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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 #78, September 2019

• "I am a Galaxy of One" and other poems by Ruth Bavetta
• "The Man who Sells Dreams" and "The Iron Chain", stories by Srinjay Chakravarti
• New Poems by Stuart Friebert
• "As I Stood There" and other poems by Lou Gallo
• "Ouch!" and other poems by John Grey
• "Over the Border" and "On the Other Side of the Road", poems by Steve Klepetar
• "An Old Man's Penumbra", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "I Think: Yes" and other poems by Louis Phillips
• "The Kindness of Strangers" and "Full Disclosure", poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• "Night Trains" and "Field Dressing", poems by Doug Ramspeck
• "A Season of Contraction" and "Kindness & Casseroles", poems by Claire Scott
• "Der Selbstkritische Friedrich", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "Just Missed", an essay by Robert Wexelblatt

Congratulations to:

• Daniel Y. Harris on The Reincarnation of Anna Phylactic (Volume III, The Posthuman Series)
• Irene Koronas on holyrit (Volume IV, The Grammaton Series).
  (Both books are available for purchase at BlazeVOX)
• Ed Schorb on the review of "Fiat Lux" in Light Poetry Magazine

 

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Issue #77, June 2019

We mourn associate editor Robert W. Greene, who collaborated in the first 18 issues of Offcourse.  He died in Worcester, MA, on March 28th, 2019.

• "When the Lab Mice Sing" and other poems by Devon Balwit
• Poems by Francis Blessington
• Three Poems by William Doreski
• "Were you in the Military?", a story by Stuart Friebert
• Three Poems by Lou Gallo
• "Trap Door", "Catchy Tune", and other poems by Ian Ganassi
• Excerpts from The Reincarnation of Anna Phylactic, by Daniel Y. Harris
• New Poems and a Painting by Irene Koronas
• "Whether Weather" and "Night Landscape with Mobile", poems by Miriam Kotzin
• "Poem 710", a story by John P. Kristofco
• "The Tangerine Genie," a short story by Richard Leise
• "Certain Verve in the Library Reading Room" and other poems by Dan Memmolo
• "Before She Died" and other poems by Michael Olenick
• "Waiting Out the Rain" and other poems by Andy Oram
• New Poems by Louis Phillips
• "Inside Bo's Camaro" and "Tuesday Night", poems by Robert Smith
• "Linda's Office Supply" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
• "The Conquest of California" and other poems by Robert Joe Stout
• "The Touro Synagogue Sure is Lively Today" and other poems by Tim Suermondt
• "Lancaster, PA: A Visitor's Guide"  and other poems by Sarah White

Congratulations to:

• Joachim Frank, whose poems "Showdown, Sitges" and "Tanglewood," first published in Offcourse, have been translated into German and have now appeared in the online literary journal SIGNATUREN, based in Munich. Frank has also translated some of Michael Heller's poems that appeared in the "Beckmann Variations" collection into German and for the first time introduced his work to the German audience, through publication in SIGNATUREN.
• E.M. Schorb, on Fiat Lux, ISBN 978-1-949229-52-3, a book of light verse by, now available from Kelsay Books and in Amazon. His Collected Stories, ISBN 978-0-578-50478-0, has just been published by Hill House, NY.
• J.R.Solonche on two full-length collections and a chapbook forthcoming this summer: True Enough (Dos Madres Press), If You Should See Me Walking on the Road (Kelsay Books), and The Jewish Dancing Master (chapbook from Ravenna Press).
• Sjrdan Srdic, whose second short story collection has just been published in England. His "Goodnight Captain" appeared in Offcourse #58, translated from the Serbian by Natasa Miljkovic.
• Robert Joe Stout on ebook Kill the Teachers, Mexico's Bloody Repression of Human Rights, which appeared in 2018.  Kill the Teachers is available from Amazon.
• Robert Wexelblatt, whose Fifty Poems, ISBN 978-93-89074-04-8, 2019, is now available from www.cyberwit.net.

 

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Issue #76, March 2019

We are sad to announce the death of Enrique Fernández, whose "Pretty to think so" appeared in Issue #69.

