tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38154164778811729062024-03-19T05:33:36.900-07:00Rune Tao PressEastern ~ Western ~ Poetry ~ Prose ~ Alternative PressRunechrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761439302417076450noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815416477881172906.post-45527250566362780792009-12-01T07:25:00.001-08:002009-12-01T07:37:43.916-08:00First Issue is in Progress...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeF8ncHuAlUYcsOLJ0pBSwhEpl7ECOKm7yS7uMHndZh3LyCrkc3EkZNwj1PNVPZKEsSw9cJCU1IdKgYpbMbgOIzKsW6sW939PqOPwX2wS8f1JdEdBv51HihJCknqJiAli2uVf7AZ3O80/s1600/buddha-oil-painting-3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLeF8ncHuAlUYcsOLJ0pBSwhEpl7ECOKm7yS7uMHndZh3LyCrkc3EkZNwj1PNVPZKEsSw9cJCU1IdKgYpbMbgOIzKsW6sW939PqOPwX2wS8f1JdEdBv51HihJCknqJiAli2uVf7AZ3O80/s400/buddha-oil-painting-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410290441126591154" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05in;text-align:center"><span style="Lucida Calligraphy";color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">at the full moon...</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right:.05in;text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Issue One, Winter 2010</span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Runechrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761439302417076450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815416477881172906.post-36798133003517142202009-11-20T14:16:00.000-08:002009-11-20T14:24:50.606-08:00A recent submission accepted to Rune Tao Press<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmTZXRN0QOpcpJIT8T4i2R_6TBUMuShEfOI5rIFLQ9RtbgMPlOiiEsi4zzwCTpsFuNoj4nHx_Pu4xrGvWpgwaJO_WNKhGguBzIDZP1aSPgF-PWGC6hYr3DY63mka1aaH8fPjJc6R5iIg/s1600/images-16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigmTZXRN0QOpcpJIT8T4i2R_6TBUMuShEfOI5rIFLQ9RtbgMPlOiiEsi4zzwCTpsFuNoj4nHx_Pu4xrGvWpgwaJO_WNKhGguBzIDZP1aSPgF-PWGC6hYr3DY63mka1aaH8fPjJc6R5iIg/s320/images-16.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406315241846368690" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is a recent submission accepted to the Rune Tao Press. The poet is a long time poet from Durango, Colorado... Charles Hice.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It will be included in the Winter, 2010 issue of the Rune Tao Press debut chapbook, which will include Autumn Moon Festival Poems and other submissions.<br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Runes Tao</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">By Charles Hice</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Purple memories taken out and dried <br />like tendrils from a brain <br />synapse lapses into refrain. <br />Unfair, Unfair, is life. <br />To be saddled like a riding crop <br />with problems others have <br />the tao. <br />Nothing bad ever happens <br />to them wicked people. <br />They take large bites of life <br />and never pay the tao. <br />Yet the end is not yet seen <br />we have not been inbetween <br />the rock and the hard place <br />yet. <br />Perhaps the final burning <br />makes them enter into RUNES <br />and howl with no sound <br />while we can live with <br />JESUS in eternity. <br />Tao. <br /> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> 2009 By Charles Hice</span></span></span></div></div></div></div>Runechrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761439302417076450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815416477881172906.post-25842366847407725322009-09-21T17:22:00.000-07:002009-09-21T17:27:46.534-07:00Autumn Moon Reading Submissions are open<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">Taking Submissions…. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">October 3rd, 2009 is the coming out party for my new press, Rune Tao Press. And we will be celebrating it with a reading on that date because it is the autumn full moon and Chinese Moon Festival. The reading, which will be held at Goldfish Tea in Royal Oak, Michigan, from 6-9 pm., will be a combination of Eastern and Western poetry. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">Since many people cannot come to this reading, because of distance and other events that evening, I’ve decide a nice way to start things off and include as many people as possible would be to have people submit poetry for the event. Which, if picked, will be read at the reading, and published in a chapbook as a kick off for Rune Tao Press. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> So here now are the details and guidelines for this submission. They are pretty simple.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">DEADLINE for submission: Thursday, October 1, 2009.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">The themes are this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Chinese, Asian or western themes dealing with the moon, autumn, the change of season or movement. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">Poetry submissions can be short or long of not more than one page in length if printed as a Word document.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">Preferably tanka, haiku, renga, ghazal, or pantoum but can also be of any other form or free form as long as it fits one of the themes, even 'non-traditional' or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>'urban' haiku. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">Please be creative and innovative. Poems may be modern or traditional in nature. I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>hope people have fun with the idea as well.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> Rune Tao Press is an alternative press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So is interested in stretching the envelope a little.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Submissions should be e-mailed to:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">runewarrior921@gmail.com</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> Poems should be placed in the body of the document not as an attachment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> Thank you. I'm looking forward to your submissions. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">editor, Rune Tao Press<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Runechrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761439302417076450noreply@blogger.com3