Featured Poet Summer 2009

We at Target Audience Magazine will now feature a poet every quarter. The Summer 2009 featured poet will be David McLean. If you are interested in either submitting poetry for an upcoming issue or possibly being a featured poet just contact us!

Summer 2009 Featured Poet: David McLean

More about Target Audience Magazine Poetry

Poetry is often a fluid and personal passion without the necessary need to adhere to certain grammar rules or stanza styles. The staff of Target Audience Magazine chooses poems and describes what we think is best about them with our Featured Poet of the Month page.

Victor Schwartzman became a friend of mine through MySpace and his contributions to Target Audience Magazine poetry beginning with our summer 2007 issue where we published “Participatory Democracy”.

Victor took over the poetry submissions and featured poet of the month as our new Poetry Editor in 2008. Anyone interested in submitting poetry for an upcoming issue should contact Victor with no more than 3 poems (of which he will choose no more than one for any quarterly issue). His email is VictorS@mts.net

Victor lives and writes in Canada. He is a founding member of the Outsider Writers.)

His personal blog, "Adven­tures in Hypertension", combines tales of a high blood pressure patient with flash fiction and poetry. http://victorhypertension.blogspot.com

Don’t forget his bizarre graphic novel at: http://victorschwartzman.tripod.com.

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Featured Poets of the Past

September 2007: B. T. Forsythe
October 2007: Vic Baca
November 2007: Victor Scwartzman
January 2008: Todd Moore target="_blank"
February 2008: Brad Evans
March 2008: Lyn Lifshin
April 2008: Michael D. Grover
May 2008: Marissa Ranello
June 2008: Marissa Ranello
August 2008: Leopold McGinnis
September 2008: David Blaine
October 2008: Ellaraine Lockie
December 2008: Otep Shamaya

Now accepting poetry submissions! Send no more than 3 poems to: VictorS@mts.net

Tweet Your Poetry

Too terribly often we come across ideas that make us scream, “Why didn’t I think of that!?”, but at Target Audience Magazine we like to take those ideas and reinvent them to inspire across genres. Recently, I came across a post at EditRed.com where an uninspired newbie to Twitter thought up one of those ideas. Twitter poetry may well be the modern Haiku. Of his idea he writes,

“Well, it really started with me signing up on Twitter after seeing a news article about Asthon Kutcher challenging CNN to see who could get one million followers first.

It piqued my curiosity as to what exactly was Twitter. At first, I found its simplistic page boring, but then I thought to myself, "Can these 140 characters be used for something new, creative, and artsy?" Knowing I would get the best response on a writer’s site, I posted my idea at EditRed.

I was fairly surprised it got some attention from some of the greater writers. As for the one I posted on here, it came to me when one of my friends told me to send her a text reminding her to ask permission to hang out with me the coming weekend. Given that she always liked when I wrote poetry for her, it seemed like a nice way to remind her.

Twitter Sized Poem
By Carlos Perez

Call this a reminder,
An annoyance in your hinder.
Or call it as you know'em.
A Twitter sized poem.

So, let’s all tackle the task of tweeting poems! Send your best tweeted ideas to Target Audience Magazine for a special sidebar in the Summer issue about the modern Haiku and thanks to Carlos Perez for such an inspiring idea!