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We mourn the death of Ute von Funcke, 1943-2024, whose poems in German with English translations appeared many times in our pages.
Issue #98, September 2024
- "The Itinerary of a Glove", an essay by Daniel Barbiero
- Two Poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "My Memoir, IV", by Joachim Frank
- "Im Reisebüro der Dichter" by Ute von Funcke with a translation by the author
- "Descartes Saw Angels", a poem by Louis Gallo
- "Is it Real?", a poem by Ian Ganassi from his new ms Rented Rooms
- "Cookies", a vignette by Lois Greene Stone
- Kindness, a story by Alexis Levitin
- "Birds, in Fact and Theory" and two other poems by Al Maginnes
- Chapter 16 of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- Poems by Louis Phillips
- Poems by Estill Pollock
- Five Poems by Leonor Scliar-Cabral translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin
- Three Poems by Steven M. Smith
- "A not so Tall Tale of a Texas Rat with no Name" and "Research Lab Rat", poems by Richard Weaver
Joachim Frank's novel "Ierapetra, or His Sister's Keeper" reviewed by Eugene Garber- Judy Kronenfeld's "Oh Memory You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements" reviewed by Laurie Kuntz
Congratulations to:
- Joachim Frank, on the publication of his second novel, Ierapetra, or His Sister's Keeper, reviewed in this issue by Eugene Garber. In Amazon
- Judy Kronenfeld, on her chapbook of twenty poems, six of which appeared in Offcourse:
https://www.bamboodartpress.com/store/judy_kronenfeld-oh_memory_you_unlocked_cabinet_of_amazements.html - Phillip Fried: the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics has published 19 of the 20 poems in his math-related series "At the Dimensional Border," from his ms untethered voices. See https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2183&context=jhm
- Louis Phillips, on Small Poems, World Audience Publishers, 2024.
- Estill Pollock, on Heathen Anthems, forthcoming from Broadstone Books, and on the e-chapbooks And Then and Working Title, published by Mudlark.
- E.M. Schorb, on Resurgius and Resurgius Redux, re-issued by Hill House, NY, 2024. Resurgius won an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Paris Book Festival
Issue #97, June 2024
- "In La Vega de Chinchon" and "My Genetic Memory", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "Sugar Beach" and "Contemplating Oblivion", poems by Salvatore Difalco
- "A Moonlight Sonata" and "The Stars are far above me", poems by George Freek
- Three Poems by Ute von Funcke with translations by the author with Isabel Nirenberg
- "Forgetting Words" and other poems by Louis Gallo
- "That E-mail from the Dead" and two other poems by John Grey
- "The Book", an essay by Lois Greene Stone
- "The Bendable Posable Jesus of Nazareth Ponders Salvation" and more poems by Al Maginnes
- "Fourier Series and Ironic Horseplay", Chapter 15 of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "My Deliberate Decline" and more poems by Martin Pedersen
- "Watermarks" and other poems by Louis Phillips
- "Nothing to See Here", a story by Richard Risemberg
- Three Poems by E.M. Schorb
- "What Happens at the AA" and "In the ICU", poems by Claire Scott
- Poems and a Translation, by Anthony Seidman
- "The Ophtalmologist Told Me" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
- "when the kids turned black" and "let it be", poems by Scott Taylor
- "La Prière Naturelle de l'Âme" and "Another Homily about the Pearl of Wisdom", poems by William Welch
- "Clockwork Orange at Haydn University", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
- A review of John Amen's "Dark Souvenirs", NYQ Books, 2024, by Ricardo Nirenberg.
Congratulations to:
- John Amen whose new collection, Dark Souvenirs, reviewed in this issue of Offcourse, was released by New York Quarterly Books in May, 2024.
- David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg, on the translation to Korean of their 2021 book "Uncountable: a Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present"
- J.C. Rammelkamp on his book The Trapeze of your Flesh, BlazeBox, April 2024. Several poems in the book first appeared in Offcourse.
