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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