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Writing Prompt Palooza!

11/28/2016

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Hello! This week Red Beard has been doing some serious brainstorming. Today, we come to you with a writing prompt which we hope to provide weekly as something to stew on, ponder, wonder about, and finally to write on. We hope to see all of your brilliant creations in the comments; perhaps to even incorporate them into the new zine of the Neutral Zone, "Fern". Today's prompt:

Interpret a dream you've had. Or, predict your life based on said dream. 

Comment your work! We'd love to read it. 



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Poetry Night: A Beacon of Light, A Trilobite

11/21/2016

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11/17/16, Poetry Night in Ann Arbor. With three feature speakers, two amazing non-teen readers, and over twenty teen speakers from a variety of schools, every minute of reading was riveting. Reading myself was definently scary, especially since Kass seemed to not know much about me and gave me a sub-par introduction, but more rewarding than anything else. The applause I got, the people who came up and admired my bravery and writing afterwards, made it worth it. The audience was a big mix of people: parents, friends, neutral zone teens, interested adults, etc. I hope to come back again one day, but instead as a special guest. Be sure to keep your eye out for PNAA next year!
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Zines & Pufferfish & Some Really Good Poetry Via Carson Borbely

11/14/2016

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Hello! It's a very busy time for Red Beard. Currently we are accepting submissions for Pufferfish Volume II! Pufferfish's first volume had some seriously talented students featured in it last year. Including:

​Carson Borbely's Medication:

I love my small world. Morning. Ultraviolence on & faded in the background, the slow, preening rocket of Lana’s voice. ‘My boyfriend’s pretty cool / but he’s not as cool as me’, she sings. The half moon of powder, 5 milligrams. The dust chalk it prints on my fingers & the blue disk I chase it with. I love the space I’ve created for myself on this teeming planet, not a niche or a corner but a vein, a path. The river I walk in and the wrinkles it makes of my feet. It’s a vein I can live within comfortably, even though the rest isn’t for me. I don’t feel caught. My wings aren’t clipped. I love the smooth rattle of medication & tap water glowing down my throat & hurricaning me into function. I win every morning I wake up with my heart beating whether or not I wake up wanting it to beat. I love when my blood stays where it belongs & it announces itself in trumpeting blushes. Every morning I sit up in bed, I praise the invincible ache. I love what I can’t beat. Whether or not I am happy, I am here, a piece of ecstatic evidence. Praise lamotrigine & the tightrope of its delicate argument for forcing me still & undoing my hummingbird pulse. Praise buspar for its gentle wave of untangling. Praise their union. It is too a ladder, a staircase, a ring of dim & steady light. I love my small world, mouth a cradle for these pills, union of body & pinched science. This is where cliches crack into canyons and I’m not scared to jump. This is where the pharmacy’s offerings, wrapped in orange stiff tubes, make me safer. I love what keeps me here. I love unzipping resentment and its sharp slant, love leveling the space between me & the proverbial everybody.


High school students in the Ann Arbor area are encouraged to submit visual art and writing to the anthology, information can be found here.

This month, we're also working in a Neutral Zone zine called called: Fern: Examining Ann Arbor's Undergrowth. Which aims to further connect different programs at the Neutral Zone by providing a way sharing events, both in at the Neutral Zone and in the larger community, and helping one another inform each other about what each program is up to. We are also currently looking for content for this zine from the Neutral Zone community. It's a very exciting project, and we're happy to be a part of it. It's looking to be a great month! 

Stay frosty, readers. 
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Poetry Night Feature: Fatimah Asghar

11/7/2016

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Can't wait for Poetry Night? Get your eyeballs on this poem by Fatimah Asghar, one of the ~featured poets~ of PNAA. Like what you see? Reserve PNAA tickets with eyelev21@aol.com, and don't forget to pick up your copy of Gun Unfired Since Deer Season, featuring poems from Fatimah Asghar, José Olivarez, and Chace "Mic Write" Morris.  See more of Fatimah Asghar at fatimahasghar.com/

Stank Face

Each morning I stitch a scowl
to my smile. Let my eyes sass
every person standing between me
& the bus stop. My eyelashes
icy. Call it survival. Call it eyeliner
so crisp it could kill a bitch.

You look prettier when you smile
says the traffic guard & I cut out
his tongue. It wags like a pet snail
slimy in my palm. My eyes laser
each crooked smile that comes
my way. I take all their lips
and mount them to my wall.

Ay can I get your number?
& the air sucked through my teeth
cuts the windshields open, dead day
of summer. Don’t fuck with me, bitch.
I’m queen of the dignified clap back
got thesauruses on my throne.

