week of May 9-15, 2005
Our seventh annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue.
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Brenda Roberts
BreAhnya@aol.com
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Brenda Roberts lives in Sansom Park TX with her husband Cliff, & their poetmate Coke Brown Jr She has been published in Simply Haiku, DFW Poetry Review, and many anthologies, is author of one novel, A Cold North Wind, one electronic chapbook of poetry, Psychosis, and co-author of The Poor Man’s Cook Book She co-hosts the Four Star Five Minute Writing Workshop and is current President of Fort Worth Haiku Society.
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Holocaust Remembered Rain! Mother cries for her children dictates who can live and says NO! to the need |
David Fraser
ascentaspirations@shaw.ca
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David Fraser lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, www.ascentaspirations.ca, since 1997 His poetry and short fiction have appeared in 28 journals including Three Candles, Regina Weese, Ardent, and Ygdrasil He has recently published a collection of his work Going to the Well http://www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent/aapublishing.htm
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Kathy Kathy in her ham hand, |
Katherine L Gordon
dgordon@uoguelph.ca
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Katherine L Gordon is a writer, editor, publisher, judge and reviewer, she has 2 full collections of poetry, many chap-books, articles and essays Her work is published in India, Cuba, the U.K and North America She works for many poetry organizations, believing that poetry is vital to our culture and a world unifying force She writes from a secluded river valley near Rockwood, Ontario Her last little book, “A Conjunction of Hearts, A Renga” is being studied in Israel by Tom Berman and a group of Israeli poets who hope to produce a group Renga, or co-operative poem.
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Time Re-unites Every Atom The God of Moses |
Helen Bar-Lev
hbarlev@netvision.net.il
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63 year old watercolour artist/poetess, born NYC, in Israel for 34 years, now Jerusalem Over 100 exhibitions, poems published on internet, in chapbooks, one poem, A Bus Ride from Calm to Chaos appears in Voices Israel 2004 Anthology Member Israel Artists’ and Sculptors’ Association, Voices Israel English Poetry Society http://www.helenbarlev.com/
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Holocaust Day 2004 Holocaust memorial day again I stand Is it my imagination My instinct is to embrace him And then I feel Haunted by childhood memories And find little consolation And I wrestle with the New Age philosophies I could write about this topic forever |
Jan Theuninck
jan.theuninck@belgacom.net
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Jan heuninck is an artist for peace, justice and civil liberties.
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Shoa wandering jew,damned jew they have been tortured and murdered |
John Clays
JWakizashiCLAYS@aol.com
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John Clays of WIGAN, Lancashire, England, UK, has been writing for ten years and next September he will start on a course to learn how to do joined-up writing Meantime he continues to read his poetry where ever he can.
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Inhuman Extermination was always a threat |
John Michael Simon
John.Simon@med.ge.com
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Simon was born in England in 1938 and raised in South Africa from the age of ten He has resided mostly in Israel since 1961 He has collaborated in a book of poems entitled: Animals are Nature’s Poetry with the well-known Jerusalem artist, Helen Bar-Lev Currently, he is involved in producing his first book of poetry, which will also contain illustrations by Helen Bar-Lev Some of the publications featuring his poetry are:
* Meeting of the Minds Journal
* The Poetry Victims
* The Coffee Press Journal
* The Other Voices International Project
* Literari Magazine
* Voices Israel poetry publications
* Boheme Magazine
* Manifold MagazineHe is a member of the Voices Israel Poetry Society Simon was the winner of the Reuben Rose 15th Annual Poetry Competition, sponsored by the Voices Israel Group of Poets in English for his poem “To Hold the Notes”.
