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Issue # 40 Spring 2019

Issue 40 of The Hamilton Stone Review consists entirely of invitation-only writing by Hamilton Stone associated authors. Most of them have new, recent, or upcoming books out from various publishers.

 

Editor for this Issue:
Meredith Sue Willis

 

Table of Contents

(Click on title of the piece to go directly to it.)

Contributors' Notes

 

I. Featured Poet:

Roger Mitchell

Poems from Reason's Dream
published 2018 by Dos Madres Press

Blind Seed

Dog Moon Turkey

This Is My Hand

Mouth

Up Early

Ballad of Charley Fell

People Were Sure of It

Pretty Good Day

Swann Song

At the John Brown Farm

Letter to a Thief

Stories Have No Manners

The Quickest Way to Get There

 

 

 

II. Work by Hamilton Stone Editions Co-op Members:

 

Jane Lazarre

     Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor

 

Kelly Watt
     From Mad Dog (New edition coming soon from Hamilton Stone Editions)

 

Meredith Sue Willis
    Chapter One from Their Houses published 2018 by West Virginia University Press

 

 

 

 

Contributors

Jane Lazarre’s most recent book is the memoir, The Communist and The Communist’s Daughter (2016). Other works include memoirs, The Mother Knot; (a Spanish language edition by Las Afueras: El Nudo Materno, 2018;) On Loving Men; Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons (twentieth anniversary edition from Duke U. Press in 2016;) Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery. Her novels include: Inheritance; The Powers of Charlotte; Worlds Beyond My Control, recently reissued by Hamilton Stone Editions. Essays recently published on line: Motherhood as Activism (Public Seminar), Once White in America (TomDispatch.com and widely re-posted on various sites); Where Do They Keep the White People” (TruthOut, and The Room). Lazarre’s stories and essays have been widely published and anthologized. She has taught creative writing and literature at the City College of New York, Yale University and Eugene Lang College at the New School, where she created and directed the undergraduate writing program and served on the fulltime faculty for twenty years. She serves on the Board of Directors of Brotherhood-SisterSol, (www.Brotherhood-Sistersol.org) an organization in Harlem serving children and youth, and teaches writing privately. She is completing a manuscript of poems and a collection of essays. Please go to www.janelazarre.com for more complete bio and history.    

 

 

 

Roger Mitchell is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Reason's Dream. His new and selected poems, Lemon Peeled the Moment Before: New and selected Poems,1967-2008, was published by Ausable Press 2008. It won the Adirondack Center for Writing's "Readers' Choice Award" the following year. The University of Akron Press published his two previous books, Half/Mask, in 2007 and Delicate Bait, which Charles Simic chose for the Akron Prize, in 2003. Mitchell spent the largest part of his working life at Indiana University. Other recognition for his writing includes the Midland Poetry Award, the John Ben Snow Award for Clear Pond, a work of non-fiction, two fellowships each from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work appears in numerous anthologies, including the Penguin anthology, Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now, Ed. By Nick Laird and Don Patterson. Currently, he is Poetry Editor of the ezine Hamilton Stone Review and is writing a biography of the poet, Jean Garrigue. He and his wife, the fiction writer, Dorian Gossy, live in Jay, New York.

 

 

Kelly Watt's award-winning short stories have been anthologized, published internationally and longlisted for the prestigious CBC Radio’s Short Fiction Contest twice (2017/2015). She is the author of two books—the travel companion Camino Meditations (2014), and the gothic novel Mad Dog (2019).  Originally published in 2001, Mad Dog was a Globe and Mail notable book. This is the revised U.S. edition. Watt lives in the Ontario countryside with her husband, a miniature schnauzer and three diligent chickens.

 

Meredith Sue Willis is the author of 22 books from publishers including Charles Scribner's Sons, Ohio University Press, Montemayor Press, West Virginia University Press, HarperCollins, and Hamilton Stone Editions. Of her first collection of short stories, The New York Times Book Review said: "Ms. Willis...provides a[n]...important lesson on the nature and function of literature itself."   See MSW's website at http://www.meredithsuewillis.com. Her newest novel, excerpted in this issue of Hamilton Stone Review, is Their Houses.