Boudhanath: A New Poem by Abhay K

Posted on June 27, 2015September 2, 2015 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsLeave a comment

The great wheel of Dharma
spins incessantly
drums rend the earth and heavens
mendicants pray for alms
pigeons feed on scattered corn
visitors click endless images
Cosmic mandalas adorn windows
handicrafts, Bodhisatvas in all avatars
Monks meditate in maroon robes.
Wearing a gleaming white robe
I sit at the centre
safeguarding Buddha’s relics
My eyes —
benevolent and wise
bless the cosmos
heal the diseased
ease the suffering.

Bio: Abhay K. is an Indian poet-diplomat. He is the author of two memoirs and five collections of poems. He has been awarded the SAARC Literary Award 2013 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2013. His poems have appeared in leading literary journals in India, Russia, UK, and USA and have been translated into Irish, Russian, Italian, Nepali, Hindi and Chinese. His most recent collection of poems The Seduction of Delhi was published by Bloomsbury India. He is the editor of CAPITALS — an anthology on the national capital cities of the world. The SAARC Song penned by him has paved way towards an official SAARC Anthem. His call for an official Earth Anthem has been lauded by UNESCO and supported by the Habitat for Humanity. http://www.abhayk.com.

This poem forms part of a larger sequence about various heritage sites in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Image Credit: Boudhanath Stupa – Kathmandu, Nepal. Source: http://www.mysticxpressions.com

Long Exposure Magazine, Issue 2: Digital Release

Posted on June 19, 2015June 19, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Commentary, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Painting, Photography, Poetry2 Comments

The new edition of Long Exposure Magazine is ready! Featuring an internationally diverse range of creative work in a variety of forms. Access it here: http://joom.ag/g6Ob

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Long Exposure Magazine, Issue 2, Upcoming Release

Posted on June 16, 2015August 19, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Commentary, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Launch, Literature, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Painting, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsLeave a comment

The second issue of Long Exposure Magazine will be made available online from this Friday, 19th June.

The edition is focused on a variety of eastern poetic and artistic forms, and features the collaborative work of Ron Rosenstock and Gabriel Rosenstock, combining haiku and photography, a sequence based on the art of Hiroshige, several examples of Haiga art work, visual poetry and more.

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Two Poems by Marianne Szlyk

Posted on June 15, 2015August 19, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Painting, Poetry3 Comments

At the Water’s Edge

after Cezanne, “At the Water’s Edge” (c. 1890)

Resisting the hot wind, this house at the water’s edge
retreats beneath the whir of trees.

Their dry brushstrokes are blue like water or sky
and green as the end of spring.

But mostly they are the colors
of canvas, earth, and parched leaves.

The sky is a haze of brushstrokes, a wash of turpentine,
smoke to the water’s edge.

Hills loom behind the house;
they are mirages made of thinned paint.

More buildings appear, shimmers in the haze,
reflections in the water.

No swimmer, no boat breaks the surface,
more mirror for land and sky than home for fish and weeds.

But the house’s heart is dark and sweet
with sage and lavender, with the scent of grass and lake

protecting its guests from the hot wind, the drought,
and the smoke to the water’s edge.

Birch Trees in North Carolina

Seen from the window of the slow train south,
the needle-thin trunks glint
the way the odd, white threads do
in a quilt of blues, browns, and greens.

I do not recognize all of these trees,
but I know the birch.
Its peeled bark is snow clinging to spring.
Its leaves are wind chimes.
Its roots clutch at the stone wall
between long-gone pasture and forest.

I see this birch in Carolina,
not where I expected it,
but here among the rows
of oak and pine, beside
pools of water, part of
this quilt of sky, earth, and vine.

Bio: Marianne Szlyk is a professor at Montgomery College and the editor of The Song Is… Recently, she published her first chapbook, Listening to Electric Cambodia, Looking at Trees of Heaven, with Kind of a Hurricane Press: http://barometricpressures.blogspot.com/2014/10/listening-to-electric-cambodia-looking.html Her poems have appeared in a variety of online and print venues, including ken*again, Of/with, bird’s thumb, and several anthologies by Kind of a Hurricane Press. She hopes that you will consider sending work to her magazine. For more information about the spring/summer contests, see this link: http://thesongis.blogspot.com/2015/04/contests-for-springsummer.html

Renoir at Les Collettes: A New Poem by Byron Beynon

Posted on June 12, 2015August 19, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsLeave a comment

The cicadas already
conduct the sound of the day.
Early conversation in a garden
with olive trees and a view
towards the Mediterranean.

