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Spring 2013

Haiku: Photographic Meditations David FokosMany of us on the staff of Solstice lit mag, a Boston-based, international journal, feel the reverberations of the tragic events at the Boston Marathon. Our cover, by the well-known photographer, David Fokos, shows the undergirding of a bridge over Storrow Drive.  We chose this cover image many months before this year’s Marathon, but we feel it is especially timely now.

Also, be sure to view our videos in this issue.  Performance poetry by our new reader and poet Regie O. Gibson, and a video collage of “Silvertone” read by poet Dzvinia Orlowsky.

We encourage you to delve into this Spring Issue.  Our fiction ranges from stories about the vagaries of love in pieces by Wolos, de Wentzien and Sahl, to Agar’s delving into psychiatry, to Herzog’s mythic probing into Native American history, to McCaffrey’s retelling of a fairy tale, to Anderson’s story confronting death.

In nonfiction, we also present a range from dealing with death in the essays by Blake and by Goldstein, to abuse and mental illness by Waldstein, to the ironic piece about an eccentric relative by Lawrence, to the deconstruction of an eggplant by Sven Birkerts.

In poetry, we highlight our new poetry editor Kurt Brown and our new assistant poetry editor Ben Berman.  Please read their poems at the beginning of our poetry section and do read Kurt Brown’s and Ben Berman’s poetry editors’ note below.  Also, in the Book Reviews, experience Kurt Brown’s poetry reviews (Poemviews) in the style of the poet critiqued.

We also welcome to our ever-growing staff as our new eBook co-editor, Debbie Merion and our new eBook intern Jenifer DeBellis.  Solstice lit mag is in the book publishing business!

And why?  Because we want to promote literature and diversity and cause you to pause and meditate and explore the complicated facets of our joyous, suffering world.

Strength to Boston and to all our readers.  

Lee Hope, Editor-in-chief

 

Poetry Editors’ Note:

We are happy to offer an eclectic group of poems for this issue.  From Christopher Buckley’s ruminations on the intersection of the cosmos and the 1950s, to Natasha Sajé’s pean to the Fisher Cat, the poems assay the seasons, consider the piped-in music of airports, the trust love evokes, complex memories of childhood, the mysteries of lineage, the coherence of chaos, cross-cultural differences, and advice to aspiring lovers and writers. Many poems cross our desk in the course of assembling an issue, but these stayed lodged in our imaginations. That is the true mark of accomplishment.  We hope you enjoy reading these poems as much as we did.

Kurt Brown and Ben Berman

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

  • Spring 2013 Editor’s Note
    by Lee Hope

Fiction

  • Hansel and Gretel
    by Laura Williams McCaffrey
  • Totem
    by Robert M. Herzog
  • Connections
    by Marion de Booy Wentzien
  • Look Away
    by David Sahl
  • The Kite
    by Christopher Anderson
  • Divinest Sense
    by Susan Agar
  • Knothole
    by Gregory Wolos

Nonfiction

  • Between Brie and Cheddar
    by Ellen Goldstein
  • Grown Children:
    the water will hold us

    by Michelle Blake
  • Mind Riot
    by Gail Waldstein
  • Eggplant
    by Sven Birkerts

Photography

  • Haiku: Photographic Meditations
    by David Fokos

Poetry

  • Is There Anything Else I Can Help You With Today
    by Kurt Brown
  • The Great Molasses Flood
    by Ben Berman
  • Personal & Metaphysical Derivatives
    by Christopher Buckley
  • The Lacework of Coherence
    by Kelly Cherry
  • Music for Airports
    by Richard Garcia
  • Flood
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Fragment: Winter Journal
    by Dennis Hinrichsen
  • Sub Rosa
    by Lindsay Ahl
  • Remembering Qatar in the Robes of Spring Rain
    by Jim Daniels
  • Autumnal
    by Kathleen Hellen
  • Psalm 107
    by Eugenia Leigh
  • The Rope
    by Natasha Sajé
  • Dear Fisher Cat (martes pennanti)
    by Natasha Sajé
  • The Old Moon in the New Moon’s Arms
    by Jean Monahan
  • First Death in Winter
    by Jean Monahan
  • Purity
    by Barry Spacks
  • Speeding
    by Barry Spacks
  • Advice for Aspiring Writers
    by Diana Der-Hovanessian
  • Advice for Aspiring Lovers
    by Diana Der-Hovanessian

Video & Audio Lit

  • Eulogy of Jimi Christ (Video)
    by Regie O’Hare Gibson
  • Creation Myth (Video)
    by Regie O’Hare Gibson
  • Silvertone (Video)
    by Dzvinia Orlowsky


Contributors

Avatar photoBarry Spacks
Avatar photoBen Berman
Avatar photoChristopher Anderson
Avatar photoChristopher Buckley
Avatar photoDavid Fokos
avatar for David SahlDavid Sahl
avatar for Dennis HinrichsenDennis Hinrichsen
Avatar photoDiana Der-Hovanessian
Avatar photoDzvinia Orlowsky
Avatar photoEllen Goldstein
Avatar photoEugenia Leigh
Avatar photoGail Waldstein
Avatar photoGregory Wolos
Avatar photoJean Monahan
Avatar photoJim Daniels
Avatar photoKathleen Hellen
Avatar photoKelly Cherry
Avatar photoKurt Brown
Avatar photoLaura Williams McCaffrey
Avatar photoLeslie Lawrence
Avatar photoLindsay Ahl
avatar for Marion de Booy WentzienMarion de Booy Wentzien
Avatar photoMichelle Blake
Avatar photoNatasha Sajé
Regie Gibson,Regie O’Hare Gibson
Avatar photoRichard Garcia
Avatar photoRobert M. Herzog
Avatar photoSusan Agar
Avatar photoSven Birkerts

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