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These folks also accept submissions for Silent Type a fun, spunky journal with an upcoming all-poetry issue.
Let’s face it: So many of us have flirted with the notion of creating a CraigsList blog—a collection of the grit-covered gems we run into on CL. You know… when you accidentally click on “Missed Connections” when you meant to peruse the “Free” section?
And what’s more: So many of us thought it was such an innovative and novel idea that surely—surely—no one has attempted it yet. Sadly, if one were to search for a CL blog, they would find quite a few, not including the infamous “best of Craigslist” pages. Nothing makes us feel more foolish than coming up with an idea only after our entire generation has come up with the very same!
But Sophie Blackall, from Brooklyn, New York has no reason to feel foolish. Not only has she started a CL blog (and has seen it through!) but she has illustrated those awkward missed connections--literally--in a way we can all enjoy, without flipping through them ourselves.
http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
Thinking of getting a tattoo but bored of all the skulls and knives going through skulls and knives with skull-shaped handles?
Perhaps you can get a literary tat.
Contrariwise is a blog dedicated to tattoos inspired from poetry, prose, etc. They show folks inked up with monsters from Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter's Deatheaters, quotes from The Satanic Verses (try explaining that to your mother), Slaughterhouse Five, James Joyce and Langston Hughes.
After seeing a few of the pics, I'm already inspired to get some new work done. Perhaps a quote from a Sue Grafton novel?
