T H E H A M I L T O N S T O N E R E V I E W
Virgens de Guadalupe by Lynda Schor
Table of Contents
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John Guzlowski
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Natalli Amato is the author of the poetry collections On a Windless Night and the forthcoming Burning Barrel. She also writes for Rolling Stone. You can read her work at www.natalliamato.com
Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. He has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer. His work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Conduit, and The Cream City Review.
Born in San Francisco and currently living in Mexico, Rosaleen Bertolino is the winner of the 2019 Many Voices Project Prize for Prose. Her debut story collection, The Paper Demon and Other Stories, was released by New Rivers Press in 2021. Her fiction has recently appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Orca, failbetter, and New England Review. She is a co-founder and host of Prose Café, a monthly reading series based in San Miguel de Allende and is working on a novel and another collection of stories.
Tony Beyer writes in Taranaki, New Zealand. Among his print titles, Anchor Stone (Cold Hub Press) was a finalist in the poetry category of the 2018 NZ Book Awards. More recent work has appeared internationally in Atlanta Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Landfall, London Grip, Mayhem, Molly Bloom, Mudlark, Otoliths, Tarot, and elsewhere.
Amy Cotler was a leader in the farm-to-table movement, and a food forum host for the New York Times. After her career as a food writer and cookbook author, she turned to creative writing. Her short pieces have appeared in various publications, including Guesthouse and Hinterland. Cotler lives in central Mexico, with her husband, an artist, and their rescue standard poodle, Remy. For more, visit: amycotler.com.
Changming Yuan grew up in an isolated village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian Ph.D. in English, Yuan currently edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan in Vancouver. Credits include eleven Pushcart nominations, eleven chapbooks (most recently LIMERENCE) as well as appearances in The Best of Best Canadian Poetry & BestNewPoemsOnline, among 1859 others across 47 countries. Furthermore, Yuan served on the jury for Canada's 44th National Magazine Awards in the poetry category.
Cheryl Denise’s new collection, Fences, is forthcoming from Cascadia Publishing House, likely in 2022. They have also published two other collections of her poetry, What’s in the Blood, and I Saw God Dancing. She has a spoken word and music CD called, Leaving Eden. She lives in the intentional community of Shepherds Field near Philippi, WV. She was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. Visit her on Facebook at Cheryl Denise, poet.
Steve Fay's writing has appeared since the 1970s in a variety of literary journals, including Ascent, Beloit Poetry Journal, Field, Spoon River Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly. His collection what nature (Northwestern UP 1998) was listed, in the fall of 1999, by the editors and board of Orion as one of their 10 favorite nature/culture related books of the prior 12 months. He has poetry forthcoming in The Comstock Review, and his photography has recently appeared in Humana Obscura. He lives in Fulton County, Illinois.
Stephen Gibson is the author of eight poetry collections: Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale (2020 finalist, Able Muse Press book prize, forthcoming), Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (2017 Miller Williams Prize winner, University of Arkansas Press), The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press), Rorschach Art Too (2014 Donald Justice Prize, Story Line Press; 2021, Story Line Press Legacy Title, Red Hen Press), Paradise (Miller Williams prize finalist, University of Arkansas Press), Frescoes (Lost Horse Press book prize), Masaccio’s Expulsion (MARGIE/IntuiT House book prize), and Rorschach Art (Red Hen Press).
John Guzlowski’s writing appears in Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals. His poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany appear in his memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues. He is also the author of the Hank and Marvin mysteries (reviewed in the New York Times) and a columnist for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in America. His most recent books of poems are Mad Monk Ikkyu and True Confessions: 1965 to Now.
Janice N. Harrington’s latest book of poetry is Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin (BOA Editions). She teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.
Leonore Hildebrandt is the author of the poetry collections The Work at Hand, The Next Unknown and Where You Happen to Be. Her poems and translations have appeared in the Cafe Review, Harpur Palate, Rhino, and the Sugar House Review, among other journals. She was nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. Originally from Germany, Leonore lives “off the grid” in Harrington, Maine. See her web page at http://leonorehildebrandt.com.
