WINTER
2024
Brooklyn
experienced
a couple
of
inches
last
week,
the
first
snowfall
in two
years in
the
metropolitan
area.
Perhaps
not
quite
"in the
bleak
midwinter,
frosty
wind
made
moan //
Earth
stood
hard as
iron,
water
like a
stone..."
Rosetti's
winter
is not
one
we've
had in
New York
City for
decades.
For
that,
you need
to
travel
to
Buffalo.
And, her
poem is
actually
a
Christmas
setting
a long
time ago
in a
place
far
away.
Bleak
midwinter
is her
counterpoint
to joy.
We could
use more
of that.
Poems
this
month
come from C.B.
Anderson,
Bruce
Bennett,
Susan
Jarvis
Bryant, Sally
Cook,
Claudia
Gary,
Andrea Kibel, Arthur
Mortensen,
Carolyn
Raphael,
David
Rothman, Joseph
S. Salemi,
Jan
Schreiber, Charles
Southerland,
and Frederick
Turner.
By the
way,
Susan
Jarvis
Bryant
has two
marvelous
collections
at
Amazon.
Usually
we don't
mention
specific
bookstores,
but
these
two
titles,
Fern
Feathered
Edges
and
Elephants
Unleashed
(both
2023)
are
available
in
Amazon's
Kindle
reader
format
(the
device
or the
software
that
runs on
most
computers).
.Poetry:
Select
to see
new
and past
postings.
Essays:
Joseph
S. Salemi's
essay
"What
Did I
Tell Ya?"
Reviews:
From
Trinacria,
Arthur
Mortensen's
"Looking
Back At
Edwin
Morgan"
Archives:
Divided
into two
sections,
New and
Old.
Online
Prosody:
As of now
this
will
remain
in the
Old
archives
until
editing
and
rewrite
are
complete.
Contributions
are
by
assignment,
as we do
not have
the
resources
to
manage
online
submissions.
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