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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 Stephen 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.
Issue #92, March 2023
Congratulations to:
- Louis Gallo, on Ghostly Demarcations: New Poems & The Pandemic Papers, 2023 Anaphora Literary Press, Quanah, TX
- J.R. Solonche, on his new books for 2023, all available on Amazon:
La Fine della Storia - Poesie scelte: The End of History - Selected Poems (Italian Edition)
trans. Angela D'Ambra, It's about Time (Deerbrook Editions), The Book of a Small Fisherman (Shanti Arts Publishing),
Alone (David Robert Books), The Dreams of the Gods (Kelsay Books), An Aesthetic Toward Notes (Deerbrook Editions), Leda (Dos Madres Press), The Architect's House (self-published)
- Robert Wexelblatt, on his short story collections Other Places, Other Times, (Pelekinesis), and In the World of Confusion, (cyberwit.net)