Elmara

The fourth issue of themissingslate is finally here!

Some of the stellar deviants featured in this issue include:

Cover



by larkin-art

Art



by IceandSnow



by fudratsrule

Non-Fiction

The Hard Work of PoetryPoets are constantly crippled, creatively. It's the way it works. You write a line and, just now, right now, it seems like it's the best line in the world to date. It's a shiny, beautiful line, a thought, an image so remarkably profound that you are in awe of yourself, or (if you are a seasoned poet) in awe of that angelic being which sits on high in your mind and occasionally drops little scraps of poetic manna into your head. Now, you only need to write a poem around it.
And fail.
Because the poem takes over, sprouts a million legs and scurries in directions you had no real intention of it going – and now the Wondrous Line of Glory and Poetic Win doesn't fit. You have to either change it or take it out and save it for another poem. Or make it a haiku-like short poem on its own, so all those other words don't assault it again. If you're an experienced poet, you'll probably just store it in a .txt file or on a post-it note somewhere and lament it until you're old and nothing matte

by salshep

Poetry

breaddoctors pure as angels, white as chefs
peruse menus on clipboards,
their exhaustion mouthed in metric
from a graveyard shift cuisine
measuring the flour, cutting off the surplus,
adhering to rules, to rules, to rules-
hospital smocks' mocking exposure
to cold air and latex
the way fatigue sets in when
bilious walls deaden,
bringing on the drone of
fluorescent blood-suckers
as a hypo plunges deep into
a fat vein, pliant and compliant,
to siphon me through the
emptiness outside the box-
a distant voice is counting backwards...
I smell bread baking

by Jade-Pandora



by batousaijin

Featured Artist

An interview with , Abigail Larson!



Check out the rest of the Fall issue, along with out our past issues, here and submit to our forthcoming issue!

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Well, peeps and geeks, it's that time of the year again when I take up my collection bowl and go beggaring through the streets of dA to solicit poems and other pretty word-monsters for inclusion in themissingslate upcoming fourth issue!

Here's a quick look at some of the deviants who've been featured so far:

In our inaugural issue, we featured:

Poetry

Adam by ikazon

Ode by batousaijin

Prose

The Drive by leoraigarath

Non-Fiction

Maintaining Creative Integrity by hermionegreen

hermionegreen has since become a part of our team as Contributing Editor!

Art

The Letter A by AbigailLarson



In our second issue, we featured:

Poetry

Masturbation by hermionegreen

Non-Fiction

Pop Culture and Sexuality by hermionegreen

The Imperfection of Style by leoraigarath

We were also proud to welcome leoraigarath to The Missing Slate as Articles Editor!

In our third issue we were proud to showcase the art of suburbanbeatnik as our Featured Artist, whose piece Tanit also graced our cover! In addition, we did an in-depth interview with the artist on her method and what inspired her

Non-Fiction

Keepin it Cultural by hermionegreen

Our Children's Folklore by leoraigarath

Art

Bunnie Antoinette by suburbanbeatnik



If you'd like to be featured in our fourth issue read our submission guidelines here.

We're going to try out a new system of dA submissions by considering work submitted to the appropriate gallery folders at themissingslate .


Deadline - 1 August, 2011


Get set aaaaaaaaand-- SUBMIT!



- The Missing Slate