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A journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories and essays published by Ricardo and Isabel Nirenberg since 1998.
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Issue #67, December 2016

• Three Poems by John Amen
• "The Grammar God," a humorous essay by Janet I. Buck
• Six Poems by Janet I. Buck
• "A Bag of Sweet Oranges," fiction by Alzo David-West
• Two Poems by Richard Fein
• "Returning" and other poems by Rachel King
• "The Swap Shop," a story by John P. Kristofco
• Poems by Bruce McRae
• "Two Zeides," a mini-memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• Three Poems by Kuno Raeber, translated from the German by Stuart Friebert with Christine Wyrwa
• Two Poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• Poems by Daniel James Sundahl
• Three Poems by Richard Weaver
• Four Poems by Mark Young
• "The Rapture of Eddy Daemon" (A Posthuman Homage to SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS), BlazeVOX, 2016, by Daniel Y. Harris. Reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg

 

Congratulations to:

• Alex Cigale, on Russian Absurd, his translations of selected writings of Daniil Kharms, 0-8101-3457-8, Northwestern World Classics, 2017. See also Cigale's translations in Offcourse #41.
• Louis Phillips on Phillips Quarterly #12,
• E.M. Schorb on Dates and Dreams winning the Writer's Digest Self-Published Award for Poetry,
• Fred Skolnik (writing as Fred Russell) on Short Takes II, a chapbook collection available in print at Amazon or as a free PDF file at http://scars.tv/pdf/2016/20161121SHORT_TAKES_II.pdf.

 

Announcing:

Benjamin Fondane's Cinepoems and Others, Leonard Schwartz ed., NYRB/POETS, ISBN 978-1-59017-900-0. This is the first selection of English translations of Fondane's poems written in French. Fondane was born Benjamin Wechsler in 1898, Iași, Romania, killed in 1944 in Auschwitz by the nazis.

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Issue #66, September 2016

• "Skunk Spray" and other poems by Janet Buck
• Three Poems by George Freek
• "Elevator Music" and other poems by Philip Hammial
• "You Could Build a House of Ice with Such Ideas," by Rich Ives
• "The Road Most Travelled By," a story by James Kincaid
• Three Poems by Molly Kirschner
• A story, "Force of Habit," and poems by John P. Kristofco
• Four Poems by Helen Mirkil
• Yves Bonnefoy: In Memory of a Great Poet, by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Down and Up Cucha-Cucha Street," a story by Ricardo Nirenberg
• Poems by Louis Phillips
• Three Poems by G.B. Ryan
• Three Poems by J.R. Solonche
• Poems by Bob Stout
• "Almeria," a story by Harvey Sutlive
• "The Harrowing of Hell," by Sarah White
• A letter from Louis Armand, followed by R. Nirenberg's review of Armand's "The Combinations"(ISBN 978-0-9571213-6-2, Equus Press, London, UK 2016.)

Congratulations to:

• Janet Buck —her debut novel, Samantha Stone: A Novel of Mystery, Memoir & Romance, was released by Vine Leaves Press in September, 2016.
• Philip Fried, who was anthologized in Four American Poets, Anthony Costello, ed. The High Window, UK.
• Ian Ganassi —his first book of poems, Mean Numbers, has just been published and is available on Amazon.

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Issue #65, June 2016.

 

Needlepoint by Janet Buck

• Three Poems by Deborah Bacharach
• "Second Skin" and other Poems by Devon Balwit
• "Aegean" and other poems by Francis Blessington
• "In Praise of What Remains Unfinished" and other Poems by Deborah Bogen
• "Red Shoes" and other Poems by Janet Buck
• "The Odd Little Man," a story by Robert Earle
• "Antoinette," flash fiction by Joachim Frank
• "On the Road" and other Poems by Nels Hanson
• Three Poems by Martin H. Levinson
• Three Poems by Bruce McRae
• "The Measure of Our World," an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Writing Night" and other Poems by Paul C. Roth
• "American Mobile," a poem by E. M. Schorb
• "On Starting a New Novel," an essay by Fred Skolnik
• "Social Studies with Mr. Frausberg," a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "The Egg with a Crown in it," a story by Sarah White
• Heiberg's Twitch, a collection of stories by Robert Wexelblatt, reviewed by Sarah White.

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Issue #64, March 2016.

The witch hazel, first to bloom. 3/15/2016

• "Particulars" and other poems by Joyce S. Brown
• Poems from the "Alumni" series by Darren C. Demaree
• "Under the Greying Sun", a story by Alzo David-West
• "The Terrace in the Snow" and more poems by George Freek
• "Sulfur Pearl" and two more poems by Stuart Friebert
• Sonnets from The Rapture of Eddie Daemon, by Daniel Y. Harris
• "The Invention of Table Knives" and more flash fiction by Rich Ives
• "Things to do when you are a Poet" and other poems by Scott Keeney
• "The Ticket", a story by John P. Kristofco
• "Early Tango", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "The Narrows of Another Life" with four other poems by Louis Phillips
• "From the Water Wars" and other poems by Fred Pollack
• "Sex on the Beach" and four poems by William Pruit
• "Meeting Modiano" and other poems by Tim Suermondt
• "A Lover Found, a Brother Remembered: Three Poems" by Sarah White
• "Pièce de Pestilence" and three other poems by Mark Young

