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Come view the wonderful poetry & art of…

Kendal Alexis Adams

Simon Anton Diego Baena

Bruce Bond

Lana Bella

Philip Dacey

Tonya Eberhard

Rich Glinnen

Ira Joel Haber

Suzanne LaGrande

Jesse Millner

Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb

Meghan Sterling

Susan Tally

Richard Vyse

Heather Whited

Christopher Woods

We’re reading for Issue #9 and want to get know you!

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Come read wonderful poetry by

Darren C. Demaree    Brad Garber    Susan Gundlach   Emily Mitamura    Darren Morris’    Alina Stefanescu…

We are currently reading for our July 31st issue! We promise to get up close and personal with your work:

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You looked for a flower

and found a fruit.

You looked for a well

and found a sea.

You looked for a woman

and found a soul –

you are disappointed.

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At sixteen Edith Sodergran found out she had the same illness of which her father died. But despite her tuberculosis, she maintained spiritual health and strength that made her friend Hagar Olsson say of her: ”In that fragile woman’s body lived a burning activity and willpower that, if liberated, as in the shape of a commander-in-chief, could overturn worlds.” Even when she neglected her appearance and became the “crazy girl” for the villagers of Raivola she kept writing.  Even when a villager killed her beloved cat, she kept writing. Even when villagers mocked the way she walked, the way she stood still and stated silently up at the sky, she kept writing.

Here’s the spot to read fantastic, scrumptious, and heartrending poetry by:

Christine Tierney

Sara Thomas

Melissa Burton

George Bishop

Alexandra Daley

Amy Schreibman Walter 

Allison Thorpe

Jim Richards

April Salzano

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Don’t forget to read our review of Wendy Wisner’s Morph and Bloom

& we can hardly wait!

Let’s begin with Helen Cixous’ Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, and what she calls the three essential areas for “great” writing: “The School of the Dead, The School of Dreams, and The School of Roots.”

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from The School of the Dead

1. We Need a Dead(wo)man To Begin

2. That the Act of Reading or Writing Be a Mortal Act

3. What is Reading? It’s Eating on the Sly

4. The Author’s Crime Has It’s Legend

5. The Author Is in the Dark;

—–Self-Portrait of a Blind Painter

6. The Inclination for Avowal

7. Towards the Last Hour

8. We Need the Scene of the Crime

Come read fantastic poetry by

Priscilla Atkins   Eleanor Leonne Bennett   Darren C. Demaree   Floydd Michael Elliott   Jeanette Geraci   Susan Gundlach   j/j hastain   Beth SK Morris   M. A. Schaffner   Daniel James Sundahl   Haley Van Heukelom   and   Leonore Wilson

Lately, I’ve been writing sonnets. But where is the place today for metrical poetry? And how do you define formal poetry? Robert Hass, in his essay “One Body: Some Notes on Form” (Twentieth Century Pleasures) says the “form of a poem exists in the relation between its music and its seeing.” Here is the perfect example:

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“To My Mother” Louise Gluck

It was better when we were

together in one body.

Thirty years. Screened

through the green glass

of your eye, moonlight

filtered into my bones

as we lay

in the big bed, in the dark,

waiting for my father.

Thirty years. He closed

your eyelids with

two kisses. And then spring

came and withdrew from me

the absolute

knowledge of the unborn,

leaving the brick stoop

where you stand, shading

your eyes, but it is

night, the moon

is stationed in the beech tree

round and white among

the small tin markers of the stars:

Thirty years. A marsh

grows up around the house.

Schools of spores circulate

behind the shades, drift through

gauze flutterings of vegetation.