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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 Guest of Myself.
• 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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Issue #87, December 2021

• Three Poems Inspired by Early Chinese Poetry, by George Freek
• Five New Poems by Lou Gallo
• "Kabul, 116 Plan B, and Lessons", poems by Miriam Kotzin
• "How Could They?", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Knowledge" and other poems by Louis Phillips
• "The Persistence of Forgetting" and other poems by Frederick Pollack
• "What dog?", a poem by Charles Rammelkamp
• "Afternoon Tea" and other poems by Edward Reilly
• "Reading into a Red Tide" and other poems by Stephen Reilly
• "What would you have chosen" and other poems by Claire Scott
• "The Laughing Face of Youth" and more poems by Ian C. Smith
• "Mailman of Songs" and other poems by Steven M. Smith
• "Song of Loss" and other poems by JR Solonche
• Three Poems and Part of a Memoir by Daniel Sundahl
• "Born in the U.S.A.", an essay by Dennis Vannatta
• "Lenticular Plastic Machinery" and more poems by Mark Young
• "Knives on a Table", poems by Peter Mladinic, reviewed by David Reich

Congratulations to:

• Louis Phillips on the publication of The Music of Light Regret, published by World Audience, now available at Amazon
• Steven Smith on the publication of Strongman Contest, by Kelsay Books. The book is also available at Amazon
• Travis Stephens on the publication of skeeter bit & still drunk, by Finishing Line Press

 

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Issue #86, September 2021

• "Hunger Moon" and "Morning Walk", poems by Ruth Bavetta
• "PTSD Nights" and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• "The Occurrence in Tienzheng", a short story by Alzo David-West
• "The Many Uses of Soap", flash fiction by Salvatore Difalco
• "Undiscerned Causes" and other poems by Thomas Fink and Maya Mason
• "Lost and not Found" and other poems by Lou Gallo
• "What a Country" and "Movies and Life", poems by John Grey
• "Activate the Actuarial" and more poems by Heikki Huotari
• "Thursday, August 31" and more poems by Anita Lerek
• "A Field of Femininity" and other poems by Sheila Murphy
• "On the Seashore", a story by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "The Music of Light Regret" and other poems by Louis Phillips
• "Dream House", a story by Richard Risemberg
• "Exile's Pang" and other poems by Ian C. Smith
• "Notes on 'Description of a Struggle' ", a poem by R.L. Swihart
• "Citizen Rat" and more poems by Richard Weaver
• "Hsi-Wei and the Wood-Block Printer", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "Song of Air, Earth and Rain", and other poems by Sarah White
• "Maison Cristina", a novel by Eugene K. Garber, ISBN: 978-0-9846994-8-3 Transformation Press 2021. Presented by Ricardo Nirenberg.

 

Congratulations to:

• Jonathan Bracken, on his new edition of Whitman's Song of Myself, presented as 76 separate poems, now available at Amazon.
• Ute von Funcke, on her poetry collection Schneisen schlagen, just out from scaneg Verlag, Munich, with illustrations by Claudia von Funcke. ISBN 978-3-89235-316-4. Several poems in this volume have appeared in Offcourse, with translations by Stuart Friebert, to whom the book is dedicated.
• Eugene K. Garber, on his novel Maison Cristina, to appear in October 2021 from Transformation Press.
• Heikki Huotari, on the imminent publication of his fifth collection, When Correlation Was Causation, published by Better Than Starbucks Press.

• David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg, on their book Uncountable: a Philosophical History of Number from Antiquity to the Present, to appear in October 2021 from U. Chicago Press.
• Fred Skolnik, on Thoughts for a Rainy Day, a collection of 16 poems (Kelsay Books/Alabaster Leaves, 35 pp) available though Amazon or the website of Kelsay Books.
• J.R. Solonche, on his Selected Poems 2002-2021, which has been nominated for the National Book Award. It is available from Serving House Books, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. An excellent review appears in The Lake: http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/sept21/

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