Let's get through this with poetry
Issue 17 May 2020
Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Guest 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 work.
CONTENTS: Interview with a Poet * Reviews * Visual Art * Video * Special to SoFloPoJo * POETRY ISSUES: #1 May 2016 * #2 Aug 2016 * #3 Nov 2016 * #4 Feb 2017 * #5 May 2017 * #6 Aug 2017 * #7 Nov 2017 * #8 Feb 2018 * #9 May 2018 * #10 Aug 2018 * #11 Nov 2018 * #12 Feb 2019 * #13 May 2019 * #14 Aug 2019 * #15 Nov 2019 * #16 Feb 2020
Interviews, Poetry Readings, Photo Essays, In Memoriam and more
Our Interview With SoFloPoJo Associate Editor Sarah Kersey at The Rumpus
Freesia McKee's online class "Writing Your Pandemic Story Through Micro-Memoir." It will begin on May 25th.
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Caron Andregg
Despite You, Spring Still Comes Outside my window, hummingbirds drown in fanfares of honeysuckle. Last year's ducks break out anemometers, the north wind sluicing their wings. Drifts of foreign bulbs conspire underground, plotting spring's green consequence as the sun grows more truant each evening, its slant-light breasting the door. The tools in their trays are rubbing their heads together, itching for action, resenting the box, nursing the memory of hands; they consider adultery. My mirror abhors redundancy; each morning it has less to say. The green cane chair alone in the backyard waits for no one at all. Cynthia White
Rerun It’s the men in my family who love their violence, their eye-gouging, nose-biting Stooges. Yet when my sister tells the story of the Halloween our mother beat her, I’m laughing. Our mother was drunk, tricked up like Phyllis Diller in a wig and feathers. I’m laughing at the whimpers, the howls, the way my sister mugs, then shields her head to fend off the remembered. Think Buster Keaton, Punch and Judy, commedia dell’arte. Where the battacio, or slap stick, was born. Its thin wood slats make a slapping sound on impact but little force is transferred. Thus actors can whack and whack at will. My sister grows ridiculous. This is my cue. To punch our mother. To knock her down, sit on her chest like a wrestler. The story hurts less with each telling. How intimate harm is. My hands full of flesh. Smell of vodka and Tabu. My mother looking at me as I look back at her-- both of us, out of our wits. Visit our friends at: SWWIM MIAMI BOOK FAIR BETSY HOTEL PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL LA MAJA DESNUDA
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 |
Poets in this issue: Caron Andregg, Judith Berke, Richard Blanco, Flose Boursiquot, Oliver Brantome, Marissa P. Clark, Ken Craft, Jessica Cuello, Iris Jamahl Dunkle,
Jason Gallagher, Zan Gay, Stephen Gibson, David James, Bosch Jones, Jen Karetnick, Lorette C. Luzajic, Marjorie Maddox, Ann Manov, Mary Meriam, George Moore, Laura Mullen, Cynthia Neeley, Catherine Esposito Prescott, Alexander Regalado, Laura Sobbott Ross, Virgilio Suarez, Emma Trellis, Bruce Weber, Cynthia White First Place: Erika Michaels, Second Place: Vivian Shipley, Third Place:
Sheila Kelly, Fourth Place: Michelle Winkler, Fifth Place: Django Bious SoFloPoJo is a labor of love by:
Associate Editors: Elisa Albo Don Burns Jennifer Greenberg Gary Kay Sarah Kersey Stacie M. Kiner 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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