EARTHSHINE
A Poetry Journal
Welcome to the debut of Earthshine. Each poet has a voice; each poetry journal has a voice. The voice of Earthshine will be one of illumination, compassion, humanity, and reason. We invite your contributions to our first volume. We know that it will take some time to get a body of poetry for our first issue, but we are patient, and will wait for poems that are of high literary quality—poems we can be proud to publish and which we believe will generate their own light for our readers.
There are poems everywhere: in parking lots, in forests, in the twilight, between molecules of water and in the Quick-stop on the corner of your street. If you find one, send it to us. Poems are the ultimate rumination, and if the world is to be saved, the poets will be needed; they who see the connections between all things, and the patterns shared. You don’t think the world can be saved by words? By what, then?
Land Mail: Submissions may be mailed to Earthshine, C/O Ruminations, P.O. Box 245, Hummelstown, Pa. 17036. Mailed submissions should include a stamped self-addressed envelope for response only (though we return poems on request). Please do not send us the only copy of your poems.
Email: Please send poems to poetry@ruminations.us (pasted into the email is preferred). We occasionally have our email responses bounce back to us. Please include with your email submission a land mail address, so we have a way to reach you if email doesn’t work.
As we receive acceptable poems, we will publish them here. The journal will close when it is full. Once we have a full journal, we will offer hard copies for purchase. When we near that point, we will ask for submissions for cover art, especially that relating to earthshine, reflection, illumination and thought. Specifics will be announced.
Payment: Poets and artists/photographers published in Earthshine will receive a copy of the printed journal when it is available. If we ever make any money, we will begin offering payment.
For information about the current status of the journal, please check the “news and updates” page.
The Editors, Sally Zaino and Julie Moffitt
January 2007/updated June 2009
“…Because illumination of what is hidden can only come from our own reflection.”
