In this June issue, you’ll find how wonder of the natural world grounds us in the human experience. In Katherine Riegel’s “Wind Pulls at the Gravity-Bound,” an ordinary experience of wind is transformed into one of marvel, where the reader is invited to notice “the creaking of trees who know / they must let themselves bend again.” In Doug Ramspeck’s “Shortsightedness,” the speaker, before digging into an early memory, begins with the rain: “It comes to us like the folding of hands. / It moves with secret footsteps across the roof.” And then, in Andrena Zawinski’s “Somnambular Sonnet for Gitano,” a snapshot of a moment is intertwined with the landscape: “Gitano nibbled clover as I watched the sun drop down / like fire on the lake, dormant volcano in the distance.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 25, Issue 2 includes poems by Justin Hunt, Laurinda Lind, Victor Pearn, Wendy Drexler, Jason Waldrop, Gloria Monaghan, Connemara Wadsworth, Wyn Cooper, Carlos Reyes, Nick Powell, Catherine Grossman, Mary Wallach, Linda Cooper, D. Dina Friedman, Shuly Cawood, Robert Fillman, and Annette Sisson. Also in this issue is Jayne Marek’s review of Horse Not Zebra by Eric Nelson.
Take care,
Catherine
