Welcome to the 2016 literary date book anthology
Enjoy the 2015 date book from Scars Publications, with the 2016 literary date book anthology of select poetry and prose poetry in this weekly perfect-bound planner... This collection book is filled with accepted short poems and prose poems from 2014 issues of both cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine. This 2016 date book contains weekly planners for not only every week in 2015, but also the last 11 days in 2015 and the first two weeks in January 2017 (so you can make sure you won’t skip a beat at holiday times). This weekly planner is a perfect-bound book you can literally use every week of the year — for not only planning everything in life but also for new poetry to read every week! So pick up a copy today of the 2016 literary date book anthology!
For the 2015 year, Scars Publications to released two poetry & prose collection books - the 2016 literary date book anthology of short poetry and prose poetry, and the annual collection book Sunlight in the Sanctuary of poetry of varying lengths, along with flash fiction and longer short stories (along with the annual winners of the Editor’s Choice Writing Award).To know exactly what is included in this collection book, view the listing below. And HEY! Any past video-recorded open mic readings of poems included in this date book are also listed here, so check out the video links here as well... |
below is a list of the accepted writers
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| December 20-26 2015 | Ralph Monday | Rosie the Riveter | ||||
  See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Ralph Monday’s poem Rosie the Riveter from Down in the Dirt mag (the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue, v127) titled “Treading Water” live 2/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago | ||||||
| December 27-31 2015 | A.J. Huffman | I Am Ocean | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading A. J. Huffman’s poem I Am Ocean from Down in the Dirt mag (the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue, v127) titled “Treading Water” live 2/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago | ||||||
| December 27-31 2015 | Donald Gaither | untitled (cat) | ||||
| January 1-2 | Robert Bates | Knockout | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Robert Bates’ prose Knockout from Down in the Dirt mag (the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue, v127) titled “Treading Water” live 3/4/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago | ||||||
| January 1-2 | John Grey | Hands in the Cement | ||||
| January 3-9 | Judith Ann Levison | A Little Life | ||||
| January 10-16 | Doug Draime | 24 Hour Surrender | ||||
| January 17-23 | Allan Onik | Black Cat | ||||
| January 24-30 | Drew Marshall | Milton and World War Two | ||||
| January 31 | Benjamin Sabin | Always As Honest As Your Last Drink | ||||
| January 31 | Marlon Jackson | Life Goes On | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” (Including Donald Gaither’s poems “Untitled (grey)” and “November Wind”, G. A. Scheinoha’s poem “Easy Vic”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poems “console”, “extinct” and “civil”, Zak Patrick’s poem “4:44am”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poem “need”, and Marlon Jackson’s poem “Life Goes On”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” (Including Donald Gaither’s poems “Untitled (grey)” and “November Wind”, G. A. Scheinoha’s poem “Easy Vic”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poems “console”, “extinct” and “civil”, Zak Patrick’s poem “4:44am”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poem “need”, and Marlon Jackson’s poem “Life Goes On”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon ps)
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| February 1-6 | David Sapp | Stars | ||||
| February 7-13 | Frank De Canio | Dreamscape | ||||
| February 14-20 | S. R. Mearns | The Fall | ||||
| February 21-27 | Jon Brunette | The Face | ||||
| February 28-29 | Fritz Hamilton |
Trying to figure out what’s going on, but it’s hard to think when the world’s crumbling | ||||
| February 28-29 | Michael Lee Johnson | South Chicago Night (V3) | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Michael Lee Johnson’s poem South Chicago Night (V2) from Down in the Dirt v128, “Black Cat” live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200) | ||||||
| March 1-5 | Linda M. Crate | won’t settle down | ||||
| March 1-5 | G. A. Scheinoha | Easy Vic | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” (Including Donald Gaither’s poems “Untitled (grey)” and “November Wind”, G. A. Scheinoha’s poem “Easy Vic”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poems “console”, “extinct” and “civil”, Zak Patrick’s poem “4:44am”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poem “need”, and Marlon Jackson’s poem “Life Goes On”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” (Including Donald Gaither’s poems “Untitled (grey)” and “November Wind”, G. A. Scheinoha’s poem “Easy Vic”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poems “console”, “extinct” and “civil”, Zak Patrick’s poem “4:44am”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poem “need”, and Marlon Jackson’s poem “Life Goes On”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon ps)
