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Issue # 48 Spring 2023
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
Matt Hart
Personal Poem #11
Donald Revell
The Heavens
Low Barometer
Jeff Knorr
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: Dial 3 To Be Connected to A Representative
Re-Arrest
Ekphrasis of The Yard
Ekphrasis of Post Visit Strip Search
Jeff Gundy
Bears
The Guy with the Pumpkin on His Head
Moriah Hampton
Half-Brother
Claire Keyes
Not Wanted
Lisa Bellamy
My Snags
Stephen Mead
Our Line
Michael Lauchlan
Whence
Howie Good
Transitions
Barry Seiler
Refrigerator
A Modest Talent
Michael Hettich
The Neighbor
Stephen Gibson
A Blow-Up Sex Doll Overhead like a Calder Mobile
Liana Kapelke-Dale
Mending
Claire Scott
I Am Just Fine
Depression Gallops Through My Family Like a Frenzied Leopard
Sharon Whitehill
How Misfortune Has Altered My View of Misfortune
Nancy Smiler Levinson
Imprinted
Tim Staley
First Responders by Apodaca Park, Corner of East Madrid and Solano
J.R. Solonche
Watching the War
Phillip Sterling
Words Frequently Confused: Capacious, Capricious
Daniel A. Rabuzzi
The Boar
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith
The Bone-Mamma
Heikki Huotari
The Prophet Practices Reverse Psychology
Jane Simpson
Immortalised in art
Prose
Brian Michael Barbeito
Breath
Brian J. Buchanan
We’ll Spend Some Time Fishing
Conor Hogan
La mort de l'auteur
Eleanor Lerman
Normal People
Connie Draving Malko
Secret Passage
Contributors' Notes
Lisa Bellamy studies with Philip Schultz at The Writers Studio, where she also teaches. Bellamy has received a Pushcart Prize and Fugue Poetry Prize and is the author of two poetry collections: The Northway and Nectar. The UN Network on Migration featured her poem “Yoho” in a 2022 multi-media exhibition. She is working on a new poetry collection and fable cycle for children. www. lisabellamypoet.com.
Brian Michael Barbeito is a Canadian poet, writer, and landscape photographer. He is the author of Chalk Lines (Fowl Pox Press), and is published at Fiction International and The Notre Dame Review.
Brian J. Buchanan is a writer in Nashville, Tenn. His short stories, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared or will appear in Literary Imagination, Crannog, BULL, Chronicles, The Westchester Review, Literary Matters, Modern Age, National Review, Cumberland River Review, Potomac Review, Puckerbrush Review, Frontier Tales, the Nashville Tennessean, and elsewhere. Buchanan was cowinner of the 2017 Meringoff Fiction Award from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers for his story, "Wisdom Teeth." The judge was Brad Leithauser.
Stephen Gibson has published eight poetry collections: Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale (finalist, 2020 Able Muse Press book prize competition, 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 winner, 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).
Howie Good's newest poetry collection, Heart-Shape Hole, which also includes examples of his handmade collages, is available from Laughing Ronin Press.
Jeff Gundy is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Bluffton University. His Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers (creative nonfiction) is just out from Dos Madres Press. Other recent books include Without a Plea and Abandoned Homeland (both poems, from Bottom Dog Press) and Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace (criticism, Cascadia). Recent poems and essays appear in Georgia Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Forklift, Ohio, Christian Century, Image, Cincinnati Review, and Terrain.org. A former Fulbright lecturer at the University of Salzburg, he was named Ohio Poet of the Year for Somewhere Near Defiance.
Moriah Hampton received her PhD in Modernist Literature from SUNY-Buffalo. Her fiction, poetry, photography, and photopoetry have appeared in The Coachella Review, Wordgathering, Ponder Review, The Sonder Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at SUNY-Albany.
Matt Hart is the author of FAMILIAR (Pickpocket Books 2022) and nine other books of poems. Additionally, his poems, reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous print and online journals, including American Poetry Review, Big Bell, Conduit, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Lungfull!, and POETRY, among others. He was a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety from 1993-2019. Currently, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band NEVERNEW: www.nevernew.net.
Michael Hettich’s most recent book of poetry, The Halo of Bees: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2022 was published in May, 2023 by Press 53. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in many journals and anthologies, and he has published more than a dozen books of poetry across four decades. His honors include several Individual Artist Fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson/Meadowhawk Prize, a Florida Book Award, and the Lena M. Shull Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society. He taught for many years at Miami Dade College where he was awarded an Endowed Teaching Chair. His website is michaelhettich.com.
Conor Hogan works as a smokejumper for the US Forest Service. He studied Creative Writing at the University of Montana Davidson Honors College and upon graduation, spent two years in Mexico on a Fulbright grant. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Overtime, Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies and Smokejumper Magazine, among others. He currently lives in Washington state.
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics, he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify The Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition. His Erdős number is two.
Liana Kapelke-Dale is a poet, amateur perfumer, mixed-media artist, ATA Certified Translator (Spanish to English), and non-practicing attorney. She is the author of the full-length collection Seeking the Pink (Kelsay Books) as well as two poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has been featured in myriad journals and anthologies, most recently in Impossible Task, Resurrection Magazine, The Quarter(ly) Journal, and Cephalopress’s Borders and Belonging anthology. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Liana lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her lovely pointer-hound mix, Poet. lovely pointer-hound mix, Poet.
