T H E H A M I L T O N S T O N E R E V I E W
Issue # 27 Fall 2012
Virgens de Guadalupe by Lynda Schor
Table of Contents
Latest Books from Hamilton Stone Editions
Homeward Bound by Howard Waskow; Sleepwalker's Songs by James Cervantes; The Cisco Kid in the Bronx by Miguel A. Ortiz;
Fiction and the Facts of Life by Edith Konecky; Inheritance by Jane Lazarre;
and Re-Visions by Meredith Sue Willis
Poetry
Susan Firer
Oh,
Fiction
Deborah Clearman
Turista
Charles Rammelkamp
Aperçus
Contributors' Notes
Arlene Ang serves as a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine. Other stories, some co-written with Valerie Fox, have been published in Admit Two, Defenestration, Monkeybicycle, Per Contra, qarrtsiluni, Staccato Fiction, and Wigleaf. Her volumes of poetry include Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu (Cinnamon Press) and Secret Love Poems (Rubicon Press). She lives in Spinea, Italy. More of her writing may be viewed at www.leafscape.org.
Alan Britt read poems at the World Trade Center/Tribute WTC Visitor Center (TributeWTC.org) in Manhattan/NYC, April 2012, at the We Are You Project (WeAreYouProject.Org) Wilmer Jennings Gallery, East Village/NYC, April 2012, and at New Jersey City University's Ten Year 9/11 Commemoration in Jersey City, NJ, September 2011. His poem, "September 11, 2001," appeared in International Gallerie: Poetry in Art/Art in Poetry Issue,v13 No.2 (India): 2011. His recent book is Alone with the Terrible Universe (CypressBooks 2011).
Bill Brown just retired as a part-time lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He has authored five poetry collections, three chapbooks and a textbook. His three current collections are The News Inside (Iris Press 2010), Late Winter (Iris Press 2008) and Tatters (March Street Press 2007). Recent work appears in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Tar River Poetry, English Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Connecticut Review, Atlanta Review, Asheville Poetry Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Brown wrote and co-produced the ITV series, Student Centered learning for Nashville Public Television, and has been the recipient of many poetry fellowships.
Deborah Clearman’s short fiction has appeared in numerous journals including the Adirondack Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Connecticut Review, and storySouth, and has been selected as a Glimmer Train award finalist. Her novel Todos Santos is available from Black Lawrence Press. A visual artist as well, her paintings and prints have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums. She lives in New York City and Guatemala. For more information, visit www.deborahclearman.com.
Keith Dunlap is a former co-editor of The Columbia Review and former editor of Cutbank, having received his M.F.A. from the University of Montana. His poems have recently been accepted for publication in Barnwood, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Concho River Review, Crate Literary Magazine, Eclipse, Emprise, Indefinite Space, Maine Magazine, Ninth Letter, pacificReview, Pank, Slipstream, Sou’wester, and Talking River Review, among other places.
Myron Ernst taught French and Italian in a Montessori preschool for many years in Vestal, New York. Aside from a chapbook, “Geographies,” published by BKMK Press in 1996, his poems have appeared in such magazines as Chicago Review, Haydens Ferry Review, Hollins Critic, Poetry East, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, and West Branch.
Susan Firer’s most recent book is Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1979-2007. Her previous books have been awarded the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, the Posner Award, and the Backwaters Prize. Her poem Call Me Pier was included in the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series and is available for viewing on YouTube and the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere website. She edits the Shepherd Express online poetry column, available at expressmilwaukee.com. From 2008-2010 she was Poet Laureate of the City of Milwaukee. More information available at www.susanfirer.com .
Valerie Fox: Valerie Fox's books of poetry include The Rorschach Factory (Straw Gate Books) and The Glass Book (Texture Press). She has recently published work in Ping Pong and Hanging Loose. She has published collaborative works (written with Arlene Ang) in Blip, Per Contra, Admit Two, and other journals. The story included in this issue of Hamilton Stone Review is part of a longer work, The Honeymoon Series, written with Ang. Fox teaches writing and literature at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Dreaming in Red from Right Hand Pointing and Cryptic Endearments from Knives Forks & Spoons Press.
James Grabill’s poems have appeared in periodicals such as kayak, Caliban, The Common Review, Harvard Review, Shenandoah, The Oxonian Review (UK), The Pedestal, Stand (UK), New York Quarterly, East West Journal, and Willow Springs. His recent books include An Indigo Scent after the Rain (Lynx House P, 2003). He lives in Oregon, where he has taught writing, lit (Shakespeare, the Beats), and sustainability.
Jeff Gundy’s sixth book of poems, Somewhere Near Defiance, is forthcoming from Anhinga
Press. His Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace is also due soon
from Cascadia. Other new work is in The Sun, Georgia Review, Christian Century, Artful Dodge, and Fifth Wednesday.
Rachel N. Heller says “Right now Sylvia Plath is my Goddess and her book Ariel is my bible. I am a college student indulging in my love of literature, poetry, and pursuing a Masters in English. I am a mother of two young boys. Life is hectic, but when life overwhelms me I think of Plath, writing Ariel in the early morning hours while her two children sleep, and I am inspired to continue doing what I love.”