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Do Not Erase Together yet apart they waited at the station He, taller thinner more serious Together yet apart they boarded the train |
Lisa Helene Donovan
lhdonovan@earthlink.net
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Helene Donovan lives in Hollywood, CA, just one block from the neighborhood block party the rest of the world calls the Oscars She has worked in entertainment and special education (remarkably similar endeavors) Currently, she’s finishing a chapbook and a novel
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A Century of Sacrifices nine million for their faith Even one person killed |
Margaret Brown-Bailey
brownbailey@earthlink.net
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Margaret Brown-Bailey, a new York Resident, became a writer at the tender age of nine years old She first started writing recipes, which were published in the book, “The Potpourri Of Cookery”, the sixth edition in 1978 Margaret then graduated to writing poetry and children’s stories when she was thirteen years old After a long sabbatical, which she used to accomplish her goals of education She started writing more ferociously in 1996 Ms Brown-Bailey has become an accomplished poet and writer of all genres Her poetry was recently featured in an Australian publication called, “Metro Seven” She currently has work displayed on the following websites, Jamaicans.com, keepitcoming.net, poetryinacup.org and everypoet.com Her repertoire includes being published in several anthologies by the International Library of Poets and The Famous Poets Society In March 2003, she was the winner of the Universal Artists’ Slogan Writers’ Contest She has gained notoriety with her “My Granny” serial on jamaicans.com website and her literary soap opera on keepitcoming.net Her credits in 2004 included, receiving an honorable mention in the Poetry In A Cup Spring Contest Her poem “Moments In Spring” won rave reviews She was also the winner of the FictionAddiction.NET Assignment:Writing Challenge for the second quarter of 2004 In May 2005, her poetry book “Life Is Never What You Think ” debuted on Poetry Super Highway’s Great E-Book Free-For-All Margaret Brown-Bailey enjoys writing, and utilizes her writing skills to create social awareness and change.
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Hitler’s Remorse From Hell Hate Crimes!!! |
Michael Brownstein
mhbrownstein@yahoo.com
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Michael H Brownstein has been featured on the Poetry Super Highway website before He has been widely published and he has performed in a number of venues around Chicagoland His latest chapbook, A PERIOD OF TREES, was recently released by Snark Publications Presently he teaches science to upper grade students in Chicago’s inner city.
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Sky |
Mike Scheidemann
mikeschd@yizrael.org.il
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Mike Scheidemann is the President of ‘Voices’, the Israel English Poetry Association.
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The Iconoclasm of All Our Lives What right have I to share the blight |
Miriam N Kotzin
mkotzin@worldnet.att.net
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Miriam N Kotzin teaches literature and creative writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA where she directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing She has published poetry and fiction widely in print and on the web She also writes fiction collaboratively with Bill Turner In 2004 two of her poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize City: Philadelphia, PA
http://miriamnkotzin.tripod.com/ and http://www.kotzinturner.com/
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Alliance Cemetery, Row after row like Psalms there the bodies fell own where we come who Kaddish. |
Renee Summers
Renee.Summers@umb.edu
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Currently a pension counselor at the Gerontology Institute, UMA Boston Have been published in local literary reviews (Ibbetson St Press) and newspapers and anthologies Self published a chapbook entitled “Once Upon a Wall ” Currently trying to get a book published of Collected poems A member of the Sea Glass Poets of South of Boston suburbia
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untitled “We are fed this inert Ulsterman poet, Tom Paulsen, your feelings |
Rochelle Ratner
rochelleratner@mindspring.com
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“Vilna in Tel Aviv” is from Rochelle Ratner’s forthcoming poetry collection, Beggars At the Wall, which will be published by Ikon Press in late 2005 Her previous books include two novels: Bobby’s Girl (Coffee House Press, 1986) and The Lion’s Share (Coffee House Press, 1991) and fourteen poetry books, including House and Home (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), Practicing to Be a Woman: New and Selected Poems (Scarecrow Press, 1982), Someday Songs (BkMk Press/Univ of Missouri Kansas City, 1992), and Zodiac Arrest (Ridgeway Press, 1995) An anthology she edited, Bearing Life: Women’s Writings on Childlessness, was published in January 2000 by The Feminist Press Four recent poetry books are available online: Leah ( www.xpressed.org) and three e-chapbooks, (Newsreal 2003, Lady Pinball and Tellings) from www.tmpoetry.com ), Hide & Seek, an original poem-photo series based on the limited-edition poetry volume, is posted on the Light and Dust website She lives in New York City, where she is Executive Editor of American Book Review and reviews regularly for Library Journal More information and links to her writing on the Internet can be found on her homepage: www.rochelleratner.com.