Claire Keyes is the author of two collections of poetry: The Question of Rapture and What Diamonds Can Do. Her chapbook, Rising and Falling, won the Foothills Poetry Competition. A second chapbook, One Port, was recently published by Derby Wharf Books. She is Professor emerita at Salem State University and her poems and reviews have been published recently in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Turtle Island, and Tipton Poetry Journal. She lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Jeff Knorr is the author of five books of poetry, Fire Season (Flowersong Press) The Color of a New Country (Mammoth Books), The Third Body (Cherry Grove Collections), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press). His other works include Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the anthology, A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). His poetry and essays have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies including Chelsea, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, North American Review, Barrow Street, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America. Jeff lives in Sacramento and teaches literature and creative writing at Sacramento City College.
Michael Lauchlan has contributed to many publications, including New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The North American Review, Sugar House Review, Louisville Review, Poet Lore, and Lake Effect. His most recent collection is Trumbull Ave., from WSU Press (2015).
Eleanor Lerman is the author of numerous award-winning collections of poetry, short stories, essays, and novels. She is a National Book Award finalist, a recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, winner of the Campbell Award for the best book of Science Fiction in 2016, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry and the New York Foundation for the Arts for fiction. Her most recent work is The Game Café: Stories of New York City in Covid Time (Mayapple Press: December 2022). www.eleanorlerman.com
Nancy Smiler Levinson is the author of Moments of Dawn: A Poetic Memoir of Love & Family, Affliction & Affirmation, and a collection of poetry, The Diagnosis Changes Everything. A Pushcart nominee, her work has appeared in Hamilton Stone Review, Panoplyzine, Jewish Literary Journal, Constellations, Poetica, as well as in other journals and anthologies. In past chapters of her life she published some thirty books for young readers focusing on history and biographies. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.
Connie Draving Malko earned a master's degree in electronic media from the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and had a career in media writing before turning to fiction. Other stories that she has written were accepted for publication by West Trade Review, Mount Hope Literary Journal, and North American Review and upcoming in the Heartland Review and the Headlight Review.
Stephen Xavier Mead teaches literature and writing at Saint Martin’s University, a Benedictine school in the Pacific Northwest. He has had poems published in America, The Crab Creek Review, Artful Dodge, and elsewhere
Daniel A. Rabuzzi (he / his) has had two novels, five short stories, 30 poems, and nearly 50 essays / articles published (www.danielarabuzzi.com). He lived eight years in Norway, Germany and France. He has degrees in the study of folklore & mythology and European history. He lives in New York City with his artistic partner & spouse, the woodcarver Deborah A. Mills (www.deborahmillswoodcarving.com), and the requisite cat.
Donald Revell is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, most recently of White Campion (2021) and The English Boat (2018). Revell has also published six volumes of translations from the French, including Apollinaire’s Alcools, Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell, Laforgue’s Last Verses, and Verlaine's Songs without Words. His critical writings have been collected as: Sudden Eden: Essays; Essay: A Critical Memoir; The Art of Attention; and Invisible Green: Selected Prose. Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award, he has also won the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. Having previously taught at the Universities of Alabama, Denver, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah, Donald Revell is currently a Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith was born in Merida, Yucatan, grew up in Tucson, Arizona and taught English at Tucson High School for 27 years. Much of his work explores growing up near the border, being raised biracial/bilingual and teaching in a large urban school where 70% of the students are American/Mexican. A Pushcart nominee, his writings are forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys and Sky Island Journal. His poems have appeared in Allium Journal, Book of Matches and elsewhere. His wife, Kelly, sometimes edits his work, and the two cats seem happy.
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 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 appears in the recent anthology New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust. He lives on the outskirts of Roxbury NY, in Hubbell’s Corners, with his wife Dian and cats Homer and Milton.
Jane Simpson is a poet and historian based in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has two collections, A world without maps (2016) and Tuning Wordsworth’s Piano (2019), published by Interactive Press (Brisbane). Her book, The Farewelling of a Home: a liturgy, came out in 2021 and she has recently finished writing ‘Farewell, beloved’, a non-religious funeral service for use in the home. ‘Immortalised in art’ is from Imagined Scar, an unpublished manuscript about her breast cancer journey in 2021. Her poems have appeared in Allegro, Hamilton Stone Review and London Grip and in leading journals in New Zealand and Australia.
J.R. Solonche, nominated for the National Book Award and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of 33 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.
Tim Staley lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1975. He founded Grandma Moses Press in 1992 and continues to serve as editor. He is the author of Lost on My Own Street, The Most Honest Syllable is Shhh, and The Pieces You Have Left. He is faculty at Organ Mountain High School. Visit PoetStaley.com for more.
Phillip Sterling’s books include two full-length collections of poetry (And Then Snow, Mutual Shores), and five chapbook-length series of poems, the most recent of which, Short on Days, was released in June 2020. Main Street Rag will publish a third full-length collection, Local Congregation, in Fall 2023. (To order at pre-publication discount price, visit mainstreetragbookstore.com).
Sharon Whitehill, a former English professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, has retired to Port Charlotte, Florida, where she’s finally achieved what she once thought an unattainable fantasy: poems published in various literary magazines, a full collection, and a third chapbook forthcoming titled This Sad and Tender Time -- a collection of memorial poems to her husband, Jim Meloy, who died in August of 2021.
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