4 February: The February issue is now available featuring the Poetry of Alysia Waters.  

8 January 2014: The Janaury issue is now available. With this issue we enter our 22nd year of publication.

1 December 2013: The December issue, featuring Selected Works of Ron Whitehead with
Photographs by Jinn, is now available. 

8 November 2013: The November 2013 issue is now available. We are also happy to announce 
that Patrick White has joined Ygdrasil as a Contributing Editor. 

10 October 2013: The October 2013 issue, featuring New Poems and Paintings by Patrick White is now available.

8 September 2013: The September 2013 issue of Ygdrasil is now available.

28 August 2013: I am proud to announce that as of 2:10 am EST Ygdrasil's readership has reached the 40,000 mark.

5 August 2013:The August 2013 issue of Ygdrasil, featuring Medusa's Hairdresser by Maria Jacketti, is now available. 

10 September 2011: As you can see, Ygdrasil has a new appearance. A new banner has 
been graciously created by Michael Parker and the site has been updated to bring it 
into accordance. All previous issues are now in the Previous Issues page and all 
special feature issues have been identified. Redundant pages have been removed and 
everything has been brought up to date. Hope you enjoy the new look.

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

Previous Ygdrasil Spanish Issues

Clayton Eshleman: Eight poems from "LIFE IN THE FOLDS"

Movism

The Ygdrasil Book Rack

The Ygdrasil Art Gallery!

The Ygdrasil Photo Gallery!

Ygdrasil Music

The Poetry, Life & Times' Klaus Gerken Interview

The Athens Review

The Cats of Parliament Hill Blog

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.

Klaus Gerken, EDITOR and Founder
kgerken@synapse.net

Heather Ferguson, Production Editor

Mois Benarroch, European Editor -- specializing in Hebrew and Spanish submissions
Mois Benarroch

Michael Collings, Contributing Editor

Oswald Le Winter, Contributing Editor

Michael Parker, Site Banner Design 2011

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Recommended Sites

Milan Georges Djordjevich's Home Page

The Poetry Kit

The Melic Review

Carvezine website

'Writer's Deadline

The Danforth Review

Bywords--"Poetry and Ottawa literary events"

Sasquatch Writers' Performance Series

Red Fez Publications

Ron Silliman's Literary Blog

Jorge Etcheverry's home page

zafusy | contemporary poetry journal

The Puritan: Ottawa's Literary Prose Journal

The Friday Circle - University of Ottawa Creative writing program

Ink Provoking creative writing site

Turning Point Music, Ottawa, Ontario - the best 2nd hand music shop in the world

Sandy Shreve Poetry homepage

Poetry Victims

Unshod Quills

The Stickman Review

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Biographical Information

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 200 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.

Mois Benarroch
European Editor

Mois 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.

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Contact Information

Klaus Gerken
kgerken@synapse.net

Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts (c) Klaus J. Gerken 1993 - 2013
Current pages created by Klaus J. Gerken and Michael Parker (c) 2012 - 2013
Previous pages created by Klaus J. Gerken and Pedro Sena (c) 1997 - 2011
Previous pages created by Klaus J. Gerken and Igal Koshevoy (c) 1993 - 1996
Last revised: 8 January 2014.

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