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  • November 2020 COVER
  • ISSUE 19 NOVEMBER 2020
  • Contributors
  • Essays
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Reviews
  • Visual Arts
  • Video
    • Florida Center for the Book
    • MIAMI BOOK FAIR Interviews
    • MIAMI BOOK FAIR POEMS
    • Palm Beach Poetry Festival
    • SoFloPoJo Contributors
  • Special Section
    • A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOUTH FLORIDA POETRY
    • SNAPS
    • WHAT FICTION ARE YOU READING?
    • Kiss & Tell
    • Follow the Dancer
    • Album of Fences
    • Kostelanetz Visual Poem
    • SoFloPoJo Logo
  • Poetry: Archive of Past Issues
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    • ISSUE 2 AUG 2016
    • ISSUE 3 NOV 2016
    • ISSUE 4 FEB 2017
    • ISSUE 5 MAY 2017
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CONTENTS:  Interview with a Poet  *  Reviews  *  Visual Art  *  Video  *  Special to SoFloPoJo  *  SUBMIT  *   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 


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Issue 16    February 2020
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Michael Mackin O'Mara, 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.

This Issue is dedicated to the Memory of Raymond P. Neubert,
​Friend, Painter, Photographer, Poet
whose work appeared in ​SoFloPoJo Visual Arts February 2017
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Purchase our Anthology from our first ten issues here

SoFloPoJo's Interview With Associate Editor Sarah Kersey at The Rumpus
Current Issue
Diana Anaya,   Derek Annis,   Fleda Brown,   Mary Moore Easter,   Linda Nemec Foster,   Mary Galvin,   ​Kathleen Hellen,    John Hicks,   Ashley M. Jones,   Allison Joseph,   John King,   Sheree La Puma,    Sara Cahill Marron,   Catherine Mazodier,    Zion “Zee” McThomas,   Ed Meek,   Gary Metras,   Felicia Mitchell,   Gloria Parker,   Don Rosenthal,   David Russell,    Jeff Santosuoss,   Alison Stone
Harold Ackerman,   Adedayo Ademokoya,   Elizabeth Blair,   Ross Clark,   Silvia Curbelo,   Jessica Renee Dawson,   Priya Dolma,   Catherine Fletcher,   Linda Nemec Foster,   Gabriella Garofalo,   Marissa Glover,   Christian Garduno, ​   Jim Landwehr,    Adam S. Leslie,   Rick Lupert,   Jennifer Martelli,   Corey Mesler,    Antonia Murguia,   Catherine Esposito Prescott,   Susan Schulz,   John L. Stanizzi,   Anne Woodworth,    Yvonne Zipter

                                                        The Cento appears at the bottom of this issue's poetry page.

Coming Soon! Video from the Miami Book Fair:
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Richard Blanco, Jericho Brown, Jim Daniels, Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade, 
​Lola Haskins
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Special to SoFloPoJo  Francine Witte: What Saves Us
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Gabriel Ramírez at the Lincoln Center’s David Rubinstein Atrium 

SoFloPoJo & The Betsy Hotel Poet in Residence Mary Galvin

Visual Art
Work by Nicola Winborn  Giuliana Rocivera & Sylvia Van Nooten

Interview With A Poet
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Poet who have appeared in Interview With A Poet

Reviews
Michael Hettich reviews Heaven Lake by Bob Arnold

Freesia McKee reviews Have You Seen This Man? The Castro Poems Karl Tierney, Edited by Jim Cory 



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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 j
udyannireland@hotmail.com

Freesia McKee's Online Poetry Class
The Loft.org     What Makes a Political Poem?
Freesia McKee is a SoFloPoJo Reviewer and author of How Distant the City (Headmistress Press, 2017). Her words have appeared in cream city review , The Feminist Wire , Painted Bride Quarterly , CALYX , Gertrude , So to Speak , Flyway , Nimrod International Journal , and the Ms. Magazine Blog.
Submission Guidelines
Send 3-5 unpublished poems to lenny.dellarocca@soflopojo.com.     Include a brief third-person bio. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please notify if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Once accepted, we encourage you to send an audio file of your poem(s) to Co-Publisher and Managing Editor Michael Mackin O'Mara at mmomara@soflopojo.com Please do not include bios or introductions in the audio file. No .zip files. It is helpful if you include the word "Audio" and/or "Head Shot" in your subject line. Please send a head shot for our contributors' page. By submitting to SoFloPoJo you agree that your submission is your original unpublished work. 
SoFloPoJo may add your email address to its contact list. If you do not wish to be on our email list, please inform us. 
​To submit or query about Visual Art please contact Art Editor Kristine Snodgrass at kristine.snodgrass@gmail.comSoFloPoJo retains First North American Serial Rights, and the right to archive or reprint your work. In addition to publishing your work in the South Florida Poetry Journal we may feature it on our YouTube or Facebook Channels. Following publication, all rights revert back to the author. SoFloPoJo reserves the right to edit bios. Please credit South Florida Poetry Journal or SoFloPoJo as the place where your work first appeared. Performance/Slam, Spoken Word, or other vibrant poetry readings recorded on video may be sent to Co-publisher and Managing Editor Michael Mackin O'Mara at MMOMara@SoFloPoJo.com

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 and Michael Hettich     
Managing Editor & C0-Publisher: Michael Mackin O'Mara mmomara@soflopojo.com     
Founder & Co-Publisher: Lenny DellaRocca     lenny.dellarocca@soflopojo.com

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