Gonzalinho da Costa’s poems will embrace the pages of aaduna’s forthcoming spring 2015 issue with a launch date towards the end of National Poetry Month, which is this month...April! With permission of the poet, we celebrate POETRY with a da Costa poem followed by his brief narrative that will enhance your understanding of an aspect of Filipino culture and tradition. THE RICE PLANT I held him by his slender neck To pierce him under his chin And saw white sap trickle forth Like milk spills from a tin. I shook him strongly by his thigh To feel him flail like a fish And heard his hands’ helpless sigh Like sand shaken in a dish. I bravely bent his youthful bone, Which sprang with a painful cry— I wondered how one so green and wet Should so resemble I— For I am brown and dry. Gonzalinho da Costa shares: Rice is a symbol of Southeast Asia—kindly note, for example, the bound rice sheaf in the ASEAN logo. Malays, who incl...

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS Tickets for the aaduna, Inc. 2015 Harlem Renaissance…Revisited fundraiser are now available via PayPal or by check or money order payable to aaduna, Inc. and mailed to aaduna, Inc. SFR, 144 Genesee Street, Suite 102-259, Auburn , NY 13021 .   You do not want to miss uptown (upstate) poets and writers weave magic along with their downtown (downstate – NYC) colleagues.   The collective readings/performances will embrace you, and pull you into a world of creative words that will intrigue, challenge, embellish, and make your spirit feel good!  The music will have you tapping your feet. Don't believe me? The FIRST 25 people to order tickets online PLUS the FIRST 25 people to send a check and/or money order will get one FREE aaduna, limited edition tee-shirt (your choice of color: black or gray…one size only: large) that will be held at the door.   Of course, this offer ends when we reach capacit...

Dear aaduna contributors and friends, The Georgia Review  recently announced the third annual Loraine Williams Poetry Prize - --$1,000 and publication in The Georgia Review for a single poem, originally written in English and never before published either in print or online. The submission period is 1 April 2015–15 May 2015, with the winning poem to be announced on 15 August 2015 and published in the Spring 2016 issue. Poems may be submitted online or by post. For more information, visit their website: www.thegeorgiareview.com . Send them your work, and tell others in your network about the prize. For further information: Jenny Gropp Managing Editor The Georgia Review 706A Main Library 320 S. Jackson Street The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 706-542-0044

That’s right! Austin C. Morgan (c) 2015 (Photo Provided) While you may have thought  the festival ended, Austin Morgan returns with another intriguing story, “The Embers of Dusk” the second installment of a four part series that may rest with the overall title, "The Automatic Orchestra" when it is in book form.  For now, we simply refer to these stories as the "Melancholy Quartet."    Austin's first story with aaduna,  “Julie Templeton and the AutomaticOrchestra,” was published in aaduna's summer 2014 issue, and it tantalized our readers.   His second piece is an ambitious piece of story- telling that once again shows Mr. Morgan's mastery of words, narrative imagery, and movement through space and time.      So, let the festival continue.   Austin returns in aaduna's upcoming 5th anniversary-spring 2015 issue scheduled for publishing this month! Here’s an unedited t...

And we wanted to share this particular "joy" with you.  After perusing "Trainless," you may be prompted to submit your work; add this online magazine to your reading list, and share this find with friends.  We hope you do one of the three.     Trainless Magazine is an online literary magazine focusing on travel and the unique ways of learning about different cultures. We publish 12 issues a year, with fiction and nonfiction pieces from both emerging and well read writers. Please submit work between 500 and 2,000 words through our submission manager at: http://trainlessmagazine.com/article/submit.html .     aaduna thanks  Kristyn Bacon, founder and editor of Trainless Magazine .

Michael Mohr (photo provided) Michael Mohr's non-fiction graces the pages of the upcoming issue of aaduna. Here is the opening to his piece, "Conquering Mount Whitney: The Push of a Lifetime." I’ve spent a lot of time in the mountains. From an early age, my father and I would hike in the ranges of Ojai—my hometown—a blip on the map twenty minutes inland from the coast, an hour north of L.A. After my youth, I’d spent years on and off hitchhiking all over the United States, sometimes going into the woods—without anybody knowing—for a week at a time, with only minimal food and water, surviving just fine, reading Keroauc’s On the Road .             But one thing I’d never done was climb a serious mountain, or experience real altitude.             Fast forward to age thirty. I met a young man my age who’d recently tackled Mount Ranier. For some unconscious reason, th...

Kathryn "Kat" Kruse (photo provided) In the January 7, 2015 blog post, I introduced you to Kat Kruse.  Don't remember?  Maybe you do! Regardless, the name is still cool and so is the person behind the name.  Click here to read my Conversation in aaduna's current issue with writer Kathryn Kruse . I enjoyed our chat.  You probably will enjoy reading what she had to say, and maybe even my responses.  Oh my! Yeah, Kat Kruse...cool name.      NOTE:  This is the final conversation for aaduna's current issue (Fall/Winter 2014) Watch for future conversations in aaduna's next issue scheduled to launch in mid-April! Help us build community ... aaduna-Inc  Visit regularly for updates ! @aadunaspeaks