Madronna Holden is using her recent retirement from university teaching to concentrate on her poems, over 50 of which have been recently published in The Bitter Oleander, Cold Mountain Review, Puerto del Sol, The Slippery Elm Literary Review, Equinox Poetry and Prose and many more. One of her poems was selected as poem of the day by Verse Daily; her poetry drama, The Descent of Inanna, was the subject of a documentary aired several times on Oregon Public Broadcasting; and her chapbook, Goddess of Glass Mountains is due out from Finishing Line Press this fall (2021).
Heikki Huotari, in a past century, attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. He's a retired math professor and has published poems in numerous literary journals, including Spillway, The American Journal of Poetry, and Willow Springs. His fourth collection, Deja Vu Goes Both Ways, won the Star 82 Press Book Award.
Jay Jacoby has been teaching for two-thirds of his life, starting in 1968 at a junior high in Philadelphia, then at the Universities of Pittsburgh and North Carolina in Charlotte and Asheville, and currently in Lifelong Learning Programs in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of western North Carolina. His wife and he have always been avid collectors of vernacular/utilitarian southern pottery, and “Geo-Genealogy” documents one of his “finds.” His poetry has recently appeared in such journals as the Main Street Rag, the Blue Mountain Review, the Speckled Trout Review, and the Ekphrasis Review.
Nancy Smiler Levinson’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Rat's Ass Review, Voice of Eve, Sledgehammer, Fleas on the Dog, Confrontation, The Copperfield Review, Jewish Literary Journal, Panoply, and elsewhere. In past chapters of her life she published some thirty books for young readers. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.
Laurinda Lind is a caregiver and former journalist in New York’s North Country, near Canada. Some of her poems are in Atlanta Review, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway. She is a Keats-Shelley Prize winner, and a finalist in the most recent Joy Bale Boon Prize, Patricia Dobler Award, and Kissing Dynamite contests. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee.
Clint McCown has published four novels, six collections of poems, and a collection of short fiction. Twice winner of the American Fiction Prize, he has also received the Midwest Book Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Gable Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and other distinctions. He is a former screenwriter for Warner Bros. As a journalist, he received an Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence for his investigations of Organized Crime. He teaches in the MFA programs at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and he was recently inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame at Wake Forest University.
Sarah McMahon is a poet based out of Orange County, CA. Her blog, The Prosiest, features articles and insights about running, eating disorders, and mental health. She is an ultra-runner, transitioning to mountain races after competing in cross country and track at Bradley University, where she graduated with her M.A. in English in 2016. Sarah has been published in Moontide Press, Barking Sycamores, and Alchemy and has appeared on a number of podcasts. She works in fundraising for the American Red Cross.
Benjamin Nash has published poems in Louisiana Literature, Concho River Review, Pembroke Magazine, 2River, Kestrel, and other publications.
J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory. His poetry has appeared in many small press publications, worldwide, since 2002. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Visit http://www.MadVerse.com for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Colorado.
Kelly O’Toole spent her life in New Jersey until moving to Germany in 2020 with her three young sons. I Only Have To Change My Mind is Kelly’s first book of poetry. She has also written a coming of age novel and a second book of poetry, Perspectives. Poems from both collections appear in The Elevation Review and scissors & spackle. Having earned a BA in English and Art History, and MAT in teaching secondary English, Kelly taught high school English for nine years. She has been a stay at home mom for six years.
John Repp grew up along the Blackwater Branch of the Maurice River in southern New Jersey and has lived for many years in Erie, Pennsylvania. His latest collection of poetry is The Soul of Rock & Roll: Poems Acoustic, Electric & Remixed, 1980-2020, published by Broadstone Books.
Rochelle Robinson-Dukes is Professor of English at the City Colleges of Chicago. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Atlanta Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Meridian, Poetry Hall Bilingual Journal, The Ravens Perch, Rock & Sling, Salamander, The Temz Review, and the anthology In Other Words.
