Southern Women’s Review

January 5, 2010 by Julie

My poem, Pentecostal Girls, has been published in the January issue of Southern Women’s Review. Edited by Alicia K. Clavell, SWR is full of beautiful poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and photography. I’m very pleased to be included with such fine poets, writers and artists.

Layout of a journal is one of the things that always catches my eye. In my opinion, the way work is presented is a testament to the love and commitment the creators of a journal have for the work involved. Southern Women’s Review is gorgeous. I love that cover!

The next submission period for Southern Women’s Review will begin on March 1.

You can read my poem HERE. Look on the right side of the screen for the files. I’m on pages 14 and 15. But please stay to read it all. Check out their premiere issue, too. The work is excellent.

As always, thanks for reading!

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on January 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm TWM

That was freakin’ awesome Julie…you’ve quite the eye for observation. Bikini’s never stand a chance against the fertile imagining of possibility.
on January 5, 2010 at 4:29 pm Julie

Hello, WM! It’s great to see you. Thanks so much. Yes, imagination tends to be sexier sometimes:)
on January 5, 2010 at 4:49 pm karen

Congrats!! I’m headed that way right now, you amazing Southern woman!
on January 5, 2010 at 5:09 pm karen

I love it Julie! This is one is new to me, and it is as succinct in all your others at painting a picture of the South I so love!

By the way, I’m still waiting for my chapbook! Hope it didn’t get lost in the Christmas rush.

The Southern Review is fantastic, too, and I have to go back to read more.

(Home today…snow day!)

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Hey, Karen! Thanks so much. Yes, please do go back and read more of SWR. You’ll love it!

As for the chap, Crys tells me they’re getting mailed out this week. You should get yours sometime next week…I’m guessing? It shouldn’t be long. She’s doing all the hard work. I’m just the idiot…errr…I mean poet. Haha! Have a good snowy day. -J
on January 5, 2010 at 6:26 pm Technobabe

WhooHoo, Awesome. I downloaded the Southern Women’s Review and read through some of them, going to be fun to read some more when I want to. Sort of like having a little treasure box that I can open when I feel like it. Really like the Pentecostal Girls, well, I like reading the poem. I actually like the bad girls as that is what I can relate to. Fun and flirty and very social. Good job, Julie!!
on January 5, 2010 at 7:59 pm Julie

Hey, Technobabe. Thanks much! I’m so glad you downloaded it for keeps. I did the same thing with the premiere issue and this one. You’re so right…what a treasure! I’m tickled to death (happy) to be included with these talented women:)
on January 6, 2010 at 12:53 am The Storialist

Congratulations! Beautiful and playful poem. And thanks for introducing me to this journal.

Happy New Year!
on January 6, 2010 at 2:25 am Julie

Hi, Storialist! Thank you! Yes, it is a beautiful journal, isn’t it? Thanks so much for checking it all out.

I love your work, too and have been meaning to get over there to read some more. The holidays threw me off balance…in a good way:) But I will be over soon.

Happy New Year to you!
on January 6, 2010 at 4:35 am Yousei Hime

Congratulations! I can’t manage a read at home, but will try to make a trip to the library to use their computers. (Dialup is such a drag.) I’m sure it’s a delight, like all the others of yours I’ve read. I’m wondering if my mom would like this magazine? I’ll know better after I’ve had a chance to look at it. Anyway . . . fantastic way to start your new year!
on January 6, 2010 at 5:01 am Julie

Hello, Yousei Cuz! Sure, I think you and your mom would both like it. The themes aren’t necessarily all Southern. There are wonderful poems about nature, love, and life in general. You also don’t have to be Southern to get in if you write about the South. If you wrote a poem about a trip to Texas, for example.

I’m having a good time reading the bios and seeing what I can look up (books, articles, etc.) the poets and writers have out.

Thanks so much for taking the time when you get to the library. You’re awesome, sis!
on January 6, 2010 at 4:56 pm Terresa Wellborn

Congrats, that is a huge accomplishment! You are a poetic example to me.
PS: Thanks for your bday wishes on my blog today. I’m grabbing my party hat and singing all week long!
on January 6, 2010 at 5:21 pm Julie

Hi, Terresa! I love your quote. And the pics of your beautiful family. Happy Birthweek! Haha! I do hope you have a great time.

Thanks so much for your kind words:)
on January 6, 2010 at 9:56 pm Annie

Hi Julie,
I just got a chance to read your poem and check out the issue. I enjoyed Pentecostal Girls, and I plan to read the rest of the magazine. Thanks for the link, and congratulations on another publication!
on January 6, 2010 at 11:08 pm Julie

Hi, Annie. You’ve been on my mind all day. Yes, do check it all out when you have a chance. I enjoyed it so much, and I think you will, too. Thanks so much for the good words!
on January 8, 2010 at 2:34 am joaquin

wow – that is a really a beautiful layout – and the talent is so rich you fit right in! (julie hensley’s “viable” just gutted me.) congrats on yet another great poem in yet another amazing publication.

