Save 15% on Volume X until August 15!

If you’ve been waiting to get your copy of Volume X, wait no more! You can save 15 percent if you make your purchase between now and August 15. Follow this link to Lulu.com and use coupon code: BEACHREAD305. Our reading period will open on August 1 with exciting news about the contest and more! [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Francesc M. Franch

Ariadna & the Bastard I Years ago Ariadna and I lived near the beaches Of paradise, In a one-bedroom apartment we shared With a little pet minotaur We’d named the Bastard. It wasn’t much, we merely Eked out a living Crafting alchemical supplies And reciting Petrarchan sonnets For the tourists. Daily, flotillas of galleons Anchored [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Janet L. Barry

blood-moon and what would you do, if one night the hemlock came through your bedroom window, dropping blue-white berries across your carpet, and one night the fireflies crept and crept, and crept their little pretend moons across your thin screen, and the taste, under your tongue, gumdrop black as burn and birch, as spice-pungent leaf [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Sadness is Night Reflecting on Night My saddest lines wish to know how they first left an ordinary pen and why I decided to imprison them in narrow corridors along forested page margins. Tonight, they wreck revenge on my mortal hand– Erase me. Write, “I don’t know why I am sad. Night is long. Like [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Barrie Kreinik

workshop: Chekhov. and what do we have after all of it? she asks. just structure.  work and structure. pattern.  form. one-two-three, and on and on: tasks in a line, in place, formation, tandem. finding ourselves alive, no choice exists: get up from the couch. exhale three times.  proceed. this is all we’ve got, she says.  [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Dawn Coutu

Lake Massabesic The lake has started to freeze where she once dipped her toe. Suzanna had warned her not to, it feeds the queen city and that included her and me. Her friend responded in a whisper, wide-eyed at families maneuvering canoes knee deep into the water, and said she must go home. She didn’t [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Mark Cugini

Swagger If there is something to take pride in from being a native Staten Islander, we have yet to discover it.  The majority of my generation are descendants of the children from other boroughs, and the history we’ve carved for ourselves is ripe for parody and satire.  That is why we identify with our nationalities [...]

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Compass Rose Volume X Available Now!

Compass Rose Volume X is now available from Lulu.com for just $10. You can save on shipping ($3.99 value) if you purchase before Saturday, May 1 and use this code at checkout: FREEMAIL305. Just click the button above! Contributor copies will be mailed next week. Thanks to everyone!

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Call For Cover Art for Volume X

Compass Rose is looking for cover art for Volume X, due in May 2010. Please send files less than 100 KB to compass.rose@chestercollege.edu. If your file size is larger than 100 KB, please use a service such as SendSpace or YouSendIt and have the link sent to compass.rose@chestercollege.edu. The deadline is February 8, so don’t [...]

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Anna Scotti Wins Parnell Poety Contest

Anna Scotti’s poem “Egg” has been selected as the winner of the 2009-2010 Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize by judge James Shea. Scotti is a writer and teacher living in California.  Her poetry has recently appeared in Chautauqua, Adirondack Review, and Chickasaw Plum.  She earned an MFA at Antioch University in 2007, and is at work on [...]

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