Our sixteenth annual Yom Hashoah
(Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue.
Send us your poetry for POET OF THE WEEK consideration. Click here for submission guidelines.
Ashira Malka
2cpoetry@gmail.com
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Ashira Malka is an Israeli-American all-around culture-creator with a worldly vibe who lives in Rockville, Maryland, where all the Israelis live! Ashira loves people, from whatever side of some line or other they may have been born, at the same time is not an apologist, and would eagerly meet people who share a compatible view. www.2CPoetry.com
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Seeing the Light I’d rather not see Originally published in |
Austin McCarron
mccarron.ahc@live.co.uk
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Poems published in various magazines such as Poetry Salzburg Review, Camel Saloon, Message in a Bottle and others. Austin McCarron lives in London.
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Arriving at Auschwitz God of stone wishes, By morning I walk in shoes |
Barry Hellman
bmhellman@comcast.net
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Barry Hellman is a clinical psychologist and poet , organizes and hosts poetry and music events , publishes Barry Hellman’s Cape Cod Poetry Group on Facebook, and leads poetry workshops. His poems have appeared in Writers’ Journal, Five Hundred Tuesdays, The Aurorean, Cape Cod’s Literary Voice, World of Water/World of Sand, Poetica, PrimeTime, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Still Crazy Literary Magazine, Muddy River, Comstock Review, Cape Cod Poetry Review, and in poetry broadsides. A chapbook, The King Of Newark, was published by Finishing Line Press. He lives in Eastham, MA.
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Shoah Train After three miles they will give us bread. |
Brenda Levy Tate
faranya@gmail.com
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I live in southwest Nova Scotia on the banks of the Tusket River, where I garden and watch the seasons move forward. Like the river, I am no longer young.
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The Night of Falling Crystal November 10, 1938 Sparkles bloom on the sidewalk; I tiptoe through the blink of wine goblets An aproned woman shows me her hands, and splintered storefronts. These scars will weep a hundred years – the King of the Universe brings solace here. Framed by lost windows, the interior "Our patience terrifies them," my father says. Dawn will catch on the sharpness, |
Carol Kanter
cnkan@cnkanter.com
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Carol Kanter’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Atlanta Review gave her International Merit Awards in 1998, 2003 and 2005 before publishing two of her poems. Finishing Line Press published her two chapbooks: "Out of Southern Africa," (2005); "Chronicle of Dog," (2006). wo poetry books-No Secret Where Elephants Walk, and Where the Sacred Dwells, Namaste (DualArts Press, 2010 and 2012) marry Carol’s poems to her husband’s photography from Africa and from India, Nepal and Bhutan. (See www.DualArtsPress.com) Carol has a B.A. in biology, an M.A. in Clinical Social Work, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Her psychotherapy practice is in Evanston, IL.
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The Haunted House I. Survivor (to Her Daughter) ……………….…Phantom hands of all my dead I never meant to hand you see I had no choice. and offer me forgiveness II. Daughter’s Response ……………….…On and on relatives I never met but know I hold them in my dreams; to remember to thank when I want more, because III. Adult Daughter’s Response Ghosts pull less and secured our still shot family which I try only to look through for your grandkids each great-great- that we deserve to live. We honor IV. Granddaughter’s Response I found old barbed wire in our attic. Its smoky points Let’s use it for a fence I want to ask you I want to ask you so you see |
Carol Dorf
carol.dorf@gmail.com
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Carol Dorf’s poetry has been published in "Moria," "Spillway," "Sin Fronteras," "Antiphon," "Composite," "Occupy SF," "Fringe," "About Place," "The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics," "Scientific American," "Maintenant," "OVS" "Best of Indie Lit New England," and elsewhere. She is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches mathematics at Berkeley High School.
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Early Morning Train After Claude Monet The Train in the Snow Did I tell you that whenever I see a train above the tracks, and those brick buildings with plenty of windows to watch the landscape. though there’s always something else, on live TV. I understood my parents as paranoid, |
KJ Hannah Greenberg
drkarenjoy@yahoo.com
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Jerusalemite KJ Hannah Greenberg is grateful, every day, for her chance to live in the Holiest City. Her newest books include: Jerusalem Sunrise (Imago Press, 2014, Forthcoming), The Little Temple of My Sleeping Bag (Dancing Girl Press, 2014, Forthcoming), Simple Gratitudes (Propertius Press, 2014, Forthcoming), The Immediacy of Emotional Kerfuffles (Bards and Sages Publishing, 2013), and Citrus-Inspired Ceramics (Aldrich Press, 2013). She is the author of seven other published books, one musical, and hundreds of individually published pieces of literature.
