While Versal is at the printer, I usually go on hiatus. This year, I jumped in my buddy's van and we drove to Fontainebleau, France for 10 days of bouldering. Armed with my new La Sportivas and the good night's sleep you can only get in a tent, the closest I got to poetry for a good week and nearly-half were the names of the lines I tried to repeat: Lévitation, Égoïste, La Grande Marche. This hiatus is a quiet, temporary time that I imagine many editors feel as they wait in the between of their hard work and its object.
A few days away from the launch party now and I'm back-back in Amsterdam, and, shhh, I have a copy of the new issue. It's gorgeous. For just a few more days, Versal is in the world but not in the world, waiting at my house for the party and the envelopes and the planes carrying them and the letters and the reviews and the postings and the tweets. A few days of quiet, just me and the journal, secret-like. A tree in the forest kind of thing. It's not yet.
So on behalf of our entire team, I'd like to celebrate this momentary stillness by releasing the full list of contributors who have made and will make Versal 9. You can join in by preordering a copy. It's easy and quick and you'll get a free back issue, and while you do it the only sound you'll hear is the click of the mouse.
Versal 9 is/will be:
Maureen Alsop
Louis Armand
Stace Budzko
Gary Joseph Cohen
Rob Cook
Yago Cura
DAS BANALE DING
Julia Forrest
Francene
Brandon Getz
Nene Giorgadze
Brady Gunnell
Heather Hartley
Russell Helms
Rochelle Hurt
Timothy Kercher
Stacy Kidd
Kaisu Koivisto
Douglas Korb
Jane Lewty
Nate Liederbach
Amy Mackelden
Tony Mancus
Isabella Mara
Kyle Mellen
Antoinette Nausikaä
Alice Notley
Jill Osier
John Parker
Dawn Pendergast
Carmen Petaccio
Romy Pocztaruk
Meg Reilly
Steven Salmoni
Maya Sarishvili
Travis David Smith
Anne Kathrine Sørup
Lucas Southworth
Dariel Suarez
Ayumi Suzuki
Katarzyna Szu Szugajew
Laura Tansley
Lizzi Thistlethwayte
Amy Touchette
Benjamin van Loon
Juliette Vivier
Brad Vogler
Jacqueline Vogtman
Rebecca Wallace
Suzanne Warren
Sara ten Westenend
Ken White
Nicole Wilson
Jane Wong
Elizabeth Zuba
March 18, 2011
Dear writers, friends, and family,
This year and every year, we recommit ourselves to supporting a healthy community of writers in Amsterdam and beyond. Everything we do is done in the odd hours between our "day jobs", out of love for our fantastic city, the writers who live here, and the little literary journal we built from scratch.
With no external funding or kind philanthropist to back us up, we are able to do what we do through the small fees we charge for workshops and seminars, through the small margin of profit we receive from Versal sales, and through the generous support of those of you who give a little more by becoming a member. It's a simple business model that is not out for extras, only for just enough to sustain our acclaimed journal and our community activities in and around Amsterdam.
The times are hard on all of us, and with the Netherlands' changing political temperature the likelihood of funding has become zero to none. We're neither Dutch enough nor big enough to interest the few foundations left in the Netherlands.
So we need your help. Becoming a Local member is easy, and cheap. Your Eur 30 goes a long way for us, and you get a lot with it too. Discounts to our local programming, a back issue of Versal, and the new edition when it comes out in May. And if you join before April 1, you'll be entered to win free tickets to the Literary Death Match on April 28, which will officially launch Versal 9 into the world!
If you can't give that much, please consider a donation of an amount of your choosing; even Eur 5 is a lot for us, and is greatly appreciated. Or buy a copy of Versal, old or new, and stack your shelves a bit at the same time.
And if you're able to give a little more, think about becoming a Global member. You'll receive all of the benefits of the Local membership, but your name will also be listed among our supporters in the next issue of Versal. If you join before April 1, that means Versal 9!
Details about the memberships and donations can be found here.
I think it's amazing what we have managed to accomplish these last 9 years on a shoestring of a budget and with limited resources. And that is with many thanks to you, our local and global community. Help us continue our work to support writers. I hope you'll think about it.
Cheers,
Megan
With no external funding or kind philanthropist to back us up, we are able to do what we do through the small fees we charge for workshops and seminars, through the small margin of profit we receive from Versal sales, and through the generous support of those of you who give a little more by becoming a member. It's a simple business model that is not out for extras, only for just enough to sustain our acclaimed journal and our community activities in and around Amsterdam.
The times are hard on all of us, and with the Netherlands' changing political temperature the likelihood of funding has become zero to none. We're neither Dutch enough nor big enough to interest the few foundations left in the Netherlands.
So we need your help. Becoming a Local member is easy, and cheap. Your Eur 30 goes a long way for us, and you get a lot with it too. Discounts to our local programming, a back issue of Versal, and the new edition when it comes out in May. And if you join before April 1, you'll be entered to win free tickets to the Literary Death Match on April 28, which will officially launch Versal 9 into the world!
If you can't give that much, please consider a donation of an amount of your choosing; even Eur 5 is a lot for us, and is greatly appreciated. Or buy a copy of Versal, old or new, and stack your shelves a bit at the same time.
And if you're able to give a little more, think about becoming a Global member. You'll receive all of the benefits of the Local membership, but your name will also be listed among our supporters in the next issue of Versal. If you join before April 1, that means Versal 9!
Details about the memberships and donations can be found here.
I think it's amazing what we have managed to accomplish these last 9 years on a shoestring of a budget and with limited resources. And that is with many thanks to you, our local and global community. Help us continue our work to support writers. I hope you'll think about it.
Cheers,
Megan
March 14, 2011
Laying it down
Megan, Sarah, Robert and Shayna spent the evening
getting everything in the right place for V9.
March 03, 2011
February 26, 2011
We're moving our site this week, so it might be wonky
Our current site hosts are just plain weird, so we're moving our site to Green Geeks where we hope to ride into the cloudy green sunset.
In the run up, I somehow ended up here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wordsinhere.com
The link looks so cool I can't help but post it entire.
Ah, memories.
In the run up, I somehow ended up here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wordsinhere.com
The link looks so cool I can't help but post it entire.
Ah, memories.
February 23, 2011
How Versal's poetry team preps for a meeting
Or, apparently I'm into posting pictures now.
Last meeting tonight! Get ready for it...
Last meeting tonight! Get ready for it...
February 16, 2011
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