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Our friends over at @thedinnertablereview are accepting submissions for their third issue! Why not submit your wonderful words to them?
P.S. Check out their recently published second issue, featuring our Director of Social Media, @zdcmunro! You can read it @ http://thedinnertablereview.tumblr.com/issuetwo
ISSUE TWO of THE DINNER TABLE REVIEW Forward: We sincerely thank all our contributors for their pieces and allowing us to read their work. We’re very proud of this issue and hope our readers enjoy...
We are thrilled to finally be releasing issue two and thank everyone for their patience on the issue. Our staff apologizes for the late release and encourages you to share this with your friends.
On another note, we are taking submissions for issue three now! If you’ve submitted before, you’re welcome to submit again whether or not your pieces were accepted in previous issues. We thank you all for your support and congratulate those who were published in this issue!
Enjoy,
The Dinner Table Review Staff
There has been a slight problem with releasing issue number two however it will be released soon! Thank you all for your patience!
DTR News!
We’ve hit 100 followers! We’d like to thank everyone for their support. We’d like to give a special thanks to all who submitted. This magazine cannot continue without creative writers showing the courage to get their work out there!
Please consider submitting and share this with your friends. We’d like to spread the work of our talented writers to as many as possible. They deserve the recognition.
Thank you!
We look forward to reading your submissions.
Update!
We have already accepted five talented young poets to be featured in our second issue! While this is exciting, we are still looking for more submissions. We strongly encourage those with works of prose poetry, short stories, or essays to submit! Although we are trying to add variety to the magazine, we are always looking for stunning poetry submissions.
Submit now!
We already have two amazing submissions accepted for issue two of The Dinner Table Review! We’re very excited to begin working on the second issue and we’d like to announce that we are now open to short stories and essays!
Submit now!
As always, we can’t wait to devour your work!
It’s like having a mouth full of wisdom teeth. It’s like a hummingbird is trapped within my chest, like a mockingbird is pecking its way through my muscles. It’s like forget-me-nots blooming in December, like four o’clocks saying good morning. It’s like Joan of Arc singing hymns while she burned, a witch with the tongue of a saint. It’s a hollow hunger. It feels like shards of stain glass digging marrow deep into my bones. It’s like violin strings. It’s not quite razor blade, not quite rose thorn. It’s more like crucifixion. It’s like Judas in the desert. It’s like Jesus in the desert. It’s like the desert. It’s like the bible in a way, if you wanna get theological. It’s like milk and honey, blood and honey, like lapping up honey from the lip of the jar. It’s like the gap toothed kiss. It’s like speaking in tongues, speaking in Latin. It’s like the crack of a whip. It’s like mint. It’s like Kali, like Medea, like Hera and Juno. It’s the sea swallowing me whole. It’s Jonah trapped within the bones of the whale, not the belly, the bones. The bones, the bones, the bones. The bones beneath Paris, the bones below. It’s like the catacombs. It’s the brambles. It’s like amethyst and rose quartz, jade and opal and onyx. It’s like a heart attack. It’s that one crooked tooth. It’s like the teeth of a heat wave. It’s like the teeth.
Samantha LeRoy “Teeth” published in The Dinner Table Review. Find her at killbukowski.tumblr.com.
Letter from the Editor
Hi, my name is Kelly Collins. This is a small publication run by a small group of poets. While I do invite other editors for certain issues and ask the advice of other writers, I am the only editor who is consistent throughout the publication. I started this with the idea of a publication run by poets dedicated to sharing the work of other new and emerging poets. I run this magazine out of passion, dedicating hours of my time without any kind of profit.
This is a project of passion. And one of compassion.
Those who do not support such a project and who treat members of my staff like some big soulless magazine corporation out for a profit will be kicked off of issues and banned from the magazine. I simply have no desire to work with such poets. This publication is dedicated to poets who want to work with other small poets to help poetry be brought out to the forefront of literature today.
I have been published in The Rising Phoenix Review, The Mulberry Fork Review, Seafoam Magazine, and Persephone's Daughters. You can find my personal blog at manicdepressivedramaqueen on tumblr. I suffer from bipolar disorder. I do not have an MFA, I am a current college student. I work a minimum wage job. I am just like many other small poets.
This may look like a well staffed, paid magazine, but it's not. It's run mostly by one person, a person who's just like you. I put a lot of time, energy, and care into making this magazine happen. And I make mistakes. I appreciate feedback from people with good intentions.
I ask that readers and contributors please be kind.
Thank you.
