Check out these three poems from Carol Frost, up at Poetry Daily. I have always enjoyed her work:

Three Poems

The honeycomb is made from flowers

and the materials for wax bees gather
from the resinous gum of trees,
while honey is distilled from dew.

At the rising of the constellations
or when a rainbow is in the sky,

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And if you are from WA State, and are looking for a place for your chapbook manuscript, don't forget about Floating Bridge Press:

The 16th Annual Floating Bridge Press Poetry Chapbook Competition is open for submissions until February 16, 2011. If you are a current resident of Washington State, you may submit a chapbook manuscript of up to 24 pages of poetry with a $12 entry fee. The winner receives $500, a Seattle reading in September, and 15 copies of the prize-winning chapbook. Our books are beautiful, archival-quality, perfect-bound, and collectable.

Previous winners include Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Nance Van Winckel, Donna Waidtlow, Molly Tenenbaum, Bart Baxter, Chris Forhan, Joseph Green, Kelli Russell Agodon, Michael Bonacci, Timothy Kelly, Annette Spaulding-Convy, Holly J. Hughes, Nancy Pagh, Katharine Whitcomb, and Laura Read.

Floating Bridge Press considers all individual poems for inclusion in our annual journal, Floating Bridge Review.

For complete guidelines and a look at our titles, please visit http://www.scn.org/floatingbridge/submit.html.


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