Carole Rosenthal is the author of It Doesn't Have To Be Me, a collection of short stories. Her fiction appears in a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from literary magazines like Transatlantic Review, Confrontation, Other Voices, and The Cream City Review, to Mother Jones, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Her frequently anthologized short stories have been dramatized for radio and television, translated into eleven languages. An emeritus professor at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, she lives part-time in New York City and part-time in the Catskills.
Lynda Schor has had 5 collections of short fiction published, the latest, Sexual Harassment Rules was recently published by Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her stories and articles have been in many magazines and literary journals, including Mademoiselle, Ms and GQ, Gargoyle, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. Her new noir literary thriller, DEARTH, has recently been published by New Meridian Arts Press. She was awarded residencies at Blue Mountain Center, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Arts, and others. She was Writer In Residence at a number of colleges and universities, and taught fiction and creative nonfiction at The New School for 26 years. She now lives, writes and paints in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Jane Simpson is a poet and historian based in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has taught social history and religious studies in universities in Australia and New Zealand. She has two collections, A world without maps (2016) and Tuning Wordsworth’s Piano (2019), published by Interactive Press (Brisbane). In 2020 she received third prize in the NZ Poetry Society’s International Poetry Competition and her entry in the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition 2020 was highly commended. Her latest book is The Farewelling of a Home: a liturgy and her website is www.poiema.co.nz
Tim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems A Doughnut And The Great Beauty Of The World will be forthcoming from MadHat Press in 2021. His current collection Josephine Baker Swimming Pool is also from MadHat. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine, december magazine, On the Seawall, Poet Lore and Plume, among many others. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
Ayşe Tekşen lives in Ankara, Turkey, where she works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University. Her work has been included in Gravel, After the Pause, The Write Launch, Uut Poetry, The Fiction Pool, What Rough Beast, Scarlet Leaf Review, Seshat, Neologism Poetry Journal, Anapest, Red Weather, Ohio Edit, SWWIM Every Day, The Paragon Journal, Arcturus, Constellations, the Same, The Mystic Blue Review, Jaffat El Aqlam, Brickplight, Willow, Fearsome Critters, Susan, The Broke Bohemian, The Remembered Arts Journal, Terror House Magazine, and numerous other journals.
Allison Thorpe's latest poetry collection is Reckless Pilgrims (Broadstone Books). She is the recipient of several grants, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and is active in her writing community.
Kelly Watt’s award-winning short fiction has been longlisted in the prestigious CBC Radio’s Short Fiction Contest twice (2017/2015), and CBC Radio’s Nonfiction Contest once, (2019), and anthologized in Exile Edition’s Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Contest Anthology with Gloria Vanderbilt (2012), Best Canadian Stories and She Writes. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nowhere Magazine, The Broken Plate, DAP: The Diverse Arts Project, Dandelion, SOL: English Writing in Mexico and The Malahat Review. Watt has published two books—the gothic novel Mad Dog (2001/2019) and the mini travel companion Camino Meditations (2014). She lives in the Ontario countryside, with her husband, a miniature schnauzer, and two diligent chickens, where she writes and listens to the wind.
Mark Young's most recent poetry books are The Toast, from Luna Bisonte Prods, & The Sasquatch Walks Among Us, from Sandy Press. Songs to Come for the Salamander, Poems 2013-2021, selected & introduced by Thomas Fink, will be published later this year.
Sally Zakariya’s poetry has appeared in some 80 print and online journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her most recent publication is Something Like a Life (Gyroscope Press). She is also the author of Muslim Wife, The Unknowable Mystery of Other People, Personal Astronomy, When You Escape, Insectomania, and Arithmetic and other verses, as well as the editor of a poetry anthology, Joys of the Table. Zakariya blogs at www.butdoesitrhyme.com.
Lisa Zimmerman’s poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Redbook, Apple Valley Review, The Florida Review, The Sun, Poet Lore, Cave Wall, SWWIM Every Day and other journals. Her first full-length poetry collection How the Garden Looks From Here won the Violet Reed Haas Award. Other books include The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press) and The Hours I Keep (Main Street Rag). Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, five times for the Pushcart Prize, and included in the 2020 Best Small Fictions anthology. Her chapbook Sainted is forthcoming in Fall 2021 from Main Street Rag.
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