Awareness/Cultures/History


Aine MacAodha, Ireland:  

"Omagh” – Photo Essay. On August 15^th, 1998, a car bomb killed 31 and injured over 220 people in Omagh, Ireland… 4 months after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, which was supposed to end the violence between Catholics and Protestants.

Books


Hadaa Sendoo, Mongolia:  Submit to the World Poetry Almanac


Patricia Prime, New Zealand: Review of Hadaa Sendoo’s book, “Come Back to Earth.” (A book in which Hadaa revisits childhood, touches on his Mongolian roots, visits Latin America and Vienna and writes about Shandu,(the Yuan Dynasty Empire … on Hadaa Sendoo’s page)


Scott Wannberg, USA: Reviews David Smith’s book, “White Time.” On both Scott’s and David’s pages



Editor's Note
         

  A note from Editor Karen Bowles about all the
   happenings behind the Spring/Summer Issue



Organics


  Esmaa Self, USA:   Column -- Organics: It's a
  Balance Thing  

Photography/Travel

Aine MacAodha, Ireland:  Omagh, Ireland


Anneli Allard, Sweden:  Gotland, Sweden
(Swedish Baltic Island)


Benedicte Ørsnæs, Denmark:   Ærø, Denmark
(one of the Danish Baltic Sea islands)


Dena Rash Guzman, USA:  St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

 

Esmaa Self, USA:  Colorado, “Fennel”

Jeaneth Patricia Skaugvold, Norway:  England



Julia Smolina, Italy:  Norway



Karen Bowles, USA:  California, “LG-08”



Katon Behbahani, USA:  Thailand

 

Kristin Larusdottir, Iceland:  Iceland

 

Mark Lineberger, USA:   Beaver Creek, northern Arizona

Mart Clayton, UK:   Cornwall, England



Maya Lyubenova, Bulgaria:   Devil’s Throat Cave, Bulgaria

300,000-year-old cave that legends say is where Orpheus went down into Hades to bring back his wife Eurydice  (Greek myths)

 

Tracy Lee Stum, USA:   Winter Olympics in Vancouver 

Includes mural of Hall of Famers at the USA House with
such luminaries as Peggy Fleming and Scott Hamilton, plus
photos from around Vancouver during the Olympics.

Poetry 

 

Aine MacAodha, Ireland: "Love Among the Lilies”


Ali Abdolrezaei, Iran: "Earthquake,”  “Birth Certificate”
Translated by Mr. Abol Froushan


David Smith, USA: "Elegy”


Hadoo Sendoo, Mongolia:  "The Moon Above Bogda Mount,” “To Paz”
            

Jamesha Henderson, USA: "Poverty Line”



Karen Bowles, USA: "I heard the word…”
 


Sascha Akhtar, Pakistan: "The Universal Mystique of Not Writing,” “Matutinal,” “Panthea”
 


Scott Wannberg, USA: “tell the fear to come back later when
someone is actually home”



Sunni Leavell Koll, USA:  "The Hero”



S.A. Grffin, USA:   The Poetry Bomb Tour Schedule
 


Viviana Grell, USA:  “The Voice,”  “Borrowed Blood”

Prose  

Martyn Clayton, UK:  "A Return in Mind“

 

Worth a Look 


 Madeleine Åstrand, Sweden: Artist 

 Check out her website  

                

                Kristin Larusdottir, Iceland