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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 #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

By Michelle Edwards. See more of her work at michelledwards.com

"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.)

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

Issue #88, March 2022

Eleanor Stands with Ukraine, photo by Joachim Frank
“Eleanor Roosevelt in support of Ukraine.”
Bronze statue on Upper West Side in Manhattan.
Photograph by Joachim Frank.

"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.