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14 December 2015: The December issue of Ygdrasil is now available.
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21 May 2015: The Klaus J. Gerken 1999 Poetry Life and Times' interview has been restored thanks to The Wayback Machine on the Internet Archives.

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2 April 2015: The April issue of Ygdrasil is now available.

8 March 2015: The March issue of Ygdrasil, featuring The Blackbird Trilogy (3 plays) by Jack R. Wesdorp is now available.  

6 February 2015: The February issue of Ygdr:asil is now available.

6 January 2014: The January issue of Ygdrasil, featuring A Burnt Offering by Dee Sunshine, 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.

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: text in the 
body of an email unless otherwise requested - special issues can be negotiated 
as to other formats. Currently I receive up so many submissions, I will no longer 
reply to each submission, but request that if your submission have not been notified
within 90 days, please either resubmit or submit elsewhere.Note that we do not accept simultaneous submissons.  

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!

Ygdrasil Music

The Poetry, Life & Times' Klaus Gerken Interview 1999

The Athens Review

The Cats of Parliament Hill Blog (2005 - 2010)

The 2014 Klaus J. Gerken Interview in mvg278 | Ubu | 10-14

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@rogers.com

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

Michael Parker, Site Banner Design 2011

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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@rogers.com

Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts (c) Klaus J. Gerken 1993 - 2015
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