“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... ”
― Peggy Toney Horton
― Peggy Toney Horton
SEPTEMBER
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
NEVER IN THE FEMININE
HOLLY WILLIS
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I sing of arms and the man. The man’s soft hands, his eyes, the inky black of his beard. I sing of the man as I struggle to parse Virgil’s Aeneid in my high school Latin class. The whole of the poem is instruction in obedience: how to read; how to speak; how to transmute the unknown into the known. I submit. I obey. I acquiesce to the rules of language and chant again the things I desire: his clutching hands, his dark eyes, the rough curl of his beard. The way he looks at me.
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NARROW ROADS NORTH: NINE HAIBUN
ROBERT MILTNER
Becoming Bashō
Old Quebec City.
Late morning nearing noon.
Fifty per cent chance of rain.
No screens, just windows open out on the sidewalk, the stone street. Each door invites me in. I step through the liminal space as if it is a cover of a book, a door to another country. Bookstores and bars and restaurants.
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WISTERIA
MARILYN BOYLE
Window writing rises through my tools and the shed loomed high, wisteria covering, withering the wood beneath, stripping the beams of their nourishment. Flowers bloom above, crown the beams they destroy. Bikes and lawn mowers and trowels lie inside, a trough left for a forgotten horse, who stayed here a year, munching on alfalfa, confused in suburbia.
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SEPTEMBER
FICTION
(LITERARY)
HER FAVORITE PART OF WINTER
KEVIN WHITE
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"Is the fire hot, sir?"
He does not get the reference. He smiles anyway. She sips hot chocolate. He sips at wine. A stray branch taps on the glass, wants to come inside, but is not allowed. He puts another log onto the fire. She loves quoting Joyce, but knows he won't get it, so she has to stop for now.
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SEPTEMBER HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
Marilyn Boyle, originally from Massachusetts, now lives in the Caledon Hills. Her work appeared in Celebrating Canadian Women (Fitzhenry and Whiteside), Poet’s Market, a chapbook, lyingstill, as well as in various journals and blogs, most recently, Fresh Voices (League of Canadian Poets). Her work explores breath, design, and fragment.
Robert Miltner has published Hotel Utopia (prose poetry from New Rivers Press) and And Your Bird Can Sing (short fiction from Bottom Dog Press). His nonfiction has appeared in Great Lakes Review, Diagram, AWP Writer, Buried Letter, KSU Research for Life, Mochila Review, and The Los Angeles Review. Miltner is Professor of English at Kent State University, teaches fiction and poetry in the NEOMFA, and edits The Raymond Carver Review. He is the recipient of an Individual Excellence in Poetry Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
Kevin Richard White is the author of the novels The Face Of A Monster and Patch Of Sunlight through No Frills Buffalo. His work has been previously published by Akashic Books, Sundog Lit, Grub Street, Crack The Spine, and Lunch Ticket, among others. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Holly Willis teaches in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. As a writer, her work includes scholarly essays, arts journalism and experimental nonfiction. She has written two books about avant-garde film, video and new media, for example, and essays and profiles for publications as varied as Film Comment and Variety. Her most recent experimental pieces include "Signs," published in the Beautiful Things section of River Teeth, and “The Disorder of Things,” which was published in carte blanche.
Marilyn Boyle, originally from Massachusetts, now lives in the Caledon Hills. Her work appeared in Celebrating Canadian Women (Fitzhenry and Whiteside), Poet’s Market, a chapbook, lyingstill, as well as in various journals and blogs, most recently, Fresh Voices (League of Canadian Poets). Her work explores breath, design, and fragment.
Robert Miltner has published Hotel Utopia (prose poetry from New Rivers Press) and And Your Bird Can Sing (short fiction from Bottom Dog Press). His nonfiction has appeared in Great Lakes Review, Diagram, AWP Writer, Buried Letter, KSU Research for Life, Mochila Review, and The Los Angeles Review. Miltner is Professor of English at Kent State University, teaches fiction and poetry in the NEOMFA, and edits The Raymond Carver Review. He is the recipient of an Individual Excellence in Poetry Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
Kevin Richard White is the author of the novels The Face Of A Monster and Patch Of Sunlight through No Frills Buffalo. His work has been previously published by Akashic Books, Sundog Lit, Grub Street, Crack The Spine, and Lunch Ticket, among others. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Holly Willis teaches in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. As a writer, her work includes scholarly essays, arts journalism and experimental nonfiction. She has written two books about avant-garde film, video and new media, for example, and essays and profiles for publications as varied as Film Comment and Variety. Her most recent experimental pieces include "Signs," published in the Beautiful Things section of River Teeth, and “The Disorder of Things,” which was published in carte blanche.
