New England Buddhist Poetry Exchange

Hello Poets and Sangha! The August-September Exchange is now complete and being distributed to local Sanghas. If you would like to submit to the Oct-Nov Exchange, please click here .

Hello poets! The October-November Exchange is now open. Click here to submit a poem.   To get in touch with a question, collaboration, or hard to format poem, email fishwritespoetry@gmail.com.  You might like to use this prompt from the Aug-Sep Exchange: Write a poem of epithets. Title your poem with the name of a thing, a person, a place, an activity. Then write, “I name it only because I have no choice.” Then write many epithets, alternatives, titles, etc for your thing. Example: Ferret I name it because I have no choice: tube-snake, wire-muncher, serpent with fur, devourer of my budget, hitchhiker from Pet-Smart, beloved pet. ---- This month's prompt is drawn from Asuka Inoshita’s essay “ What Awaits: Eisai’s Great Mind and the Limits of a Quantum Analogy.” The essay is free on her Medium, @asukawrites. Asuka is a Shinshu-Buddhism priestess, AI research engineer, graphic designer, system engineering (JHU) and design school (FIT) grad, and world traveler.  

 Hello everyone! Exchange 9 is complete and being sent out to Sanghas and our email list.  Thanks to everyone who contributed. 

Hello everyone! The exchange link for the August-September issue is live. Click here to submit.   Our first open mic was a great time, and I'm hoping to have this issue out by the 10th. I left some extra space for people who attended the open mic to write and submit, so I've had to wait a little before formatting the zine. Happy writing! Jade

Please join us for a night of poetry and community in Jamaica Plain on Friday, July 24th! 

Hello Everyone, here is a brief update, two sample poems, and the links for the next month!

    Click here or use the link on the header to exchange a poem by April 25th.