THE MEASURE
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THE MEASURE
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A Paperless Literary Magazine
The Measure: an email magazine of poetry and prose
Basic principles
1. The magazine will publish poetry, fiction, reviews and essays. It will be sent by email, as an MS Word file attachment with minimal formatting (virus checked), to all subscribers. Anyone wishing to subscribe should notify Rod Riesco by email at measuremag@aol.com.
2. There is no charge to subscribers, and no payment to contributors (except for the pleasure of having their work read by an interested group of subscribers). Contributors will automatically be placed on the list of subscribers.
3. Submissions of up to 3 poems or 1 prose piece at a time may be sent by email to: measuremag@aol.com at any time.
4. Previously published work will be considered, but earlier publication must be fully acknowledged.
5. Writers should submit brief (3 lines) biographical details.
6. Frequency of distribution is expected to be twice per year initially. It may vary depending on the amount of suitable material received.
7. Selection will be according to the personal taste, interests and prejudices of the editor, Rod Riesco.
8. A hard copy version of the magazine, or extracts from it, may be printed subsequently, subject to permission from the contributors concerned.
9. Copyright in work selected for The Measure will remain with the authors; the magazine will acquire single publication rights for the issue in which the work is published.
10. Anyone wishing to terminate their subscription should notify this to measuremag@aol.com at any time.
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Latest issue
No. 2 has now been distributed.
The contributors to this issue are: Gary Beck, Srinjay Chakravarti, Michael Estabrook, Gregory Santo Arena, Gaye Gerrard, R.G. Gregory, James Hartnell, Christopher Major, Gary Lehmann, Rod Riesco, Geoff Stevens, Sam Smith, John West & Jonathan Shaw.
If you would like a free copy, contact measuremag@aol.com
I am now considering submissions for No. 3 (due for distribution later this year, i.e. 2008)
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Comments/criticisms/reviews ... etc.
Gerald England has kindly provided a review of Issue #1. He says, inter alia,
"The first issue's contents assure us that the editor can attract good work (even though the best were mostly first published elsewhere). To attract readers, however, I think the editor needs to offer either the permanence of print or the accessibilty of a proper web presence."
See the whole review at:
http://ackworthborn.blogspot.com/2007/09/measure-1.html
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* THE RULE *
Old men, old eagles from their tower
Survey a smoke-tinged field and glower:
They know the soul and break it.
What was the message carved into the stone?
Each flower must burn and hang its head alone.
Come to this rubble and rake it.
Did you then raise the shelter belt,
Allowing the range of what you felt,
Yet never for home mistake it?
For should there be but one hired box
And therebeyond another box,
You’re bare enough to take it.
Enough to see how frail and tall
Grass ripples in a shuddering fall
And loving the light, forsake it.
Rod Riesco
28/4/08
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