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(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020); PUSHCART poetry finalist

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Fall/Winter 2011

Caribbean Festival: Photography by Wilson Hunt, Jr

March UPDATE: GREAT NEWS, Announcing a Solstice winner of the 2011 BEST OF THE NET AWARDS–Michelle Cacho-Negrete in nonfiction for “Stealing.”

Also Presenting our THIRD ANNUAL LITERARY CONTEST:

Announcing the new annual STEPHEN DUNN PRIZE IN POETRY: $500. Stephen Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize for Different Hours and is the distinguished author of 15 other collections of prose and poetry.

FICTION PRIZE: $1,000. Final Judge: JENNIFER HAIGH, bestselling author of Faith and three other novels. PEN/Hemingway Award Winner.

And our new NONFICTION PRIZE: $500, donated by Michael Steinberg. Final Judge: JERALD WALKER, award-winning author of Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Rejection.

Winners and Finalists published in our Summer Awards Issue.

Also do read our 2012 Fall/Winter Issue below. This time, we’re primarily focusing on humorous/ironic visions, ranging from experimental stories by Eugenio Volpe and Mardith Louisell to Robert Lopez’s (Dzanc Books) postmodern short short, to more realistic ironic stories like that of Bryan S. Wang’s and Margaret Elysia Garcia’s and, finally, to more serious realistic pieces, such as the story of a lonely woman’s joblessness in London, by M. G. Stephens, and finally, a novel excerpt about a boy watching his father kill another boy, by Richard Perry.

In nonfiction, the essays question our culture–from Donna Steiner’s riveting response to late night pornographic phone calls, to Dawn Potter’s lyrical essay on a white woman reading Malcolm X, to Leslie Lawrence’s soul-searching account of teaching Hamlet to public school kids, to Julee Newberger’s musings on serving as an advocate for a foster child.

The distinguished poetry showcases variations in strategies and subject matter and includes such eminent poets as Martha Collins’ spare interrogation of white privilege, Daniel Tobin’s accomplished lyrical musings, and Dennis Hinrichsen’s unflinching imagery, and also includes surprising, probing work by other gifted poets.

Please leave comments after reading. Authors often respond. And check out our Photography! We’re all promoting diversity in its many forms. Lee Hope

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

  • Fall/Winter 2011 Editor’s Note
    by Lee Hope

Fiction

  • Down in History
    by Eugenio Volpe
  • Excerpt from FORGIVEN
    by Richard Perry
  • SKINT
    by M. G. Stephens
  • Freak Out in a Moonage Suenos del Dia
    by Margaret Elysia Garcia
  • In the Sunday School
    by Bryan Shawn Wang
  • The Body
    by Robert Lopez
  • Had They Learned about Jayne Mansfield?
    by Mardith Louisell

Nonfiction

  • Destiny’s Lady
    by Julee Newberger
  • Hamlet in the Hood
    by Leslie Lawrence
  • Hated By Literature
    by Dawn Potter
  • My Caller
    by Donna Steiner

Photography

  • Caribbean Festival
    by Wilson Hunt, Jr

Poetry

  • Recessive Blue, Left Handed, Red Hair, Webbed Feet, Widow’s Peak, You Name It
    by Karen Skolfield
  • Analemma
    by Karen Skolfield
  • Dialysis
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • I wake dreaming of Rome
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Double Exposure
    by Daniel Tobin
  • A Lightbulb
    by Daniel Tobin
  • Fly and Cricket
    by Daniel Tobin
  • The Poet’s Solution
    by Alexander Russo
  • The Earth’s Big Forest
    by Susan Johnson
  • Taxco
    by Massiel Ladron De Guevara
  • Three Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
    by Susanne Petermann
  • Channeling My Sister
    by Karen Skolfield
  • When you die
    by Buff Whitman-Bradley
  • Burn Ward
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Quartet
    by Daniel Tobin
  • [white paper #31]
    by Martha Collins
  • [white paper #7]
    by Martha Collins


Contributors

avatar for Alexander RussoAlexander Russo
avatar for Bryan Shawn WangBryan Shawn Wang
avatar for Buff Whitman-BradleyBuff Whitman-Bradley
avatar for Daniel TobinDaniel Tobin
Avatar photoDawn Potter
avatar for Dennis HinrichsenDennis Hinrichsen
avatar for Donna SteinerDonna Steiner
Avatar photoEugenio Volpe
avatar for Julee NewbergerJulee Newberger
avatar for Karen SkolfieldKaren Skolfield
Avatar photoLeslie Lawrence
Avatar photoM. G. Stephens
Avatar photoMardith Louisell
Avatar photoMargaret Elysia Garcia
Avatar photoMartha Collins
avatar for Massiel Ladron De GuevaraMassiel Ladron De Guevara
Avatar photoRichard Perry
avatar for Robert LopezRobert Lopez
avatar for Susan JohnsonSusan Johnson
Avatar photoSusanne Petermann
avatar for Wilson Hunt, JrWilson Hunt, Jr

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