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Our Quiet Reprisal Yemin Moshe, near dawn, The shuk, almost at breakfast time, Nachalot, just ’bout any time of day, The City of David, ’round high noon, The hills of Har Nof, exactly sunset, This Holy City, throughout the night, |
Clint Hirschfield
ranger4man@gmail.com
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Clint Hirschfield lives in Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin.
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The Meek Coaxed Comfort Entering into the portal of the insane Sleep was never penetrated very long Out of the ghetto on a railway line; Hero’s that stayed to fight the conviction |
Colin Lichen
g.another@yahoo.com
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Colin Lichen lives and, when pressed, works in London, England. He considers himself fortunate to have been published in various periodicals – online and on paper. He deeply regrets the passing of his hair.
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Curtain Call 2014 For a while we were the stars in a play that ran |
Colin McCandless
CMcCandless@cydc.org
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Colin McCandless works as a PR/Marketing Coordinator for a nonprofit in Charleston, SC, that serves at-risk youth. In his leisure time he enjoys crafting poetry and short stories and writing freelance articles.
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Nightmare Train They came and stole our neighbors away |
Daniel S. Irwin
niwrid@hotmail.com
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Daniel S. Irwin from Sparta, IL. Native of Southern Illinois. As my card reads: artist, actor, writer, soldier, scholar, priest. Retired military. Retired prison medic. Just retired doing my thing.
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Reflection It is not as it was when here as a child. Comes a gentle whisper on the wind…. |
Dave Ludford
dave.ludford@outlook.com
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I live in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, and write poetry and short stories.
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Inspiration Peace I’m listening. |
David Fraser
ascentaspirations@gmail.com
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David Fraser lives in Nanoose Bay, BC, on Vancouver Island. He is the editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine. His poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry and recently this year in Tesseracts 18. He has published five collections of poetry and is a member of the League of Canadian Poets.
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Last Witness I have a short worn-down pencil |
Deborah L. Wymbs
lennie_cox@yahoo.com
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Deborah L. Wymbs grew up in Chicago, Illinois and recently began writing fiction and poetry.
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The Devil is the Demon Nazi beliefs damp mold fog |
Dimitris Lyacos
(translated by Shorsha Sullivan)
shorshasullivan@yahoo.com
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Dimitris Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy, one of the leading examples of contemporary European avant- garde literature. Originally written in Greek, the three books (Z213: EXIT, With the people from the bridge, The first death), have been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese and performed across Europe and the USA. Dimitris Lyacos is Fellow at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa. Dimitris Lyacos lives in Berlin. Visit Dimitris on the web here: www.lyacos.net
Shorsha Sullivan was born in Dublin in 1932. He studied Classics at Leeds and has spent most of his working life in England. He has a special interest in Modern Greek theatre and poetry. Shorsha Sullivan lives in London.
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Z213 Exit (excerpt) Who are they preparing again for tonight? The scum of to nowhere all together, with the smell of the earth closing only fear. And suspicions, sidelong glances tiredness, in these cavities, light from ruined arms gleams and delay. And yet the steps are heard at midday, secret, which if you had known you would not have needles injecting straight into the eyes. And yet, I grasp Remember that old story no more, let go, it has already We left behind us this harbour as well, now we approach, children, the loves with bad teeth, the carriages full of look still that beside you |
Donal Mahoney
donalmahoney@charter.net
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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis Missouri. Some of his earliest work can be found at http://booksonblog12.blogspot.com/ and some of his newer work at http://eyeonlifemag.com/the-poetry-locksmith/donal-mahoney-poet.html#sthash.OSYzpgmQ.gpbT6XZy.dpbs
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High Colonics in Berlin The Nazis call her Hilda, She helps each man She loves to hear the officer Hilda’s real name is |
Emer Davis
bunnacurry.davis5@gmail.com
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Emer Davis, born and raised in Ireland, currently lives in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She has several poems published in Ireland, UK, USA and UAE. She performs regularly at the Rooftop Rhythms Open Mic Poetry Sessions in Abu Dhabi.
