Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Passionate Transitory, a poetry magazine

My friend Robert has walked hundreds, maybe thousands of miles across England and France. He writes delicious Fermoresque (Patrick Leigh Fermor) prose about those adventures and juicy poems that wander through countryside both physical and spiritual. He may be The Solitary Walker, but he has nicely gathered fine poets from hither and yon to begin a new poetry community. I am excited to be in on the ground floor of The Passionate Transitory partly because Robert is so widely read that he makes a far finer editor of such a magazine than almost anyone I know. The other reason is that the poems are quite wonderful, and I am honored to read the work of new-to-me poets and be included in this issue with them.

Check out Robert's walking adventures at The Solitary Walker.

Read the current (first) issue of The Passionate Transitory, including Robert's delightful editorial.

Read my quick interview, including who I write for here.

And here are the three poems of mine Robert included in this issue. You may have seen them before.

If you are a poet, please do submit your work to Robert for the winter issue here! Here are Robert's own words:

The scope of this journal will be broad, just as the concerns of poetry are as diverse as life itself. However, we are particularly interested in poetry as discovery, revelation, epiphany and praise; poetry as a magical conduit to the unconscious; poetry as a creative, meaningful and subtle process of marking stages in the real and metaphorical journeys we are all embarked upon — whether these be pilgrimages of the mind, the body or the soul. But before we lose ourselves in the abstract, let's remember the words of William Carlos Williamsno ideas but in things. It's the tangible things of the world that are the true stuff of poems, poems which are imaginary gardens with real toads in them as Marianne Moore so famously put it.

The only downside to Robert editing this journal is that out of proper protocol, his own poems do not appear.

7 comments:

  1. Sounds wonderful. Best wishes to Robert, and I'm glad you are involved!

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    1. Thanks for the encouragement, Kathleen. You should submit from your wonderful work!

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  2. I enjoyed your interview earlier on Facebook, Ruth, and Robert's editorial was excellent. I have bookmarked the site. Best of luck to your friend's new venture.

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    1. Thank you for reading the interview, Hedge, and Robert's editorial. I'm glad you'll track with TPT. And I would love to see you offer him poems from your vast array of beauties!

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  3. How exciting! Best of luck in this new endeavor.

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  4. Thanks for introducing me to this journal....With just a quick cursory peek at it I can tell I will be spending quite a bit of time there:)

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  5. I'm thrilled for you, Ruth, as you already know. This kind of honor totally befits you. Needless to say, I'm also proud of you!

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