A four-time champion on Jeopardy, Len Krisak’s most recent book is Virgil’s Eclogues, 2010. His work has received several awards including the Robert Frost and Robert Penn Warren prizes.
Casandra Lopez was raised in Southern California and has an MFA from the University of New Mexico. She has been selected as the 2013 Indigenous Writer in Residence at the School of Advanced Research andis the recipient of scholarships from the Southern California Tribal Education Institute, Squaw Valley Writers Conference and is a VONA alum. Her work has appeared in High Desert Journal, Acentos Review, Caesura, Sakura Review and Weber–Contemporary West.
Mike Maggio has published fiction, poetry, travel and reviews in Potomac Review, The Montserrat Review, Pleiades, Apalachee Quarterly, The Northern Virginia Review, The L.A. Weekly, The Washington CityPaper, Beltway Quarterly, Pig Iron, DC Poets Against the War and others. His books include Your Secret is Safe With Me (Black Bear Publications, 1988), Oranges From Palestine (Mardi Gras Press, 1996) , Sifting Through the Madness (Xlibris, 2001), deMOCKcracy (Plain View Press, 2007 and The Keepers (March Street Press 2011). Forthcoming work includes a novel called In the Valley of Granite and Steel (March Street Press). He is an assistant adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College and a graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program in Creative Writing. He lives in Herndon, Virginia with his wife and children. His web site is www.mikemaggio.net .
Paul Nelson’s books include CARGO (Stone Wall Press, 1972); AVERAGE NIGHTS (L'Epervier Press, 1977); DAYS OFF (The University Press of Virginia, 1982), winner Associated Writing Programs Series Award; THE HARD SHAPES OF PARADISE (The University of Alabama Press, 1988; and SEA LEVEL (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2008). Two new books are forthcoming: I BROUGHT HER JUICY, THIN-SKINNED LEMONS from Finishing Line Press and BURNING THE FURNITURE from Guernica Editions. He currently directs the Hawaii Literary Arts Council.
Genevieve Payne was born and raised in Maine. She now splits her time between Central New York and Maine. Her work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. For more information, including free e-books, photo, his essay titled “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonperchik.com.
In June, 2012, Time Being Books published Charles Rammelkamp's collection of poems about missionaries in a leper colony in Vietnam during the war, entitled Fusen Bakudan (“Balloon Bombs” in Japanese). He edits an online literary journal called The Potomac - http://thepotomacjournal.com/. He is also a fiction editor for The Pedestal – http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com.
Ned Randle studied writing at Washington University, Webster University and Southwestern Illinois College. He has published a few short stories, the most recent in Cigale Literary Journal, Summer 2012, and a number of poems in publications such as The Spoon River Quarterly, Circus Maximus, Seven Stars Poetry, Poydras Review, Emerge Literary Journal (June, 2012), Barnwood International Poetry Magazine and The New Poet. His chapbook, Prairie Shoutings and Other Poems, was published by The Spoon River Poetry Press, Bradley University.
Lois Roma-Deeley has published three collections of poetry: High Notes (2010), northSight (2006) and Rules of Hunger (2004). High Notes, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, forms the basis of a jazz opera for which she is writing the libretto. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently in Villanelles (Everyman's Library, Pocket Poets Series, 2012). Roma-Deeley's work has been featured in numerous literary journals nationwide and in Canada.
Elaine Sexton is the author of two collections of poetry, Sleuth (2003) and Causeway (2008), both with New Issues. Her poems, reviews, text/image work and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Art in America, Hunger Mountain, Massachusetts Review, O! the Oprah Magazine, Poetry, Sinister Wisdom and online with Poetry Daily and From the Fishhouse. She is a member of the NBCC (National Book Critics Circle) and teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.
Tim Suermondt is the author of TRYING TO HELP THE ELEPHANT MAN DANCE ( The
Backwaters Press, 2007) and JUST BEAUTIFUL from NYQ Books, 2010. He has published work in Poetry, The Georgia Review, Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Cider Press Review and has poems forthcoming in Tygerburning Literary Journal, The Cossack Review, and Stand Magazine (U.K.), among others. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Andreas Trolf is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker. He is the writer and co-creator of Sanjay and Craig, which will premier on the Nickelodeon network in 2013. His fiction and non-fiction have been published online and in print, and he occasionally plays banjo in the band Neckbeard Telecaster. He holds degrees in writing and literature from New York University.
Lee Upton’s most recent book is Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity, & Secrecy (Tupelo Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared most recently in Best American Poetry 2011, 32 Poems, and The Literary Review. Her short stories appear widely. She is the writer-in-residence at Lafayette College.
Eva White,was born in Vienna, grew up in the Bronx, and lived most of her life in Melbourne. Since 1991 she has divided her time between Melbourne and New York City. Her stories have been published in newspapers and journals in Australia and the U.S
David Woodward lives in the Montreal area with his partner, Karma and son to be (any day now). He has appeared in Hamilton Stone (Summer '09), Wilderness House, Menda City, Soliloquies Anthology and Caveat Lector, among others. (Karma is a cat).
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