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Home Strike Streaks of grey hung above Huddled among soggy branches A barrage of smoky pellets |
Esther Sender
esmishpacha@gmail.com
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My name is Esther Sender and I live in Jerusalem.
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Your Poem And the day you arrived to come live with us in Israel, age 93, I ran up the stairs with a bouquet of roses, thinking of the 100 rose bushes your mother had planted in her garden in Hungary, the 100 roses written about in your poems, and the 100 roses that kept you alive in your dreams. You’d tell me stories and I’d listen like a child. |
Fern G. Z. Carr
fgzcarr@shaw.ca
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FERN G. Z. CARR is a lawyer, teacher and past president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals currently residing in Kelowna BC, Canada. A member of and former Poet-in-Residence for the League of Canadian Poets, she composes and translates poetry in five languages. Carr is a 2013 Pushcart Prize nominee and has been cited as a contributor to the Prakalpana literary movement in India. She has been published extensively world-wide from Finland to the Seychelles. Some of her poetry was assigned reading for a West Virginia University College of Law course entitled "Lawyers, Poets, and Poetry". Canadian honours include: an online feature in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper; poetry set to music by a Juno-nominated musician; and her poem, "I Am", chosen by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate as Poem of the Month for Canada. One of Carr’s haiku is even included on a DVD sent to Mars on NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. www.ferngzcarr.com
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The Devil The devil greedily licked his lips With forked tongue the devil enticed man What blinded the devil’s henchmen Cordoned off into ghettos some of the lambs The lambs were lured into the Devil’s clutches whose juicy flesh would soon be cleansed Hiding his profanity from the outside world despite lack of food, abuse, disease First published in D-Day 68’th Anniversary Anthology |
Firestone Feinberg
firestonefeinberg@fea.st
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Firestone Feinberg lives in New York City. He is a retired high school music teacher. His work has been published online and in print.
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Commemoration of the The grayness that coats everything We want to know why — and we ask — and |
Helen Bar-Lev
hbarlev@netvision.net.il
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Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York in 1942. www.helenbarlev.com She has lived in Israel for 43 years and has held over 90 exhibitions of her landscape paintings, 33 of which were one-person shows. Her poems and artwork have appeared in numerous online and print anthologies. Collections: Cyclamens and Swords and other poems about the land of Israel, and The Muse in the Suitcase, both with Johnmichael Simon. In Moonlight the Sky Will Slide with Katherine L. Gordon. EVERYTHING TODAY, a not-what-you-expect book of poetry about colours. All books illustrated by Helen. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2013. Helen is Assistant to the President of Voices Israel group of poets in English www.voicesisrael.com and Senior Editor of Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, www.cyclamensandswords.com She lives in Metulla, Israel with her poet-partner Johnmichael Simon.
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Justice On a Low Burner Oh, hell, fire and brimstone Each trial will last five years at the least There is a lesson here |
I.B. Iskov
ibunny@rogers.com
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I.B. Iskov is the Founder of The Ontario Poetry Society. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and literary journals. Her latest collection "In A Wintered Nest, was published by Serengeti Press, 2013.
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Where is She? A young woman, half-smiling, stands in sepia tones, My mother, in her better memory, confessed: My sixteen year old brain racing, I wondered why I looked at my mother full of questions My mother, wiping tears, blurted: Previously published in The Passover Literary Supplement |
I.B. Rad
ibradeck@aol.com
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I.B. and Mrs. Rad live in New York City with their companion Wonderdog. I.B.’s work is readily available on the internet.
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Squiggles As seen on a world map |
Jan Theuninck
jan.theuninck@belgacom.net
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Jan Theuninck (born 7 June 1954), is a Belgian painter and poet. Although born in Zonnebeke, Belgium, and a native speaker of Dutch, he writes in French and occasionally English. His painting is abstract, falling somewhere between minimalism and monochrome expressionism. Theuninck works and lives in Belgium.
http://www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_schilderijen.htm
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Shoa wandering jew, damned jew they have been tortured and murdered |
Jannie Dresser
janniedres@att.net
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My name is Jannie Dresser. I live in Crockett, California.