- Robert Wexelblatt, on his book "Love Without his Wings", 2024 Cyberwit.net. One of the stories in the volume first appeared in Offcourse
Issue #96, March 2024
- “Seeing John Cage in a Dream,” an essay by Daniel Barbiero
- “Borges contra Fondane and Shestov,” an essay on the genesis of Pierre Menard by Ari Belenkiy
- “The Prompter in one of London's Lesser Theatres,” and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- “Of Terminus” and other Poems by Matthew DeLuca
- “Trench, Ragged Hands,” and other poems by Massimo Fantuzzi
- Poems by Louis Gallo
- “The Deer” and other poems by John Grey
- “The Lighthouse, that Old Cliché”, and other poems by David James
- “Penance,” a story by Robert Klose
- “The Back of Things” and “Goodnight, Hands,” poems by Judy Kronenfeld
- “The Royal Couple,” a short story by Alf Marks
- “Megan is Right,” a poem by Peter Mladinic
- “Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales”, Chapter 14 of a Memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
- “Papa Potatoes and other Poems” by Louis Phillips
- “Pocket Watch” and other poems by Barry Seiler
- “Minimalist” and “Trains, Movies,” prose poems by Ian C. Smith
- Three Poems by JR Solonche
- “On Being Shy,” an essay by Dennis Vannatta
- Five Poems by Diane Webster
- “In the Garden of Prayer,” “Discalced,” and “House for All People,” poems by Kelley White
- “Aunt Louise,” a poem by Sarah White and a painting by her mother, Martha Hawley Melhado
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“Iterations of the Absurd,” a review of Ian Ganassi’s True for the Moment, by Bernie Earley
- “Sky Pallette,” a review of Gary Grossman's What I Meant to Say Was...", by Peter Mladinic
Congratulations to:
- Ruth Bavetta on her new book, Selected Poems, available https://www.amazon.com/Ruth-Bavetta-Selected-Poems/dp/1952593506
- Ian Ganassi on By This Time, his third poetry collection published by Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY.
- Louis Phillips, on Best Kept Secrets of Mortality, World Audience Publishers, March 2024.
- J.C. Rammelkamp, on The Trapeze of your Flesh, to appear in April.
Issue #95, December 2023
Winter Path in the Forest, by Isaac Levitan, Russia, 1860-1900
- "Mysterious Gift" and other poems by Glen Armstrong
- Blue Blood and other poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "Banjo Lesson" and "Throwback", two poems by Sarah Carleton
- "Elephant Stomps", a short story by Salvatore Difalco
- "My Memoirs III" by Joachim Frank
- Poems by Ute von Funcke translated by Stuart Friebert and the author
- "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" and other poems by Louis Gallo
- "Unbound", part of a memoir by Lois Greene-Stone
- "Annie Anxious" and "Winter Blend", poems by Jacqueline Jules
- "Lovecraft and Cats: ‘Balm from Gilead’ in a Plutonian Cosmos", an essay by Katherine Kerestman
- "The Bridge of Love", a poem by Pete Mladinic
- "Poppy Is My Half-Sister But That’s Not the Whole Story", flash fiction by Zach Murphy
- "Life Road Choices", Chapter 13 of a memoir by Ricardo L. Nirenberg
- Poems by E.M. Schorb
- "Neurons on the Loose in the Brain of an Eighty-year-old" and more poems by Claire Scott
- "May Hill", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
Congratulations to:
- Jonathan Bracker, on his "Anthology of Wonderful Short Poems", available from Amazon
- E.M. Schorb, on winning the first prize on the 92nd annual writing competition of the Writer's Digest, for The Souls, in the category of non-rhyming poetry.
Issue #94, September 2023
Photo by Lawrence Bridges, Nantucket, 2023
- "As Soon as he Left, I cut the onion" and "Music", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "Casing the Joint" and two other poems by Ace Boggess
- Three Poems by Lawrence Bridges
- "My Muse Conducts a Study", a poem by Mark DeCarteret
- Seven Poems by Ute von Funcke translated from the German by Diane Louie with Verena Metzger and the author
- "A Sweet Season" and "Ernie's Garden", poems by Linda M. Fischer
- "The Other Life" and more poems by Louis Gallo
- "English 101", a short essay by Lois Greene Stone
- "The Flooding of History" and other poems by John Grey
- "A Picture of my Former Husband with our Dead Cat" and two other poems by Robert Kinerk
- "Leaving", "Water Grace", and "Anticipation", poems by Judy Kronenfeld
- "Now you are a Man, my Son", an extract from a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "Sifting the Ashes" and other poems by Louis Phillips
- "The Connoisseur" and "On the Same Page" , poems by Fred Pollack
- "Half Empty" and other poems by Claire Scott
- "Another Life" and "The Iron Past", prose poems by Ian C. Smith
- "If only the late Amy Winehouse..." and "Finding my Voice", poems by Steven M. Smith
- "Side Effect", "Guilt", and other poems by J.R. Solonche
- "Postcards from the Knife Thrower's Wife", poems by Alex Stolis
- The Beautiful Losses, by Fred Pollack. Review by Ricardo Nirenberg
Congratulations to:
- Karen Greenbaum-maya on her collection The Beautiful Leaves, just published.
- To Daniel Y. Harris on the publication of The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu,Volume VI, The Posthuman Series (BlazeVOX, 2023)
- To Irene Koronas on the publication of gnōstos, Volume VII, The Grammaton Series (BlazeVOX, 2023).
- Estill Pollock, on his collection Ark, now available from Broadstone Books.