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Issue # 47 Fall 2022
Editors for this Issue:
Dorian Gossy
Kevin Stein
Contributors' Notes
Table of Contents
(Click on title of the poem or prose piece to go directly to it.)
Poetry
Ralph Burns
Snow in Beta Moonlight
Michael Hettich
Winter Light
Song
Erin Wilson
Midnight Solved as Snow
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
My Rain
Motherland
Little Dunes
Kelsey Phillis
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
Maggie Kennedy
Writing for the Man
Claire Scott
Dinner Roll
L. Henry Farrell
in this sweet peach new jersey light
Jen Karetnick
Do Over
The Quality Time of Slow Travel
Richard Weaver
When my feet walked away one sunless day
Kathleen Hellen
when spring abandoned us
Barry Seiler
The Coffin Desk
Bed
Toti O’Brien
Cormorants
Jeff Newberry
Erklärungsnot
Uitwaaien
Cortney Davis
Drinking Tea from the Cup My Daughter Gave Me
Jan Ball
Crochet
Tony Beyer
Albert Ross
Jo Angela Edwins
Earth Is Mostly Water, And So Are We
L. Annette Binder
Lethe
J.R. Solonche
Dementia
Lynn Gilbert
Tiresome News from a Minor War
Prose
Ron F. Berisha
The Talking Calf
Mark Lewandowski
The Widower
Zach Murphy
Blackout
Mary Sanders Shartle
The Wives of Immanuel Kant
Jake Zawlacki
Bargain
Contributors' Notes
Jan Ball has had 373 poems published in various journals internationally and in the U.S. including: ABZ, Mid-American Review, and Nimrod. Finishing Line Press
published her three chapbooks and first full-length poetry collection, I Wanted To Dance With My Father. Besides her poetry, Jan was a Franciscan nun for seven years then lived in Australia for fourteen years with her Aussie husband and two children. Back in the States, Jan taught ESL in Rochester, New York and Loyola and DePaul Universities in Chicago. Within the last year she has been graced with two Best of the Net nominations and two Pushcart nominations.
Ron F. Berisha lives in London. His short stories have appeared in several literary magazines: Literary Heist, The Hong Kong Review, Anti-Heroin Chic and Synkroniciti. They take place in and between England and Albania and have been assembled in a self-published collection titled ‘Gradually Then Suddenly’, available on Amazon. In the past, he has published poetry and reviews, both in English and Albanian, in newspapers and magazines like ‘The London Student’, ‘Dielli’, ‘Translation Review’, ‘Koha Jone’. Ron has written two memoirs, translated three books from Albanian to English. He has also a keen interest in filmmaking and has participated in the production of some short films.
Tony Beyer writes in Taranaki, New Zealand. His print titles include Dream Boat: Selected poems (HeadworX) and Anchor Stone (Cold Hub Press).
L. Annette Binder was born in Germany and immigrated to the US as a child. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, The Examined Life, Stone Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her poem "Samothrace" was the runner-up for the 2002 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize, and her short fiction has appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Her debut story collection -- Rise (Sarabande, 2012) -- received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and her novel The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury) was published in 2020. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.
Ralph Burns has published seven books, most recently, But Not Yet, winner of the Blue Lynx Award and published by Lynx House Press, and Ghost Notes, winner of the Field Poetry Prize and published by Oberlin College Press. New poems appear in The Common, Image Journal, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Press 53, and Feral.
Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner, is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Daughter and I Hear Their Voices Singing: Poems New & Selected. She is author of three memoirs and co-editor of three anthologies of creative writing by nurses. Her honors include an NEA Poetry Fellowship, three CT Commission on the Arts Poetry Grants, the Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize, the Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, a gold medal Ben Franklin Award, a Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award, and two CT Center for the Book Awards (poetry and memoir). http://www.cortneydavis.com
Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various venues, recently or forthcoming in Rabid Oak, LEON Literary Review, Mom Egg Review, and Capsule Stories. Her chapbook Play was published in 2016. She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the SC Academy of Authors and is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and Bettering American Poetry nominee. She teaches at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC, where she serves as poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of the state.
L Henry Farrell is a Vermont carpenter and a former psychotherapist who also writes poetry. L Henry earned his MA in literary criticism at NYU many years ago and is new to submitting work for publication. L Henry has been been published previously here in Hamilton Stone Review (Spring, 2022) and most recently in Bodega Magazine (September, 2022). He is very pleased and humbled to have his work again included here.
Lynn Gilbert has had poems in Blue Unicorn, Concho River Review, Exquisite Corpse, Gnu, The Huron River Review, Kansas Quarterly, Light, Mezzo Cammin, Mortar, Peninsula Poets, and Southwestern American Literature, among others. She was a founding editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and now helps edit Third Wednesday literary magazine. She has been a finalist in the Gerald Cable Book Award and Off the Grid Press book contests.
