SUMMER 2024

In a time of grievous loss, engaging and lovely poetry continues to be written.  One world ends and another crowd of worlds comes into being. It is ever thus. We don't always acknowledge that fact and it can be painful not to know until the last moment.

Some of you knew Elizabeth or, as she was known as an artist, Liz Holly.  A vital presence in my life, she spent 39 years as my spouse.  MS, and complications from that neuromuscular disease, took her away, piece by piece, until in her last years she had only good use of her right arm and hand. Despite that, she still painted every day.  Her infectious good cheer belied the hideous damage done by multiple sclerosis and by being forced to stay in bed day after day -- at best lifted to a power chair for a few hours a week. Finally, after a rogue, and nearly symptomless, infection brought her down, the best efforts of ICU, doctors, nurses, and prayers could not save her.  Sixty-seven was a pretty long life once.  My maternal grandfather died at the same age.  Nowadays, things have changed, yes?  Maybe not so much as we think. Liz enjoyed poetry, and occasionally wrote affecting verse.  She loved this publication and encouraged me to continue it for as long as I could. And so we begin Summer of 2024, a little late perhaps, but here, with me on the keyboard and Liz in spirit.  

Poems this month come from C.B. Anderson, Bruce Bennett, Susan Jarvis Bryant, Sally Cook, Robert Darling, Claudia Gary, Andrea Kibel, Arthur Mortensen, Brian Palmer, Jennifer Reeser, David Rothman, Joseph S. Salemi, Jan Schreiber, Charles Southerland, and Frederick Turner.  By the way, Jennifer Reeser has a new Web site abuilding. See her bio for the link.

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Essays:  Joseph S. Salemi, A Post-Literate Age
             Frederick Turner, The Pilot of Hyperbole: Gjekë Marinaj, An Introduction By His English Translator
             Joseph S. Salemi, Why "Creativity" Is Choking Us
             Steven Duplij,  Poephysics; Time; Crushedness

Reviews:  See past reviews

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.