The optimism you had –
being an old man
with crippling arthritis –
for life, health,
the beauty and vigour it could afford.

Inside the house your studio
with armchair, easel,
brushes and frames,
the quiet edges of the room.

The hushed strokes of passing
time, the depth of eye
as figures walk by
flooded in red-golden light,
the sensuality touching
a disclosure of heat.

Bio: Byron Beynon lives in Swansea. His work has appeared in several publications including Kentucky Review, Planet, The Independent, Poetry Wales, The Blue Moon Literary and Art Review (California) and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). He has given talks about “Poetry and the Mirror of Art”, how paintings have been used to inspire writers. Collections include Cuffs (Rack Press), Human Shores (Lapwing Publications, Belfast) and The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).

Image: ‘The Farm at Les Collettes’, by Auguste Renoir. Date: 1908-1914. Oil on canvas. Property of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Haiku in Translation, by Gabriel Rosenstock and Mariko Sumikura

Posted on June 9, 2015June 9, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, PoetryTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsLeave a comment

foirfe amach is amach –
ciúnas an laindéir
ar a chrúca

utterly perfect –
the silence of a lantern
on its hook

Gabriel Rosenstock
(Composition in Irish Gaelic and English)

まこと見事な―
フックにかかった
ランプの沈黙

Mariko Sumikura
(Japanese Translation)

Negro Quarter, Tupelo, Mississippi, March 1936: A New Poem by William Doreski

Posted on May 11, 2015June 12, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, Submissions1 Comment

Negro Quarter, Tupelo, Mississippi, March 1936

The barn-slab of board and batten
must be a house: tin roof propped
above the porch, four over four
window, wood shingles clumsy
as a mouthful of store-bought teeth.
The whole thing slants to the left,

toward a courthouse white against white sky.
The slim black man in neat black suit
leaning against the building’s tilt
holds the entire scene together.
Beyond him, a small clapboard shack,
a few twists of wire, and the long wall

well beyond which the courthouse looms.
But where is the black man looking?
What’s around the corner and why
doesn’t he acknowledge the camera,
an eight by ten Deardorff, pointed
squarely between his shoulder blades?

You’d think anyone in Tupelo
in 1936 would sense
the threat, the long lens piercing
otherwise impassable distance
to center this man in a city
he may have little cause to love.

Bio: William Doreski’s work has appeared in various online and print journals as well as in several collections, most recentlyThe Suburbs of Atlantis (AA Press, 2013). This poem is part of a larger sequence based on the photography of Walker Evans. To read more of William Doreski’s work keep updated on the progress of the forthcoming issue:

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Posted on April 17, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure Magazine, Magazine, Painting, Photography, SubmissionsLeave a comment

Provisional cover for the upcoming issue, featuring Haiga art work by Gabriel Rosenstock and Ion Codrescu. Submissions for our Eastern poetic forms specialism as well as other textual and visual work remain open. See our submissions guidelines for further details.

Parental Love: A New Poem by Julia Putzke

Posted on April 15, 2015April 15, 2015 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionLeave a comment

Parental Love

My mother has two
monikers for her firstborn.
Some days, she will call out:
“Oh, my dots?” My Daughts.
Most days, it’s “my somping!”
My something.

Please don’t ask where
these names came.
We fall, or should I say I fall
into laughter every time
I hear the second one.

My father is the same,
except the names repeat
the same word: twink.
The first is Twink. Shine.
Twinkle. Shine bright.

Twinklepants.
This last one
I’ve taken to mean
she shines bright enough
to take the blues out
of her worn jeans.
Or, she makes him smile
without second thought.

Regardless the hilarity,
no one would think
to look for a star
wearing pants,
happening to be the daughts
of somping parents,
burning the night sky
alive.

Bio: Julia Putzke lives in Georgia. Her work has previously appeared in The Refection and The Larcenist.

Blue Linen

Posted on March 12, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Photography, PoetryLeave a comment

A high vantage point;
The sea’s sheet of blue linen
Stretched between sparse trees.

