IBBETSON STREET PRESS

"A journal and publisher of poetry."

Ibbetson Street publishes the best of the small press. Our press is nationally distributed. We have received notice in The Boston Globe, Harvard Review, Small Press Review, PRESA, and other repsected journals. We have published poetry books by Robert K. Johnson, Gloria Mindock, Abbott Ikeler, Helen Bar Lev, Lo Galluccio, Irene Koronas, Molly Lynn Watt, Patricia Brodie, Linda Larson and many others. Ibbetson Street has been featured on TV shows on Newton Cable, Boston Cable, Cambridge Cable, Somerville Community Access TV, as well as a feature on MIT Radio. Our magazines and books are carried at a host of independent bookstores in the area.

Ibbetson Street is now listed in the Index of American Periodical Verse.

Submissions: We look for poetry that is not too abstract. We look for simplicity, economy- of words, something that speaks to all of us. The poetry should have layers of meaning, and be strongly situated in the everyday. Please send three to five poems, cover letter, with a SASE to the:

IBBETSON STREET PRESS
25 SCHOOL STREET
SOMERVILLE, MA. 02143

617-628-2313

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The Somerville News Writers Festival VI  Nov. 22 2008 7PM at The VFW Hall on 371 Summer St. in Davis Square. 
ORDER TICKETS NOW  CALL: 617-666-4010 ( Mon-Fri  9 to 5PM)
www.somervillenewswritersfestival.com

"The Wilderness House Literary Retreat" is a retreat based in Littleton, Mass. Ibbetson Street Press publisher, Doug Holder is on the "Board of Faculty Advisors," and he invites you to explore this unique opportunity to study with literary masters in a rustic setting outside of Boston.www.wildernesshouse.org. They publish The Wilderness House Literary Review at whlreview.com. An online poetry and prose magazine edited by Steve Glines.

New: Contributor's archive of past issues.

Check Out: The Ibbetson Update -- A forum for the small press.

Poetry in the News: The Somerville News -- This newspaper has a column by Ibbetson Street Press founder Doug Holder "Lyrical Somerville" that showcases poets from the Boston area.

Of Note: Singing Bone Press presents: A City of Poets...A poetry anthology of Boston area poets, who work outside the "academy." To find out more call: 617-628-2313.

Visit: The Boston Girl Guide -- A site that celebrates and promotes the emerging poet, singer and artist.

Web Site Manager: Linda Haviland Conte

Editors: Doug Holder, Dianne Robitaille, Richard Wilhelm

For advertising and general info on the Boston area poetry scene, please contact: Doug Holder.