SPRING 2026

After a difficult, sometimes bitter, and very long winter, the arrival of spring, however stuttering it has been in the Northeast, is a most welcome change. More so are signs that wars may be beginning to end. I am sure we all look forward to that coming day when, as Fred Turner phrased it in "Columbia Runs a Temperature", "in the cold air of the soldier's myth//make history a work of poetry".  April may still be the cruelest month but there is still hope in May.

We have new poems from C.B. Anderson, Bruce Bennett, Susan Jarvis Bryant, Robert Darling, Steven Duplij, Mary Freeman, Claudia Gary, Pierpaola Isoldi, Arthur Mortensen, Michael Palma, Brian Palmer, Carolyn Raphael, Joseph S. Salemi, and Jan Schreiber. 

There is an essay by Joseph S. Salemi examining the long-standing conflict between theorists and practitioners as to whether poetry should be didactic -- an advocate for the oppressed, or if it should concern itself with being an ancient art with rules and objectives more about beauty than about a political cause.

 Poetry:  Spring's selection of poems and poets.

 Essays:  Joseph S. Salemi: A Plea For Aestheticism

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.   

Contributions are by assignment only. 
 

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.