Got dead bodies in my closet.
cause of death? Thirst. Cause of death?
Frostbite, burn, too hot & too cold.

I mist when the world droughts.
& no, I’m not sharing.
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Zine Pronounced 'Zeen'

10/1/2016

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Hey guys! 
Red Beard is starting up a new project in collaboration with some other people from the NZ- a zine. Our first issue will be coming out late October/early November, so keep your eyes peeled. For the later issues, we want you all to submit your own work. The zine is about the Ann Arbor scene- art, music, literature, politics, etc. Submit writing and art to annarbornz.zine@gmail.com. Happy October!
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Pufferfish Volume II

9/26/2016

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Pufferfish is back this year for volume II! Open to all Ann Arbor teens, the submission deadline is December 10. We're looking for writing, art, photography, and more. Instructions for submissions are below.

  1. Create a folder using the following naming convention: Julia Bohm, Greenhills
    -Full name & School
  2. Share this folder with pufferfishsubmissions@gmail.com; please grant editing privileges.
  3. Title all of your documents with the type of submission (literary, art, photography) and the title of your work.
  4. That's it!

We look forward to reading your work.  Get puffed!


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Red Beard is Back

9/14/2016

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We Only Communicate Telepathically

6/25/2016

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For those who didn't get a chance to see the 2016 end of the year chapbook, here is a PDF version of it, available for free! Check out work by the Neutral Zone's Literary arts members!!!!
We Only Communicate Telepathically Cover File
File Size: 749 kb
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We Only Communicate Telepathically Body File
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Last Meeting of The Year

6/15/2016

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Alas, the last meeting of Red Beard Press was bound to come. As a graduating(-ed) senior, these are my last few weeks at the Neutral Zone, and today was my last meeting in the conference room. I will be passing on this blog to a new admin the coming year, and my last interaction with the neutral zone will be this year's VOLUME Summer Institute with Shira Erlichman, Molly Raynor, and Angel Nafis. Join us if you enjoy hullabaloo, writing, and doodles!
Red Beard Press's last meeting was delegated to the stapling of the End of The Year Literary Arts Chapbook: We Only Communicate Telepathically!  So glad to have been able to begin a project like this featuring eight incredible Neutral Zone teen writers, and me. The incredible cover are was designed by Mia and Clara, email david232@msu.edu or mgallagher@neutral-zone.org to learn more about this chapbook.  In addition to this chapbook Lionel taught us about the Dark Web (tm) which is JUST as sketchy as it sounds, Lillian mapped out plans to take over Animal Planet with her extensive knowledge of dog facts, and Mary introduced us to an important video featuring a Pitbull. There will be one last update on this sit before it will take its summer rest: keep your eyes & ears open for a last interview with Shira Erlichman, VSI prose instructor and awesome poet. She will be flying in from New York (!) to teach us. We thought it might be cool to have a collective interview with her on some of her work, since she will be giving so much to the Neutral Zone's Literary Arts scene soon, having background and a discussion will be nice. Contact the above emails if you would like to help collaborate on this interview!
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Ethan Cohen!

5/15/2016

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Hey Everyone! Check out the new interview with Ethan Cohen, author of A Delicate Lesson!  Also, if you are a Neutral Zone Senior, be sure to send in your stories about your experiences to david232@msu.edu! Literary Arts Program Members: be sure to send in your stories to be a part of the end-of-the-year chapbook! Editing starts tomorrow!!!! Be inspired by Ethan! Write!!!!
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Ethan Cohen (top right hand corner, with blonde hair)
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    Red Beard Press is an independent, youth-driven publishing company dedicated to creating cutting-edge literary arts projects, publishing emerging voices, and inspiring passionate literary communities.

    Essentially... youth publishing the emerging voices of other youth & attempting to spark a love for words.

    We hope to fill a vital role in rediscovering the unity that once connected our society to literature. We have the potential to pique both current and future generations' interest in the literary arts, bringing together an increasingly diverse population with a common desire to read good books. It's urgent that RBP flourish in today's society in order to impress upon young people that literature still has the power to serve as a bridge to both inspiration and insightful dialogue.


    Red Beard Press is also necessary in order to provide a platform for youth voices in Ann Arbor and beyond. It will help amplify how we feel and how we process our world in a society where our voices are often either misinterpreted or drowned out. 

    We need books for our literary imaginations to survive and we need to create opportunities for young people to to write them. Red Beard Press aims to fill those needs by publishing books that young people will want to read and by putting those books directly in their hands.

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