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The December issue of Clementine Poetry Journal is now live. Big thanks and congratulations to our December poets! The poems are in no particular order, and we’ll rearrange them a few times during the month so that everyone gets to be “above the fold.”
Some good news:
The year-end print issue of Clementine will be coming out later this month. Contributors to the July-through-December issues will receive a free copy in the mail. I’ll also post a link on the Clementine website for anyone wanting to buy copies of the print issue at Lulu.com. (Here’s Clementine Volume I, from the first half of 2015.)
Also…drum roll…
Congratulations to our Pushcart nominees for 2015! There were so many wonderful poems this year, it was very difficult to narrow it down to just six, but here they are:
Jenya Doudareva – Nothing Surprises Us Anymore
Suanne Fetherolf – Extreme Caving
Lynne Handy – School Friend
Darren Morris – Speed of Light
Tim Suermondt – The Drone
Thomas Zimmerman – Dogwalk
And now for some less-good news:
Unfortunately, the Clementine online-and-print venture is not paying for itself, even with the $3 submission fee (of which Submittable takes about half). It looks like I’ll have spent around fifty thousand pennies from my own not-very-deep pockets by the end of 2015. So, I’ve decided to convert to an all-online format, stop requiring a submission fee, change to the supposedly free version of Submittable (which charges submitters a 99-cent submission fee after the first five submissions per month, alas), and stop printing a paper journal, although I will likely “print” a journal at Issuu.com, like this example: http://issuu.com/clementineunbound/docs/full-clementine_vol_one
In light of these changes, I’ll be publishing at a new, free site, Clementine (Unbound). It will be a little looser, with no defined schedule, no defined number of poems up at one time, etc. (All the Clementine Poetry Journal poems published in 2015 will still be available in the Archives section of the original CPJ site for at least a year beyond their original publication dates.)
Thanks to all of you for contributing to and supporting this (ad)venture. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. I hope you’ll continue submitting your work, even without the possibility of a print journal, and keep on sharing the tangy goodness of Clementine with your friends and colleagues.
Best wishes and happy holidays,
Gloria
GFB
G. F. Boyer, Editor
Clementine Poetry Journal
Clementine (Unbound)
