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Cyclamens and Swords Publishing July 2010 Newsletter   For our current issue, please see http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/ News - Scroll down to: •Read how to enter our poetry contest •Submit to our MUSIC issue •Get an invitation to Helen and Johnmichael’s poetry reading in Jerusalem •See the newest titles in our Bookshop   Announcing the third Cyclamens and Swords Poetry Contest! http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/contest.php First prize is $300, second prize $100, third prize $50 and seven honorable mentions. Only $5 per poem, $10 for 3 poems or $15 for 6 poems entry fee. Winning poems and honorable mentions will be published in our winter issue. A chapbook containing the winning poems and the honorable mentions will be published and presented to the winners in addition to their cash prize. Guidelines: Submission period: June1st until 30th November 2010. What to submit: this is an open contest for poetry of any style or theme. Your entry should be your own original work. You may submit the same poem(s) simultaneously to this contest and others and you may submit poems that have been published elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. Length: Poems not to exceed 30 lines length (excluding title and spaces between stanzas).   The Theme for our August Issue is MUSIC   § Awaiting your poetry submissions on this subject which accompanies so much of our lives. § Short stories can be submitted on ANY SUBJECT. § And of course, interesting and high quality artwork § Submit now. Early submissions stand a better chance of being published! § For submission guidelines, please go to: http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/submissions.php   Invitation to a Poetry Evening   Helen Bar-Lev and Johnmichael Simon cordially invite you to a poetry reading of their published and new poems Where? - T’mol Shilshom café 5 Yoel Solomon street Nahalat Shiva, Jerusalem When? - Monday, July 12th, 7:00 pm. http://www.tmol-shilshom.co.il/map.htm     Our April 2010 Issue of Cyclamens and Swords is Online   Contents: § Poetry from 34 poets on general subjects. § Short stories from 16 authors. § Artwork from 8 artists.     New Titles in our Bookshop   Michael E. Stone, Selected Poems Centered on the dappled dissonance of contemporary Jerusalem and ranging from the Sinai to Armenia and Australia before returning to Jerusalem , Stone takes readers on a journey through geology, geo-politics, history, culture, language and the nature(s) of meaning. Starting with geology and geo-politics, he arrives at the most personal of intersections: watching over the death of a father and caring for a mother through her struggle to survive amid bus bombs in his beloved Jerusalem . The Holy City ’s contradictions — “unclarities ambiguities complexities all” — allow for God’s incomprehensible wholeness while highlighting our own all too uncomprehending brokenness. At our human center, language, poetry, and words, the heart of Stone’s book, connect our fractured existences to the dappled beauty of the world. Dr. Michael Dickel, poet, lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ohalo College in Katzrin Now only $15 including postage http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/cyclamens_eShop.php In Moonlight the Sky Will Slide by Katherine L. Gordon and Helen Bar-Lev A poetic conversation between Katherine L. Gordon, Canada and Helen Bar-Lev , Israel . Illustrated by Helen Bar-Lev Now only $10 including postage http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/cyclamens_eShop.php The Muse in the Suitcase A companion volume to Cyclamens and Swords by Helen Bar-Lev and Johnmichael Simon includes illustrations and sketches by Helen of landscapes and people in 15 countries to which they have traveled. Now only $18 including postage http://www.cyclamensandswords.com/cyclamens_eShop.php PLEASE FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR FELLOW POETS, WRITERS AND ARTISTS. THANKS Helen and Johnmichael Helen Bar-Lev, artist, poet www.helenbarlev.com Senior Editor, Cyclamens and Swords Publishing www.cyclamensandswords.com Contributing editor, SKETCHBOOK, A Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms http://poetrywriting.org/ International Senior Poet Laureate, 2009 Amy Kitchener Foundation Johnmichael Simon Chief Editor www.cyclamensandswords.com