On the cusp of summer comes the 18.4 (Summer 2014) issue of The 2River View, a cool current of new poems by Bradley J. Fest, Kathryn Haemmerle, April Krivensky, Kristin LaFollette, Michael Lauchlan, Gloria Monaghan, Darren Morris, Sherry O’Keefe, Jacqueline Dee Parker, Sally Van Doren, Kami Westhoff; and art by Heidi Daub.
Sally Van Doren, a regular contributor here at 2River, appeared in Poem-A-Day on April 4, 2014. It’s alway rewarding to see a 2River poet elsewhere, especially at the prestigious poets.org.
Visit 2River late next week to read the 18.4 (Summer 2014) issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Bradley Fest, Kathryn Haemmerle, April Krivensky, Kristin LaFollette, Michael Lauchlan, Gloria Monaghan, Darren Morris, Sherry O’Keefe, Jacqueline Dee Parker, Sally Van Doren, and Kami Westhoff; plus new art by Heidi Daub. Meanwhile, enjoy this selection from the upcoming issue.
The devil trains mother
To train her troubled son
To use a semiautomatic rifle
And he shoots her first
In the face before he opens
Fire on the elementary school.
(Father and brother spared,
Having long since fled the dirtied
Nest.) In his memoirs, the devil cites
As one of his greatest achievements
The introduction of war weapons
As recreational toys in broken
Suburban households. That,
And the deprivation of the
Rights of a six-year-old
To advance to the second grade.
I’ve mentioned that my Literary Publishing class last semester had to follow through with journal concept, which included a literary postcard, a broadside, and the journal itself. Earlier I posted the Chicklets postcard. Here’s the broadside, with text from a story by Natalie Upchurch, also a member of the class.
A literary postcard from Chicklets: A Lit Mag for Chicks. Kristina Dujmovic developed the journal concept in Literary Publishing at St. Louis Community College–Meramec.
Follow her journal at Chicklets.
It’s here: the 18.3 (Spring 2014) issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Bindu Bansinath, Kristin Bassett, J. L. Conrad, Craig Cotter, Francis Daulerio, Jim Elsaesser, David Faldet, Mark Kliewer, Natasha Moni, Anne Nance, and Bethany Price; and photography by Drew Campbell. Click over to 2River to read.
Really. Coming soon! The Spring 2014 issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Bindu Bansinath, Kristin Bassett, J. L. Conrad, Craig Cotter, Francis Daulerio, Jim Elsaesser, David Faldet, Mark Kliewer, Natasha Moni, Anne Nance, and Bethany Price; and photography by Drew Campbell.
Jump over to 2River late next week for the Spring 2014 issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Bindu Bansinath, Kristin Bassett, J. L. Conrad, Craig Cotter, Francis Daulerio, Jim Elsaesser, David Faldet, Mark Kliewer, Natasha Moni, Anne Nance, and Bethany Price; and photography by Drew Campbell. Meanwhile, here’s a teaser:
Spring Hymn
And when the world came back
to life
I had to remind myself
that it was not
the same.
The blooms were
different;
some new,
some had split
and branched off
toward opposite sides of Heaven.
Some had not returned at all,
and I noticed their absence.
Coming soon! the 18.3 (Spring 2014) issue of The 2River View, with new poems by Bindu Bansinath, Kristin Bassett, J. L. Conrad, Craig Cotter, Francis Daulerio, Jim Elsaesser, David Faldet, Mark Kliewer, Natasha Moni, Anne Nance, and Bethany Price.
Muddy Bank 