sugarcoated Ozge Gurbuz Durmus Paul Mulliner Paul Corbeil Sarah E Sturgis Gregory D. Welch Shristi Jaiswal Siân Griffin Siddharth Murali S. Wade Simran Kankas Sionann Mastromonico Christine Kelly Bryan Young Sydney J. Shipp Tasheal Gill Thomas Plummer Trapper Markelz Unni Nambiar Venessa Yeh Veronika Georgieva Victoria Antonelli Vinitha Dileep Wild Flower Wren Jones Indira Reddy
We Are Better Together
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” — Leo Buscaglia
See you all soon.
