In summer last year, we ran 
into M:/P MAG on twitter and they contacted us for a discussion about Poetry in a Modern Society – the article can be read over HERE.
They also featured a poem of Brian’s and one of mine and soon the idea of a Poetry Collaboration was born.
So our Meeting the Bar challenge this week is a bit different.
We have no Mr. Linky, but an apportunity to submit your poem and possibly have it featured in the February issue of M:/P MAG.
The poetry theme for their upcoming issue is “Page Turn” and they will feature five of our poems.
M:/P MAG, a bilingual concept magazine since 2008, has become an online portal for international creatives to express themselves through thought provoking articles, submersive photography & creative events in Paris, the UK & Tokyo.
They believe in personal expression, the process behind the Fashion Industry, rather than its face value, as well as supporting & developing emerging talent.
The ethos of the magazine is art based as well as fashion related with a hint of philosophical creativity – and this is also the kind of poems they’re looking for.
Here’s how it works:
- Write a poem, based on the theme “Page Turn”
- Copy it into the email body (no word- or pdf attachements please) and send it to dVersePoets@gmail.com until the 12th of January. Don’t forget to add your name and blog url.
- Please keep in mind…once it’s sent, we can’t accept re-writes
- You can only submit one poem per person, not per blog
We will forward all poems anonymously to MJDuggan, the poetry editor of M:/P MAG and he will choose the five winners.
The chosen poems will be featured on February 3rd in the M:/P online MAG
From Jean-Paul Sartre to Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, M:/P MAG looks to you for inspiration – and we know, we have an awesome bunch of poets in the pub and really looking forward to what you’ll coming up with.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask them in the comments…have fun with the challenge and…happy writing!!
dVerse 
So awesome…so awesome! dVerse~You Rock! Brian and Claudia, what a wonderful opportunity you have brought us…Poets! Answer the call! And just incase you missed it, dVerse is up for a Shorty Award in Art and no doubt countless other categories by now! Vote, tweet, share, and help Brian and Claudia bring home the Shorty for their fantastic efforts!
way cool tash… and hey – that’s the bunched effort of a wonderful team…just saying….smiles
Wow! Wonderful news!
That’s fantastic… congratulations to dVerse!
Can we submit something we’ve put on our blog?
yes laurie….if it’s just on your personal blog they won’t count it as published – so that’s fine..
thanks, Claudia
FYI- I decided to write one just for this.
ha, did not realise that on the shorty Tash, thanks for the intel…
this is a very cool opportunity…i hope that many do take advantage of it…other host (outside of claudia and i) will be considered as well but in a seperate category so write on…this is open to any poet…let’s get you published…
we have so many talented people it is a shame not to see your work in print…
Interesting theme–I also ask if it has to be a totally new poem, or whether a previously blogged poem is okay.
previously blogged is ok if it fits the theme
Cool 🙂
I wish the best of the lot, here at dverse get published, good luck to fellow poets, I hope you make it.
smiles..finally made it..was busy with drinking eggnog and eating cake..smiles..and really excited about the opportunity – can’t wait to see what you’re coming up with.. also excited about the shorty award nominations – and when you’re on twitter and like what we do – you can vote for us by following the below link
http://shortyawards.com/dVersePoets
This is really great. It’s a nice push for some of us who are kind of bad at pushing ourselves to submit our work. Of course, by ‘us’ I mean ‘me’. lol
Thanks for the info 🙂 You guys are always awesome. Already voted for you!
Excellent
Hello Claudia, if I do not wish to send the poem for submission, but would like to write a poem as a Page Turn theme or dVerse prompt and publish at blog, can or cannot? 🙂
and what does a page turn mean? It is not a page turner, is it?
sure…looking forward to reading…
page turn can go in different directions…maybe the start of something new..or bringing something old to an end…wide open space..
Is there any way, once the closing date comes… If we’re just gonna see the chosen 5 pieces in the Mag… You could post a list of the contributors so we could check the blogs for their poems?
we will surely announce the winners – most probably with a link to the mag where they can be read
This is great! I have one question though: does the poem have to be about fashion, considering that M:/P MAG is a fashion mag, or does the poem just have to focus on the words “Page Turn?”
the poem doesn’t have to be about fashion – they have a wide range – so page turn in any way you can think of is possible
Thanks Claudia! I’ll be submitting mine very soon. And thanks for the opportunity!
Thanks to all concerned for the opportunity.
Can it be posted in a closed group as well as on one’s own blog?
no problem if it’s posted in a closed group..
PS Ii’s perfect timing and a perfect theme for a poem I needed to write today.
Thank you Claudia…..exciting opp!