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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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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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