Waves Within Earshot

Posted on March 2, 2015 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry2 Comments

Waves within earshot;
Often, at the end of land
We find belonging.

Haiku and photography by Daniel Williams.

Interior, London Cafe, 1970s.

Posted on February 21, 2015February 21, 2015 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure Magazine, Photography, PoetryLeave a comment

With the argument he resumes
Before the next harsh pull,
An ashen trail lengthens
On the vinyl top.
The cigarette shortens to a stump.

Poem by Daniel Williams.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Self Portrait: A New Poem by Eric Nicholson

Posted on November 11, 2014January 27, 2015 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, Submissions1 Comment

I cannot find myself
in a threatening form with bird’s head. I stand
naked on a beach.

I was of two selves
and met my other self walking
towards me down a familiar street.

Art’s created from heart’s blood.
I paint Self Portrait in Hell,
a blood vessel bursts in my eye.

My relationship with Tulla ends
in violence and I lose a finger
joint from my left hand.

I do not know which to prefer,
the truth and anguish of art,
or the anguish of each day.

I’m sitting by a window,
my disfigured ‘hand of destiny’
clearly framed.

Another portrait in another room,
the space behind me shining through
my physical body.
Eyes of fire glow in the window pane.

I smell the resin
from the tall pines in the forests
of my childhood.

Each moment the door shuts.

I carefully measure the slow decline
into infirmity and old age.
I’m staying at Asgardstrand Hotel.

I walk with my hazel stick among
the violets and primroses in the perfumed
brilliance of spring.

The sunshine glances
off the south face
of Hardangerfjord. My mountain of mankind
rumbles in the distance.

Now the waterfall’s rushing
in my ears.

Bio: Eric Nicholson is now retired. He worked as an ESOL teacher and in other fields of education. Now in his retirement he enjoys countryside conservation, writing and walking. His work has previously been published in www.neutronsprotons.com,www.literaryorphans.org and www.emptysink.com. He blogs on http://www.erikleo.wordpress.com

More of Eric’s work is forthcoming in Long Exposure, Issue 1.

Image: Self Portrait in Hell by Edvard Munch, oil on canvas, 1903. Property of the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.

Durer’s Great Piece of Turf by Karen Stanley

Posted on November 7, 2014September 2, 2015 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, Submissions2 Comments

It sits in your studio, in water
this piece of another world,
this slice of not-so-still life
you dug with your spade.

It confuses the bees
this island among paint pots
and brushes; they linger
in its leaves, while your fingers
faithfully trace its living lines,
feverishly catching its essence
before its greenness falls
in on itself and dies.

It is a mini kingdom, supplanted.
Its small subjects, marooned,
look out on an ocean
of sunlit plaster and pine.

You wet your brush with its sea,
colouring in grey outlines;
steeping soul into the paper
replica – setting its sky on fire.

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Night in the City: A New Poem by James Bell

Posted on October 28, 2014November 10, 2014 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, Submissions2 Comments

you can almost hear a siren’s distant howl
his cigarette is fresh and will take a while to smoke –
she will stand and wait for an answer

their window is closed against the night air,
noise and car fumes – they prefer their own temperatures
and aromas, half undressed or dressed

her perfume stronger; she wears a black skirt
and bra for heat rather than warmth – the red mask
hooked on the window frame is for a perspective

to see through any party masquerade
that has been or is yet to be – while
both sets of eyes are locked together

they see each other with the same expression – question
whether resolution will arrive before dawn

Bio: James Bell has published two poetry collections, the just vanished place (2008) and fishing for beginners (2010), both from tall-lighthouse. He lives in Brittany where he contributes articles and photography to an English language journal and continues to publish poems nationally and internationally. His recent print appearances include Tears In The Fence, Elbow Room, The Journal, Shearsman, The Stony Thursday Book, Under the Radar and Upstairs at Du Roc.

Two Poems by Lesley Burt

Posted on October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, Submissions6 Comments

The label on my suitcase …

… reminds me I do not belong.
Outside, sky darkens over a line
of could-be-anywhere mountains.

Electric light casts shadows around
plain walls, plain carpet, plain curtains;
and the chair with no cushion

where I drop my wrap; perch
on the king-size bed, careful
not to rumple its dull coverlet;

turn sideways from my Buick
parked by the window. Wait.
Anticipate that knock at the door.

