Lovers of
poetry and of language will delight in Singularly
Beautifulexcerpts
from Akeldama, with a commentary
by the Editor and an introduction
from the author, poet Melissa Green.
Free
fiction for online readers: Part
1 of a new story by David Green,
"Sometime
of the Night". With other short fiction
from JasonZimba("The
Gulf Between Love and Hate is No Greater Than
6") and Floyd J. Miller
("At
the Airport in Kalai").
From
the trade Press, an excerpt from The
Lost Books of the Odysseyby
Zachary Mason (which collection
has bene reissued by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in 2010).
[
Two Memories of Lowell ]
Journalist
and editor Keith Botsford opens
his personal journal to recount his time spent
forty years ago as a companion to Robert Lowell
during a tour through South America. // Poet and
teacher M. A. Schorr,
now director of the Frost Foundation, recalls
a chance encounter with Lowell when the two walked
together through a blizzard in Cambridge.
Also in this
issue, original Poetry from Marjorie Hogan;
Jon Wooding; Samantha Mineo Myers;
Lindsey Gould;
Síol Bhodhú (translated
from Irish by Daniel E. Pritchard); Akehiro
Shirai (translated from Japanse
by Jay Otsuka); and Jorge
Luis Borges (translated from
Spanish by George Kalogeris).
The
ink drawing above, by Essie Martsinkovsky,
is one
of a series based upon architectural details
found on buildings in downtown Boston.