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| March 6-12 | Frank C. Praeger | For Now | ||||
| March 13-19 | John Grey | Fisherman’s Son | ||||
| March 20-26 | Sheryl L. Nelms | Mental Nervous | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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| March 27-31 | CEE | 75 people in a Dallas room | ||||
| March 27-31 | Ronald Charles Epstein | After Alberta’s Centennial | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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| April 1-2 | Catherine B. Krause | Violation | ||||
| April 1-2 | Zak Patrick | 4:44am | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” (Including Donald Gaither’s poems “Untitled (grey)” and “November Wind”, G. A. Scheinoha’s poem “Easy Vic”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poems “console”, “extinct” and “civil”, Zak Patrick’s poem “4:44am”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poem “need”, and Marlon Jackson’s poem “Life Goes On”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from Down in the Dirt v129, “a Bad Influence” (Including Donald Gaither’s poems “Untitled (grey)” and “November Wind”, G. A. Scheinoha’s poem “Easy Vic”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poems “console”, “extinct” and “civil”, Zak Patrick’s poem “4:44am”, Janet Kuypers’ haiku poem “need”, and Marlon Jackson’s poem “Life Goes On”) live 4/1/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon ps)
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| April 3-9 | Jenene Ravesloot | Crime Blotter #1: Thirty-Four Times | ||||
| April 10-16 | L. Payne | Liar | ||||
| April 17-23 | Richard King Perkins II | Emma in the Belly of the Beast | ||||
| April 24-30 | Eric Allen Yankee | Blindfolds | ||||
| May 1-7 | Patrick Fealey | the scream of the butterfly | ||||
| May 8-14 | David James | There’s a Rowboat Covering A Leak in the Roof | ||||
| May 15-21 | Marianne Szlyk | Of Music and Metaphor in Somerville, MA | ||||
See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading Marianne Szlyk’s poem of Music and Metaphor in Somerville, MA from the current issue of cc&d magazine’s “the Curve of Arctic Air” live 2/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago
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| May 22-28 | R. N. Taber | the Artist | ||||
| May 29-31 | Kenneth DiMaggio |
Reflection #1 from A (perhaps) Heretical Lectio Divina Meditation | ||||
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See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading Kenneth DiMaggio’s poem Reflection #1 from A (perhaps) Heretical Lectio Divina Meditation from the current issue of cc&d magazine’s “the Curve of Arctic Air” live 2/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago
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| May 29-31 | Andy Roberts | as a razor | ||||
| June 1-5 | David S. Pointer | Bagging High Quality Recruits | ||||
| June 1-5 | Kelley Jean White MD | Three Lies and One Piece of Truth | ||||
| June 6-12 | Simon Perchik | untitled (arms) | ||||
| June 13-19 | Aditya Shanka | Thirty Years | ||||
| June 20-26 | Janet Kuypers | extinct on planet earth | ||||
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon fs200) | ||||||
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth (w/ John playing guitar) in her 3/28/15 show “Journey” at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (Canon Power Shot) | ||||||
See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon fs200), of 14 poem readings about her mother, WITH THIS PIECE | ||||||
See YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at Sisters on a Journey in Hyde Park in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of 14 poem reading about her mother, INCLUDING THIS PIECE | ||||||
Download this poems in the free chapbook “Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15 at Sisters on a Journey show in Hyde Park (Chicago) | ||||||
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon fs200) | ||||||
See YouTube video of the poem reading by Janet Kuypers of extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon PS) | ||||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems, Vent and extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon fs200 video camera) | ||||||
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers’ 2 poems, Vent and extinct on planet earth 6/10/15 at the Chicago open mic “Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing” (Canon Power Show camera) | ||||||
| June 27-30 | Erren Kelly | Tri-Met Train, Expo Center, Portland Oregon | ||||
| June 27-30 | Jane Stuart | Untitled (papyrus) | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including Jane Stuart’s poem “Untitled (papyrus)”, Catherine B. Krause’s prose poem “Violation”, and Simon Perchik’s poem “untitled (gate)”) live 4/15/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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| July 1-2 | Dr (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt |
Two Enormous Butterflies Play at the Ichtucknee Spring Head. | ||||
