Next  Issue will be released

                                                                          October 1st

                         

                          by Melanie Dorsey

Poster by Karen Bowles

 

All subjects are to be found on the page of the contributor, unless otherwise noted

Advice

        Ami Kaye: "Of Gardens and Painted Things" and "Crimson Rose"

        Andrew Taylor: "Rom-Com"  "Room 122 Euston Travelodge" and

        "Above and Beneath"

        Bridget Van Loon: "Transplant" and "4pm walk"

        Constance Stadler: "Infirm Poet" and "Cancer Puff Piece"
          
        David Smith: Excerpt from "Genocide Sutra -- A Love Poem"  
        
        Deborah Patino: "Welcome Spring"  "Bell's Ring" 

        Ellyn Maybe: "Cinema Dance" and " Los Angeles"     

        francEyE:  "Untitled poem, No I can't have a...."  and "SO LONG,
        WHOEVER YOU ARE"

        Felino Soriano:  "Painter's Exhalations 24" and "Painter's Exhalations
        25"            

        Ingrid Andrew: "How to destroy a people"

        J. Michael Niotta: "magpie" and "new year"

        Jack Henry: "elephants" and "your eyes keep binding to the back of my
        skull"       

        Jillian Parker: Untitled

        Karen Bowles: "Haiku -- Moon Girl"   "Just after midnight"  and
        "Half-Truths"

        Lawrence Lebo: "Sunday Morning Cinnamon Rolls" and "Salem Sunrise"

        Marion Berlinger: "Adjusting the Focus"

        Melanie Dorsey: "unfinished business of a personal nature"

        Miguel Escobar: "Shambles and Brick" and "Cucamonga Street, Ontario"

        Myshel Prasad: "Theriac" and "How To Kill Your Heart So You Won't
        Feel the Death of the World"

        Paul Portuges: "I Cry a Psalm"

        RD Armstrong: "Useless Love" and "The New Deal"

        Russell Ragsdale:  "geography"  and  "Ulysses" 

        S.A. Griffin:  "god, a night light in eternity" and collaboration with Mark
        Hartenbach

        Sam Ledger: "Did you know" and "The Vixen and the cub"

        Scott Owens: "13 Ways of Birds" and "To Resist Fading"

        Scott Wannberg: “where'd my travis tritt link go????"  "there's this fire
        burning out of control" and "the doctor tried to make a house call"
        "shine your everloving light"

        Tammy Foster-Brewer: "I Read Your Poem While You Were At The
        Bank" and "Therapy Poem"       

        Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI:  "those who dance to the rhythm of their own
         music" and "I cannot say to you 'rest in the night'"  

        William Doreski: "Tsar Paul Strangled, Dostoevsky Moves In"  
         "The Size of John Keats"   
       

Travel  

   

        Chile: Barbara Esthefania Navarro Duran

        Cuba: Patricia Doncaster

        Ireland: Aine MacAodha (The John Hewett International
                                                              Summer School)

                           Orfhlaith Foyle: "My Sojourn at Annaghmakerrig"

                                                             Writer's retreat at the Tyrone Guthrie

                                                               House

       New Orleans: Cheryl A. Townsend

       NYC: Melanie Dorsey

       North Carolina: Mark Lineberger

       Russia: Mafy Golubtsova
        
       Scotland (Wester Ross): Martyn Clayton

       Spain (Ibiza): Deborah Rees

       South Africa (Groendal Dam): Sabine Hoppe-Speer

       Washington D.C. (Obama's Inauguration): Scott Palmer

   
     









Upcoming Events  

            Art: Chumash Indian Museum -- California

                     Tempted Eve: A collection of works by
                                                  Laurie McClave at the Vault.
                                                              Port Townsend, WA

                                                
            Music: Lawrence Lebo at the Coffee Gallery Backstage
                                                                        California
                                                                                                  
                           Mor Karbasi -- Paris; London; Caceres, Spain
                                              
                                             
            Poetry: NYC: Brownstone Poets  
                                       (various poets)

                            NY: Millay Colony for the Arts Workshop Retreats
                                                                            in Austerlitz, NY