Let's get through this with poetry
ISSUE 18 August 2020
Lenny DellaRocca, Editor
Lenny DellaRocca, Editor
If you are poet, prophet, peace loving artist, tolerant, traditional or anarchistic, haiku or epic, and points in between; if your poems sing, shout, whisper, dance, scratch, tickle, trot or crawl; if you value the humane treatment of every creature and the planet on which we dwell, SoFloPoJo seeks your best work.
Todd Burst Donmay Donamayoora Jay Snodgrass
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Blood Ghazal
by Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito Roses wilt in late April’s heat, a ceremony of blood. The dog by accident breaks my skin, it blisters with blood. Rumor has it God wants to love me so much he asked His son to pay the tuition to forgiveness with blood. If I could, I’d embrace my mother and father, breathe in their familiar scent, our lives sheltered by blood. A spot in the window saved for a caladium—angel wing leaves, veins stained the shade of menstrual blood. Whooping laughter in the dark and wind chimes. I am a ghost in my own house, summer in the blood. A storm announces itself, but the trees are busy. A finch scolds a robin, its chest the shade of old blood. Driving across state lines during a pandemic: Will I be hurt because of my face, because of what’s imagined of my blood? |
Adam Ai, David B. Axelrod, Jim Azar, John Balaban, Judith Berke, Lili Bita, Michelle Bitting, Rosalind Brenner, Shirley J. Brewer, Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito, Ronda Pistzk Broatch, Michael Earle Carlton, Silvia Cavanaugh, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, Peter Cooley, Charles Coté, Emma Crobaugh, Susan Deer Cloud, Jesse DeLong, Deborah Denicola, Arturo Desimone, Lawrence Donovan, Andrea England, Joseph Fasano, Zan Gay, Robert Gregory, Clarice Hare, Kathleen Hellen, Barbara Holley, Paul Hostovsky, Ilhem Issaoui, Elizabeth Jacobson, Hannah Kahn, Lauren Kania, Jeffrey Knapp,
Alice Lee, Dallas Lee, Jennifer Litt, Henry Logan, Al Maginnes, C.T. McClintock, M. Moran, Denis O'Donovan, Linda Pastan, Hilda Raz, Kenneth Rosen,
Michael Salcman, Rikki Santer, Magi Schwartz, Hilary Sideris, John L. Stanizzi, Gene Stevenson, Doris Sutton, Diane Thiel, Susan Thornton, Julie Marie Wade,
Julia Wendell, Ann White, Cynthia White, Mary Jane White, Patricia Zylius, Fred Witkoff, Robert Zaller, D.E. Zuccone
Alice Lee, Dallas Lee, Jennifer Litt, Henry Logan, Al Maginnes, C.T. McClintock, M. Moran, Denis O'Donovan, Linda Pastan, Hilda Raz, Kenneth Rosen,
Michael Salcman, Rikki Santer, Magi Schwartz, Hilary Sideris, John L. Stanizzi, Gene Stevenson, Doris Sutton, Diane Thiel, Susan Thornton, Julie Marie Wade,
Julia Wendell, Ann White, Cynthia White, Mary Jane White, Patricia Zylius, Fred Witkoff, Robert Zaller, D.E. Zuccone
Read Our Interview With SoFloPoJo Associate Editor Sarah Kersey at The Rumpus
Michael Hettich reviews Bonfire Opera by Daniusha Lameris, Deborah Denicola reviews Obscura by Frank Paino, Robert Cooperman reviews Shades & Graces by Michael Salcman, Michael Minassian reviews What Kind of Man by Tony Gloeggler
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Associate Editors:
Elisa Albo Don Burns Jennifer Greenberg Gary Kay Sarah Kersey Stacie M. Kiner Caridad Moro-Gronlier Barbra Nightingale Sally Naylor Susannah W. Simpson Meryl Stratford Patricia Whiting Francine Witte |
Art Editor:
Kristine Snodgrass Reviewers: Freesia McKee Michael Hettich Managing Editor & Co-Publisher: Michael Mackin O'Mara mmomara@soflopojo.com Founder & Co-Publisher: Lenny DellaRocca lenny.dellarocca@soflopojo.com All work in South Florida Poetry Journal-SoFloPoJo- is copyrighted by the individual poets and artists 2020 |
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SoFloPoJo supports Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches in its monthly reading series; contact Susannah Simpson at
susannahws@aol.com or Judy Ireland at judyannireland@hotmail.com