week of April 19 - 25, 2010
Our twelvth annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue.
BECOME A POET OF THE WEEK
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A Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast | I'd Like to Bake Your Goods | Stolen Mummies | Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town
Up Liberty's Skirt | Feeding Holy Cats | Mowing Fargo | I'm a Jew, Are You? | Lizard King of the Laundromat | I Am My Own Orange County
Paris: It's The Cheese |
Poetry Super Highway | Judaic Links | Rick's Bookmarks | Cobalt Poets
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Alexa Havok Bio (auto) I'm 17 years old and I live in Los Angeles, CA. I heard about this opportunity through a teacher who knows about my interest in poetry. Although I have no Jewish heritage I feel like the Holocaust was not an ethnic issue but an issue of humanity regarding each and everyone of us, even if we weren't even alive at that time. I believe that remembering and understanding our past will help us in the future. In my submission I put myself in the shoes of a Jew in a Concentration Camp. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Alexa Havok and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
B.E. Kahn Bio (auto) B.E. Kahn, native Philadelphian, now lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of Pennsylvania Council of The Arts and Pew Grants. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Harrisburg Review, Mad Poets Review, Bridges A Jewish Feminist Journal, Jewish Spectator, Philadelphia Poets and The Tupelo Press Online Poetry Project. She received First Prize for Poetry at The Philadelphia Writers Conference among other awards. Her chapbook, Spring Apples Silver Birch was published in 2008, Greenleaf Press. Another, Landscapes of Light, is forthcoming in 2010, Poets wear Prada Press. A retired speech therapist, she teaches poetry to intergenerational groups. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by B.E. Kahn and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Carl Palmer Bio (auto) Carl Palmer, nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Micro Award, from Old Mill Road in Ridgeway, VA, now lives in University Place, WA. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Carl Palmer and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Curt Eriksen Bio (auto) The short fiction and poetry of Curt Eriksen have appeared in the U.S., U.K., India and Spain—in Rosebud, New Madrid, Ghoti, 34th Parallel, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, 42opus and Alba, among other journals. More work is forthcoming soon in Blackbird, Anemone Sidecar and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. All of Curt’s published work is accessible online at www.clerik.weebly.com. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Curt Eriksen and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
David Neves Bio (auto) David Neves, Newark NJ A simple bastard from the inner city whose only vices are food and sex, and is in the process of acquiring a Himalayan sized writer's ego whose shit doesn't happen to stink. In addition, I can do shitty imitations of the Governator, of Ronald Reagan and Mr. ''T'', and Rick Lupert! As you can see, I'm quite versatile! The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by David Neves and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Deborah Rey Bio (auto) Deborah Rey (1938) was born in Amsterdam. From an early age she has worked in radio, television, publicity and the theatre, as a broadcaster, entertainer, scriptwriter, translator, editor, and actress. Today, retired, she finally has the time to be a full-time writer and editor, and lives at the French Atlantic coast with her husband, two dogs and five cats. Rey is recognised by the Dutch Foundation 1940-1945 as a participant in the Resistance during the German occupation of The Netherlands during World War II. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Deborah Rey and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Donal Mahoney Bio (auto) Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. A Pushcart nominee, he has had poems published in The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Poetry Super Highway, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Pirene's Fountain (Australia) and other publications. