14 April 2011: The May 2011 issue of Ygdrasil is now available. 3 April 2011: The April 2011 issue featuring "History of Love" by Michael Main is now available. 18 March 2011: Susan McMaster has been shortlisted as a candidate for Poet Laureate of Ottawa. Ygdrasil strongly supports this endeavour. To that end the Susan McMaster special issue has been posted below. 13 March 2011: A link to Poetry Victims has been added to Recommended Sites. 5 March 2011: The March issue of Ygdrasil is now available. Also available: the 12th Spanish issue featuring the Poetry of Carlos Salem. 7 February 2011: The February issue of Ygdrasil, featuring Joie de Vivre by Henry Avignon is now available. 14 January 2011: The All Saints Poems by Doug Tanoury are now available at the link below. 12 January 2011: The Tataya Poems by Doug Tanoury are now availabe at the link below. 8 January 2011: The January issue of Ygdrasil featuring The Organ Grinder, a cycle in 4 parts by Chris Watts is now available. 5 January 2011: Gail Taylor informs me that her new book, Tornado and Other Seasons, is now available from Punkin House Press at http://www.punkinbooks.com . Her short story Caravan was published in the May 2010 issue of Ygdrasil. 31 December 2010: I have posted an update to the Cats of Parliament Hill blog by Brian Caines. 5 July 2008: A note from the Editor. Ygdrasil's submission guidelines are such: Ascii text in the body of an email unless otherwise requested - special issues can be negotiated as to other formats. Currently I receive up to 200+ submissions a week, therefore I will no longer reply to each submission, but request that if your submission has not been published in the next three issues, please either resubmit or submit elsewhere. Ygdrasil is archived by: The Library and Archives Canada Ygdrasil Collection
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Welcome to Ygdrasil, a Journal of the Poetic Arts. Ygdrasil is dedicated to providing the best in Modern International Poetry and Literature. Ygdrasil is a monthly Publication and welcomes submission from around the world. To submit poetry, short stories or plays, please send an email to the address below. Ygdrasil is also associated with alt.centipede newsgroup, so if you are interested in creating a dialogue with other poets and writers from around the world, or just to post some of your work, please drop in.
Klaus Gerken
Editor and Founder of Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts
Klaus Gerken, born Cuxhaven, Germany, 1949. Came to Canada age 9, 1958. First published work, Dynasty 1968. Since then over 100 titles, Poems, Plays and Novels. Many available on this site. Editor and Founder of Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts (1993). Residence: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Heather Ferguson
Production Editor
Heather Ferguson lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her work has been anthologized in Symbiosis and Sounds New, and has appeared in Arc, Ygdrasil, Alter Vox and the Ottawa XPress. She is the author of the chapbook A Mouse in a Top Hat. Heather produced an anthology and two books of poetry through her press, Agawa. She is the Athens group's webmaster.
Moshe Benarroch
European Editor
Moshe Benarroch was born in 1959 in Tetuan/Morocco, between Tangier and Gibraltar. He grew up in a mixture of cultures and languages, Spanish being his mother tongue, attending a French school, hearing the Arabic of the streets and praying in Hebrew. In 1972 He emigrated to israel, and lives since then in Jerusalem. Published books in Hebrew: The Immigrant's Lament (poetry) 1994. The Coming Book (prose) 1997. The Bread And The Dream (poetry) 1998. His poems and prose have been published in numerous publications in Israeli literary magazines, and international magazines, recently in Ygdrasil, Perihelion, Miller's Pond, Revue Europe, Emotions, Xero, The Poet's Guild Quarterly, Poetry magazine. His works have been published in hebrew, spanish, french and english. He writes in Hebrew, Spanish and English. He is Ygdrasil's European editor, and has e-published a book in Ygdrasil titled 'Moben's Poems' in English. His first novel 'Benshawen' will be published in 1999. And a book of poems in Spanish will be published by Esquio in Spain.
Klaus Gerken
kgerken@synapse.net
Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts (c) Klaus Gerken
1993 - 2011
Current pages Created by Klaus Gerken and Pedro Sena (c) 1997 - 2011
Previous pages created by Klaus Gerken and Igal Koshevoy (c) 1993 - 1996
Last revised: 14 May 2011.
