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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 #91, December 2022

• "Behind the Glass" and more poems by Ruth Bavetta
• "Memory Babe" and "Repast", poems by Tony Beyer
• Ten Pink Poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• Three Frida Poems by Terri Brown-Davidson
• "Only a Few Birds, the Troubled Ones..." and other poems by Douglas Cole
• "Leaf for the Turn of the Year" and "As I Rock Reflecting", poems by Louis Gallo
• "Putting my House in Order" and more poems by Linda Fischer
• "The Lifespan of Moths" and other poems by Mark Jackley
• "At the Cleveland Clinic" and other poems by James Kangas
• "The Dining Room Table: the View from Below", part of a memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
• "So", a poem by Oliver Mertins, translated from the German by Hoyt Rogers
• "Of Porcelain and Pain", a poem by Ajanta Paul
• "Lizzards", "The Bluebird Box", and "The Big If", poems by Bill Rector
• "Four Crows", a story by Richard Risemberg
• "Lepydopterous Mirage", "Shells", and "Ichthyc Mirage", poems by Hoyt Rogers
• "The Martyrdom of the Televangelist" and more poems by E.M. Schorb
• "Chekhov's Ashtray" and two other poems by Barry Seiler
• "Family Stanzas" and other poems by Sarah White
• Ricardo L. Nirenberg reviews Sarah White's A Poem has Reasons, Dos Madres Press, Loveland, Ohio, 2022
• Ricardo L. Nirenberg briefly reviews La Présence Pure, by Christian Bobin

Congratulations to:

• Ruth Bavetta, on winning the 2022 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize for her poetry collection What's Left Over
• Deborah Bogen on her collection Speak now this Charm, just out from Jacar Press
• Ian Ganassi, on the imminent publication of True for the Moment, Word Tech, 2023
• Heikki Huotari, whose chapbook To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize in the James Tate Chapbook Contest and will be published in Dublin by Survision Books
• Charles Rammelkamp, on A Magician Among the Spirits, winner of the 2022 Blue Light Press Poetry Award
• E.M. Schorb, on Words in Passing, just published by The New Formalist Press
• Fred Skolnik on the publication of his novel A Woman of Valor, now available from Amazon

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Issue #90, September 2022

• "Sighting of the Unicorn" and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• "I Heart Muse" and other poems by Mark DeCarteret
• "The Digger", a story by Marco Etheridge
• "Convolution: The Sacred and the Profane" and "William Blake over for Supper", poems by Lou Gallo
• "Writer's Guide", a flash essay by Lois Greene Stone
• "An Adirondack Vacation" and "While Writing", poems by John Grey
• Three Poems by Heikki Huotari
• "Kutche Nacht" and "Who Will Be with them?", poems by Judy Kronenfeld
• "The Manly Way Out", a poem by Ellaraine Lockie
• "At the Rainbow" and other poems by Peter Mladinic
• "Early Music", part of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Somewhere a sonnet lies buried" and two other poems by Ajanta Paul
• "Overflow" and two other poems by Louis Phillips
• "The Slaughtered Saints" and other poems by Fred Pollack
• "Last Flight from Kabul" and other poems by Estill Pollock
• "The Third Person" and "My Father Flees", poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• A poem from "Admitting (1971-2011)", by Terry Savoie
• Four Poems by Claire Scott
• "He was the Talk of the Town" and "Rumpelstiltskin", poems by JR Solonche
• "7th Proof ", a poem by R L Swihart
• "The Portrait of an English Poet on the Cover of a Paperback" and more poems by William Welch
• "Hsi-wei in Huaiyang", a story by Robert Wexelblatt

 

Congratulations to:

• Daniel Y. Harris on The Resurrection of Maximillian Pissante, Volume V, The Posthuman Series (BlazeVOX, 2022)
• Rachel King, on her linked short story collection Bratwurst Haven, available for order from: Annie Bloom's Books (signed!) Bookshop Amazon
• Irene Koronas’ siphonic, Volume VI, The Grammaton Series (BlazeVOX, 2022) Rachel King, on her linked short story collection Bratwurst Haven, available for order from: Annie Bloom's Books (signed!) Bookshop Amazon
• E.M. Schorb on his first prize for "Five and Ten: a Fairy Tale, a Few Poems, and a Fable" at the 2022 Purple Dragonfly Book Award
• Fred Skolnik on his new novel,  A Woman of Valor (Addison and Highsmith, September 2022)
• J.R. Solonche on his books recently published, Coming To (Word Tech Communications/David Robert Books), The Lost Notebook of Zhao Li (Dos Madres Press), and on those about to appear, It’s about Time (Deerbrook Editions), Around Here (Kelsay Books), and The Book of a Small Fisherman (Shanti Arts.)

