Category / Site Update

Everything to do with Stanza Cannon updates.

by Ink

Hiatus

First and most of all, I want to thank all of the poets from around the globe who saw Stanza Cannon and took a gamble on trusting us with their voice. I still believe, 100%, in the mission of this humble zine but have lost faith in my own ability to properly support the poets who contribute. Putting a magazine together – gathering submissions, editing audio, and assembling the issue – is one thing, but the constant promotion necessary to provide exposure for our contributors and the rag has proven to be far beyond /contrary to my capabilities / sensibilities. In short, I feel I am failing the poets who have contributed, and I cannot bring myself to continue to let anyone else down in that regard.

But this I vow: Stanza Cannon will not, so long as I have the monthly fee, become a dead link. The magazine will live on until my own end of days. I personally owe the poets who dared to contribute that much. And, who knows, if my own headspace changes and I’m able to be the hype man poets deserve, there will be new issues in the future.

For now, however, I’d urge you to check out past issues, follow links to the poets’ works, and support them in any way you feel able. Poetry is community. For many, poetry is life. And I am so grateful to have been a part of something larger these past three years. Thank you for listening. Thank you for contributing. Thank you for feeling in an an increasingly callous world.

—Ink—

by Ink

Issue No. 3 and 4 are live!

The third and fourth issues of Stanza Cannon are live, and we are swooning! Listen to all collective contributions as a playlist or select tracks to play one at a time as is your pleasure. We cannot possibly thank enough those talented artists who trusted us with their work. It means the world to us to be able to broadcast your voices.

A reminder: Submissions are open 24/7/365, but we are currently accepting for our Spring 2023 Issue due out in March, and that includes the Grab Bag.

So go. Listen. Be inspired. Submit, and break the sound barrier.

by Ink

Be Our Billboard

Be a walking billboard for us while touting your love of oral (poetry). Stanza Cannon now has merch available in the form of a couple tees and bag that tout (and in one instance totes) your love for, well, this very site! The tees are priced basically for $0 profit to be as inexpensive as possible as to help get our address in front of more faces, and any profit made will be funneled right back into keeping the site up and running. Don’t forget to tag us in your SM avenue of choice (twitter, facebook, instagram) when you receive/wear them so we can shout it from the digital mountaintop.

And if you’d rather the full Stanza Cannon logo on other things (hats, mugs, bath/beach towels, notebooks, etc.), head on over to our Redbubble store. Same deal as above, any profit made is funneled right back into helping the site recoup operational costs.

by Ink

Issue No. 2 is live!

The second issue of Stanza Cannon is live, and we can’t believe it either! Click here to listen to all collective contributions as a playlist or select tracks to play one at a time as is your pleasure. We cannot possibly thank enough those talented artists who trusted us with their work. It means the world to us to be able to broadcast your voices.

Also, a huge thank you to Black Market Eagle for our new SM icon and logo! (Goodbye, MS Paint-ed masterworks from our EIC.) It’s gorgeous, and we cannot recommend them enough.

A reminder: Submissions are open for our autumnal Issue No. 3 due out in September, and that includes the Grab Bag, which one courageous soul has already submitted to and is awaiting a poem to record and read in kind.

So go. Listen. Be inspired. Submit, and break the sound barrier.

by Ink

Issue No. 1 is live!

The very first issue of Stanza Cannon is live, and we couldn’t be more excited. Listen to all collective contributions as a playlist or one by one at your own leisure here. Many heartfelt thanks for those talented artists who trusted us with their work so far. We are very, very eager to hear what’s to come! Submissions are open for Issue No. 2, and that includes the Grab Bag. So go listen. Be inspired. Break the sound barrier.

by Ink

On Our Knees (Open for Submission)

What’s up, world?! Stanza Cannon is officially live and . . . unfinished. If you find our look WordPress-ish, that’s because that’s the platform we’re currently using until we settle on a Web developer, and we’re using a temporary header while we await our commissioned artwork. So ignore the scaffolding and safety tape, because we are open during construction and welcoming submissions for our inaugural issue.

As we seek to make Stanza Cannon a quarterly publication, the big #1 is planned for publication in March 2022. As a lot of people will probably be waiting to see how this experiment goes before submitting, we’re going to do everything possible to make sure the first issue is the best it can be. The submission period for Issue #1 closes February 28, 2022.

For guidelines for how to get in on the ground floor, visit the Submissions page. We can’t wait to hear (from) you.

by Ink

A High-Caliber, Audio Zine

Welcome to Stanza Cannon, the first-of-its-kind, quarterly zine dedicated solely to spoken poetry. The editor operates on the double standard of summa cum laude English majoring and love-it-when-you-hear-it enthusiasm. If it makes you feel, if it makes you think, if it makes you snap, if it makes you involuntarily shout out from or fall off of your bar stool, then favorites await here among pages that actually speak to you.

Interested in having your voice heard (literally)? Submissions are currently closed, but you can listen to all past issues here.