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Issue #63, December 2015

• "The Devil's Mark" and "Hoard", poems by Francis Blessington
• "The Past Tense Lullaby" and Poems by Janet Buck
• "Platypus" and Other Poems by John Grey
• "The Interview", aphorisms by Joachim Frank
• "In Praise of the Ocean" and Other Poems by Molly Kirschner
• "Transistor Radio", a story, and Poems by John P. Kristofco
• "Memorial Day 2011" and Other Poems by Robert Lietz
• "Monkey" and Three Other Poems by Stefan Lovasik
• Three Poems by Donnarkevic
• "New Year Irresolutions", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• Five New Poems by Simon Perchik
• "I am Writing This Poem to Forget" and more by Louis Phillips
• "Barlaam The Patron Saint of Cherepovets", a story by Will Sadleir
• "After a Poem by Zho Li" and Four More by J.R. Solonche
• "My Fifteen Year Old Son" and Other Poems by Bob Stout
• "Welcome to Utah: a Primer for the Uninitiated", a report by John Spencer Walters

Congratulations to Louis Phillips on his latest book, The Domain of Silence / The Domain of Absence, New and Selected Poems 1963-2015 (ISBN 978-0-912887-19-7), which has just appeared from Pleasure Boat Studio. 

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Issue #62, September 2015

• "Estoy hecho de vidrio, dijo...", a poem by Carlos Barbarito translated from the Spanish by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Tomato Time " with two other poems by Janet Buck
• "On the S_ Word & Other Linguistic Assaults", an essay by Janet Buck
• "Decisions", a story by Alzo David-West
• "What's for Dinner? Wilderness?" and "'Buster' (&Peter)", poems by Stuart Friebert
• "MANIAC I" and two other poems by Philip Fried
• "Who Will Open The Door Of G-d If You Knock On The Door Of The Mind?" and two more poems by Diane Louie
• "Gonnarong", a story by Alf Marks
• In Memory of Christopher Mulrooney: the last poems he sent to Offcourse
• "Commencement", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• New Poems by Oliver Rice
• "The Below Job", a story by Harvey Sutlive
• Three Poems by R L Swihart
• "Spilled Milk Poems" by Sarah White

Medulla Review Publishing just published Chris Crittenden's newest poetry collection, Escape from the Orchard of Wheels.
Rebecca Foust's Paradise Drive has just been published by http://www.press53.com.

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Issue #61, June 2015

• "Slapping the Hide of the Horse" and other poems by Janet Buck
• "The Gulls on North Earl Street" and other poems by Noel Conneely
• "The Inferno", a story by Robert Earle
• "And Yet for a Moment" with two other poems by Richard Fein
• Poems by Ian Ganassi and collages in collaboration with Laura Bell
• "To a Man from Last Season" and other poems by Miriam Kotzin
• "Beignets" and other poems by John P. Kristofco
• "pissing on the marches of a putative reality beyond mathematics and the range of current observational devices" and other poems by John Marvin
• "A Kind of Time Travel" and two other poems by Joan Mazza
• "Overflowing Love", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "The Flower Woman", a story by Phariha Rahman
• "Her Grandfather's Attic and "Middle Age", poems by Bob Stout
•   "This month of May 2015 two events occurred, apparently unrelated...", commentary by Ricardo Nirenberg.

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Issue #60, March 2015

From the editors:

100 is a decimal landmark, fit to make our hundredth issue the occasion for celebrating; that, however, should happen about ten years from now, and we may not be here to enjoy it. So we have settled on 60, a number no less distinguished, since it was the basis for numeration in Old Babylonian (1,800-1,600 B.C.) mathematical and astronomical tablets, and it still survives in our circumference of 360 degrees, each degree containing 60 minutes and each minute 60 seconds, and similarly with our hours.  We celebrate, then, this sixtieth issue of Offcourse by openly rejoicing in the talents and the variety of our contributors, both those who, having long lost their bearings, have accompanied us on and off, and those who are newcomers.  We rejoice, too, at our growing presence in the Web.  We never imagined, back in 1998, that it would be so much fun.

• "The Case of Eldrich von N—", a story by Louis Armand
• "Autumn Thoughts by the River (After Su Tung Po)" and other poems by George Freek
• Poems by Karl Krolow translated by Stuart Friebert
• "Crescent Moon, November" and other poems by John P. Kristofco
• "Flea Market", a story by John P. Kristofco
• "On Nothing", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• Four Poems by S.S. Prasad
• Two Poems by Oliver Rice
• "The Devil's Tavern", a story by E.M. Schorb
• "Climber, thought dead, walks into Katmandu" with more poems by J.R. Solonche
• "Revolution Street" and other poems by Tim Suermondt
• "Vignettes", four short stories by Alzo David-West
• "Kristyrmishl", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "The Duel" and "The Family Hero", poems and pictures by Sarah White.
• "A line from Tanizaki Jun'ichiro" and other poems by Mark Young
• Strange Theater, by John Amen, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg

Congratulations to Louis Armand on his new book of poems, Indirect Objects, published in 2014 by Vagabond Press, Sydney. ISBN 9 781922 181182.

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