The Writer’s Almanac for July 8, 2. How had that started? A tree? Not me, she said.

And I said, Oh yeah? And she said, I’m reincarnating. Raquel Vicente De La Rosa Microsoft Excel. Ha, she said, See you in a few thousand years! Why years, I wondered, why not minutes? Days? She found that so funny—Ha Ha—doubled over—Years, she said, confidently. I think you and I have known each other a few lifetimes, I said.

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Leaving Verses This leaving verses poem collection brings you free, funny, sad, short, sorry you are leaving your job, your work, card verses, poems, poetry, quotes.

She said, I have never before been a soul on this earth.(It was cold. We were hungry.) Next time, you be the mother, I said. No way, Jose, she said, as we turned the last windy corner. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Parisii settled on the banks of the Seine and formed a town that became known as Lutetia, which meant “Midwater- Dwelling.” They mostly lived in thatched wooden huts, but they were smart, and fierce, and had their own coinage with their name on it, and began successfully trading with other European settlements. They built bridges, a fort, and minted coins. We mostly know about them from Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (5. B. C.), which detailed the sacking and pillaging of Lutetia by the Roman army in 5. B. C. Rather than give up their town, the Parisii burned it to the ground. The Romans won, though, and brought with them such modern conveniences as a theater, baths, a forum, and even a temple.

Remnants of the Parisii and the early town of Lutetia were first discovered in the 1. Baron Haussmann’s redesign of the city of Paris. Today marks the anniversary of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1. In Philadelphia, the site of the first reading, the Liberty Bell rang out to call citizens to the occasion.

Militia officer John Nixon made the proclamation from the garden of the Pennsylvania State House, atop a platform that had originally been constructed for observation of the transit of Venus in 1. According to a classic Harper’s magazine account, many attended and celebrated the reading: “At evening bonfires were lighted, the houses were illuminated, and it was not until a thunder- shower at midnight compelled the people to retire that the sounds of rejoicing were hushed.”The Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia hosts annual reenactments of the first public reading by John Nixon. National Park Rangers and professional actors join visitors to relive the historical moment from over 2.

It’s the birthday of columnist and best- selling novelist Anna Quindlen (books by this author), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1. She grew up in the suburbs, in a middle- class, Irish- American family.

Her dad was a management consultant and her mom took care of the kids. She said, “I sometimes joke that my greatest shortcoming as a writer is that I had an extremely happy childhood.”She went on to Barnard College, and for her thesis she wrote a collection of stories and published one of them in Seventeen magazine.

She wanted to be a fiction writer. But straight out of college she got hired by the New York Post, and a few years later, by the New York Times. She wrote about raising her kids, religion, her parents’ deaths, and her marriage, at the same time that she wrote about national politics and cultural trends. She said, “Anybody who tries to convince me that foreign policy is more important than child rearing is doomed to failure.” “Public and Private” was nationally syndicated, and some of these columns were collected into a best- selling book, Thinking Out Loud (1. In 1. 99. 2, she won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She was so successful that a lot of people thought she was in line to be deputy editor of the paper. But then, in 1. 99.

She really wanted to write fiction, and she had been trying all along — during her tenure at the Times, she managed to publish two novels, Object Lessons (1. One True Thing (1. But she was also raising kids, and she didn’t have enough time for her family or enough time to write.

So she quit to become a full- time writer, and since then she’s published eight novels, including Blessings (2. Rise and Shine (2. Miller’s Valley (2.

It’s the birthday of novelist and short- story writer J. F. Powers (books by this author), born James Farl Powers in Jacksonville, Illinois (1. His family was Catholic, but the town was heavily Protestant, and Powers wrote about a similar town in his first novel: “Protestants were very sure of themselves there. If you were a Catholic boy you felt that it was their country, handed down to them by the Pilgrims, George Washington, and others, and that they were taking a risk in letting you live in it.” He went to Catholic school, he was a great basketball player, and then he started working odd jobs to support himself and his family during the Great Depression. By the time WWII started, he was unemployed and living in Chicago, but he loved it because he met all sorts of interesting people — jazz singers, political exiles, pacifists. Powers refused to join the war, and so he was sent to a federal prison in Sandstone, Minnesota.

He was paroled to work as an orderly in a hospital in St. Paul, and he wrote fiction at night.

In 1. 94. 7, he published Prince of Darkness, a book of short stories, many of them about Catholic priests in Minnesota. He continued to write novels and short stories, mostly satire, many of them about priests in small Minnesota towns. His books never sold very well, even though they got great reviews and his novel Morte d’Urban (1. National Book Award. It was on this day in 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned (books by this author). He had spent the past four years traveling around Italy with his wife, and it was during this period that he wrote almost all of his most famous poems, including Prometheus Unbound (1.

He was living in La Spezia, on the west coast of Italy, at the time of his death. Shelley had just bought a schooner two months earlier. The boat was twenty- four feet long, with twin masts, and it was called Don Juan, after the poem by his friend Lord Byron.

He often spent mornings sitting on the boat as it lay anchored in the bay, reading and writing as he bobbed up and down with the waves. He worked on his last poem, . He wrote in a letter to a friend, . We drive along this delightful bay in the evening wind, under the summer moon, until earth appears another world.

They started their return trip on July 7, and on this day, July 8, 1. Shelley set off from Livorno to La Spezia, a trip of about fifty- five miles. There was a storm approaching from the southwest, and most of the Italian boats came into the harbor, but Shelley wanted to make it back that evening. Shelley's friend Captain Roberts watched them sail away from a lighthouse, and as the storm got worse he began to grow worried.

