About Me
Plain Spoke is a quarterly magazine project jam-packed full of literary works with a very specific, clear, plain spoken voice. We won’t publish anything that speaks for all of mankind. We won’t publish love poems for the sake of love. We don’t like the over-complicated. Say something simple and original and be gentle and beautiful about it. Be gritty and true. Write down the heavier things, but gracefully. Don’t try to make it apply to the entire world. Let it be loud in its own little universe, craft it with care, and craft it well, and we’ll probably love it.
Who we are:
We are poets, story-tellers, painters, basket weavers, musicians, writers, moonshiners, and photographers, and other plain folk who recognize the value of nature, of our own humanity, and the charm of where we come from. We are not ashamed to be plain-spoken.
What we want:
poetry, short fiction, americana, nostalgia, those things you tell your friends over campfires, ars poetica, black and white photography, black and white folk art, written-down oral histories, memoir, how-to poems inspired by your great-grandmother’s recipes, music reviews, the old stories, adapted river-mountain folklore, old journal excerpts, old ephemera, old wives tales, train stories, coal miner stories, nostalgia, stories we thought were lost, interviews with whittlers, quilters, and moonshiners, Appalachian Trail stories, ghost stories, regional humor, superstition stories, poetry of place, creative non-fiction, stories of Native American Culture, grass roots stuff, old ballad lyrics, UMWA stories, memories, VFW stories, Civilian Conservation Corps Stories, War stories that are not political in nature, Depression stories, Trolley Park stories, flood stories, and other rich, River-Mountain goodness.found this plain layout at HOT FreeLayouts.com :: MyHotComments
