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OffCourse Literary Journal

A journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories and essays published by Ricardo and Isabel Nirenberg since 1998.
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Issue #73, June 2018. 20 years!

"Not Fake Poems" and more by Vincent M. Bell
"Observations on Prince Rupert's Dogge called Boye (1643)," by Francis Blessington
"Professional Middle-class Couple 1927" and "Skilled Tradesman and his Wife 1923", poems by Alan Catlin derived from photographs by August Sander
"After Many Years," a short story by Alzo David-West
"Carnivores," a short satirical story by Salvatore Difalco
New Poems by Louis Gallo
Poems by Robert King
Two Poems by Steven Klepetar
"Negative Capability in Glenwood Springs" and two other poems by Miriam Kotzin
"Robert Hook Keeps a Diary (1672-1683)," poems by Louis Phillips
"Curse of Late Birth" and more poems by Frederick Pollack
New Poems by J.R. Solonche
"Punk Monastery Poems" by Peter Waldor
"To the Shadow of Aunt Louise", a story by Sarah White
Reviews: Poems from Underground, by Francis Blessington, Deerbrook Ed. 2017,
and Life and Opinions of Doctor Bop the Burnt-Out Prof and Other Poems, by E. M. Schorb, Kelsay Books, 2018.

Congratulations to Frederick Pollack on his new book, Landscape with Mutant (Smokestack Books, UK, 2018).

Issue #72, March 2018

Poems by Patricia Phillips-Batoma
"Thalweg" and other poems by Stuart Friebert
Three poems by Louis Gallo
Three poems by John Grey
"My Father at the Window," and two other poems by Steven Klepetar
"Neighbors," a story by Alf Marks
"My Thirteenth Year", part V of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
Poems by Simon Perchik
"The Lever" and other poems by Louis Phillips
Three Poems by Charles Rammelkamp
"April," a poem by J.R. Solonche
"Airheads," a story by Harvey Sutlive
"Help from the Goddess," and two other poems by Sarah White
Matthew Phillips, The Island's Only Escape, Pleasure Boat Studio, 2018. Review by Ricardo Nirenberg
Tim Suermondt, The World Doesn't Know You, Pinyon Publishing 2017, presented by Isabel Nirenberg

Congratulations to:

Stuart Friebert, on Scant Hours: Selected Poems by Elisabeth Schmeidel, Pinyon Publishing 2018. Some of the poems appeared in Offcourse #68
J.R. Solonche on I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems, just published by Deerbrook Editions.

Issue #71, December 2017

A collection of short texts by Kirill Azernyy
Three Poems by Janet Buck
"Twin Speak", a short story by Joachim Frank
Three Poems by George Freek
Poems by Stuart Friebert
Two Poems by John P. Kristofco
"My Thirteenth Year", part IV of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
Three Poems and a video poem, "Like No Other Lovely Thing", by Louis Phillips
Poems by J.R. Solonche
Poems by Robert Stout
Five Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Mary Jane White
"Pound Cento XII," a poem from a new series by Mark Young
"Petites Suites" by Robert Wexelblatt, reviewed by R. Nirenberg

Congratulations!

Darren Demaree, whose collection of political prose poems A Fire Without Light is due to be released this December from Nixes Mate Books
to Joachim Frank on the publication of his story The Gap in his Heart, published online in WASAFIRI, and on receiving the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
To Philip Fried: Carol Rumens has chosen as the Guardian Poem of the Week "Yoga for Leaders and Others" from his new book Squaring the Circle (Salmon, 2017). To read the poem and Rumens's commentary, go to
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/nov/20/poem-of-the-week-yoga-for-leaders-and-others-by-philip-fried
To Ed Schorb, on his book Dates and Dreams (Hill House New York 978-0-692-67740-7) which was selected as a Finalist in the Poetry category of the 2017 Best Book Awards and also won the 1st place poetry prize from "Writer's Digest" for a self-published collection, and an honorable mention in poetry at the New York Book Festival.
To Fred Skolnik, on the publication of Aerial Views, part of his science fiction series written as Fred Russell, appearing as Volume 23 of the Wapshott Press Storylandia series.

