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 SUMMER
2021
With
close to
70% of
the
country
vaccinated
(more
than
that
here in
New York
City),
an
induced
paralysis
has been
significantly
reduced,
though
not
entirely.
Here in
the
city,
office
workers
still
show
great
reluctance
to
return
to
working
here,
not only
due to
the
ordinary
complications
of
office
life,
but to a
city
bizarrely
remade
by the
strangest
and
disaffecting
leadership
of the
past
half
century.
We do
move on,
however.
For
instance,
Joseph
S.
Salemi's
journal
Trinacria,
missing
for
three
years
due to
family
illnesses
and
loss, is
back.
Museums
are
open.
Parks
are no
longer
restricted.
Pools
are
open.
One
Broadway
theater
is open,
but not
to a
musical
or play,
instead
to Bruce
Springsteen
.
Stadiums
and the
Garden
are open.
However,
theaters
and
night
clubs
for
musicians,
singers,
dancers,
comedians
and
actors
won't
open
until September
But
recovery
will
happen,
though
with far
fewer
tourists
until
the
international
story,
which
involves
far more
severe
restrictions
on
travel
than in
the U.S,
is
finally
resolved.
So New
Yorkers
can't
get too
cranky.
Throughout,
we've
had marvelous
online
resources
for
concerts,
productions
of plays
and
operas,
sporting
events
and even
travelogues
-- all
useful
in
distracting
us from Covid 19
and its
management.
For this
summer
release,
we have
the
delight
of
introducing
Albanian-born,
now
American
poet, Gjekë
Marinaj,
a widely
published
poet and
critic.
And we have
poems
from
Bruce
Bennett,
Susan
Jarvis
Bryant,
Sally
Cook,
Michael
Curtis,
Robert
Darling, Steven Duplij,
E.S.
Frese,
jr.,
Claudia
Gary, Jennifer Reeser,
Gjekë
Marinaj, Joseph
S. Salemi,
Frederick
Turner
and the
Webmaster. Joseph
S. Salemi
has an
essay on
an
annoying
trend of
substituting
rhetorical
posturing
for art
in
writing
poetry.
Poet and
physicist
Steven
Duplij
was
awarded
the Bunin
Award
from the
Russian
Union of
Writers
for
2021.
Poetry:
Select
to see
new
and past
postings.
Essays:
Joseph
S.
Salemi
writes
on poets
as radio
announcers
instead
of
practitioners
of an
art.
Reviews:
Reviews
of
William
G.
Carpenter's
Eϸandun,
and
Karen
Kelsay's
Of Omens
That
Flitter.
Archives:
Divided
into two
sections,
New and
Old.
Online
Prosody:
As of now
this
will
remain
in the
Old
archives
until
editing
and
rewrite
are
complete.
Contributions
are
by
assignment,
as we do
not have
the
resources
to
manage
online
submissions.
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