June - A beautiful month's nonfiction selections about women, and a unique piece of fiction. I know you enjoy them all! ~ Editor
JUNE
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
(PROSE POETRY)
A SELF PORTRAIT OF THE WRITER AS MINERVA HAMILTON HOYT
JANE HAWLEY
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Call her Apostle of the Cacti. Supplicant at the Altar of the Desert Sunrise. Minerva. Goddess of Poetry, coiled like a serpent, sprung from her father’s head. Sing, Muse. Sing, Mojave.
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(LYRIC ESSAY)
OLD WOMEN
KATHIE JACOBSON
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Once I rode with my step-mother who isn’t really my step-mother to a barn auction on the edge of a small town, by which I mean an auction held inside a barn.
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(LYRIC ESSAY)
IN THE HOLLOW OF A MOTHER
CLAIRE T. JENNINGS
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The German doctor hovers over me, her face screwed up into a child’s drawing. She has said nothing for the last five minutes. The probe is still up me, cold as a popsicle, and my legs are caught in stirrups. “I cannot find a heartbeat” she finally says, “we will have to force it out!” Her consonants are hard and spat. This isn’t the result I had expected from the scan.
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(PROSE POEM)
IRIS TREE CHOOSES A ROLE, 1913
MARK LUEBBERS & BENJAMIN GOLUBOFF
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W.S. Gilbert was a fixture at Father’s table, where he made, some whispered, advances to Mother that were as cleverly expressed as they were improper in design.
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(PROSE POEM)
IRIS TREE CHOOSES A ROLE, 1913
MARK LUEBBERS & BENJAMIN GOLUBOFF
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W.S. Gilbert was a fixture at Father’s table, where he made, some whispered, advances to Mother that were as cleverly expressed as they were improper in design.
Continue reading.
JUNE
fiction
(UNCLASSIFIABLE)
A BEAR, A WOLF, AND A COYOTE
CURT SALTZMAN
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Bear sat on the stoop of the mobile home waiting for Wolf. Wolf generally moseyed down one of the gravelled trailer park lanes around this time, which was not even seven o'clock in the morning.
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JUNE HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
Jane Hawley received her MFA in Fiction from Texas State University and her work has been published in The Pinch, Memoir Journal, Amazon's Day One Journal, and Because I Was A Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages.
Kathie Jacobson's work has appeared in Crack the Spine, Driftwood Press, Pithead Chapel, Necessary Fiction, and other journals, is forthcoming in anthologies presented by Crack the Spine and Epiphany, has been featured as a Longform Fiction Pick-of-the-Week.
Claire T. Jennings is a writer and a performance artist. She has written and starred in two short films and a sold out solo show at the Santa Monica Playhouse. Claire was a winner of the popular ‘Top Tales’ in Los Angeles and was chosen to perform in the Los Angeles Story Telling Festival. She has been a guest speaker at the Santa Barbara University Literary Symposium, and is a member of the Redlights Writing community. Claire lives with her husband, a diva dog and a fat cat in a canyon in California.
Mark Luebbers teaches English at Cincinnati Country Day School, Benjamin Goluboff at Lake Forest College. Sometimes they write poems together. Three of Mark and Ben’s poems about jazz pianist Bill Evans will appear this year in They Said: A Multigenre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing from Black Lawrence Press.
Curt Saltzman was born and raised in Los Angeles. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, Sou'wester, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He lives in France.
Jane Hawley received her MFA in Fiction from Texas State University and her work has been published in The Pinch, Memoir Journal, Amazon's Day One Journal, and Because I Was A Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages.
Kathie Jacobson's work has appeared in Crack the Spine, Driftwood Press, Pithead Chapel, Necessary Fiction, and other journals, is forthcoming in anthologies presented by Crack the Spine and Epiphany, has been featured as a Longform Fiction Pick-of-the-Week.
Claire T. Jennings is a writer and a performance artist. She has written and starred in two short films and a sold out solo show at the Santa Monica Playhouse. Claire was a winner of the popular ‘Top Tales’ in Los Angeles and was chosen to perform in the Los Angeles Story Telling Festival. She has been a guest speaker at the Santa Barbara University Literary Symposium, and is a member of the Redlights Writing community. Claire lives with her husband, a diva dog and a fat cat in a canyon in California.
Mark Luebbers teaches English at Cincinnati Country Day School, Benjamin Goluboff at Lake Forest College. Sometimes they write poems together. Three of Mark and Ben’s poems about jazz pianist Bill Evans will appear this year in They Said: A Multigenre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing from Black Lawrence Press.
Curt Saltzman was born and raised in Los Angeles. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle Magazine, Sou'wester, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He lives in France.
