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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 #80, March 2020

"The Viking from Brooklyn": remembering Stan Johannesen.

Six Prose Poems by John Amen
"A Form of Destruction" and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
"The Hapsburg Lip" and other poems by Stuart Friebert
"The Planck Limit of Desire" and other work by Lou Gallo
Poems from The Misprision of Agon Hack, by Daniel Y. Harris
"Artocarpus" and "butea", poems by Irene Koronas
"Four-Poster Bed" and other poems by Richard Merelman
"The Sin Against the Human Spirit", an essay by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
"Access", a poem by Fred Pollack
Three Poems by Claire Scott
"Instructor", a poem by Lois Greene Stone
"Prime Mover", a poem by Daniel Sundahl
"Baby on Board" and other poems by Richard Weaver
"Hsi-wei in the Gardens of Shun", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
"I, Who Never Learned to Long" and "Once, the Troubadour", poems by Sarah White

Joachim Frank's novel Aan Zee is now available at The Book Loft, in Great Barrington, MA. Please visit https://www.thebookloft.com/product/aan-zee

Congratulations to:

E.M. Schorb on his illustrated collection of light verse, Muddling Through, Hillhouse, NY, 2019
Fred Skolnik on his novel The Nightmare (written as Fred Russell) published by Moonshine Cove Publishing, 2019. The book is available from Amazon.

Issue #79, December 2019

Element 79 and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
Poems by Ken Craft
"The Fountain Project" by Joachim Frank
"Reflection upon the Crash" and other poems by Lou Gallo
"A January Curse" and "Apology", poems by John Grey
"Couple Observed" and "My 8-Year Old Granddaughter Discovers...", poems by Judy Kronenfeld
"Jiggs and Maggie", by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
New Poems by Simon Perchik
"The City of Old Age" and other poems by Louis Phillips
"Registering to Vote" and "Bambi ", two poems by J.C. Rammelkamp
"Grub Street" and other poems by Ian C. Smith
"Huckleberry Finn: The Untold Story", by Larry Smith
"Autumn Afternoon" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
"The Last Train Home", by Robert Steward
"Confronting Fur" and other poems by Shelby Stephenson
"Dublin and Hong Kong", two new poems by Tim Suermondt

Congratulations to:

Joachim Frank on his novel Aan Zee being published by University Press of the South. Read the background story here.
Daniel Gallick, whose Love on Blue Waves is now available from Amazon.
Charles Rammelkamp, whose new chapbook, Mortal Coil, is forthcoming from Clare Songbirds Publishing. A full-length collection, Catastroika, is also forthcoming from Apprentice House.
E.M. Schorb, on winning the 8th Annual Beverly Hills Books Award with his novel R&R: a sex comedy, published by Hill House, NY.
J. R. Solonche, who has The Porch Poems (Deerbrook Editions), Enjoy Yourself (Serving House Books), The Time of Your Life (Adelaide Books), and For All I Know (Kelsay Books) all coming out in 2020. To Say the Least (Dos Madres Press) appeared in 2019.
Robert Wexelblatt, on Girl Asleep and other Poems, published by Cyberwit.net in 2019, and on Intuition of the News, his new collection of short stories, published by Adelaide Books in 2019.

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

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.