About our Issues

Women and War
forthcoming, March 2013 (133 pages)
ISBN:  978-0-9836463-4-1
Guest Editor, Rae Gouirand

Annual Print Issue #2
July, 2012 (142 pages)
ISBN:  978-0-9836463-2-7
Editor, Christine Redman-Waldeyer

POETRY

Peggy Aylsworth (California)
Rachel Barenblat (Massachusetts)
Svea Barrett (New Jersey)
Elliott batTzedek (Pennsylvania)
Margo Berdeshevsky (France)
Kristin Berkey-Abbott (Florida)
Ronda Broatch (Washington)
Valentina Cano (Florida)
Cathy Carlisi (Georgia)
Cassie Ciopryna (Conneticut)
David Crews (New Jersey)
Barbara Crooker (Pennsylvania)
Suzannah Dalzell (Washington)
Mary Stone Dockery (Kansas)
Juditha Dowd (New Jersey)
Shaun Fletcher (New Jersey)
Ruth Foley (Massachusetts)
Laura Freedgood (New Jersey)
Gail Fishman Gerwin (New Jersey)
Oscar Gonzales (Washington, DC)
Lois Marie Harrod (New Jersey)
Katherine Hoerth (Texas)
Claire Keyes (Massachusetts)
Kathleen Kirk (Illinois)
Gina Larkin (New Jersey)
Kristen LaTour (Illinois)
Nancy Long (Indiana)
Arlene L. Mandell (California)
John McDermott (New Jersey)
Lynne McEniry (New Jersey)
Jessica Mason McFadden (Illinois)
Ann E. Michael (Pennsylvania)
Julie L. Moore (Ohio)
Jacqueline Dee Parker (Kansas)
Andrea Potos (Wisconsin)
Marjorie Power (Oregon)
Rinzu Rajan (India)
Helen Ruggiero (New York)
Jennifer Saunders (Switzerland)
Norene Cashen Smith (Michigan)
Carole Stone (New Jersey)
Sharon Venezio (California)
Pramila Venkateswaran (New York)
Karen J. Weyant (Pennsylvania)

SHORT STORY
Diane D. Gillette (Illinois)
Cynthia McHale-Hendricks (Massachusetts)
Hannah Onoguwe (Nigeria)
Linda Strever (Washington)

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Nancy Gerber (New Jersey)

ESSAY
Suzanne Kamata (Japan)
Lois Greene Stone (New York)

BOOK REVIEWS
Lisa Fraser (Washington)
Kendra Weddle Irons (Texas)
Lynne McEniry (New Jersey)
Madeline Tiger (New Jersey)

COVER ART
Jun-Jun Sta.Ana (Illinois)


Special Edition - "How Women Grieve"

July, 2012 (94 pages)
ISBN:  978-0-9836463-3-4

Guest Editor, Lynne McEniry

POETRY

Jasmine Araujo

Cara Armstrong

Wendy Barnes

Elliott batTzedek

Christine Beck

Mary Brancaccio

Elizabeth Catanese

Luisa Caycedo-Kimura

Lucia Cherciu

Barbara Crooker

Jessica G. de Koninck

Kathy Engel

Anna M. Evans

Meri Harary Fleischman

Marisa Frasca

Celeste Gainey

Roberto Carlos Garcia

Deborah Gerrish

Gail Fishman Gerwin

Sarah Ghoshal

Yueh Goffin

M.J. Iuppa

Adele Kenny

Patricia Kinney

Alyse Knorr

Judy Kronenfeld

Michelle Lerner

Kristin Leskowits

Antoinette Libro

Charlotte Mandel

Yesenia Montilla

Pat Mottola

Megeen R. Mulholland

Michelle Ovalle

Linda Radice

Mina Santomenno

Heidi Sheridan

Lisa Sisler

Odarka Polanskyj Stockert

Anique Taylor

Madeline Tiger

Laura Whalen

Laura Winters

ESSAY

Lynne McEniry

Christine Redman-Waldeyer

Laura Winters

COVER ART

Elizabeth Catanese, River (20 x 16, acrylic and mortar on canvas, 2012)

"...words can be as permanent as cement and as mobile as water in a river."

BACK ART

Maurice Thomassen, Color Blind (27 x 19, mixed media on canvas, 2006)

"My work as a whole can be seen as a series of to-be questioned,

implicit and explicit statements about (im)possibilities of painting..."