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Donal Mahoney and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Gary Jacobson Bio (auto) I am Gary Jacobson, from Malad, Idaho, married with four children, two sons and two daughters. Oft called The Warrior Poet, or Vietnam Bard, forty years ago I was sent by my rich uncle to work in his vineyards in a land all white and ready to harvest ~ hereinafter referred to as Vietnam. I served with 1st platoon, B Co 2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry '66 - '67, as a combat infantryman ... we called ourselves "Grunts," operating out of LZ Betty near beautiful downtown Phan Thiet, Vietnam. Mine was the same unit depicted in the Mel Gibson movie, "We Were Soldiers," only I came along one year later. Vietnam changed us all indelibly and forever. I'm now retired with several by-products of war, a 100% disability rating, to include an extra hole in my head, covered by a 3X4 inch plate, shrapnel the size of a quarter currently imbedded three inches into my brain ... this traumatic brain injury all compliments of a trip wire booby trap that triggered a grenade, that in turn detonated an artillery round ... and in the process completely ruined my whole day ... April, 22, 1967, during combat operation in the boonies near Phan Rang, Vietnam. I have seen firsthand the face of hate, and felt its awful sting, so I admonish you, "Learn what the warriors learned, for indeed, it is warriors who have first hand seen the evil and devastation of hatred, who first hand know the value of peace, love, compassion and harmony among men." Webmaster of "Vietnam Picture Tour," A walk in "the park" grunts called Vietnam, with the 1st Air Cavalry on combat patrol. Experience chilling reality to leave the sweet and sour taste of "the Nam" pungent on your tongue, the smell of "the Nam" acrid in your nostrils, and textures of "the Nam" imbedded in you as though you walked beside me in combat. http://namtour.com/namtour.html My poignant poems directory, pictures and artwork to show the essence and feeling of war on young "boys next door," http://namtour.com/nampoemsNpix.html "Realm Of Poetry," http://dreamerzz.tripod.com/SiteMap.html Poems of love and romance, sacred spirituality and meditation, Golden Oldies, comedy, Quests of the regal knight Richard Lionheart to the crusades and seeking the Holy Grail, dueling dragons, frolicking fairies, and comedy....and also links to my site of that bestial ogre called war... The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Gary Jacobson and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Graham Fulton Bio (auto) My name's Graham Fulton. I live in Paisley in Scotland. My poems have been published in many publications in both the UK and USA including Ambit, The Potomac, Poetry Super Highway, Raintown Review, Barbaric Yawp, Illya's Honey, Word Riot, Chaparral, Orbis, Envoi, Staple, Stride, Dream State; the New Scottish Poets, Stand, Edinburgh Review, The North, Brittle Star, California Quarterly. My collections include Humouring the Iron Bar Man (Polygon), This (Rebel Inc), Knights of the Lower Floors (Polygon), Pocket Fugues (Controlled Explosion Press), twenty three umbrellas (Controlled Explosion Press). A major new collection called Open Plan is to be published in 2011 by Smokestack Books from England. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Graham Fulton and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Hanoch Guy Bio (auto) Hanoch Guy (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) spent his childhood and youth in Israel He is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English, Hanoch teaches Hebrew and Jewish LiteratureTemple University. He has published poetry in Genre,Poetry Newsletter, Tracks , the International Journal of Genocide studies, several times in Poetica where he won an award He has also won an award in the Mad Poets Society. On this Holocaust memorial day Hanoch mourns the deaths of his family in Romania and Poland. The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Hanoch Guy and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Helen Bar-Lev Bio (auto) Born New York 1942, B.A. Anthropology; in Israel for 40 years, 85+ exhibitions of her watercolour landscapes. Poems and artwork in numerous online and print anthologies. Cyclamens and Swords and other poems about the land of Israel, and The Muse in the Suitcase, both with Johnmichael Simon, illustrated by Helen. In Moonlight the Sky Will Slide with Katherine L. Gordon. Helen is Senior Editor of Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, www.cyclamensandswords.com Former editor-in-chief of Voices Israel Annual Anthology. She is the poetry editor for Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction, published by Spiritual Directors International www.sdiworld.org and contributing editor for Sketchbook, A Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms http://poetrywriting.org/ The following work is Copyright © 2010, and owned by Helen Bar-Lev and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
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A Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast | I'd Like to Bake Your Goods | Stolen Mummies | Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town
Up Liberty's Skirt | Feeding Holy Cats | Mowing Fargo | I'm a Jew, Are You? | Lizard King of the Laundromat | I Am My Own Orange County
Paris: It's The Cheese |
Poetry Super Highway | Judaic Links | Rick's Bookmarks | Cobalt Poets
E-mail Rick | Other Cool Rick Stuff / Upcoming Readings | Who The Hell Is Rick