Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Poetry Super Highway, Pirene’s Fountain (Australia), Danse Macabre, Public Republic (Bulgaria), and other publications.
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Nate Howard has traveled the world as a photojournalist. The photographs he sent to us were from, Russia, Mexico, Iraq, and Kosovo. Photography taken all around the world does not always have a lot of similarities, but what we were most impressed by was Mr. Howard’s ability to capture quiet human moments that made us feel like we knew the people photographed.
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A small boy in Tikrit, Iraq photographed in 2005.
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In 2001, after a forty two year career as a symphonic musician in the studios and concert hall of New York City, Thomas Lisenbee set aside his trumpet to devote himself to his other great love, writing.
Kellie Cannon wrote some of these poems in response to the activities that were surrounding her on the Fort Bragg military base. She says, “Poetry seemed to be the only way I could determine how I felt about my individual situation and the world situation.”
Wartime
I don’t remember
on a regular basis, though
I still breathe and blink
when he blows dust in my face.
One day I will blow back. Then,
things will amend and the moon
will enter a new phase. That last moon
was nothing. This is nothing
and tomorrow is just another day.
Ashira Malka was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but moved to Israel at a very young age. “Poetry for me,” she says, “is just all that’s left when the rest of life falls away. It’s the essence that runs thorough everything.” Ashira speaks both English and Hebrew. She has honored us by submitting audio poetry in both languages:
The Doors of Perception (Oil on Canvas)
It is in the extent of this myth (legend) of the classic idealism that I feel the “Abstracts” of Alberto D’Assumpção, whose serenity tell us, as a kind of flowing, the metaphysics of the Universes in peace. This platonic contemplation of the spirit together with the archetypes we can feel and see in these “Abstracts” as a visual projection of the unlimited and at the same time of our humanity.
-Carlos Garcia de Castro
Jill Chan is the editor of Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness, and Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, and co-editor of Best New Poems Online.
Her poems have been published in JAAM, Poetry New Zealand, Brief, MiPOesias, foam:e, Tears in the Fence, Blue Fifth Review, Asia and Pacific Writers Network, Otoliths, and some other magazines.
She has two books of poetry: Becoming Someone Who Isn’t (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2007), and The Smell of Oranges (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2003).
She is part of the New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive.
“Reverence” is from her third collection, These Hands Are Not Ours, which will be published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop in June 2009.
Official website: http://www.jillchan.org
© All works are the property of Jill Chan all rights reserved.
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Luigi Monteferrante has poetry published or forthcoming, in: Neon, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Yellow Mama, Word Slaw, poetryfriends, Poesia/Indiana Bay, kudoswriting, Sonar4, Poet’s Ink Review, The Battered Suitcase/Vagabondage Press, Twisted Tongue, Danse Macabre, Language & Culture, Kritya, Burst Now, MOTEL 58, greenbeard, GLASS Poetry Journal, and WOW. Two of his short stories have been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review. His first novel At the Hearth of the Devils Lair was published in 2002, and his music has been played on Radio Fleet Fm. Luigi is from Montreal, Canada but presently resides in Italy. You can read more of his poetry and listen to Luigi’s music at the links below.
http://www.myspace.com/mcmontylive
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/McMonty
© All works are the property of Luigi Monteferrante all rights reserved.
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