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Issue #100, March 2025
- "Consider the Knee" and "Cast Out", poems by Devon Balwit
- "Just Imagine" and "The Sound of Death", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- Poems by Astrid Cabral with translations by Alexis Levitin
- "The Understudy", a story by Marco Etheridge
- "Scrabble or Death" and "Oh Susann", poems by Vern Fein
- "Diversity!", an essay by Joachim Frank
- "It's About Time", a dialogue between Joachim Frank and Ricardo Nirenberg
- "Minor", "Zen Koan", and "La Dolce Vita", poems by Lou Gallo
- An Excerpt from the Novella The Death of Rob’s Aunt Morgan, by Eugene Garber
- "Cover Ups", a vignette by Lois Greene Stone
- "Overheard at the Cleaners" and other poems by Mark Jackley
- "Confession" and "Suite in Old Age", poems by Miriam Kotzin
- "January 20, 2025. -Riverside, California", a poem by Judy Kronenfeld
- "Accident Report" and "Lycanthropy", poems by Gerry LaFemina
- "Watching Tarzan's Secret Treasure" and other poems by Peggy Landsman
- "A Quiet Yes" and "Proper Noun", poems by Sheila E. Murphy
- “Three Salvos for Cultural Appropriation” by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "For my Paroles Officer" and "No Doubt the Same Can Be Said", poems by Louis Phillips
- "Climax" and "Ode to the Ampersand", poems by Charles Rammelkamp
- "Fragments after Emile Chartier ("Alain"), 1922", by Terry Savoie
- "Space Junk" and other poems by Claire Scott
- "Driving Stanley Kunitz" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
- " Sunday in Seconds", a poem by Tim Suermondt
- "The Poet's Chair" and two other poems by David Tovy
- "The Rabelais Foundation", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
- "An Old Testament Prophet Views Inauguration Day" and other poems by Sarah White
Peter Mladinic reviews John Grey's Subject Matters.
Congratulations to:
- Judy Kronenfeld on her recently published APARTNESS: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS AND POEMS (Inlandia Books, 2025.)
- J.R. Solonche on: Night Visit (Dos Madres Press), available now, Collected Short Poems (Shanti Publishing) and Barren Road (Serving House Books),both forthcoming this spring, The Consolations (Kelsay Books) and Everything (Deerbrook Editions), both forthcoming this fall.
Issue #99, December 2024
- "Existential Mondays and the Humour of the Absurd", an essay by Daniel Barbiero
- "Ritual of the Fallen" and "Final Drought", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
- "El Señor del Terremoto", a poem by Lorena Caputo
- "Sitting on the Dock of the Universe" and "Voyager 2", poems by Lou Gallo
- "Helpless", a meditation on prayer by Lois Greene Stone
- "At the Tarot Reading", a poem by John Grey
- "Thomas Lux...", "The Rub", and "My Favorite Part of the Vacation", poems by Paul Hostovsky
- "The Ask", a short story by Robert Klose
- "The United Way", a short story by Alexis Levitin
- "Chapter 17", part of a memoir by Ricardo Nirenberg
- "Nightstand" and "Swamp", poems by Louis Phillips
- "The Flower Core" and other poems by E.M. Schorb
- "Universal Tool Box" and "Equal Opportunity", poems by Claire Scott
- "Elegy for Richard Serra" and "Apologetics", poems by J.R. Solonche
- "Kims and Parks", a short story by Robert Wexelblatt
- "PanItalia" and other poems by Sarah White
Congratulations to:
- Stephen Bett, whose SongBu®st is now available from BlazeVOX Books
- Louis Phillips, on EXISTENCE AND OTHER POEMS (worldaudience.org, 2024)
- J.R. Solonche, whose books OLD (David Robert Books), THEN MORNING (ShantiArts.com), and READING TAKUBOKU ISHIKAWA (Kelsay Books) all appeared in 2024
- Robert Wexelblatt, on MAY HILL (cyberwit.net, 2024) his new short story collection
Issue #98, September 2024
We mourn the death of Ute von Funcke, 1943-2024, whose poems in German with English translations appeared many times in our pages.
- "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 Judy 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