Our Summer 2014 Issue featured poetry by D. Brown, Neeli Cherkovski, Andy Clausen, David Cope, George Economou, Oz Hardwick, David Meltzer, Loie Merritt, John Michael Mouskos, Rochelle Owens, Stephen Petroff, James Reidel, Julie Rogers, Pamela Twining and Florence Weinberger.It also features artwork from Berri Kramer, George Lloyd and Susan Wilder, as well as reviews by Michael Christian, Christopher Hornbacker and Mark Schorr.
Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Two by Georgios Arkadios
by George Economou Two by Georgios Arkadios I am occasionally visited by this halftavistic persona who has one foot set in the
The Girl in the Gown
by George Economou The Girl in the Gown for A. E. Stalling What I learned at a prom, not in a class, dancing in the dark, holding what
Hermaphropoetics / Desire
by Rochelle Owens In this story ripening on the vine so to speak In this story a warhol–like playfulness a vinyl fruit of desire
In My Father’s House
by David Cope we walk thru his rooms, sit where he sat, tell stories — the wild ride back from Hana, his teenage self scaling Long’s Peak on the
Last Look
by David Cope the room is silent, empty but for the bier. she lies, sheet draped over her body — she is so small in death
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
by David Cope what became of the girl whose dreams dressed up for Madame Pomponelli’s neighborhood fashion show, the sixth grader who skipped on
No Place Nowhere
by John Michael Mouskos She said, “There was a knock at the door; The boy had returned, Walking through the night, To be with us once more.”
By The Sea
by John Michael Mouskos “I hear Gordon’s been painting; He must be feeling better in himself.” “No, Gordon’s busy dying; The cancer’s spread.
eschatology
by Pamela Twining I laughed at Death again today I laughed as only Life can laugh snatched tomorrow from the jaws of the bone collector burning
i sold your car today
by Pamela Twining as i slough off another piece of you i still sometimes wear your skin see through your eyes walk journeys my legs have never
Spring Fog from a Rear Window on Water Street
by James Reidel The inspiration here is too window shopped, But the cat arches against the glass, Getting comfortable after the long winter,
Red LifeSavers
by James Reidel The cherry ones, So painfully close to the weakest of medicines — Luden’s, Smith Bros., Hall’s, Hardly a saccharide shy of penny
“ . . . leaves: They will cure my hunger”
by James Reidel “ . . . leaves: They will cure my hunger” Ch’en Tzu –lung The grass is dusted by frost and your bare feet grow
Draught
by Julie Rogers The sun, a coin flipping deep in a pocket of heat that won’t give. Newscast: governor’s gruff voice rations water, Sierra
Hen House
by Julie Rogers Hen House for Sangye The mother is never done. Her hands work her heart, play dough shapes. The mold cuts her to size,
Selective Memory
by Andy Clausen Back in the early nineties on the way to a poetry gig in Humboldt County my car went kaput And I wound up in a motel
Simple Words
by Neeli Cherkovski I keep wading in the mud of the Classic poets, they have a fine morbidity and a clean psychology trust in the epic that ends
Finding the Boy
by Stephen Petroff At Night, I am Awakened from dreaming to look through the window — As water is welling, the moon’s eyes
Entreaty
by Stephen Petroff Moon and moth, Take us upon the night sky, All but out of reach Of philistines and loathsome politicians, Who hound artists as
A Water Jar
by Stephen Petroff Whenever he went out in the woods to work, When he walked out into the fields, He took a jar of water with him.
