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Issue #96, March 2024
- “Seeing John Cage in a Dream,” an essay by Daniel Barbiero
- “Borges contra Fondane and Shestov,” an essay on the genesis of Pierre Menard by Ari Belenkiy
- “The Prompter in one of London's Lesser Theatres,” and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- “Of Terminus” and other Poems by Matthew DeLuca
- “Trench, Ragged Hands,” and other poems by Massimo Fantuzzi
- Poems by Louis Gallo
- “The Deer” and other poems by John Grey
- “The Lighthouse, that Old Cliché”, and other poems by David James
- “Penance,” a story by Robert Klose
- “The Back of Things” and “Goodnight, Hands,” poems by Judy Kronenfeld
- “The Royal Couple,” a short story by Alf Marks
- “Megan is Right,” a poem by Peter Mladinic
- “Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales”, Chapter 14 of a Memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
- “Papa Potatoes and other Poems” by Louis Phillips
- “Pocket Watch” and other poems by Barry Seiler
- “Minimalist” and “Trains, Movies,” prose poems by Ian C. Smith
- Three Poems by JR Solonche
- “On Being Shy,” an essay by Dennis Vannatta
- Five Poems by Diane Webster
- “In the Garden of Prayer,” “Discalced,” and “House for All People,” poems by Kelley White
- “Aunt Louise,” a poem by Sarah White and a painting by her mother, Martha Hawley Melhado
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“Iterations of the Absurd,” a review of Ian Ganassi’s True for the Moment, by Bernie Earley
- “Sky Pallette,” a review of Gary Grossman's What I Meant to Say Was...", by Peter Mladinic
Congratulations to:
- Ruth Bavetta on her new book, Selected Poems, available https://www.amazon.com/Ruth-Bavetta-Selected-Poems/dp/1952593506
- Ian Ganassi on By This Time, his third poetry collection published by Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY.
- Louis Phillips, on Best Kept Secrets of Mortality, World Audience Publishers, March 2024.
- J.C. Rammelkamp, on The Trapeze of your Flesh, to appear in April.
Issue #95, December 2023
Winter Path in the Forest, by Isaac Levitan, Russia, 1860-1900
Congratulations to:
- Jonathan Bracker, on his "Anthology of Wonderful Short Poems", available from Amazon
- E.M. Schorb, on winning the first prize on the 92nd annual writing competition of the Writer's Digest, for The Souls, in the category of non-rhyming poetry.
Issue #94, September 2023
Photo by Lawrence Bridges, Nantucket, 2023
- "As Soon as he Left, I cut the onion" and "Music", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "Casing the Joint" and two other poems by Ace Boggess
- Three Poems by Lawrence Bridges
- "My Muse Conducts a Study", a poem by Mark DeCarteret
- Seven Poems by Ute von Funcke translated from the German by Diane Louie with Verena Metzger and the author
- "A Sweet Season" and "Ernie's Garden", poems by Linda M. Fischer
- "The Other Life" and more poems by Louis Gallo
- "English 101", a short essay by Lois Greene Stone
- "The Flooding of History" and other poems by John Grey
- "A Picture of my Former Husband with our Dead Cat" and two other poems by Robert Kinerk
- "Leaving", "Water Grace", and "Anticipation", poems by Judy Kronenfeld
- "Now you are a Man, my Son", an extract from a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "Sifting the Ashes" and other poems by Louis Phillips
- "The Connoisseur" and "On the Same Page" , poems by Fred Pollack
- "Half Empty" and other poems by Claire Scott
- "Another Life" and "The Iron Past", prose poems by Ian C. Smith
- "If only the late Amy Winehouse..." and "Finding my Voice", poems by Steven M. Smith
- "Side Effect", "Guilt", and other poems by J.R. Solonche
- "Postcards from the Knife Thrower's Wife", poems by Alex Stolis
- The Beautiful Losses, by Fred Pollack. Review by Ricardo Nirenberg
Congratulations to:
- Karen Greenbaum-maya on her collection The Beautiful Leaves, just published.
- To Daniel Y. Harris on the publication of The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu,Volume VI, The Posthuman Series (BlazeVOX, 2023)
- To Irene Koronas on the publication of gnōstos, Volume VII, The Grammaton Series (BlazeVOX, 2023).
- Estil Pollock, on his collection Ark, now available from Broadstone Books.
Issue #93, June 2023
- "Takeaway from Gogol's The Nose" and other poems by Devon Balwit
- "Infrathin Hall of Mirrors Effect...", a poem by Stepshen Bett
- "La Branche", a poem by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers
- Three Poems by Jonathan Bracker
- "Factory Hands" and "Guilt and Fear", poems by Holly Day
- "My Friend Bömbes", an excerpt from a memoir by Joachim Frank
- "The Large Hadron Collider" and other poems by Ian Ganassi
- "...where did he go" and other poems by Karen Greenbaum-maya
- "Z. is a Beautiful City", a poem by Ute von Funcke
- "The Harrowings" and other poems by Louis Gallo
- "The Story of a Simple Man", by Robert Klose
- Three Poems by Miriam Kotzin
- Three Poems by Mercedes Lawry
- "A Steep Spiritual Decline", from the memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- A Spanish Sonnet by Horacio Porta, translated by R. Nirenberg
- "Bereft" and "The Liberty Bell", poems by E.M. Schorb
- "Section Men", a poem by Barry Seiler
- Four Rat Poems by Richard Weaver
- "In Praise" and two other poems by William Welch
- "Mrs. Podolski on Forgiveness", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
- New Poems by Sarah White
- Four Poems from 100 Titles from Tom Beckett, by Mark Young
- Daniel Barbiero reviews Nextness by Randee Silv, Arteidolia Press, NY, April 2023.
- Charles Rammelkamp reviews Right this Way, a novel by Miriam Kotzin,
Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2023
Congratulations to:
- Stephen Bett, whose new book Broken Glosa: an alphabet book of post-avant glosa, is out from Chax Press
- Ian Ganassi, on his second poetry collection, True for the Moment. It is available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble.
- Miriam Kotzin, on her novel Right This Way, Spuyten Duvyl Publishing
- Mercedes Lawry on her book Vestiges, from Kelsay Books. It is available from Amazon and from the publisher
- Charles Rammelkamp, on his flash fiction chapbook, Presto, just published by Bamboo Dart Press. See the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NHkZLNKyanw
- E.M. Schorb, whose collection, Words in Passing, recently won the 2023 Grand Prize for Poetry at the Southern California Book Festival.