LAGNIAPPE

...in which your editors present announcements of things literary and not-so-literary, spanning the globe

The Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize
is presented by the Water~Stone review. First prize, $500; second, $300; third, $200, plus publication. Judge is Jane Hirshfield. $10 entry fee includes one-year subscription. The deadline is December 15, 2000. Send up to 3 unpublished poems, 10 pages total, with SASE, to Poetry Prize, Water~Stone, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104-1284.

The Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia
has a new website: http://www.sumlitsem.com. This is a 'highly unusual program' is located in one of the world's most fascinating and literary cities, and features some of the finest and most accomplished US writers on the faculty and in-residence. Our program is competitive, but we are always looking nonetheless for new participants from among the ranks of interesting new writers (and in general, people keenly interested in literature) of all ages, all levels of accomplishment, and all walks of life. There is also and upcoming SLS Writing Contest, which we're announcing this year. Read about it on our site. Please notify your friends and colleagues about theis program.

Painted Bride Quarterly,
the Philly-based 30-year-old independent literary magazine, is now an online publication! New issue has poems from Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, Ruth Stone, Philip Levine, and many more...check it out at www.webdelsol.com/pbq.


Slope
is a bimonthly literary webzine that comes into your town and is here to party it down. Check it out at www.slope.org.

Sentimental Education Deptartment
David Grand's Louse.
Darin Strauss' Chang and Eng.
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton's Oyl.