(After ‘Western Motel’, Edward Hopper, 1957, Yale University Art Gallery)

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Arch

Posted on October 9, 2014October 9, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryLeave a comment

A town scrutinised
Through the arch’s crafted wound;
A mouth opening.

Photography and Haiku by Daniel Williams.

Souvenir: A New Poem by Carissa Faulk

Posted on October 8, 2014October 9, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, Submissions2 Comments

This pocket mirror
from across the Pacific
closes like a clam
to hide its pearly finger-prints.
It fears it will forget
the green rice fields,
rice cakes, burnt rice-water,
jumbled, jingling, jabbering
street markets
and song birds.
It is caged now,
and so it closes.
When I pry it open it reflects
only my own face back;
it does not sing anymore.

Bio: A native of the Los Angeles area, Carissa is currently earning a Bachelors degree in English at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. She hopes to teach junior high English while continuing her writing career. Her work has appeared in FIVE Poetry Magazine and the Larcenist Literary Magazine. She was also the third place winner of the Blue Mountain Arts 22nd Annual Poetry Prize.

Remembrance, 1960: A New Poem by Elizabeth Lee

Posted on October 2, 2014October 9, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, National Poetry Day, Poetry, Remember, Submissions, WarTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, National Poetry Day, Poetry, Remember, Submissions, WarLeave a comment

Aged 15, I was chosen with others,
all worthy, serious and well mannered,
to accompany the harvest produce to
a hospital for ex servicemen –
The Star and Garter, Richmond Hill.
A girls’ school with a thousand pupils
must have given a lot of marrows and such –
I don’t remember much of that.
We’re taken to a ward to meet a few.
Long rows of beds down either side
neat and white as false teeth,
arranged with military precision,
impersonal.
Men, bedridden since the 1940s
stare up the ward with dead eyes
at the apparition not seen for 15 years
of young women in school uniform.
The nurses, all angels
with starched wings clipped to their hair
tell us that some men have been here
since the ’14 – ‘18 War.
My shocked brain photographed the scene.
In a trench of shyness
I cannot get over the top
into no man’s land –
the space between us.
Next year, I did not volunteer.

Part of Long Exposure’s ‘Looking Back’ project, for National Poetry Day.

Bio: Elizabeth Lee’s poetry is varied. She is a member of a writing work shop run at Aberystwyth University’s Art Centre, and occasionally reads at its ‘Chinwag’ open mic event.

Light Above the Stratosphere: A New Poem by Shaina Clingempeel

Posted on October 1, 2014October 1, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, Submissions1 Comment

In our dampened lake-side spot,
hidden by a ceiling of ashen pines,
we stuffed ourselves inside our souls
to fall in love. In a bed of earth, of ice,
and frozen land, we found a chilled delirium,
light above the stratosphere, propelling upward,
unhinged within a hell we called our heaven.
With coffee mugs colder than our limbs,
we sat in wait for the earth to shatter
so we could make it. For shards
of glass from that fishbowl cave
to soar through the air,
come frighteningly close,
and evade us.

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Yes, Thank you Ensign: A New Poem by Liam Bell

Posted on September 30, 2014September 30, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsLeave a comment

Yes

I found myself on a Friday, to no avail, found out I used to be Pope in a past life and a French working woman in another. I felt no different. All there is are my lungs guttering water. I asked
politely for air, to no avail.

Yes Ensign

I controlled a whole religion, swathes of confidences
and I controlled the chickens, and the sun rise.
Fixed it so when I speak the day dawns and the chickens lay
on one word: go. And men march for one word: god. My banner the one they fly under, and my mouth gives tongue to his thunder. “Only a cock crows, coco-ri-co coco-ri-co and a flash of lightening”

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Withdrawal

Posted on September 26, 2014September 26, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry2 Comments

The slow tide recedes;
A network of arteries,
The light’s lasting print.

Haiku and photography by Daniel Williams.

Remember Breton: A New Poem by Mary Jacob

Posted on September 25, 2014September 30, 2014 Posted in Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Art, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Painting, Poetry, Submissions1 Comment

White paste, skewed lips, hospital green
you have been drained of blood
your heart clenched tight around your throat
your hair is an oil slick, a shield, a shadow
the line down the centre of your face
jags left and right, dodging bullets
your ear is a walking cane
your shoulders an encampment
asteroids your eyes

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‘Remember’: A New Haiku by Tracey Walsh

Posted on September 23, 2014September 25, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, Submissions1 Comment

Personal effects
repatriated jumble
remains remaindered

Part of Long Exposure’s ‘Looking Back’ project for National Poetry Day.