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Issue #89, June 2022

• "John Cage has Died" and two other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• "Metamorphosen", a poem by Ute von Funcke with translation by the author with Isabel Nirenberg
• "The Moment as Singularity" and other poems by Lou Gallo
• "Uncanny Disarray" and "Taxidermy", poems by Ian Ganassi
• "Green and Easy in the Ancient City" and two more poems by Judy Kronenfeld
• "Sharp as a Pencil" and "At 15 I Never Used the Word Banal", poems by Don Narkevic
• "The Books in my Parents' House", part of a memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
• "The Nature of Light" and two other poems by Patricia Phillips-Batoma
• "The Vending Machine Tango" and "Notes from the Upper East Side", poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• "Memo to my Future Self" and two other poems by Claire Scott
• "Border Crossing" and "After the Game", poems by Jeff Shalom
• "The Absurdity of Us" and two more prose poems by Ian C. Smith
• "Slipper", a poem by J.R. Solonche
• "Monsieur Rat Twitches" and other poems by Richard Weaver
• "Leaving Sebastopol" and other poems by Mark Young
• Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders, a new collection by Rose Mary Boehm. Reviewed by Judy Kronenfeld
• Peter Mladinic reviews John Grey's Knives on a Table.
• Migrations, Mark Schafer's translation of Migraciones, by Gloria Gervitz, NYRB/Poets, 2021, presented by Isabel Nirenberg

Congratulations to:

• Ruth Bavetta on her fifth poetry book, What’s Left Over, now available in Amazon. Her poems appeared last in Offcourse #86.
• J.R. Solonche: he has five new books coming out in 2022: Coming To (Word Tech Communications/David Robert Books), It’s about Time (Deerbrook Editions), The Book of a Small Fisherman (Shanti Arts Press), The Dreams of the Gods (Adelaide Books), and Leda (Adelaide Books).
• Robert Wexelblatt on his new poetry collection, To See what I have Seen See what I See, just published by Cyberwit.net

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Issue #88, March 2022

• "To Never Arrive", and two other poems by Lavinia Blossom
• "Where was I? and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• "Cover Girl" and other poems with images by Joachim Frank
• "Der Krieg Verbrennt das Herz", "War Sears the Heart", a new poem by Ute von Funcke, in German with English translation by Isabel Nirenberg
• "Terra Infirma" and other poems by Lou Gallo
• "Hot Tamales" and "Wheel of Fortune", poems by Ian Ganassi
• "The 'Yes' Word" and other poems by John Grey
• "Among the Wastes of Time" and two more poems by Stephen Jackson
• "Exile and Solidarity" and other poems by Judy Kronenfeld
• "Coping Mechanism" and two other poems by John Loughlin
• "Baby Face", a story by Alf Marks
• "How Could They? Part II", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Evolution" and two other poems by Louis Phillips
• "Fishing on the Jetty", a story by Richard Risemberg
• "Armies" and "Early Autumn Without the Olympics", poems by Tim Suermondt
• Poems from "The Enigmatic Variations", by Daniel J. Sundahl
• "That Day that Larsen Pitched that Perfect Game", part XIX of a memoir by Daniel J. Sundahl
• "Hsi-Wei in Wuyan", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "The Village of Small Surprises" and other poems by Sarah White
• "CD", a story by S.F. Wright
• Rose Marie Boehm reviews Groaning and Singing, FutureCycle Press, 2022, the latest from Judy Kronenfeld.
• Ricardo Nirenberg reviews The Music of Light Regret, by Louis Phillips,World Audience Publishers, 2021.

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