He took a large boat out to sea and offered to take Shelley and Williams on board, but Shelley refused the offer. A sailor said through a speaking trumpet, . The boat sank in the Gulf of Spezia later that evening.

Regular Submission Guidelines - Rattle: Poetry. Overview. Rattle publishes unsolicited poetry and translations of poetry. Submissions are open year- round, always welcomed, and always free. Despite their growing prevalence in the literary community, we do not believe in submission fees and never will. Rattle does not accept work that has been previously published, in print or online (we do consider self- publishing to blogs, message boards, or Facebook as publication if it can be viewed publicly without login).

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If the work is accepted elsewhere, just add a note through Submittable, or, if you submitted in hard copy, call or email to let us know. We don’t publish anything without your signature, anyway; if another journal beats us to the punch, congratulations! Contributors in print receive $1.

Online contributors receive $5. All submissions are automatically considered for the annual Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, a $1,0. Quick Options: Submittable / Postal. Poems. We like poems of any length. Send up to four poems at a time.

We’re looking for poems that move us, that might make us laugh or cry, or teach us something new. We like both free verse and traditional forms—we try to publish a representative mix of what we receive. We read a lot of poems, and only those that are unique, insightful, and musical stand out—regardless of style. Since our issues include about 7.

So while most magazines suggest reading their back issues to get a sense of what they like to publish, we’d suggest reading to get a sense of what we’re having trouble finding—if you notice a style or subject matter that we don’t seem to be publishing, send us that! Rattle publishes about 2. Your submissions keep us going, and we always appreciate them. Tributes. Our tributes are usually half- issues but sometimes comprise an entire issue. Each tribute gathers poems from a specific ethnic, vocational, or social group. We’re currently seeking submissions from Immigrant Poets for our Spring 2.

Please explain how this applies to you and affects your poetry, if at all, in your contributor note. We no longer publish prose essays, but instead use these contributor notes as micro- essays at the back of each issue. The poems themselves don’t have to be about immigration—we want to celebrate and explore the range of work that immigrant poets are producing. If using Submittable, be sure to select the Immigrant Poets category.

The deadline for this issue is October 1. For more information on future tributes, keep an eye on our call for submissions page. Poets Respond. Every Sunday we publish one poem online that has been written about a current event that took place the previous week. This is an effort to show how poets react and interact to the world in real time, and to enter into the broader public discourse. To help us stay organized, we request that these poems only be sent to us through the Submittable portal.

The deadline for submissions each week is midnight Friday. Payment is $5. 0. Required Information. Please include this information with each submission: Name, Mailing Address, Phone Number, Email address. If submitting electronically, use the appropriate fields when you upload your file on Submittable, but avoid including your name or contact information anywhere within the file itself.

If submitting by mail, only include your name and contact information in the cover letter, not above the poems. We ignore the poet’s name while reading submissions to be as fair as possible, and this makes it easier. In addition, please send a short contributor note for the author.

Your note should tell us who you are and why you love poetry. Our notes section is something that makes issues of Rattle unique, and many say it’s as fun to read as the poetry itself. Contributor notes should be in the first person, and follow the format of this sample: Erik Campbell: “One afternoon in the summer of 1. I was driving to work and I heard Garrison Keillor read Stephen Dunn’s poem . After he finished the poem I pulled my car over and sat for some time.

That is why I write poems. I want to make somebody else late for work.” (email address, web address, or Twitter handle goes here at the end if you’d like it included)Notes in this form are only needed upon acceptance—it doesn’t have to be included with each submission, though we would enjoy it. Please keep in mind that submitting to Rattle implies an interest in the magazine, and anyone who submits will be added to our mailing list to receive occasional updates on new issues, events, and calls for submissions. We never buy, sell, trade, or share your information with anyone. View our Privacy Policy for more information.

You may opt out of our mailing list at any time, in writing or with an email to: Payment. Payment for print publication (from us to you in exchange for your work) is $1. Contributors also may pre- order additional copies of their issue at our cost to produce. Payment for online- only work is $5. Rights & Rules.

All rights revert to the authors upon publication. To get technical, we require First Rights, meaning we want to be the first venue to present the poems to the public. This means that we won’t consider poems that have been self- published, published online, or have been posted to blogs, etc., except when posted to closed groups or message boards. If Google can find the text of your poem, or it appeared in a book, magazine, or newspaper, then we don’t want it. Though authors do retain all rights to their work, we post everything we publish on the back- issues section of the website after print publication, and so require Non- Exclusive Electronic Permissions.

Response Time. Response times vary greatly, depending on volume and where we are in the production schedule, and can take anywhere from one to six months, and sometimes longer. Revisions. Please note that it is not possible to revise a poem while it’s being considered. If we decide we’d like to publish any of them, you will have an opportunity to revise author galleys at that time. A Boot Method For The Installer Is Unable To Install.

Please proof- read your work carefully before you submit—but only for the sake of your own sanity. Typos happen; we don’t frivolously discard poems because of them. Option #1: Submittable (preferred)We really don’t care how you submit, we just like to read—but Submittable is so convenient for everyone, and the vast majority of submissions have been coming this way, so we no longer accept email submissions.

If you’d like to submit electronically, please use Submittable’s online submission manager: Option #2: Postal. If you like sending your poems the old fashioned way, send the required information and include either a self- addressed, stamped envelope and/or an email address so that we can reply. Please note that we will only return poems if the necessary amount of postage has been added to your envelope. For foreign submissions, Submittable is preferred—if you still want to submit on real paper, please do not send International Reply Coupons. Send the submission directly to our office: Rattle. Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA 9.