SUMMER 2026

World Cup fever is over, the flood at sports bars ebbed, replaced by far fewer who prefer conversation and baseball.  Here in deepest Brooklyn, bracketed by heavy rain, we've had some lovely summer days.  They've offered some comfort in the shadow of fruitless Mideast ceasefires and the lack of negotiations regarding the growing catastrophe in Ukraine. 

To offer some relief, we have new poems from C.B. Anderson, Bruce Bennett, Susan Jarvis Bryant, the late Sally Cook, Steven Duplij, Mary Freeman, Claudia Gary, Pierpaola Isoldi, Arthur Mortensen, Michael Palma, Brian Palmer, David Rothman, Joseph S. Salemi, and Jan Schreiber.  There are essays by Steven Duplij, Joseph S. Salemi, and a review by Michael Curtis.  For poems by every author who's appeared here since 2019, there is now a poets archive.

 Poetry:  Select to see new postings.

 Essays:  Steven Duplij: Philosophical conversation with his late mother
                 Joseph S. Salemi: Laughter and learning in the classroom

Reviews: Michael Curtis, Review of Solot's new translation of Odyssey
                   Joseph S. Salemi, Review of Michael Palma's translation of the Divine Comedy

Poets Archive  PO Poets since 2019

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. 

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