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Removal of Polish Jews to the Warsaw Ghetto 31 October 1940 First they said they could tell a Jew Next they said the Jew blends in too well; Some Jews blend in so well; the world The star upon the sleeve, the bell |
Jean Colonomos
jcolonomos@gmail.com
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Jean Colonomos lives in Topanga, a small mountain town in California. The poem below is based on a true story told to me by my mother-in-law, a Holocaust survivor. This fall Finishing Line Press is publishing Ms. Colonomos’ chapbook, A
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Remember REMEMBER Aunt Anka REMEMBER Aunt Anka |
Judith R. Robinson
Pghdazzler@aol.com
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I am a poet, editor and teacher from Pittsburgh, PA. I am editor/author of eight books of poetry and/or fiction.
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Wakeful A Holocaust Sonnet Forgive her: she is afraid to be Bear up! Bear up! she heard the doctor say. Deep sleep might offer sweet release, |
Laura W. Grills
lgrills@aol.com
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Laura W. Grills lives in Rochester Hills, MI. Her poetry has appeared in Napalm Health Spa and Poetry Super Highway.
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Closer than WE knew WE wore boots and carried guns disappeared underground in the place where the Italians talked too loud if only my innocence reading a sign in a foreign place above a gate had |
Letitia Minnick
theroguenun@gmail.com
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Letitia Minnick resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember and has been published sporadically over the last several decades. Find more of her work at http://theroguenun.blogspot.com/.
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Das Tagebuch I was Anne Frank’s age I was sitting quiet wondering what choices wondering why fear breeds wondering what I would do |
Lucio Munoz
caringlucio@hotmail.com
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Independent QLC researcher/consultant who enjoys writing short poetry, short stories, and Haikus to share with friends and family.
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Sunflowers dying in mass It was sunny Then, hate came along And the sky became so dark It was sunny |
Maja Trochimczyk
maja.trochimczyk@gmail.com
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Maja Trochimczyk, PhD, of Los Angeles, is a Polish-born poet, music historian, and photographer. She published four books on music and four of poetry: Rose Always, Miriam’s Iris, Chopin with Cherries and Meditations on Divine Names. Hundreds of her essays and poems appeared in English, Polish, as well as in German, French, Chinese, Spanish and Serbian translations, in such journals as The Loch Raven Review, Epiphany Magazine, Lily Review, SVGPQ, Cosmopolitan Review, The Scream Online, Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, PSH, Lummox Journal and other venues. www.trochimczyk.net.
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Afterimage The hands stretched out from the barred windows of the freight car, When the train started moving, with faint, fading voices Her mother said: |
Marsha Carow Markman
mmarkman@socal.rr.com
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Marsha Carow Markman earned a Ph.D. in English Education from the University of Maryland. She taught in the English Departments of The George Washington University, the University of California at Santa Barbara and is Professor Emerita of California Lutheran University. In addition to literature courses, she taught, "The Holocaust in Literature and Film." Publications include THE AMERICAN JOURNEY (vols. 1 an 2) and WRITING WOMEN’S LIVES with Susan Corey and Jonathan Boe. She has published articles in scholarly journals; was editor and writer of Piri Bodnar’s Holocaust memoir, OUT OF THE SHADOWS; and contributed eight poems to IF WE DANCE . . . , two of which are Holocaust related. Markman divides her time between her home in Woodland Hills and Annapolis, Maryland.
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We Will Remember Should the skies darken once again we will remember We for whom forgetting is a sin we will remember. |
Michael Duke
mjduke.photography@gmail.com
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Michael J Duke is a photographer who was born in England and spent many years living in Israel. He is involved with a number of photographic groups as well as being a member of Voices Israel group of poets in English. He currently lives in London.