• Poems by Günter Eich, translated from the German by Stuart Friebert
• Poems by Joseph Farley
• "The Perpetual Motion Machine", a short story by Joachim Frank
• "Why I do not sleep well", and two other poems by George Freek
• Poems by John Grey
• "American Tongues" and one more poem by Steve Klepetar
• "Sleeping Out", a story by John P. Kristofco
• "Dream Displacements" and other poems by Judy Kronenfeld
• Prose poems by Michelle Morouse
• "Roman Arena", a chapter from an abandoned novel by R. Nirenberg
• More Poems by Simon Perchik
• "Witness Protection" and other poems by Frederick Pollack
• "Contact High" and more poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• "Outside Wallace Stevens' House in Reading, Pennsylvania" and other poems by Michael Schiffman
• "A Stench of Chickens" and other work by Ian C. Smith
• "Soft Words at a Wall" and two more poems by Lois Greene Stone
• "Larry's Complete Plumbing Service, " a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "Concierto de Aranjuez" and other poems by Sarah White
• "Core Deal" and other poems by Mark Young
• Stephen Cramer: A Review of Tomorrow, Today, and Yesterday by J.R. Solonche  (ISBN 978-0-9991062-9-7, Deerbrook Editions.)

How Wide the Meadow, the new book of poems by Louis Phillips, is now available from Amazon.
Stuart Friebert sent us his article on Tancred Dorst, recently in World Literature Today.
A second edition of Radiación de Fondo, by Carlos Barbarito, has been published by clinamen, Buenos Aires, 2018.
Paul Bamberger has just published On The Badlands of New Times, Deerbrook Editions.

 

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Issue #75, December 2018

We are sad to announce the death of Ken Denberg (1951-2018) whose poems last appeared in Offcourse #34, December 2008. Ken wrote, taught writing at UAlbany, taught rhetoric and composition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, ran The Snail's Pace Press and a winery in Washington County, where he lived and where he often went fly fishing with his friend Gene Garber.

• "All that Remains" and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• Viacheslav Kupriyanov, translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale
• "Aubade" and "Uno Más", poems by Joan Colby
• "Quillairaca" and "Sneaker Males", poems by Stuart Friebert
• Ute von Funcke translated from the German by Stuart Friebert
• "Time as Disease" and other poems by Lou Gallo
• "Fork in the Road" and other poems by Ricky Garni
• "The Briefest of Brief Encounters" and "Barbecue". Poems by John Grey
• "Huff and Puff" and two other poems by Philip Hammial
• "Cha-cha-cha", a story by Miriam Kotzin
• Prose Poems by Richard Krause
• "My Thirteenth Year", part 6 and last of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• New Poems by Simon Perchik
• "Covered", "Despair," and other poems by Louis Phillips
• "World's Strongest Man Called Upon to Lift Sleep," a short story by Ed Schorb
• "Ashes to Ashes" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
• Poems and a Fragment of a Memoir by Daniel J. Sundahl
• "Marche Militaire," a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein, by Robert Wexelblatt, reviewed by R. Nirenberg
  ISBN 978-1-938349-88-1 Pelekinesis (www.pelekinesis.com) 2018.

 

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Issue #74, September 2018

We mourn the death of Harry Staley.  Some of his poems appeared in  the Spring 2001 issue and his book "All in one Breath: Selected Poems", The Snail's Pace Press, was reviewed by Robert W. Greene in the Spring 2002 issue. Paul Grondahl's tribute to Staley appeared in the Albany Times Union in August 14, 2018.

 

• "How to Make a Sock Puppet" and other poems by Ruth Bavetta
• "Derailed" and "Many a Good Hanging", two flash pieces by Salvatore Difalco
• Poems by Linda M. Fischer
• KATAKATA! and other poems by Stuart Friebert
• "Signifying Monkey" and more poems by Louis Gallo
• "Alligator Cry" and other poems by John Grey
• "The World Closes" and other poems by Steve Klepetar
• Poems from Twenty States, by Robert Lietz
• "Dar Salaam" and other poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• "I Envy People who Know All the Names" and two other poems by J.R. Solonche
• "Leftists" and two more by Robert Stout
• "The Nobel Prize" and other poems by Tim Suermondt
• "The Tiger," a story by Sarah White
• "The Early Clint Eastwood" and other poems by Mark Young
• "The Fall of the House of Nordquist," by Eugene K. Garber, and "Matman and Testudo," by R.L. Swihart, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg.

Congratulations to Rachel King on on her new poetry chapbook, published through dancing girl press. The chapbook includes "Returning" and "Near the Solstice," which were first published in Offcourse in December 2016.

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