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Andrew Oerke Dies Suddenly
Andrew Oerke has died unexpectedly, though he had had some long-standing health problems from his time in Africa. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and in numerous other magazines. In 2006, African Stiltdancer and San Miguel de Allende were published jointly by Swan Books and the UN Society for Writers and Artists. They have received the United Nations Literature Award. His most recent book, Never Seek to Tell Thy Love, was published in 2010. Look for two of his newer unpublished poems in the upcoming summer issue of 2RV.
Lay Back the Darkness
“Lay Back the Darkness,” by Edward Hirsch:
#2 in the 2River Poetry Currents series of animated poems
Celebrate with Superstition Review
If you’re in Phoenix or within driving distance on Thursday, April 25, be sure to attend the launching party of the 11th issue of Superstition Review, the online literary magazine at Arizona State University. The celebratory occasion will take place at the Mesa Arts Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
While you dine on great food from the local vegan and vegetarian restaurant The Pomegranate Café, section editors will discuss their favorite art, fiction, interviews, nonfiction, and poetry featured in the issue, and Cynthia Hogue will give a reading of her work. You’ll even have free access to the museum and to the exhibition “CreatureManNature” by Arizona artists Monica Aissa Martinez, Carolyn Lavendar, and Mary Shindell, who are past contributors to Superstition Review.
Sounds like a great event hosted by a wonderful online literary magazine:
Spring Issue of The 2River View
Maybe Eliot was wrong and March instead is the cruelest month, what with over a foot of snow yesterday here in St. Louis, Missouri. But foul weather or an ill-tempered groundhog can’t stop the arrival of the 17.3 (Spring 2013) issue of The 2River View. Wherever you are, whether buried in snow or basking in the sun, do enjoy these new poems by K. R. Barger, J. S. Belote, Randolph Bridgeman, Charles Cessna, Kathy Davis, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Christien Gholson, Katherine Mitchell, James B. Nicola, Diana Reaves, Philippe Shils, and Barbara Wuest.
Spring Teaser
2River knows you’re anxious for the Spring issue of 2RV. Be patient, it’s coming soon and it’s filled with new poems by J. S. Belote, K. R. Barger, Randolph Bridgeman, Charles Cessna, Kathy Davis, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Christien Gholson, Katherine Mitchell, James B. Nicola, Diana Reaves, Philippe Shils, and Barbara Wuest. Meanwhile, here to satisfy your thirst is the poem by Charles Cessna.
Hanging
I am left
hanging as
the apple hangs
at the highest point of the tree.
So many
pried loose
become mash
under the hooves of cows.
When days
grow cold,
the sunlight lacks
a certain hardness
in the early morning.
Gradually
color changes
from ruddy red
to dull brown and gray.
Look up, look,
I am turning idly in the wind,
even as the last leaves fall,
and the cows lope insensibly towards the hay.
New 2River Chapbook by Pamela Garvey Now Online
Things Impossible to Swallow by Pamela Garvey is the 24th entry in then 2River Chapbook Series. Here’s the title poem of the chapbook:
Things Impossible to Swallow
Her own ecstasy when he tied her
to the bed, and she begged as the rope
wore at the skin of her wrists.
Did she really lap up every touch, every
word that soured her own laugh?
She scrubbed floors and tubs and crawled
around looking for loose change.
She breathed in his logic: a vapor,
a mercury leaching into veins, into
the fatty tissue that holds it in.
That smack she held in with the rising temperatures
of work, pay, poor and no time
to read. She’d become stupid, he said. And the heat
to hit him seared her silent.
Still she returned daily to the mirror he held for her.
Herself accused by that image yet ready
to swear over bibles.
But whose story did she tell? Who threatened
to leave? Was that her pounding on doors,
bills wound into fists?
And her, pleading:
a dog that doesn’t even know when it’s full?
You know that’s a fine poem, so jump over now to read the other poems in the chapbook.
Teaser: Things Impossible to Swallow
Listen to Pamela Garvey read from Things Impossible to Swallow, an upcoming entry in the 2River Chapbook Series.
“Defiance” by Sally Van Doren
A video Richard Long made for his Fall 2012 Sabbatical at STLCC–Meramec.
“Tabulations” by Michael Meyers
“Tabulations” by Michael Meyers
Every now and then 2River receives submissions that don’t quiet fit into its traditional concept of pages with text. “Tabulations” by Michael Meyers is a tonal poem whose meaning is embedded in its sonicness. Meyers has other audio works in Fringe deClassified, Mad Hatter’s Review, Drunken Boat, sound/text & Bound Off, plus the following here at 2River.
Grant Me Eggs
What We Have Learned So Far
Telling Everything
This Is Sweden
Living Thing
Obviously, Muddy Bank and 2River are big fans of Meyers. You can learn more about this at his web site.
Muddy Bank 