SoFloPoJo Voices From the Fierce Intangible World
The most beautiful part of your body is wherever your mother's shadow falls.—Ocean Vuong from Night Sky with Exit Wounds
November 2018 Issue 11
Guest Editor: Mary Galvin
Guest Editor: Mary Galvin
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Visit our Friends at:
Miami Book Fair Fort Lauderdale Story Slam Palm Beach Poetry Festival SWWIM.org Florida Center for the Book 
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in an interview with SoFloPoJo at
Miami Book Fair Nov 2018 |
Poets in this issue:
Michael Brownstein Stephen Gibson Lola Haskins Heikki Huotari Elizabeth Jacobson Pechyo Kanev Steve Klepetar Judy Kronenfeld Jane Rosenberg LaForge Lucia Leao Kurt Luchs Al Maginnes Jesse Milner D. Nurske Barry Peters W.T. Pfefferle Ron Riekki Jeannie E. Roberts Maureen Seaton Sean Sexton Esperanza Snyder John L. Stanizzi Virgil Suárez Sarah White |
Cover Art by James E. Lewis & Jeannie E. Roberts
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Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches reading at The Book Cellar, Lake Worth, FL, Oct. 21, 2018
Flose Boursiquot Susan R. Williamson Winston Aarons Jana Costa
To be considered for a reading at PPOTPB contact Susannah Simpson at susannahws@aol.com or Judy ireland at judyannireland@hotmail.com
To be considered for a reading at PPOTPB contact Susannah Simpson at susannahws@aol.com or Judy ireland at judyannireland@hotmail.com
SPECIAL TO SOFLOPOJO: A POETRY VISIT TO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY by George Wallace
Julie Marie Wade and Diane Thiel reading at Florida Center or the Book at Broward Main Library in Fort Lauderdale
Julie Marie Wade
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Diane Thiel
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Michael Byro Jeannie E. Roberts Janelle Cordero
Interview With A Poet- 5 Questions, 3 Poets, Each Month
NOVEMBER 2018
David Kirby Jen Karetnick Sean Sexton
The 5 Questions:
1 Have you ever memorized one of your poems? Someone else’s?
2. What is one image from someone else's poem that you've read and that's stuck with you?
3 Besides poetry, what are your other favorite art forms?
4 What is a piece of "poetry advice" that you never follow
5. How do you/would you put together your new book-length collection regarding sequence of poems?
A Best poem opens the collection
B Thematically transition one poem to the next
C Throw the poems in the air and order them in the sequence you pick them up
D None of the above- please explain
1 Have you ever memorized one of your poems? Someone else’s?
2. What is one image from someone else's poem that you've read and that's stuck with you?
3 Besides poetry, what are your other favorite art forms?
4 What is a piece of "poetry advice" that you never follow
5. How do you/would you put together your new book-length collection regarding sequence of poems?
A Best poem opens the collection
B Thematically transition one poem to the next
C Throw the poems in the air and order them in the sequence you pick them up
D None of the above- please explain
OCTOBER 2018
Catherine Esposito Prescott Erik Campbell Mia Leonin
The 5 Questions:
1. if you died and went to heaven, how would you like God—if you believe in God- to greet you?
2. What legacy words would you like inscribed on your tombstone?
3. When you’re stuck in revising a poem, how do you handle it?
4. Do you remember the moment when you identified yourself as a"poet?"
5. Is there a defining theme or thread that runs throughout your work and are there repeating images, references or phrases, and if so, why do you think that is?
1. if you died and went to heaven, how would you like God—if you believe in God- to greet you?
2. What legacy words would you like inscribed on your tombstone?
3. When you’re stuck in revising a poem, how do you handle it?
4. Do you remember the moment when you identified yourself as a"poet?"
5. Is there a defining theme or thread that runs throughout your work and are there repeating images, references or phrases, and if so, why do you think that is?
SEPTEMBER 2018
Marianne Szlyk Martina Reisz Newberry Patricia Carragon
The 5 Questions:
1. Do you share new poems for feedback from a friend or partner before submitting them?
2. Do you save original drafts of your poems, and if so, how many drafts are there for a poem?
3. If you have a brief ekphrastic poem- published or not- or a stanza or two of one, would you share it with us?
OPTIONAL: Do you have the image to go with it?
4. Please give us the first line of 3 of your favorite poems by a poet other than yourself. Please provide the poem title and poet's name
5. Do you have a favorite venue where poetry readings take place? What is the name of the place and what's so great about it?
1. Do you share new poems for feedback from a friend or partner before submitting them?
2. Do you save original drafts of your poems, and if so, how many drafts are there for a poem?
3. If you have a brief ekphrastic poem- published or not- or a stanza or two of one, would you share it with us?
OPTIONAL: Do you have the image to go with it?
4. Please give us the first line of 3 of your favorite poems by a poet other than yourself. Please provide the poem title and poet's name
5. Do you have a favorite venue where poetry readings take place? What is the name of the place and what's so great about it?
Esperanza and Hope by Esperanza Snyder Reviewed by: Grace Cavaleiri
A Hundred Years Among the Daises by George Wallace Reviewed by Michael Minassian
Junkie Wife by Alexis Rhone Fancher Reviewed by Vince Trimboli
A Hundred Years Among the Daises by George Wallace Reviewed by Michael Minassian
Junkie Wife by Alexis Rhone Fancher Reviewed by Vince Trimboli
DWAYNE MOSCO REBECCA "BUTTERFLY" VAUGHNS LUIZ BRAVIM KEVIN O'DUNN
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SWWIM Reading at The Bestsy Hotel, South Beach, Oct 2018
Associate Editors:
Elisa Albo Don Burns David Colodney Deborah DeNicola Gary Kay Sarah Kersey Stacie M. Kiner Sally Naylor Barbra Nightingale
Susannah Simpson Meryl Stratford Paul Saluk Francine Witte
Reviewer: Freesia McKee 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
Elisa Albo Don Burns David Colodney Deborah DeNicola Gary Kay Sarah Kersey Stacie M. Kiner Sally Naylor Barbra Nightingale
Susannah Simpson Meryl Stratford Paul Saluk Francine Witte
Reviewer: Freesia McKee 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