you’re so right on – the third stanza is perfect – and “wet, hot cotton” as a last line just launches the imagination. if i haven’t said it lately, or even if i have, thank you so much for sharing your extraordinary gift with us.
on January 8, 2010 at 3:39 am Julie

Hi, Joaquin. Yes, Julie Hensley’s poem is excellent! I’m glad you agree. And as for your kind words to me, thank you very much. It means a lot to me.
on January 8, 2010 at 7:20 pm dan

julie, i’m glad people who read here realize how talented you are. i have followed your work for a long time. i love seeing your star rise. you are my favorite poet out there today.
on January 8, 2010 at 7:58 pm Julie

Thank you, Dan. You always make my day. It’s hard to describe how much I appreciate you:) Thank you a million.
on January 8, 2010 at 11:25 pm K. Lawson Gilbert

Congratulations on another great accomplishment! Pentecostal Girls is a fantastic title for a fantastic poem! You really paced this so perfectly, every word pulling its weight. Description is exquisite. You always show us the deep beneath the shallow. The ending is just what the reader wants and expects…without knowing it!!!!!
on January 9, 2010 at 12:12 am Julie

Hey, Kaye! Thank you very much, sis. You’re so kind to me, and it’s much appreciated. I hope you have a beautiful weekend!
on January 9, 2010 at 1:39 am christine

Yay, Julie! I will go read right now.
on January 9, 2010 at 1:42 am christine

Oh, I had such a vivid image of the whole scenario, Julie. An excellent poem.

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Thank you, Christine! I hope your semester’s going well. I’m guessing it has begun? I appreciate the good words, sis. -J
on January 9, 2010 at 4:47 pm Enchanted Oak

The cotton line was brilliant. I think the Muse grabbed you by the hands and passed that moment of utter inspiration into you. Kind of like the the Vulcan Mind Meld on Star Trek. I envy you a little for being so published. How much time do you spend each week pursuing the publication part? I spend zero. How ridiculous of me. Have a wonderful weekend. Cheers! Chris
on January 9, 2010 at 6:54 pm Julie

Good question, Chris. I’m the world’s worst. I submit maybe once every six months. Sometimes not even then. Often, it’s because somebody has kicked me in the butt over and over to do it. I obsess over the poems too much and then think they’re not good enough to send out. I am trying really hard to get over that. It’s stupid of me.

Thank you for the good words, Chris. I hope your weekend is a good one.
on January 9, 2010 at 8:19 pm Yousei Hime

Hey Cuz!
I can’t remember if we discussed my state of origin or not, but I am from Texas. My mother is still down there, as well as my sister and brother. I have an aunt and uncle in Missouri and my in-laws (and thus, my husband), are from Kentucky. I’d say I’ve got got Southern roots and probably quite a bit of material. Got an address or phone number for dat der magazine a yourn?
on January 9, 2010 at 9:11 pm Julie

Hey, Cuz! Hee hee…yes, I remembered your roots are in Texas, which is why I used it in my example to you. In other words…hint hint…submit!

Can you access their site with dialup? If you can get here, you should be able to see theirs. If not, let me know, and I’ll e-mail you their guidelines or copy and paste them here. The direct link to their guidelines is

http://www.southernwomensreview.com/ed_guidelines.html

Submissions can be sent to southernwomensreview@gmail.com

If you can’t do that, let me know, and I’ll double check to see if you can mail.

Be sure to read the guidelines first and follow them carefully. They’re not difficult ones, which is cool.

If you can’t access the above link, let me know.

If you can get to the library to read the issues, that will be good, too. It’s always best to become familiar with a publication before you submit. I don’t mean to sound like a know-it-all. Just lessons from the school of life
on January 9, 2010 at 9:18 pm Julie

Yousei, I should have also mentioned in my comment above that submissions begin March 1 for the next issue.

I don’t know if you saw the original e-mail address I put up there (a couple of minutes ago), but it was incorrect. I had an apostrophe in it…duh. The correct one is now above. southernwomensreview@gmail.com
on January 9, 2010 at 11:51 pm Yousei Hime

Hey Cuz,
I got to the guidelines link just fine. Now I just have to pick a topic and genre and start writing. I noticed they do not accept previously published work. Does that include work that has been published on one’s own blog site? (That’s not clear in their guidelines.) Thought you might know or have asked about it. Thanks for your help and the verbal swift kick to submit. Let me know when I can return the favor.

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Hey, Cuz! To tell you the truth, I really don’t know about work published on blogs. I just assumed it meant no work posted on blogs, but I could be wrong. When a place says “no previously published work,” I just go for the safest bet and send them something that’s never been “out there” at all.

Personally, I never send anything that has been posted on a blog without knowing for sure that it’s okay. Another journal published one of mine that had been posted, but I asked them beforehand. They also asked me to take it down before they published it. Other places won’t do that.

It’s probably best to find some that have not been posted…or just ask them before submitting.

