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Spring issue of the The Hamilton Stone Review
Opens for Submissions April 1, 2025 and closes 4-30-25
It will, however, close early if submissions fill.
Take a look at the last issue, No. 51, Fall 2024
For more information, click here.
In Memoriam: Hamilton Stone Author
Naomi Feigelson Chase
A 2015/16 Fellow of the New York Fiction Society, Chase's fiction has been published in many magazines, nominated for a PUSHCART, and anthologized in Milkweed Editions, New Rivers Press, and A Wider Giving, among others. Her two non-fiction books are The Underground Revolution: Hippies, Yippies, & Others (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) and A Child Is Being Beaten, Child Abuse in America (Funk & Wagnalls). She has published eight books of poetry.
Lilly and the Stabber
Witty, tender and fierce, Naomi Chase's Lilly and the Stabber casts a brilliant light on the chaos of 1974's New York. Chase has a pitch perfect ear for dialogue , a complex take on inter-racial relations, and a dramatically ironic view of the national unease at a complex time, not unlike the present. Lilly and the Stabber is an immensely satisfying novel.
-- Carole Rosenthal, It Doesn't Have to Be You
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"Naomi Chase's latest book and first novel, Lilly and the Stabber, about New York in 1974....[is] about the struggle of newly divorced Lilly Jonas to bring up her children in a culture gripped by Watergate and the Vietnam War. It captures that period in the microcosm of Lilly's life from the specter of her son's imaginary Stabber to the unraveling of the Nixon administration and offers a complex view interracial relationsand an ironic view of the national unease at a time not unlike the present."
-- The Harvard Magazine July-August 2020 (Volume 122, No. 6)
In a tough New York of the early 70's, Lilly Jonas forges a new life as a single parent, besieged by muggers, a murdered acquaintance, and a troubling cyst. Through marvelously compact, page-turning scenes, Naomi Chase captures the whole world of New York City and that time in America in the microcosm of Lilly's life, from the specter of her son's imaginary stabber to the unraveling of the Nixon administration. The array of characters in her life leap off the page. So do her vividly authentic children. I loved this novel. Lilly is an everyday heroine, and this could read as a delicious how-to-manage–your–life-manual or a deeply satisfying heart-to-heart with a wry, savvy woman friend. Lilly and the Stabber is a gem.
-- Suzanne McConnell, Author of Pity the Reader
In Memoriam: Hamilton Stone Author
Eva Kollisch
Eva Kollisch, memoirist, teacher, and progressive and LGBQT activist, and member of the Hamilton Stone Co-operative, died this week. See the obituary in the The New York Times here. We publish her memoir The Ground Under My Feet. Her other memoir is Girl in Movement.
Recent HSE Books
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Hamilton Stone Review Issue #51 Fall 2024
The last Issue had a special Section on Bob Hicok
More News About Hamilton Stone Editions Books and Authors
Hamilton Stone Editions' author James Cervantes
had the Poem-a-Day poem "A Phosphorescence" 11-11-24
Congratulations, Jim!
The Invisible Hand by Nathan Leslie is now available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon! See Nathan online reading from the book!
Excellent New Review at The Pedestal of Nathan Leslie's The Invisible Hand!
Dorian Gossy read from The House on Figueroa on May 13, 2023 at the town library in Keene, NH and on March 15, 2023 at BarkReaders at the Adirondack Center for Writing in Saranac Lake. Click and Scroll down.
Their Own Society: Prose on Poetry gets praise from David Wojahn in a letter to author Roger Mitchell.
"Your prose, in its quiet way, is a wonder, and your insights are always spot on. Even the shortest of the pieces are filled with observations that always seem fresh, and your taste is so refreshingly catholic. And the longer essays rock--I don't think anyone has written better on McGrath, or made a more persuasive case for his centrality. Your various appraisals of modernism find a clear path through schools and movements of labyrinthine diversity. (No easy feat: over the dozen-odd times I've taught the Modern Poetry survey, I've never been able to come up with an adequate definition.) And the assessments or Bly's influence couldn't be more even-handed; you get at his genius, his myopia, and his Hucksterism. Reading the Bly stuff, I found myself thinking of of Stein's characterization of Pound: she called him A Village Explainer. You take him seriously, but not TOO seriously."
David Wojahn teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, was one of three named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. University of Michigan Press published his From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry in 2015. He is currently an Editor-at-Large for Ron Slate's On the Seawall.
Roger Mitchell is the author of twelve books of poems. Their Own Society is his second book of prose, a selection of essays and reviews. Retired from Indiana University, he now lives in Jay, New York, with his wife, the fiction writer, Dorian Gossy.
Hamilton Stone author Kelly Watt's poetry chapbook, The Weeping Degree, was a finalist in the San Miguel de Allende chapbook contest sponsored by @poetrymesa and Wild Rising Press!
New Book by Hamilton Stone Writer Leora Skolkin-Smith: Stealing Faith: A Novel
Latest about Hamilton Stone Editions writer Jane Lazarre:
Jane Lazarre has an excellent piece on the Duke University blog about the new Spanish edition of her 40 year old book about mothering, The Mother Knot. She also talks about the book in light of the Supreme Court decision nullifying the constitutional right to abortion.
" Announcing a new collection of feminist fiction, Frankly Feminist, published by Lilith Magazine in conjunction with Brandeis U. Press, ) Includes a chapter from Jane's novel, Inheritance - (published in 2011 by HSE) here called "1919: At The Connecticut Shore."
* Words To Live By - Poems and Images for Contemplation in A Time of Not Knowing, Editor John Bos et al. Including a poem from her collection of poetry (from HSE!), Breaking Light, "A Villanelle."
* Forthcoming in October from Las Afueras Publishers of Barcelona, Una Escritora En El Tiempo (A Woman Writer in Time) containing two essays/meditations on themes of motherhood/race, teaching, the question of genre in writing.
Flash fiction by Hamilton Stone Editions author Shelley Ettinger: "Banana Chair Season"
Two Irene Weinberger Books
by Hamilton Stone Author Miguel Ortiz:
Learn more at Irene Weinberger Books.
- The Hamilton Stone Review was featured in the Issue # 635 of Sapling,
a periodical from Black Lawrence Press... See what we said!
Hamilton Stone Editions' Board of Trustees:
Miguel A. Ortiz, Carole Rosenthal,Lynda Schor, Kelly Watt, and Meredith Sue Willis
New Recommended Cover designer:
Adalberto Ortiz
Bookbenchdesign
Hamilton Stone Review's poetry editor, Kevin Stein
and prose editor Dorian Gossy.
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