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I'm so floored to be able to tell you all this: my poem "Still Life with Broken Hearts" is being published in the second issue of the drop-dead gorgeous -Ology Journal.
-Ology is a quarterly online journal of literature and photography with an amazing staff headed by the relentlessly creative and talented Avery Myers. I started to follow their doings and dealings when the journal was first founded, as the lovely and brilliant Paola Bennet was the managing editor. Once I'd gotten a good look at their website and 'about' page, I fell in love:
Here at -Ology Journal, we ache for writing that exudes a boldness of sentences - for writing that establishes a sense of haunt. We want to publish the electricity at the end of your spine; the Friday-night shivers beneath your lungs.Then when the first issue of -Ology came out, with a theme of 'alethiology' (the science of truth and evidence), I couldn't read fast enough. Here's the link for your reading enjoyment, because my mere words wouldn't do it justice.
This tweet (from too-cool-for-this-world Tumblr user mythaelogy), I think, sums it up best:
@_ologyjournal your first issue is absolutely incredible and beautiful, and resonates so wholly in my bones, i feel i must be made of it.
— Maddie (@mythaelogy) January 30, 2015
Anyway, I wrote a little poem about a relationship gone awry (which basically wrote itself after I'd come up with the title) and decided I might as well submit, because although I was admittedly very starstruck (who wouldn't be? this publication is amazing), I thought it wouldn't hurt to get my work read by such a talented group of creatives. You can imagine my open-mouthed surprise at receiving an acceptance letter around a month later.Long story short, "Still Life with Broken Hearts" is now available in the second issue of -Ology, which has the theme of 'chiaroscuro'.
Congratulations on being published in Ology! That is so awesome and amazing. I just went and read your poem, and no wonder it was chosen. It's incredibly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love the theme of chiaroscuro, because it's one of my favourite words (since it almost has my entire name in it ;D). In high school, we had these jerseys and we could have a nickname or whatever printed on the back, and I got chiaroscuro printed. ^.^
Anyway, congrats again! :D
Thank you so much! I can't even begin to say how much that means to me <3 And yes! The concept of chiaroscuro is so, so lovely (and bonus points for having your name in it, of course!).
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Chiara!
Congratulations, Christina - Ology is indeed a beautiful journal, and I'm so glad you're excited at having been published! (Also: "city-soaked stars" is the sort of phrase that resides in the hollowed-out recesses of one's soul, and now I can't stop saying it over and over to myself. Simply lovely.)
ReplyDeleteAhhh, thank you, Topaz! I'm so in love with -Ology, honestly—I fangirled so hard when my poem was accepted :D congratulations on your poem being in that issue as well! (Eeeek. I'm so glad that phrase stuck with you!)
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