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Vilna In Tel Aviv: The Museum of the Diaspora 1. 1935: the boy had a quick temper he was big for fifteen, three times he’d been arrested so the father said except the thrill Vilna 1939 — he says yes by 1943 it was all destroyed In the dark cubicle my grandmother’s parents by 1939 |
Ryfkah
Everyfkah@aol.com
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Born in Chicago, Ryfkah now resides in La Mirada, California with two of her three daughters She is a sixth grade teacher at Los Alisos Middle School in Norwalk She is an avid student of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) and of the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Ryfkah has been published in anthologies including a chapbook collection of her own work, If Venus Had Arms, by the North Orange County Poetry Continuum and various print and on-line magazines, especially extensively in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly She has been featured at poetry venues throughout the Los Angeles/Orange County area She is a member of the poetry performance troupe, WomanSong (http://starsaga.com/sisters.htm) that is anti-abuse and pro the celebration of life.
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Day To Remember She lights a yarzheit candle to mourn love Their small bout of disagreement lost to regret The woman feels dampness on her face The soldiers stole him away So many years and still her severed heart All the borough Jews disappeared She wants to whisper Im sorry come back The train jammed with humanity She sits for a day to remember |
Shaun Hull
shull_fl@bellsouth.net
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My name is Shaun Hull, born August 5, 1957 I currently reside in Cocoa, FL I am Engineering Technician by trade I am also by nature a guitarist/singer/songwriter I do have an 11 song CD “If The Shoe Fits” with several selections online I have also been writing poetry and other off the wall ramblings since grade school I have never been published nor have I ever really tried until now to put some writing out there.
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Tomorrow Morning tomorrow morning |
Srinjay Chakravarti
srinjchak@yahoo.co.in
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I am a (male) journalist (editorialist), economist and poet on the editorial staff of an international newspaper based in Salt Lake City at Calcutta, India I was born in Calcutta in 1973 I have graduated with honours in Economics from St Xavier’s College, Calcutta I was also enrolled at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics My poetry, prose and translations have been published in Australia, Austria, Bahrain (Arabia), Canada, China (Hong Kong), Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, New Zealand, the Philippines, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA Apart from several web-based publications, print credits include The Telegraph, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), The New Miscellany, Dimsum, Voices Israel Anthology and Poetry Salzburg Review (University of Salzburg) My first book of poems *Occam’s Razor* (Writers Workshop, Calcutta) received the SALT literary award from John Kinsella and an Australian literary trust in 1995.
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Prisoners of War They stand |
Thilde Fox
mikefux@netvision.net.il
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THILDE FOX &Mac246; born 1930 Vienna, came to England on the Kindertransport in December 1938, was taken in by a Jewish English family Emigrated to Israel in 1953 Lives in Tel Aviv.
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Inheritance I gave you a new world, where yellow stars |
Tom Berman
berman@amiad.org.il
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I have been a member of Kibbutz Amiad in the Upper Galilee, Israel for over 50 years I am a scientist and most of my research has been focused on the Sea of Galilee (a.k.a Lake Kinneret) I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland having arrived there aged 5 from Czechoslovakia with the Kindertransport in 1939 University education was in the U.S I am married with one wife, three daughters, five granddaughters and a grandson My poetry has been published here and there, now and again Amazon.com are still trying to dispose of a book of my poems (Shards, a Handful of Verse) Presently, I am Editor in Chief of the annual Voices Israel anthology.
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Hronov Homecoming, 1994 It’s not really a homecoming Sent to an unknown safety, This should be a visit black and white photos my mother seated in an armchair But there is no coming to terms, moonlight in my parents room the river runs Hronov is a small town in North Eastern Bohemia |