Beckian Fritz Goldberg is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Egypt From Space, a collection of prose poems. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The American Poetry Review, Field, Harper's, The Gettysburg Review, Best American Poetry 1995, 2011, and 2013, and others. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Akron Poetry Prize, The Field Poetry Prize, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Prize among others. She currently lives in Oxnard, California.
Kathleen Hellen’s collection Meet Me at the Bottom is forthcoming in Fall 2022 from Main Street Rag. Her credits include The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, her award-winning collection Umberto’s Night, published by Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, her work has appeared in Barrow Street, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, Harpur Palate, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, The Sewanee Review, Subtropics, The Sycamore Review, Waxwing, and West Branch, among others.
Michael Hettich has published a dozen books of poetry, most recently The Mica Mine, which won the 2020 Lena Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society and was published in 2021. A "new and selected" volume is forthcoming from Press 53. He has published widely in journals, as well as in a few anthologies. He lives with his family in Black Mountain, NC. His website is michaelhettich.com.
Jen Karetnick's fourth full-length book is the 2021 CIPA EVVY Gold Medal winner The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, 2020). Her work has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, the Deering Estate, Maryland Transit Administration, and elsewhere. The co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, she has recent or forthcoming work in American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Missouri Review Poem of the Day, Notre Dame Review, Ruminate, Tar River Poetry, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. For more, please see jkaretnick.com.
Maggie Kennedy’s poems have appeared in Epiphany, Cloudbank, Meat for Tea, Atticus Review, and other publications. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her family and works as a freelance writer and editor.
Mark Lewandowski is the author of the story collection, Halibut Rodeo. His stories, essays, and scripts have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The North American Review, The Florida Review and The Gettysburg Review. Currently he is Professor of English at Indiana State University.
Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Coachella Review, Maudlin House, B O D Y, MoonPark Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. His chapbooks Tiny Universes (Selcouth Station Press, 2021) and If We Keep Moving (Ghost City Press, 2022) are available in paperback and ebook. He lives with his wonderful wife, Kelly, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jeff Newberry's most recent book is Cross Country (WordTech), a collaboration of epistolary poems written with the poet Justin Evans. His writing has appeared in a variety of online and print journals, including Brevity: Concise Nonfiction, The Laurel Review, North American Review, and others.
Toti O’Brien is the Italian Accordionist with the Irish Last Name. She is the author of Other Maidens (BlazeVOX, 2020), An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise, 2020), In Her Terms (Cholla Needles, 2021), Pages of a Broken Diary (Pski’s Porch, 2022).
Kelsey Phillis’ work has appeared in Bluffs and Broadside. She spent a summer studying poetry at the Iowa Writers Workshop. She currently lives in central Illinois with her husband and two sons, who give her so much to write about while actively preventing her from doing so.
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
Barry Seiler has published four books of poetry, three of them by University of Akron Press. Frozen Falls, the most recent, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He lives on the outskirts of Roxbury NY, in Hubbell’s Corners, in blessed obscurity, with his wife Dian and cats Homer and Milton.
Mary Sanders Shartle’s novel, The Truth and Legend of Lily Martindale (SUNY Press: 2014), won Indie Fab silver for fiction, IPPY gold for best book of fiction in the Northeast US in 2015 among other awards. She received a NYSCA individual artist grant in 2008 to complete the book. She is a member of “The Three Poets” with colleagues Marilyn McCabe and Elaine Handley, who were three-time winners of the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award. Their book, Tear of the Clouds, was released by Ra Press in 2010. She is an instructor for the Anne LaBastille Women’s Writing Weekend at Great Camp Sagamore in Raquette Lake, NY. Shartle has served on the board of the Adirondack Center for Writing and been a host during the 2022 KickAss Writers’ Festival in Saranac Lake, NY. For more information: see “Writing Quietly, Reading Aloud” at marysandersshartle.com.
J. R Solonche has been nominated for the National Book Award and three times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of 28 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Richard Weaver hopes to one day once again volunteer with the Maryland Book Bank, CityLit, the Baltimore Book Festival, and return as writer-in-residence at the James Joyce Pub. His pubs: North American Review, crazyhorse, New England Review, Southern Quarterly, Loch Raven Review, & Poetry. He’s the author of The Stars Undone (Duende Press, 1992), and provided the libretto for a symphony, Of Sea and Stars (2005), performed 4 times to date. His 140th prose poem was published recently. He was one of the founders and PE of the Black Warrior Review.
Erin Wilson's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in december magazine, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, One, Reed Magazine, and in numerous other publications. Her first collection is At Home with Disquiet; her second, Blue, is forthcoming, as well as a chapbook, The Belly of the Pig. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Jake Zawlacki is currently an MFA candidate at Louisiana State University. His work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Two Hawks Quarterly, and The Citron Review.
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