Fall 2025

September 5 started as any other in Brooklyn during the long, slow and mostly sunlit fadeout of summer, but then a message arrived from Texas bearing terrible news.  Despite a months-long fight, waged with great courage and strength, an old friend and perhaps the most remarkable poet and essayist I've ever met, slipped away. Frederick Turner was 81 but to many seemed like an ageless world explorer, taking in sights, ideas, science, art and poetry from across the world, surrounded by a circle of poets, scientists, philosophers, theologists and essayists to rival, even surpass, Walter Raleigh's long ago School of Night.  In this issue of Expansive Poetry there is a special section about Fred, as most of us called him, which may expand as time goes on, with anecdotes and thoughts by some of those friends and colleagues from around the country. 

We also have new poems from Bruce Bennett, Susan Jarvis Bryant, Sally Cook, Steven Duplij, Mary Freeman (in the section on Frederick Turner), Claudia Gary, David Jilk (in the section on Frederick Turner), Arthur Mortensen, Michael Palma, Joseph S. Salemi, and Charlie Southerland.

 Poetry:  Select to see new and past postings.

 Frederick Turner:  Recollections and thoughts on the loss of a great friend and poet.

Essays:  Joseph S. Salemi, Enslavement To The Categorical Imperative

Reviews: La Divina Commedia, Michael Palma's new translation (complete),
                review by Joseph S. Salemi

Archive from Original Journal (1996-2018):  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.