Dropout boogie
by H. D. Brown I saw the tattoo a snake curling around a dagger the type of cliché a good artist can slap on a jarhead between beers I saw it in
Sailor Girl
by H. D. Brown Sailor Girl for J. J. He could make them dance the shitty sailor girl tattoos pricked into his forearms over months of
Sailor Art
by H. D. Brown the scrimshaw scratchings covering grandpa Schmidt weren’t the patterned sailor tattoos that cover these college girls Captain
This is What the Wound Does
by Florence Weinberger You slow you live your life on a molecular level each joule of pain enhanced like nerve endings through the lens of a
Makes Sense
by Florence Weinberger The poet admits it herself, her poem makes no sense, she says it might have started with the death of my salamander, whose
Running Man
by Oz Hardwick Running Man Prague, Warsaw, Leipzig There he is, black–clad, blurred face contorted, chaos in his eyes before the
Learning to See
by Oz Hardwick It’s a map of the tracks where angels fell, linking Heaven and Hell; the constellations before they shrank to pinpricks; a
Untitled 2
by David Meltzer Pops Staples picks Jenny up & holds her in his arms at the Troubador she’s 2 years old unsprung gold hair coils round pink
Untitled
by David Meltzer Ah, ego wants everything all the time & spaces silence or blank page lays splayed apart for whatever words pass as art’s
The Newly Opened Sky
by Andy Clausen The newly opened sky is full of albatrosses & pigeons they’re letting loose what they’ve used up Because others can’t see the
somewhere an island : in three parts
by Loie Merritt if listening to music did enough, I would tell it thank you and walk away more slowly if playing the cello were easy, I would
Grief: Another Perspective
by Julie Rogers Sad is a turd you step on more than once, stays deep in the tread, prints the hall floor as you come to meet the people who would
Interview
David Meltzer Interview
by Steve Luttrell & Timothy Gillis May 14, 2014 via telephone David Meltzer was born in Rochester, New York, & raised in Brooklyn. He
Reviews
The Gorgeous Nothings
by Emily Dickinson, edited by Marta Werner and Jen Bervin with a preface by Susan Howe, New Directions /Christine Burgin, 2013, hardcover, 272
Churches
by Kevin Prufer, Four Way Books, 2014, paper, 96 pages, $15.95, ISBN: 978-1-935536-43-7 Buy the Book Many of the poems in Churches, by Kevin
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
by Jeffrey McDaniel, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, paper, 88 pages, $15.95, ISBN: 978-0-8229-6260-1 Buy the Book After reading his fifth
Poet Biographies
George Lloyd
Florence Weinberger
was born in New York City, raised in the Bronx, educated at Hunter College, California State University, Northridge, and UCLA. She is the author
Pamela Twining
was always a poet. Her first efforts were published only in elementary school journals, but her sonnet “Neveah,” written at 16, was honored with
Julie Rogers
was first anthologized in 1980. Her poetry has appeared in many journals. Her prose includes a Buddhist hospice manual, Instructions for the
James Reidel
is a poet, translator, editor, and biographer. Over the years, he has published poems in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Verse,
Stephen Petroff
writes and paints in Sagadahoc County, Maine. He has published with Blackberry, Dancing Bear, Dog Ear, and Red Tea. His interests include, The
Rochelle Owens
is a controversial writer who is considered a pioneer in the experimental Off-Broadway Theatre movement, best known for her avant-garde 1961 play
John Michael Mouskos
is an Architect, Chief Executive of Mouskos LLP, and founder of the JM Mouskos Foundation which supports initiatives for young people in the
Loie Merritt
is a writer and mixed media artist who grew up on Cliff Island, Maine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Starvations and Blinders
David Meltzer
was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Brooklyn. He began his literary career during the San Francisco Beat and Berkeley Renaissance
Oz Hardwick
is a writer, photographer, and musician based in York (UK). He has been published widely in the UK, Europe, and the US. His fifth poetry
George Economou
was born in Great Falls, Montana, and was educated at Colgate and Columbia Universities. He is the author of 12 books of poetry and
David Cope
has written seven books of poetry: Quiet Lives, (foreword by Allen Ginsberg), 1983; On The Bridge, 1986; Fragments from The Stars, 1990; Coming
Andy Clausen
was born Andre Laloux in a Belgian bomb shelter in 1943. He was raised in Oakland, California and is the author of 14 books of poetry, including
Neeli Cherkovski
was born in Santa Monica, California in 1945. He is an applauded poet, critic, memoirist, and literary biographer. He has written twelve books of
H. D. Brown
lives and works in Chico, California where he gets by on wine and poetry. He has recent and forthcoming work in The South Dakota Review,
Artist Biographies
Reviewers Biographies
Mark Schorr
his most recent book is Aliens (POD, Denmark), a kitchen-table translation of Danish and English haiku and yotsomono with Niels Kjær. He teaches
Christopher Hornbacker
is a PhD student in The University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. His poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in Crab
Michael Christian
his work has appeared in journals such as PANK, Bull: Men’s Fiction, and The Medulla Review, among others. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.