The favor you can do for me is to keep writing and reading and trying. It would tickle me to see you in print! Be sure to read their work before you submit, too. Have a good one:) -Julie
on January 10, 2010 at 5:02 pm Kim

fantastic poem! reminds me of the allure of the forbidden in so many things…

men painting
her nude before them
straining to see
beyond the window
the thigh revealed
as the breeze lifts
the skirt of her
passing by

-Kim
on January 10, 2010 at 8:01 pm Julie

Hello, Kim! That is so lovely. Thank you very much! You’re right. Sometimes the breeze lifting the skirt is much more alluring than an actual nude body. Anything that stirs the imagination is so beautiful to me.

Actually, the Pentecostal girls were very beautiful. No makeup. No bikinis. None of the plastic crud of society. They were sheer natural beauty.

Thanks again, Kim. I appreciate your beautiful words.
on January 11, 2010 at 2:07 pm Kimberli

How did I miss this? Congratulations!
on January 11, 2010 at 5:56 pm Julie

Hello, Kimberli…and thanks!
on January 13, 2010 at 5:28 pm Gel

Congrats! Yet again, you are publishing. Julie, you have enriched my creative life by exposing me to other poets plus sharing your incredible poetry for us to savor. I have not submitted any poetry in years anywhere other than very low key places. You’re a successful inspiration.

Happy New Year 2010. I’m delighted your awesome talent is regularly recognized. That IS an awesome cover, too!
on January 13, 2010 at 10:31 pm Julie

Hello, Gel! I was just thinking about you yesterday. I hope your new year is awesome! Thank you very much for the kind words and for keeping in touch. It’s always great to see you.
on January 15, 2010 at 12:19 pm Crafty Green poet

Excellent poem – very vivid! It’s a lovely looking publication too. Congratulations

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Thank you, Juliet. Yes, I love the look, too. They did such a good job with layout. I hope you have a beautiful New Year! -J
on January 15, 2010 at 5:32 pm Michelle

The cover is delightful, Julie, and I love ‘Pentecostal Girls’. Congratulations!
on January 15, 2010 at 7:33 pm Julie

Hi, Michelle! I was so happy to see your new posts. Peony Moon always makes my day bright! Thank you!
on January 18, 2010 at 9:21 pm jorc709

now, after reading yours first, I had to go back and read every damned one.
thank you for that.

Great job!
so few words, yet in my mind I saw it all, just as it happened, with a slight tinge of long ago…what a great way to spend an afternoon!
on January 18, 2010 at 10:17 pm Julie

Hello, jorc! It’s great to see you, as always. I really appreciate your kind comments. I’m also glad you went back and read it all. Many thanks!
on January 15, 2011 at 7:23 pm marty walsh

Julie,

I can’t access “Pentacostal Girls” by clicking on the poem.
Maybe you could post it in some other way.

Marty Walsh
on January 15, 2011 at 8:02 pm Julie

Hi, Marty! It’s great to see you! Thanks for letting me know. I just tried the link, and it works for me.

http://www.southernwomensreview.com/index.html

Click on the link. That will take you to their home page. Then look at the right side of their page. There are pictures of the issues on the right. My poem is in Volume 2 Issue 2 (though I recommend all of the issues).

Put your cursor over the image of the issue and click. It should open as an Adobe Acrobat Reader file. Sometimes, Adobe files don’t work for me, either. But I just checked this one, and it still works. Please let me know if that still doesn’t work for you, though. Thanks so much!
on January 15, 2011 at 8:04 pm Julie

I should have added…

Once the file opens, scroll down. They have the entire issue in the file. Thank you very much, Marty.
on January 17, 2011 at 9:59 pm Marty Walsh

Still not getting “Pentacostal Girls”, Julie.
I have been enjoying various poems you post though.
Especially the one of Naomi speaking to her daughter.
You’re wonderful when your poems speak with the voice of the characters you write about. Keep it up.

Marty Walsh
on January 18, 2011 at 4:52 am Julie

Hi, Marty. I’m sorry that it’s not opening for you (it still works fine for me). When you click on http://www.southernwomensreview.com/ does the home page open for you? Or is it the adobe file that won’t open? It might be that you need to update your adobe (as if I know what I’m talking about).

I wish I could be a better help. I’m a computer dummy, especially with technical things. My daughter set up the blog, and I probably wouldn’t have even known how to do that. She even named it…what a sweetheart she is. Basically, all I do is post and add links.

I’ll eventually post the poem by itself, though. I usually keep the journal’s link up as a courtesy to them before I type up the individual poem. It gives them some traffic to their site. But it has been a year now.

Thanks so much for all the good words and encouragement, Marty. I appreciate it very much!
on January 21, 2011 at 8:11 pm Marty Walsh

Julie,

Thanks for the additional info. Still no poem. I’ll keep an eye on your blog for “Pentacostal Girls”. I’m a yokel in cyberspace. My technical skills aren’t just limited, they’re virtually nonexistent.
But your blog is a great way to stay in touch with you.

Marty
on January 22, 2011 at 2:34 am Julie

I’m a yokel and a yahoo…haha! Thanks, Marty. You’re always welcome here. I appreciate that you’re keeping in touch. I hope your weekend is a good one.