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Issue # 39 Fall 2018
All Poetry Issue

Table of Contents

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Contributors' Notes

Editor for this Issue
Roger Mitchell

 

 

 

Tony Beyer
Café Blur
River Letter

 

Ace Boggess
Rusted Root, 2003

 

Changming Yuan
Charging
Making Light of Darkness
Mega-Physics

 

John Cullen
The Eyes Are the Door

 

Keith Dunlap
The Evolution of the Species

 

E. J. Evans          
The Apartment
Slipping Away
The Desert

 

Abigail George
Quiver

 

Howie Good
Ars Poetica
At the Light
2018

 

Nels Hanson        
The Wheat
New Season

 

Michael Hettich
The Welcome
The Shirt

 

Clara B. Jones
Karst

 

Jen Karetnick
Surge: An Epigenesis

 

Claire Keyes
To Mt. Sinjar
The Widow’s Burial

 

Chancal Kumar
In the Introduction to Sartre’s Nausea

 

Terry McDermott
collecting pills

 

James Owens                       
Clarity

 

Thomas Piekarski
At the Car Lot
Dandelion Days

 

Judith Roney
Laetoli
Disquiet in Central Florida

 

Stan Sanvel Rubin
Luminance

 

Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb
The Other Side of Hudspeth

 

Claire Scott
Group Therapy

 

J. R. Solonche
How Poets Ruin Zen

 

David Spicer
My Grandmother

 

D. E. Steward
The Valley of Virginia

 

Tim Suermondt
Dallas is Faraway
Glissando Is One of Those Words

 

Anton Yakovlev
Legacy
The Buried Man
The Raging

 

Mark Young
I guess this means I’m on Godzilla’s side
Unlike the best renditions

 

Donald Zirilli
Aunt Enid Smokes a Cigarette
My Father’s Heart
The Men of Cardio Rehab

 

 

 

Contributors

Tony Beyer operates out of Taranaki, NZ. His Anchor Stone (Cold Hub Press), was shortlisted in the poetry category of the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards.

 

Ace Boggess is author of four books of poetry, most recently I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So (Unsolicited Press, 2018) and Ultra Deep Field (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017), and the novel A Song Without a Melody (Hyperborea, 2016). His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Dakota Quarterly, and many other journals. He lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

 

Yuan Changming published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver; credits include ten Pushcart nominations, the Naji Naaman's Literary (Honour) Prize 2018, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-2017), Best New Poems Online and 1,479 others across 42 countries.

 

John Cullen’s work has appeared in American Journal of Poetry, Grist, The MacGuffin, and Streetlight Magazine.    His chapbook TOWN CRAZY won the 2013 Slipstream award.   Currently living in Michigan, he teaches writing at Ferris State University.

 

Keith Dunlap’s work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Baltimore Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Comstock Review, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore and Sou’wester. Hip Pocket Press published his first collection, Storyland, in 2016.

 

E. J. Evans is a poet and musician living in Cazenovia, New York. He has contributed recently to Mudfish, RHINO Poetry, and Stone Canoe. He is the author of a prose-poem collection, Conversations With the Horizon (Box Turtle Press, forthcoming) and a chapbook, First Snow Coming (Kattywompus Press, 2015).

 

Abigail George is a South African blogger, essayist, poet, short story writer and has just completed her first novel. She briefly studied film at the Newtown Film and Television School in Johannesburg. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies, and she was educated in Port Elizabeth, Swaziland, and Johannesburg. She is the writer of "All About My Mother" and "Brother Wolf and Sister Wren" available from Ovi Magazine: Finland's English Online Magazine's bookstore for free download.

 

Howie Good is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize.  His latest collection is I'm Not a Robot from Tolsun Books. He co-edits the journals UnLost and Unbroken with Dale Wisely.

 

Nels Hanson grew up on a small raisin and tree fruit farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart nominations in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. His poems received a 2014 Pushcart nomination, Sharkpack Review’s 2014 Prospero Prize, and 2015 and 2016 Best of the Net nominations.

 

Michael Hettich’s most recent books are Systems of Vanishing (2014/Winner of the Tampa Review Prize in Poetry); The Frozen Harbor (2017, Red Dragonfly Press/Winner of The David Martinson/Meadowhawk Prize & a Florida Book Award); and Bluer and More Vast: Prose Poems (2018, Hysterical Press). His work has appeared in many journals. He recently moved from Miami to Black Mountain, NC.

 

Clara B. Jones practices writing in Silver Spring, MD (USA) and conducts research on experimental literature, as well as, radical publishing. Among other works, Clara is author of the poetry collection, /feminine nature/, published in 2017 by Gauss PDF.

 

The winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition for The Crossing Over (May, 2019), Jen Karetnick is also the author of three full-length poetry collections, including The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize, and four other poetry chapbooks. Her work appears recently or is forthcoming in Cider Press Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cutthroat, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, JAMA, Lunch Ticket, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Salamander, Verse Daily, and Waxwing. She is co-editor of the daily online literary journal, SWWIM Every Day. Find her on Twitter @Kavetchnik or see jkaretnick.com.

 

Claire Keyes is involved in a project in her home town to bring poetry into the cultural mix. She calls this a Poetry Salon and it meets once a month from September to June. The local library supports this venture as does the local cultural council.  This year she is focusing on the issue of poetic influence: who influences whom—and why. The Salons will feature local writers and whomever they name as a significant influence on their poetry.  Claire is Professor emerita at Salem State University in Massachusetts and teaches literature classes in SSU’s lifelong learning program. She has published a chapbook and two books of poems: The Question of Rapture and What Diamonds Can Do.