Bio: Tracey Walsh has recently had work featured in Long Exposure. She tells us about the background to this poem:

Walter Walker (an uncle of my dad, also Walter Walker) enlisted in the army in 1915, aged 17 (he told them he was 19). He was killed in action in France on 14 April 1917. The image shows one of several documents, found when researching the family tree, that deal with the ‘admin’ of his death. Another form sent to his mother, Harriett, asked her to choose a personal inscription for his gravestone in the war cemetery in France (We Shall Meet Again).
Four of Harriett’s children served in the Great War. Walter’s brother, Edward, died a year to the day after him, 14 April 1918. He has no grave, personal effects or admin forms, just his name inscribed on a memorial stone at Loos, France.

Two Poems by Michael Dante

Posted on September 22, 2014September 22, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, Submissions1 Comment

Cataglyphis

for K-go

Suddenly the ants burst out of their burrow
in a race to find food. The burning surface
of the sand shimmers and insects blow
across the shadows. An ant stops on its axis,

spinning on the spot to map the pattern
of polarized light that scatters across the desert
dune. The scout’s armoured skin- like a modern
alloy of silver, copper and zinc. Delicate

interlocking plates shift with mechanical
precision, supported on needle-sharp legs.
As if wound by a magical key, its mandible
strips off the wings and limbs of a red-

eyed fly, struck by heat stroke. The fly twitches in the hot Sahara dirt,
and like terrible clockwork unwinding- the ant too grinds to a halt.

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Looking Back: For National Poetry Day

Posted on September 19, 2014September 19, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsLeave a comment

In preparation for National Poetry Day (2nd October) Long Exposure is drawing on the theme of ‘remember’, requesting submissions of new work in response to photographs or images which document history, both personal and otherwise, and which allow a shift from the present into another space or time. We feel strongly that there is a depth and variety to images, especially those of our past, which is able to bring something unique to light. We are invested in the value of poetry and believe in its capacity to make concrete the experience of remembering, of being taken back, of recording or re-recording our impressions or responses. Our histories can provide luminous material for poetry, and it is the writing of this which we wish to encourage and bring forward, as well as the links between picture and word.
Poems are welcome in any style or form, although they should adhere to the standard submissions guidelines. As always if the image which has inspired a particular piece is available we would love to see how it and the text are interacting, so please send them too; otherwise we would welcome some further context to gain an insight into what encouraged the writing, and why it matters to you.
All submissions can be sent to editor@longexposuremagazine.com. A selection of submissions will appear on our sites as part of our engagement with National Poetry Day.

‘You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind.’- Isaac Marion

A New Haiku by Tracey Walsh

Posted on September 19, 2014September 19, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry, Submission4 Comments

Webbed garden spider
strung badminton net fashion
your luncheon is served

Bio: Tracey Walsh has been enjoying life since early retirement in 2013. Indulging a lifelong love of crime fiction by starting a book review blog, she has also discovered a new interest in photographing local Lancashire countryside and wildlife. This is Tracey’s first attempt at poetry since school days.

Tide

Posted on September 12, 2014September 18, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, PoetryLeave a comment

As the street dies down,
The sea hones in on slick stones;
It was always there.

Photography and Haiku by Daniel Williams.

A Sketched Line of Light

Posted on September 10, 2014September 12, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, PoetryTagged Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Haiku, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Photography, Poetry7 Comments

His oar dips and turns,
Measuring the water’s pulse;
A sketched line of light.

Photography by Kathryn Colling.
Haiku by Daniel Williams.

Frontier’s End: A New Poem by George Sandifer-Smith

Posted on September 9, 2014 Posted in Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, SubmissionsTagged Creative Writing, Literature, Long Exposure, Magazine, Poetry, Submission1 Comment

I wept at the cloud-shore when I saw fractures,
fractals of burnt orange and yellow splitting my home,
under a pale blue moon slashed with black scars
far darker than anything but imagination.
She – they – were safe. But home…
that was sheer memory now.
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