It is with great excitement that we announce the addition of Ashley Seitz Kramer to our rowdy staff as a Contributing Poetry Editor for Conte 6.1, our upcoming summer issue.  You can read more about Ashley and her work in our Who Is Conte? section.

We’re pleased to announce that our friend and recent contributor Erika Meitner is this week’s featured poet at Anti-. 

With Conte 5.2 hot off the presses, I wanted to share yet another treat: Poets’ Quarterly just published my recent interview with William Hathaway, a friend and former Conte contributor.  Enjoy!

To all our readers, contributors, and friends, we here at Conte wish you a Happy New Year!

We are currently completing issue 5.2 slated for publication late January (it’s our twelfth!), so if you’ve submitted work for this issue, you can expect to hear from us presently.

That being David Bellantoni - his story Foreplay, which you may remember from the May ‘07 issue, got quite a reception as a one-act performance during the Network One Act Festival in NYC this past March.  We’re told that after winning awards at the festival, the play earned a reading at the New York Theater Workshop, and was then invited to participate in Lower East Side Festival of The Arts on Memorial Day Weekend.  So, awesome.  Kudos David! 

William Hathaway, whose poem "Martin Points" appeared in Conte 5.1 this summer, has two new poems in the October issue of Poetry.  You can read them here.  Congrats, Kit!

After a brief sabatical, the editors will begin reading for Conte 5.2, our winter issue, on October 1st.  Please check our submissions page for specific guidelines.

I am pleased to announce some National Poetry Month events for those of you in the Mid-Atlantic region.  All of the readings listed below will take place at Wor-Wic Community College in Salisbury, Maryland, and are free and open to the public.

• Maryland’s Poet Laureate Michael S. Glaser–Tuesday, March 31st, 7:30 p.m. in GH 101
• Roger Weingarten and Kate Fetherston–Thursday, April 16th, 7:00 p.m. in GH 101
• Dzvinia Orlowsky and Nancy Mitchell–Monday, April 20th, 7:00 p.m. in GH 101

Book sales and signings will follow each reading.  Visit www.worwic.edu for directions or more information.  Hope to see you there!

We’re now actively reading for Conte 5.1, and have set a July 1st deadline for our summer 2009 issue.  For friends old and new, we look forward to reading your work.

A progressive new database at www.litmags.org is helping writers find the best literary home for their work, and Conte is pleased to have joined the fray.