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Why? We read our history We remember our grief The world said in unison Let us remember |
Michael Brownstein
mhbrownstein@ymail.com
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Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Café Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse, Xavier Review, Hotel Amerika, Free Lunch, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review, Poetrysuperhighway.com and others. In addition, he has nine poetry chapbooks including The Shooting Gallery (Samidat Press, 1987), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press, 1988), A Period of Trees (Snark Press, 2004), What Stone Is (Fractal Edge Press, 2005), and I Was a Teacher Once (Ten Page Press, 2011). He is the editor of First Poems from Viet Nam (2011). Brownstein taught elementary school in Chicago’s inner city (he is now retired), but he continues to study authentic African instruments, conducts grant-writing workshops for educators, designs websites and records performance and music pieces with grants from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Oppenheimer Foundation, BP Leadership Grants, and others.
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A Day in the Winter and We Are Made to Unload Trains Dirty grey-white scuttles of gush, Yesterday fire burst free from the breasts of two robins, Today a rainbow of sun reached These are the last days of the season, near the rotten leftovers. |
Michael Jerry Tupa
mjt5556@sbcglobal.net
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Like a slobbering dog, unwisely fed once in a moment of weakness, poetry pursuits have hounded me throughout the past four decades. It followed me through Italy, during two years of religious service, and later remained constantly underfoot during my Marine Corps year, while I journeyed from coast-to-coast, Hawaii and Japan. In the years since, the mutt has become even more attached. I can barely lay my head on coach without it licking my brain, nuzzling my heart and not letting me rest until I feed it again. Ah, well, such is the curse of the restless wanderer. (Currently living in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.)
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Memory Be Quiet I don’t want to think I don’t want to think |
Michael Virga
mavbuon@hotmail.com
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This ekphrastic poem was composed by Michael Virga from his home-city, Birmingham, Alabama. (View the painting that inspired this poem here.)
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Easter and drawing from Chagall’s all sunrises following the Easter sunrise – Easter not even the night dreams in the dark massacre organized like a mosaic stained glass window concentration of light . genocide the human humane we are not pogrommed to strike justicide until the justus of genus herd from the camp to the fold synchronicity look upon the canvas parable bearing Heliocentric ethnicity à la tallit in an eggwhite limelight |
Nancy Shiffrin
nshiffrin@earthlink.net
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Nancy Shiffrin is the author of 2 collections of poems The Vast Unknowing, Infinity Publishing, bbotw.com and Game With Variations unibook.com. She lives in Santa Monica.
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My Shoah 1. 2. 3. |
Nancy Scott
nscott29@aol.com
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Nancy Scott lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. www.nancyscott.net
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Rescued Objects Bibi asks why In Prague during the war, Later, Bibi asks about the inlaid box |
Nicholas Messenger
nickmessenger@mail.com
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Nicholas Messenger lives in Hokitika in the South Island of New Zealand. Formerly a teacher of High School Science, Art and Languages, and of English in Japan, he now publishes his novels, collections of fables and volumes of Poetry under his own Konuoi Imprint. His first volume of poetry was published in 1965 while he was a student at Auckland University.
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Taken by Flash. Men, dogs, birds, butterflies, |
Paul Strohm
pstrohm_conte@yahoo.com
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Paul M. Strohm is a freelance journalist working in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in HuKmag.com, The Lake, the Berkeley Poets Cooperative and other literary journals. His last book of poems entitled Closed On Sunday was published by the Wellhead Press in 2013.
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What Makes a Jewish Film? A film by Woody Allen is running in my head Surrounded by black/white images from Auschwitz where The images run over me so fast: marriage, circumcision, keeping kosher- All should be afraid, though the Jew thinks himself more cursed, |
Philip Johnson
pjohnson69sol@hotmail.com
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Previously appeared in: Poetry 24, The Ugly Tree; Poetry Scotland, Emergency Verse, Write Away, Caught In The Net, Red Pencil, Writer’s Hood, Transparent Words; Emergency Verse and The Robin Hood Book.
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obsessed by pipe work man and his village under threat of nazi invasion grand at deception his model tanks and artillery ideas the luftwaffe believed them real stories told by mice and many a lab rat how he took a substance leaked from a pipe made a large effeminate doll of it khaki dress wear kit bag and papier mache rifle went a little too far on the first one the force with which it exploded |
Ron Kolm
kolmrank@verizon.net
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Ron Kolm (Long Island City, New York is a member of the Unbearables, and an editor of several of their anthologies; most recently The Unbearables Big Book of Sex! Ron is a contributing editor of Sensitive Skin and the editor of the Evergreen Review. He is the author of The Plastic Factory and, with Jim Feast, the novel Neo Phobe. A collection of his poems, Divine Comedy, was published by Steve Cannon’s Fly By Night Press last year. A new book of poetry, Suburban Ambush, has just been published by Autonomedia. Ron’s papers were purchased by the New York University library, where they’ve been catalogued in the Fales Collection as part of the Downtown Writers Group.
