by R.A. Allen
Who’s that knocking at this hour,
testing the deadbolt of my sleep?
Secret police or Latter-day Saints?
Survey taker or prize patrol?
Alimony skip tracers, I’m paid up.
Catholic guilt, inquire next door.
by Feng Sun Cheng
WAKE: the eighth of 72 transformations
Wukong, protector of hollows,
squeezed his eyes into needles.
At age twenty he had accepted his fate
to be exiled into a unique freedom.
“When I opened the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among themselves in abundant
whispers.”
Eckleburg Workshops in Poetry
The Poetry Workshop
The Poetry Chapbook Workshop
Writing the Short Poem Workshop
The Beats Workshop
Spirit of Writing Workshop
Mindfulness & Writing Workshops
Hybrid: Crafting, Publishing & Promoting Hybrid Work
Literary Matchmaking Workshop
Breaking Rules: When and How to Leave Linguistic Conventions Behind Workshop
Evolving Origins in Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction and Hybrid Workshop
Submit Your Poems
We are now accepting previously unpublished works. Please submit 1 – 5 poems as separate files in separate submissions. Please do not submit them all on one document. Submit. Note: We consider works that appeared in print, online magazines, public forums, and public access blogs as being published. Rarely do we accept anything already published and then only by solicitation. Once the piece is published in Eckleburg, the author is welcome to re-publish the work anywhere and everywhere. In these cases, we ask that the original publication be credited each time to The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review.
Collection Manuscripts
We publish short works at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. At this time, we do not publish novel, long memoir, essay collections, story collections or poetry collections at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. We do offer manuscript workshops at The Eckleburg Workshops. If you are looking to place a manuscript, we can suggest several excellent small and large presses whose excellent books are promoted through our Eckleburg Book Club — i.e., Random House, Graywolf Press, Coffeehouse, Tinhouse, St. Martins Press and more.