COVER DESIGN

David Crews

Elizabeth Catanese and Maurice Thomassen, pose with their Artwork

for "How Women Grieve"

Special Edition - "A Collection of Contemporary Love Poems"
February, 2012 (90 pages)
ISBN:  978-0-9836463-1-0
Guest Editor, David Crews

FIRST PLACE:
Kathleen Kirk - Waiting for the Revolution

SECOND PLACE:
Juditha Dowd - Anniversary Poems in Evening Voices

THIRD PLACE:
Michelle Bonczek - Blue

FINALISTS:
Fawzia Afzal-Khan - Dear Mother
Celia Lisset Alvarez- Bodies & Words; Naked
Elliott batTzedek - Falling in Love
Carol Berg - Cedar Waxing; Uncontained
Judy Blumenson - Say It; Stealing Apples
Michelle Bonczek - Love
Joseph Cilluffo - Breaking
Gail Braune Comorat - Starlight Barn
Ann Curran - Night Prayer
Grace Curtis - Middlespace
Ariana D. Den Bleyker - This is a Love Poem
Lois Parker Edstrom - Fifty Years Together; Finding Our Way
Kathleen Fagley - Moonnight Memory; After Sappho
Lois Marie Harrod - Mute
Kathleen Kirk - Taking a Lover; Forget-Me-Not
Anjie Kokan - Memory of Bedroom; Forest of Your Eyes
Jacqueline Kolosov - Jonquils
Michelle Lerner - Seasonal Love
Antoinette (Toni) Libro - Lost in London
Shahé Mankerian - Jesus Camp; The Boy Wonder
Lisa Mansell - Perambulam
Grace Marcus - At Last
John McDermott - Fast Song
Lynne McEniry - Nesting; If I were to Die
Damon McLaughlin - Two Lovers of Pompeii; In the Style of Water
Susan Laughter Meyers - [beautiful he]; New House, Full Moon
Michelle Ovalle - After Effects; Marks
Susanna Rich - Eroteme; While I Wait for Love
Edwin Romond - Boardwalk Love Song
Leah Stenson - Nakamoura Museum
Christine Stewart-Nunez - Tentative
Dave Worrell - Profile of Jackie
Lisa Wujnovich - Married; Root Cellar

ESSAY
David Crews - On love poetry



Annual Print Issue #1
June, 2011 (118 pages)
ISBN:  978-0-9836463-0-3
Guest Editor, Diane Lockward



POETRY

Jennifer Arin (California)
Janet A. Baker (California)
Carol Berg (Massachusetts)
Kristin Berkey-Abbott (Florida)
Pam Bernard (New Hampshire)
Debra Bruce (Illinois)
Sarah Busse (Wisconsin)
Laura Cherry (Massachusetts)
Laura E. Davis (Pennsylvania)
Jessica G. de Koninck (New Jersey)
Erika Dreifus (New York City)
George Drew (New York)
Lois Parker Edstrom (Washington)
Susan V. Facknitz (Virginia)
Patricia Fargnoli (New Hampshire)
Ann Fisher-Wirth (Mississippi)
Alice B. Fogel (New Hampshire)
Ruth Foley (Massachusetts)
Maria Gillan (New Jersey)
Maryanne Hannan (New York)
Penny Harter (New Jersey)
Ann Hostetler (Indiana)
Adele Kenny (New Jersey)
Claire Keyes (Massachusetts)
Kathleen Kirk (Illinois)
Jacqueline Kolosov (Texas)
Judy Kronenfeld (California)
Michelle Lerner (New Jersey)
Robin Lim (Bali, Indonesia)
Diane Lockward (Guest Editor, New Jersey)
Sandy Longhorn (Arkansas)
Angie Macri (Arkansas)
Marjorie Maddox (Pennsylvania)
Greg McBride (Maryland)
Judith H. Montgomery (Oregon)
Julie L. Moore (Ohio)
Jim O’Rourke (New Jersey)
Connie Post (California)
Susanna Rich (New Jersey)
Helen Ruggieri (New York)
Judith Skillman (Washington)
Sarah J. Sloat (Germany)
Molly Spencer (Minnesota)
Christine Stewart-Nunez (South Dakota)
Madeline Tiger (New Jersey)
Ingrid Wendt (Oregon)
Laura S. Whalen (New York)
TJ Wiley (Washington)
Lisa Zimmerman (Colorado)

SHORT STORIES
Margo Berdeshevsky (Paris, France)
Colleen S. Harris (Tennessee)
Liesl Jobson (South Africa)
Lani Friend (Florida)
Nwamaka Osakwe (Nigeria)
Pramila Venkateswaran (New York)

CREATIVE NON‐FICTION
Jessica McCaughey (Virginia)
Yelizaveta P. Renfro (Connecticut)

ESSAY
Beatrice M. Hogg (California)

BOOK REVIEW
Moira Richards (Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, by Tamam Kahn)
(South Africa)