Issue #70, September 2017

"How I've Always Been Close to my Parents" and "Altitude", poems by Gale Acuff
"Nauseating News" and "Enough" by Janet Buck
"Words for a Cenotaph for Words" and other poems by Philip Fried
"The Way it isn't Funny" and two more poems by Ian Ganassi
Poems from The Tryst of Thetica Zorg, by Daniel Y. Harris
"From the Greek Anthology" and "La Catrina", poems by Jack D. Harvey
"Theory of Special Relativity" and two other prose poems by Gerry LaFemina
Five Poems by Tom Montag
"My Thirteenth Year",Part III of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
Poems by Simon Perchik
"On Reading an Essay Entitled The Poem and Its Meaning in a Famous Poetry Magazine" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
"Peasant," a story by Michael Tilley
"Petite Suite des Congés," a story by Robert Wexelblatt
"Wall Street and the Arts" and other poems by Mark Young
to one who bends my time, a new book of poems by Sarah White, reviewed by J.R. Solonche
S. K. Johannesen, Three Tales, The Electric Ferry Press 2017, ISBN 978-0-9881098-3-4, reviewed by R. Nirenberg
And Then We Laughed: Poems by Louis Phillips. Prologue Press 2017, reviewed by R. Nirenberg

Congratulations to contributors:

Francis Blessington, on Poems from Underground, Deerbrook Editions 2017, ISBN: 978-0-9975051-9-1
Nathan Leslie, on a new collection of novellas, Three Men, Texture Press
Fred Skolnik, on Americans and other Stories, Fomite Press, 2017.
Robert Wexelblatt, on Petites Suites, BlazeVOX Books.
Sarah White, on to one who bends my time, Deerbrook Editions, reviewed here by J.R. Solonche

Issue #69, June 2017

"Just to be sure" and other poems by Devon Balwit
"A Muster of Storks" and two other poems by Francis Blessington
New translations from the Russian poet Viacheslav Kupriyanov, by Alex Cigale
"Theories", "Bank", and other poems by Stephen Cramer
"Pretty to think so," an essay by Enrique Fernández
"The Bed Sheet, or the Aesthetics of Deception ," an essay by Joachim Frank
Seven Poems by Ute von Funcke translated from the German by Stuart Friebert
"once in Ur" and other poems by Louis Gallo
"Go Away" and other poems by John Grey
"Poems From A Dark Season: A Mother's Alzheimer's Journey," by Robert Hirschfield
"Knowledge", "Why?", and "Learning", poems by Nels Hanson
"give me a bobwhite hidden in bushes rather than a terrorist perched in a tree any old time " and more by John Marvin
"My Thirteenth Year", Part II of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
"Another Shepherd's Calendar" and other poems by Louis Phillips
"Rotarian Convention, Tlalpan, Mexico" and more by Robert Joe Stout
"Paris often gets in a little" and other poems by Tim Suermondt
Eight Poems by Don Thompson
"A Game with Grandmother" and "The Good, the Bad, the Buttons" by Sarah White
John Amen's "Illusion of an Overwhelm," NYQBooks 2017, reviewed by Ricardo Nirenberg

Congratulations to contributors J.R. Solonche on "Invisible", just published by Five Oaks Press, to Robert Earle on "She receives the night" ( http://www.vineleavespress.com/she-receives-the-night-by-robert-earle.html), to Louis Phillips, whose "The Pleasure of his Company: the off-beat Shakespeare Book" is now available on Amazon, and to Ian Ganassi whose translation of Book 7 of Virgil's Aeneid appeared in the New England Review, Issue #37, Vol. 2. (An interview with Ganassi appears in NER.)

We have updated the web page with Alex Cigale's translations of Russian Poetic Miniatures in Offcourse #41, correcting and improving the links to the Russian originals.

Issue #68, Spring 2017

Poems by Paul Bamberger
"Dancing in the Cancer Ward" and other Poems by Janet Buck
Poems by Kevin Casey
Poems by Elisabeth Schmeidel, translated from the German by Stuart Friebert
Poems by Robert Lietz
"The Thirteenth Year," Part 1of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
Poems by Louis Phillips
"La Fontaine's Lost Fable Brought to Light at Last," by Larry Smith
"The Islands of Langerhans," a poem by E.M. Schorb
Poems by J.R. Solonche
"Philharmonia," a story by Robert Wexelblatt
"The Voice," a story by Fred White
Three Poems by Marina Tsetaeva, translated from the Russian by Mary Jane White

Congratulations to:

Phillip Fried, "Squaring the Circle," salmonpoetry.com
David Malone, his seventh book, "You Know the Ones"
Fred Skolnik, "Marx," Volume 4 in Fomite's Tracts for Our Time series