South Florida Poetry Journal                    SoFloPoJo       Voices From the Fierce Intangible World
 May 2018 
Issue 9  2nd anniversary issue
Susannah Simpson, Editor
Cover Art: P.J. Mills
 (courtesy of the Christopher Heller and Ryan Sirois Collection)


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                                         Artists in this issue: Mel & Dorothy Tanner, Blake Carlton, Tom Stock and Carl Scharwath
Poets in this issue
Kelly Cherry  David Kirby   Jen Rouse    Gregory Byrd   David Subacchi   Freesia McKee   

Ricardo Rodriguez   Andrew Glaze    Sarah Carey   Carl Boon  Rebecca Aronson  ​Tony Gloeggler   

Michael Chin   Tina Parker   Lucia Leao   Bruce Robinson   Gregg Shapiro   Bruce Weber   

Joann Pagano Weber   Yuan Changming   Diane Thiel   Michael Hettich   Jennifer Litt   

Michelle Bitting   Charles Rammelkamp   Sarah White   Alexis Rhone-Fancher  Bruce Lowry   

​Ekaterina Derisheva   Iva Kiva  & Olga ​Bragina translated by Tatiana Retivo   
Interview With  A Poet  June 2018
                  
Joan Colby
Caitlin Scarano
Joan Leotta
Reviews
Review by Francine Witte: Charles Rammelkamp's Jack Tar's Lady Parts

​Guest Reviews:
Naomi Shihab Nye's Voices in the Air, Poems for Listeners by Grace Cavalieri
​Rebecca Aronson's Orison Prize-winning collection Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom by
​Brian Burmeister

Special to SoFloPoJo from O Miami & The Betsy Hotel

Irish Poets Plus Beer a Hit at The Betsy Hotel - By Chauncey Mabe A review of an O, Miami Poetry Festival reading on April 27, 2018

          Rammelkamp                                       Nye                                 Aronson                         Mabe
VIDEO
Chen Chen                               Robert Hass                  Paul Muldoon             Patricia Smith                    Charles Simic                    Richard Blanco            
Caitlin Scarano​ reading at the SoFloPoJo Reading Series in March 2018
Freesia McKee reading at the SoFloPoJo Reading Series in March 2018
SoFloPoJo Reading Series: 
Contact Reading Series Director David Colodney at davecolodney@yahoo.com
SoFloPoJo Reading Series takes place in partnership with Florida Center for the Book on designated Saturdays from 4 to 5:30 pm at Broward Main Library, 6th Floor, 100 S Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale
Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches:​ Contact: Reading Series Director Susannah Simpson at 
susannahws@aol.com
​Poetry readings take place at The Book Cellar, 801 Lake Ave., Lake Worth, FL, on selected Sundays at 3 pm

 
Patricia  Whiting and Lenny DellaRocca reading at the Book Cellar in Lake Worth, FL. during the Performance of the Palm Beachs  reading series for National Poetry Month. 
STORY TELLERS: Bruce Weber, Michael Mianassasian, Don Rosenthal, Kevin C. O'Dunn, Gary Bremen,
​ Niles Reddick, Richard LaValley, Lily Mazurek , Richard Kirsten, and Charles Rammelkamp
Associate Editors:  Don Burns   Sally Naylor   Barbra Nightingale   Elisa Albo   Deborah DeNicola   Susannah Simpson   David Colodney   Gary Kay   Stacie M. Kiner    Meryl Stratford   Paul Saluk   Sarah Kersey  Francine Witte  Reviewer: Francine Witte   Translations Editor: Mary Jane White

Co-Publisher/Managing Editor:   Michael Mackin O'Mara   Founder/Co-Publisher: Lenny DellaRocca   All Rights Reserved SoFloPoJo copyright 2016-2018