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Issue #94, September 2023
Photo by Lawrence Bridges, Nantucket, 2023
- "As Soon as he Left, I cut the onion" and "Music", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "Casing the Joint" and two other poems by Ace Boggess
- Three Poems by Lawrence Bridges
- "My Muse Conducts a Study", a poem by Mark DeCarteret
- Seven Poems by Ute von Funcke translated from the German by Diane Louie with Verena Metzger and the author
- "A Sweet Season" and "Ernie's Garden", poems by Linda M. Fischer
- "The Other Life" and more poems by Louis Gallo
- "English 101", a short essay by Lois Greene Stone
- "The Flooding of History" and other poems by John Grey
- "A Picture of my Former Husband with our Dead Cat" and two other poems by Robert Kinerk
- "Leaving", "Water Grace", and "Anticipation", poems by Judy Kronenfeld
- "Now you are a Man, my Son", an extract from a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "Sifting the Ashes" and other poems by Louis Phillips
- "The Connoisseur" and "On the Same Page" , poems by Fred Pollack
- "Half Empty" and other poems by Claire Scott
- "Another Life" and "The Iron Past", prose poems by Ian C. Smith
- "If only the late Amy Winehouse..." and "Finding my Voice", poems by Steven M. Smith
- "Side Effect", "Guilt", and other poems by J.R. Solonche
- "Postcards from the Knife Thrower's Wife", poems by Alex Stolis
The Beautiful Losses, by Fred Pollack. Review by Ricardo Nirenberg
Congratulations to:
- Karen Greenbaum-maya on her collection The Beautiful Leaves, just published.
- To Daniel Y. Harris on the publication of The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu,Volume VI, The Posthuman Series (BlazeVOX, 2023)
- To Irene Koronas on the publication of gnōstos, Volume VII, The Grammaton Series (BlazeVOX, 2023).
- Estil Pollock, on his collection Ark, now available from Broadstone Books.
Issue #93, June 2023
- "Takeaway from Gogol's The Nose" and other poems by Devon Balwit
- "Infrathin Hall of Mirrors Effect...", a poem by Stephen Bett
- "La Branche", a poem by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers
- Three Poems by Jonathan Bracker
- "Factory Hands" and "Guilt and Fear", poems by Holly Day
- "My Friend Bömbes", an excerpt from a memoir by Joachim Frank
- "The Large Hadron Collider" and other poems by Ian Ganassi
- "...where did he go" and other poems by Karen Greenbaum-maya
- "Z. is a Beautiful City", a poem by Ute von Funcke
- "The Harrowings" and other poems by Louis Gallo
- "The Story of a Simple Man", by Robert Klose
- Three Poems by Miriam Kotzin
- Three Poems by Mercedes Lawry
- "A Steep Spiritual Decline", from the memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- A Spanish Sonnet by Horacio Porta, translated by R. Nirenberg
- "Bereft" and "The Liberty Bell", poems by E.M. Schorb
- "Section Men", a poem by Barry Seiler
- Four Rat Poems by Richard Weaver
- "In Praise" and two other poems by William Welch
- "Mrs. Podolski on Forgiveness", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
- New Poems by Sarah White
- Four Poems from 100 Titles from Tom Beckett, by Mark Young
- Daniel Barbiero reviews Nextness by Randee Silv, Arteidolia Press, NY, April 2023.
- Charles Rammelkamp reviews Right this Way, a novel by Miriam Kotzin, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2023
Congratulations to:
- Stephen Bett, whose new book Broken Glosa: an alphabet book of post-avant glosa, is out from Chax Press
- Ian Ganassi, on his second poetry collection, True for the Moment. It is available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble.
- Miriam Kotzin, on her novel Right This Way, Spuyten Duvyl Publishing
- Mercedes Lawry on her book Vestiges, from Kelsay Books. It is available from Amazon and from the publisher
- Charles Rammelkamp, on his flash fiction chapbook, Presto, just published by Bamboo Dart Press. See the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NHkZLNKyanw
- E.M. Schorb, whose collection, Words in Passing, recently won the 2023 Grand Prize for Poetry at the Southern California Book Festival.
Issue #92, March 2023
- "Irrelevant Prayer" and other poems by Michael Atkinson
- "Invisible Arms around my Neck" and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "Quark", an excerpt from a memoir by Joachim Frank
- New Poems by Louis Gallo
- Writing by Lois Greene Stone
- "Hunting Season in Maine" and two other poems by John Grey
- "My Grandmother's Double-U's" and other poems by Paul Hostovsky
- "Looks and Love" and other poems by Judy Kronenfeld
- "On Reading Philosophy after Hours", an essay by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "Spaces" and "Speaking", poems by Louis Phillips
- “Queen of the Tassels” and "Double Agent 73", poems by Charles Rammelkamp
- Poems from The Wandering Life, the forthcoming translation by Hoyt Rogers of Yves Bonnefoy's La Vie Errante (Seagull Books)
- "Five Minutes to Eighty" and other poems by Claire Scott
- "Afflatus" and "No Lichened Cross to Mark a Grave", prose poems by Ian C. Smith
- "Old", "Confession", and "My Funeral", poems by J.R. Solonche
Congratulations to:
- Louis Gallo, on Ghostly Demarcations: New Poems & The Pandemic Papers, 2023 Anaphora Literary Press, Quanah, TX
- J.R. Solonche, on his new books for 2023, all available on Amazon: La Fine della Storia - Poesie scelte: The End of History - Selected Poems (Italian Edition) trans. Angela D'Ambra, It's about Time (Deerbrook Editions), The Book of a Small Fisherman (Shanti Arts Publishing), Alone (David Robert Books), The Dreams of the Gods (Kelsay Books), An Aesthetic Toward Notes (Deerbrook Editions), Leda (Dos Madres Press), The Architect's House (self-published)
- Robert Wexelblatt, on his short story collections Other Places, Other Times, (Pelekinesis), and In the World of Confusion, (cyberwit.net)
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
- "Lepidopterous Mirage", "Shells", and "Ichthyic 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:
- 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
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 J.R. 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.)