Tag: poetry
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Call for Submissions
Time is running out! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue, but there’s only three days left! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue is…
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Call for Submissions
Time is running out! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue, but there’s only a week left! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue…
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Call for Submissions
It’s that time again! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue is well on its way. Additionally, we…
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Call for Submissions
It’s that time again! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue is well on its way. Additionally, we…
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This is West – Guest Writer Steve Bellin-Oka
Still Life with the Plague of Darkness — for my daughter I woke this morning before dawn to find the nation’s hearts had hardened. Something stretched out its hand—a darkness so thick it felt like gauze. It seemed it would last for days. Even the pavement cracks were wider:…
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Call for Submissions
It’s time! Today’s the submission deadline for the Spring 2017 issue of El Portal, so make sure you get your potential publications sent to us by midnight. The next submission period won’t begin until January, so this is your last chance for awhile! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally.…
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El Portal – Fall 2016
Readers can now access the PDF version of El Portal’s Fall 2016 issue. Click on the image above to access the PDF file. If you have any questions about the Fall 2016 issue, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Full List of Contributors: An Interview with Joseph Somoza Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie “Certain Things Are Likely” Gaylord…
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This is West – Sediment
The details of the land are boundless, rugged Layers that shimmer, hide. They call out to the depths beneath and above Creating beauty out of fire, snow. They crisscross forming layers of sediment, evoking caverns, mountain, streams Adding to the story of the land, the people. Yet still hiding secrets beneath the shimmering sediment Waiting…
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Welcome Back! (Now Accepting Submissions)
El Portal is officially back from its summer vacation! Be on the lookout for the return of This is West this Friday, August 5th. We’re also now accepting submissions for the Spring 2017 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline October 31st. For Terms of…
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El Portal – Spring 2016
Readers can now access the PDF version of El Portal’s Spring 2016 issue. Click on the image above to access the PDF file. If you have any questions about the Spring 2016 issue, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Full List of Contributors: Phillip Parotti “Antiquarian Mishaps” Stephen Cloud “Pop Runs Out of Gas,…
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Call for Submissions (Last Chance!)
There’s just a little over 24 hours left until the deadline for this semester’s issue of El Portal, so get them in quick! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here Be on the…
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Call for Submissions
Turn out’s been great so far, but that doesn’t mean we’re done yet! If you’re interested in submitting a piece for the Fall 2016 issue of El Portal, there’s only five days left! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click…
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Call for Submissions
Did you know El Portal has been published since 1939? Get in on our long publication tradition and submit to the Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released…
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Call for Submissions
It’s two weeks until the deadline and El Portal is still accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released its Fall 2015 issue,…
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This is West – Dear Samantha
Dear Samantha, It’s been hard out here in the desert without you, even though the desert here in Afghanistan often looks a lot like New Mexico. I want you to know I got your letter with the picture of you at the Grand Canyon with your mom. Looks like fun! I don’t have any pictures…
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Call for Submissions
The deadline’s fast approaching, but El Portal is still accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released its Fall 2015 issue, which we’re…
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Call for Submissions
El Portal is still accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released its Fall 2015 issue, which we’re proud to say includes a…
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A Welcome and Call for Submissions
Welcome back! Today marks the beginning of ENMU’s Spring 2016 semester and with the Spring 2016 issue well under way, it’s time to look towards the future. El Portal is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Deadline March 31st. For Terms of…
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This Is West – Winter Nights
There is no stillness like winter nights on the plains, cold creeping through the cracks in the earth and the gaps around aged windows, chilling skin and bone even through layers as I stand just inside the screen door listening to the watery whisper of rain against concrete, chain-link, and dust. Nobody ventures outside these days.…
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El Portal – Fall 2015 Edition
Readers can now access the PDF version of El Portal’s Fall 2015 issue. Click on the image above to access the PDF file. If you have any questions about the Fall 2015 issue, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Full List of Contributors: Sreyash Sarkar “Whirligig” Justin J. Murphy “Space-time Snakebite Continuum…
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