A Fake Poetry Anthology to Learn Kindle and E-Pub Formatting.
Volume I, no. 1
Winter-Spring 2014
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From the Editor
Epigraph
April Contest Winners
Stan Grenfield
Chrome Bumper Reflections
Penny Candy
Jennifer Riggle
The Lighthouse at Salt Marsh
Donec Elementum
April Contributors
Nancy Kilroy
The Tale of Three Eyebrows
What the Barn Owl Saw
Andy Crenshaw
The Sum of its Parts
Amit Matthews
On the Sixth Anniversary of its Demotion, Pluto Facebook-Stalks Astronomers Mike Brown and Neil deGrasse Tyson
Poet Biographies
About our Next Issue
It’s really hard to edit poetry anthologies. It’s also really hard to format poetry for E-books. Poetry isn’t like novels or non-fiction prose: each line break matters. And an anthology means an editor is trying to “get it exactly right” for a dozen finicky poets, each of whom has his or her own typographical predilections. With due respect to our prose stylists, it must be awfully nice to just dump 45 paragraphs of prose into a chapter and call it a day. We’d like that. Nearly all of the tutorials we’ve seen for “publish your novel on Kindle!” or “Publish your book using Microsoft Word!” assume that the writers and editors are dealing with prose. Poetry is different. When a line of poetry reflows, it can change the entire meaning and pacing of a poem.
This first, fake issue of Yellow Buick Review is our effort to figure out how best to code a fully-featured, standards-compliant, artistically-sound poetry E-book for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Kobo E-readers. We’ll share our process and our findings with everyone, because we believe the whole poetry community will benefit from a systematic exploration of these technologies.
Best,
-Artie Moffa
Editor, Bicycle Comics
San Francisco, CA
“The poetry is not the point; the point is <p> tags.”
– 99% of the Websites out there that teach people “How to format your book for Amazon Kindle.”
We are delighted to announce the winners of our third annual National Poetry Month contest. Stan Grenfield impressed us with his meditations on a bygone era. As first place winner, Grenfield will receive $250 and a two-year subscription to our journal. Jennifer Riggle’s poems made us laugh until our cheeks hurt, which would normally be a strike against her. However, her funny poems always end in tragedy and self-absorption, which redeems them and persuades us that she’ll be a real poet someday. Jennifer will receive $125, a one-year subscription, and the condescending presumption of our first-name-basis callout, even though we just referred to the male winner by his last name.
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