 

Chanchal Kumar lives in Delhi, India. His poems have previously appeared in The Sunflower Collective.

 

Terry McDermott’s work is inspired by the shifting reality of living with bipolar disorder. Much of his current writing explores personal experiences with mental health and illness, as well as social dislocation. His work has recently appeared in Existere, the Spadina Literary Review, and the Post Feminist Post. He wrote, Sing the Hymn: Elegy to a Bottle, co-wrote Villanelles a deux and Vita Bella: The Dogumentary, the web series. He lives in Vancouver, B.C., waiting for the next great earthquake…

 

James Owens's most recent collection of poems is Mortalia (FutureCycle Press, 2015). His poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in Waxwing, Adirondack Review, Tule Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and Southword. A native of Virginia, he earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in northern Ontario.

 

Thomas Piekarski is a former editor of the California State Poetry Quarterly and Pushcart Prize nominee. His poetry and interviews have appeared in literary journals internationally, including Nimrod, Florida English Journal, Cream City Review, Mandala Journal, Poetry Salzburg, Poetry Quarterly, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Boston Poetry Magazine. He has published a travel book, Best Choices In Northern California, and his epic adventure Ballad of Billy the Kid is available on Amazon in both Kindle and print versions.

 

Judith Roney’s fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications. Field Guide for a Human was a 2015 finalist in the Gambling the Aisle chapbook contest. Her poetry collection, According to the Gospel of Haunted Women, received the 2015 Pioneer Prize. A memoir piece, “My Nickname was Frankenstein,” is nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She confesses to an obsession with the archaic and misunderstood, dead relatives, and collects vintage religious artifacts and creepy dolls. Currently she teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida, and is a staff poetry reader for The Florida Review.

 

Stan Sanvel Rubin's work has appeared, most recently, in Poetry Northwest, One, and Red Savina Review and is forthcoming in Shanghai Poetry Review and Agni. His fourth full collection, There. Here., was published by Lost Horse Press in 2013. He lives on the northern Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.

 

Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb’s work has appeared in Clockhouse, AJN: The American Journal of Nursing, Medical Literary Messenger, Mount Hope Magazine, Watershed Review, The Conium Review, Terrain.org, the anthology Talking Back and Looking Forward: An Educational Revolution in Poetry and Prose (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group), The Blueline Anthology (Syracuse University Press), and others, with work forthcoming in About Place Journal, Colere, Weber: The Contemporary West, Seems, and others.  She has been an educator, a researcher, and an editor, and is co-founder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit natural history press.

 

Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Enizagam, New Ohio Review and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

 

Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY Orange, J.R. Solonche has been publishing poems in magazines and anthologies (more than 400) since the early 70s. He is author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s Content (chapbook from Five Oaks Press), Invisible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Five Oaks Press), The Black Birch (Kelsay Books), I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems (Deerbrook Editions), In Short Order (Kelsay Books), Tomorrow, Today & Yesterday (Deerbrook Editions), and coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in the Hudson Valley.

 

David Spicer has had poems in Gargoyle, Synaeresis, Reed Magazine, The Literary Nest, North Dakota Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, Prime Number, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares,  among others, and in the anthologies Silent Voices: Recent American Poems on Nature (Ally Press), Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing From Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois University Press), and A Galaxy of Starfish: An Anthology of Modern Surrealism (Salo Press). He has been nominated for a Best of the Net three times and a Pushcart once, and is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Everybody Has a Story (St. Luke's Press, 1987), and five chapbooks, with the latest, From the Wings of a Pear Tree, available from Flutter Press. He is also the former editor of Raccoon, Outlaw, and Ion Books.

 

D. E. Steward’s Chroma, Volumes One through Five, published by Archae Editions, is now in print. Chroma is, in Steward’s words, a “poetic project…written month-to-month for over 32 years.” Other sections have appeared in such journals as Fjords Review, Hollins Critic, Notre Dame Review and Misfit Magazine.

 

Tim Suermondt is the author of four full-length collections of poetry. MadHat Press will be bringing out JOSEPHINE BAKER SWIMMING POOL shortly. He has published widely and lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.

Anton Yakovlev’s latest collection is Ordinary Impalers (Kelsay Books, 2017). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Hopkins Review, Amarillo Bay, Prelude, Measure, and elsewhere. The Last Poet of the Village, a book of translations of poetry by Sergei Esenin, is forthcoming from Sensitive Skin Books.

 

Mark Young's most recent book is les échiquiers effrontés, a collection of surrealist visual poems laid out on chessboard grids, published by Luna Bisonte Prods. Due out later this year is The Word Factory: a miscellany, from gradient books of Finland, & an e-book, A Vicarious Life — the backing tracks, from otata.

 

Donald Zirilli is a Healthcare IT manager with an English Literature BA from Drew University. He was the editor of Now Culture, the art editor for The Shit Creek Review, and a member of Rutherford’s Red Wheelbarrow Gang. His poetry was published in The 2River View, Anti- poetry magazine, ART TIMES, Nerve Lantern, River Styx, and other periodicals and anthologies. He and his wife live in an idyllic corner of New Jersey with two dogs and two cats. His first chapbook, Heaven’s Not For You, was published in September, 2018, by Kelsay Books.