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Since 1998, a journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories and essays edited by Ricardo Nirenberg. Our guidelines.  Mail to: offcourse@albany.edu Offcourse gratefully acknowledges the server support provided by The University at Albany.

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Issue #53, Summer 2013.

 

• "Scars of Failure" and more poems by William Alton.
• New Poems by Christopher Barnes.
• "The Trade," a story by Joachim Frank.
• "She Ain't Done Yet" and other poems by John Grey.
• "Dinner Meeting on a Damp Night" and other poems by Jacqueline Jules.
• New Poems and Paintings from "TimeWave Zero" by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "Transubstantiation," a story by John P. Kristofco.
• "The Obama Hater," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "A Rabbi, a Chicken and a Marriage," a story by Louis Arthur Norton.
• "Illusion of Depth" and other poems by Jared Pearce.
• "The Streetlight," a story by Lea Peterson.
• "A Very Practical Nurse," a story by E.M. Schorb.
• "Wanda's Tunnel," a story by Corey Smith.
• "Moving On," a story by C.M. Vitali.
• "Barn Life" and other poems by Pui Ying Wong.
• "Mao's Little Red Guard," a story by Weihua Zhang.
• Contributor Miriam Kotzin published two books in 2012: The Real Deal, (BrickHouse Books/ Stonewall Press) and a book of poems, The Bodies' Bride (David Roberts Books). See a review of "The Real Deal" by R.Nirenberg.

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We announce with great sadness the sudden death of our contributor, Israeli writer Elisha Porat, the 1996 winner of Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature. He was buried on the eve of Passover at his kibbutz Ein Hahoresh.

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Jorge Majfud's new book, CRISIS, was published in 2012 by Baile del Sol, Tenerife.

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Issue #52, March 2013.

• "The Crane Wife" and Two Other Poems by Grace Andreacchi.
• New Poems by Richard Fein.
• Poems by Joan Glass.
• "The Astronaut Candidate," by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "A Long Prose Poem in Sections About Big Foot" and more by Gerry LaFemina.
• "Atonally Yours" by M.E. McMullen.
• "Esa Fábrica de Almas" / "That Shop of Soul Making", by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "Pasternak" and Other Poems by Oliver Rice.
• "Introduction to Purgatory" by Sarah White.

Congratulations to David Nirenberg on the recent publication of "Anti-Judaism, The Western Tradition" (Norton 2013, ISBN 978-0-393-05824-6.)
His essay "From Nabuchadnezzar to Negroponte:  Three Millennia of Millennialism" appeared in Issue #5, Fall 1999.

 

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Issue #51, December 2012.

• "First Choice," a story by Tess Almendarez Lojacono.
• Poems by Geordie de Boer.
• "Error Leads to Discovery" and other poems by Joseph Farley.
• "Lucy of the Valley," a story by Rebecca Lu Kiernan with art by Bett Appel.
• More from Timewave Zero and photos by Rebecca Lu Kiernan.
• "the violence of cycle" and more by Cody John Laplante.
• Necrology by Ricardo Nirenberg.
• "While I Waited There" and other poems by J.R. Solonche.
• Poems by Tim Suermondt.
• "Rain" and other poems by Davide Trame.
• "A Line from Mamie van Doren" and more poems by Mark Young.

Check out S.K. Johannesen's web site and blog at http://www.skjohannesen.com.

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