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Problem Child I’m a poet T.S. Eliot, an anti-Semite I’d like to forge |
Roz Levine
Rozthepoet@aol.com
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I am a Los Angeles poet whose work has appeared in magazines, anthologies and on-line sites including The Sun, Cultural Weekly, The Juice Bar, Pulse, ON THE BUS, FOREVER IN LOVE and DELIVER ME. I have studied with many writers including Robert Bly, Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, Joe Milar, Jack Grapes, Hope Edelman and Tresha Haefner. Now that I am retired, writing is no longer an avocation, but my passion. I frequently write about injustice in the world.
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Once She Had a Life Called Normal When she connects with friends |
S.A. Griffin
carmabum@gmail.com
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S.A. Griffin is a Los Angeles poet, actor, Carma Bum, and the instigator of the Poetry Bomb.
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Hollywood Bus Stop 1979 when the old woman she revealed a series of the purplish-blue ink spreading as she moved towards her seat the war never |
Sherman Pearl
shrmpoet@yahoo.com
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SHERMAN PEARL is immediate past president of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, a former co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets and a co-founder of the los Angeles Poetry Festival. His work has appeared in more than 50 literary publications and haz won mansy awards. He lives in Santa Monica.
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Hitler’s Falconer The bird circled, anient image of an ominous god. |
Stacey Zisook Robinson
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Stacey Zisook Robinson is an essayist and poet living in thesuburbs of Chicago. She writes for thesmartly.com and iPinion.com, and is a regular contributor to the blog for the Union for Reform Judaism. She can be found at her blog, Stumbling Towards Meaning, http://staceyzrobinson.blogspot.com.
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Night of Fire and Glass Stars littered the ground The smoke of a thousand thousand years Pounding rhythms shout out The darkness swallows the cries Leaving only broken glass |
Stanley H. Barkan
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Stanley H. Barkan is the editor/publisher of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, that has, to date, produced some 400 titles in 50 different languages, which in 2011 celebrated its 40th anniversary (1971-2011). Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by the NYC Board of Education and Poets House, 1971) and winner of the Poor Richard’s Award "The Best of the Small Presses" (from the Small Press Center in New York, 1998), his own work has been published in 15 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Sicilian). His latest are Strange Seasons, a collaboration with photoartist Mark Polyakov (Sofia, Bulgaria: AngoBoy, 2007), ABC of Fruits and Vegetables, illustrated by his daughter, Mia Barkan Clarke (Sofia, Bulgaria: AngoBoy, 2011), and Raisins with Almonds / Pàssuli cu mènnuli, translated into Sicilian by Marco Scalabrino (Mineola, NY: Legas, 2013). In November 2011, Barkan was awarded the Paterson Literary Review Award for a "Lifetime Service to Literature"; in July 2013, the international bilingual Bengali poetry magazine, Shabdaguchha, awarded Barkan a "Lifetime Achievement Award"; and in April 2014, a Stanley H. Barkan, "Special Issue" of The Seventh Quarry, with a plaque, from the CCC Family, honored Barkan as the Publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications "for over 40 years of literary excellence." He lives with his artist wife, Bebe, in Merrick, Long Island.
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Why I Love the Dutch We were traveling on a train At each stop, a conductor would wake us from our sleep At last we crossed over the frontier into Maastricht. Ever since, I love the Dutch. |
Zvi A. Sesling
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Zvi A. Sesling has published in numerous magazines and won several prizes. He edits Muddy River Poetry Review and publishes Muddy River Books His books are King of the Jungle (Ibbetson Street Press, 2010) and a chapbook Across Stones of Bad Dreams (Cervena Barva, 2011). His next full length volume, Fire Tongue, is due from Cervena Barva Press.
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…and Guns stand at the iron gate leave the world naked stand before the gate of hell |