Kristina Moriconi is the Blue Heron Speaks poet for January

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Our Blue Heron Speaks featured poet for January 2014 is:

Kristina Moriconi

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Kristina Moriconi received her MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington. Her work has appeared most recently in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change and The Hive: Apiary, and her chapbook, No Such Place, is due out in the fall of 2013 (Finishing Line Press). She teaches writing in the Philadelphia area and runs a writing workshop with Mothers in Charge for women who have lost children to violent crime.

Visit the Blue Heron Speaks page on this site to read two of Kristina Moriconi’s latest poems.

Paulette Beete is the Blue Heron Speaks Featured Poet for December

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Our  Blue Heron Speaks featured poet for December is:

PAULETTE BEETE

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(author photo by Carrie Holbo Photography)

Visit the Blue Heron Speaks page to read three of Paulette Beete’s latest poems.

Paulette Beete’s poems, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in journals included Crab Orchard Review, Rhino, Escape into Life, and Provincetown Arts, and in the anthologies Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC and Saints of Hysteria (with Danna Ephland). She has held residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is the author of two chapbooks: Blues for a Pretty Girl (Finishing Line Press) and Voice Lessons (Plan B Press). She blogs semi-regularly at www.thehomebeete.com.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN for the 2nd issue of Blue Heron Review

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN for the 2nd issue of Blue Heron Review.  Please see general guidelines on the SUBMISSIONS page of this website.  All submissions will be read with great care.  Responses will be sent out approximately 6-8 weeks after receiving a submission.

Summer issue reading period = November 2, 2013 through March 1, 2014

Please send all submissions to Cristina M. R. Norcross, Editor at:  blueheronsubmissions@gmail.com

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Welcome to Blue Heron Review!

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Blue Heron Review is an online poetry magazine specializing in mystical and spiritual verse.  Blue Heron provides a space for poets who offer a positive message about living fully and engaging with the world through beauty, a sense of community and acceptance.

Blue Heron strives to promote and feature works that nourish the soul, encourage deep reflection and support a peaceful life path.  Blue Heron poets embrace the concepts of:  joy, abundance, grace, love, light, connection, awareness, acceptance, balance, peace, one’s soul path, and spirit in their works.  Think, Rumi ~ think, Hafiz!

We are getting ready to announce our reading period for the 2nd issue of Blue Heron Review, which will have an online publication date of summer 2014.  The FIRST Blue Heron is due to be released as an online issue ~ winter / 2014.  Please watch this space for further information, regarding guidelines and submission deadlines.  For a general overview, please click on the tab for Submission Guidelines on this site.  We look forward to reading your thoughts on life, through the lens of poetry.

Thank you!

~Cristina M. R. Norcross, Editor

Please send all correspondence and submissions to:

blueheronsubmissions@gmail.com

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