SPRING 2025

Very reluctantly spring began to crowd out vestiges of winter, giving up a few 65 degree days, then sliding to 38, then 70, then 41, and finally, the week starting with Palm Sunday brought sunshine, warmth and sprays of fresh rain to spur forsythia, first roses, tulips, jonquils, crocuses, apple blossoms, magnolia, new leaves, and yesterday, the first dogwoods -- salmon-tinted clouds of color -- a multipart chorus singing in the spring.  With other excitement of the last month, from raging war to headbanging trade wars, this change of climate brought pedestrians out of their anxious, overdressed slumber.  In days, outdoor tables at cafes and restaurants were full.  Phones were being used for something other than panicky sell orders to brokers (for those who still use brokers).  People were taking pictures of the new beauties rising in gardens and yards across what, days before, had been brown, leafless Brooklyn.   

Poems this month have arrived from C.B. Anderson, Bruce Bennett, Susan Jarvis Bryant, Sally Cook, Robert Darling, Steven Duplij, Claudia Gary, Arthur Mortensen, Brian Palmer, Carolyn Raphael, David Rothman, Joseph S. Salemi, Susan Delaney Spear, Frederick Turner.

 Poetry:  Select to see new and past postings.

Essays: Joseph S. Salemi, "Fictive Mimesis, and Rare Treasures"

Reviews: La Divina Commedia, Michael Palma's new translation (complete),
                review by Joseph S. Salemi

Archive from Original Journal (1996-2018):  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.