| July 1-2 | Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal | Atonement | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v256, “Testament” (Including Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Mental Nervous, Michael Lee Johnson’s poem Possum Slim (V2), G. A. Scheinoha’ poem Silver Anniversary, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal’s poem “Atonement”, Ronald Charles Epstein’s poem After Alberta’s Centennial, Eric Burbridge’s poem Minute, and Janet Kuypers’s poem Junk) live 8/5/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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| July 3-9 | Alan Catlin | Career Girl | ||||
| July 10-16 | David J. Thompson | Something Else Romantic | ||||
| July 17-23 | Maura Gage Cavell | Shaping her World | ||||
| July 24-30 | MCD | A White Procedural Mask | ||||
| July 31 | Chris Roe | Love | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v255 (the 22 year anniversary issue), “a Mad Escape” (Including Jane Stuart’s poem untitled (moonlight), R. N. Taber’s poem Nature Trail, Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Silver Anniversary, Jesse Williams’ poem “Generation Head and Shoulders”, Chris Roe’s poem Love, Mimi Young’s poem Worm in Cement, and G. A. Scheinoha’s poem White is Not a Color) live 6/10/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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| July 31 | Mimi Young | Worm On Cement | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from various writers from cc&d v255 (the 22 year anniversary issue), “a Mad Escape” (Including Jane Stuart’s poem untitled (moonlight), R. N. Taber’s poem Nature Trail, Sheryl L. Nelms’ poem Silver Anniversary, Jesse Williams’ poem “Generation Head and Shoulders”, Chris Roe’s poem Love, Mimi Young’s poem Worm in Cement, and G. A. Scheinoha’s poem White is Not a Color) live 6/10/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)
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| August 1-6 | Sam Nicodemus | She Dreamed | ||||
| August 7-13 | Michael C. Keith | Soldier Blue | ||||
| August 14-20 | Skerdi Brahimaj | Response to a Self Portrait | ||||
| August 21-27 | Denny E. Marshall | Concrete Gray | ||||
| August 28-29 | Neil Flory | Fool’s Gold | ||||
| August 28-29 | Eric Burbridge | Suddenly | ||||
| September 1-3 | Ag Synclair | All Manner of Things | ||||
| September 1-3 | Robin Wyatt Dunn | To my son | ||||
| September 4-10 | Sean Lause | Leaving the concert hall | ||||
| September 10-17 | Rose Marie | Turning Into A Rose | ||||
| September 18-29 | John Feaster | Adagio Ocean | ||||
| September 25-30 | Chad Newbill | Red Cape | ||||
| October 1 | Roger G. Singer | Sheng Street | ||||
| October 1 | David Hernandez | Free of Pain | ||||
| October 2-8 | Chris Johnson | Down, Down | ||||
| October 9-15 | Christos C. Kallis | The Perks of Being | ||||
| October 16-22 | Edee Lemonier | Salvation | ||||
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading Edee Lemonier’s poem Salvation from the current issue of cc&d magazine’s “the Curve of Arctic Air” live 2/18/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago | ||||||
| October 23-29 | Elizabeth Harper | If I Didn’t Have Dollies | ||||
| October 30-31 | Brian Looney | The Instance of Being | ||||
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cps)
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)
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| October 30-31 | Michael Ceraolo | Mobservation #7 | ||||
| November 1-5 | Xanadu | Strong Wind in the Mountains | ||||
| November 1-5 | Daniel S. Weinberg | Zen Master | ||||
| November 6-12 | Luis Martinez |
A Poem about the reality check of the Dying process of Loved ones. | ||||
| November 13-19 | John K. Graham | Steel | ||||
| November 20-26 | I.B. Rad | Dancing at “The Abyss” | ||||
| November 27-31 | Charles Hayes | Taps | ||||
| November 27-31 | Jackie Wolk | Ode to a farm cat | ||||
| December 1-3 | Zachary Harp | Our Song | ||||
| December 1-3 | Jesse Williams | December Eleventh and Onward | ||||
| December 4-10 | Oz Hardwick | Testament | ||||
| December 10-17 | Preston R. P. | Buzzing in Limbo | ||||
| December 18-29 | Traci Lavois Thiebaud | i am reaching | ||||
| December 25-31 | Chen Okafor | Acharugo | ||||
| January 1-7 2017 | Jay Frankston | A Lesson from the Zen Masters | ||||
| January 8-14 2017 | Janet Kuypers | Scars | ||||
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 Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading this prose “Scars” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after her Tag Team feature reading | ||||||
Watch this Youtube video of Janet Kuypers reading “Scars” and “Children, Churches and Daddies” in Nashville TN 5/18/13 after the Tag Team feature reading | ||||||
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cfs) | ||||||
See YouTube videoof Janet Kuypers reading her Scars 2015 medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago (Cps) | ||||||
See YouTube video (Cfs) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago | ||||||
See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading 5 poems: Once Wanted You as my Friend, Escaping Every Cage, and a Scars medley (based on parts of the prose poem Scars and the poems Scars 1997 and Scars 2000, then Too Far and Children, Churches and Daddies 10/6/15 at Quenchers open mic in Chicago | ||||||
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