Issue 16 Contributors
The 16th issue of Perigee (our 4th anniversary issue) is chock full of new poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. This special double-sized issue will include the following contributors, along with the winning poems from our popular Poetry Contest, as judged by poet Marvin Bell!
The special commemorative edition of Perigee is laced with new goodies, including a note from the founding editor on Perigee's first four years—and what's to come. The issue will be released Sunday, April 15th.
Jeffrey Alfier, "Breaking the Colts," "Cloud Banks North of Aqua Prieta," "How the Bartender Saves Us," and "Leaving Cipriano Pass"
Katherine Barnes, "Possession"
F. J. Bergmann, "Love in the Ruins" (3rd Place Winner)
Dallas Boggs, "Brother Boney"
Marte Broehm, "With Blue Hook in My Hand"
Curtis Church, "Circus of Life"
Robert Gibbons, "Navigation by Stars," and "The Fullness of Summer"
Gail Gilliland, "Tricks"
Julie Kovacs, "Pierre Eric Prospero Febriello," and "Voices Soaring"
Lawrence Lawson, "It's Up in the Air"
Laura LeHew, "A Grim Reaper," and "The Parts of Father"
Robin Merrill, "What the Older Ladies Say About Me in Church"
Corey Mesler, "The Narcoleptic Therapist" (4th Place Winner)
Micaela Myers, "The Lies I Told You"
JP Rodriguez, "Sparsely Large"
Edward Rubin, "On Being Taught Not to Fly"
Tom Sheehan, "Blue Glacier Beer"
John Sweet, "Blind Soundtrack for a Sleeping Child," and "On Approaching the Wall of Death"
Jeri Theriault, "Gloves" (1st Place Winner)
Larry D Thomas, "Pastelists"
Grégoire Vion, "In the Entrails of a Fish" (2nd Place Winner)
Christian Ward, "Prognosis"
Robert Judge Woerheide, "Greenhouse Effect"
Our thanks to all who submitted work.
posted by Robert Woerheide at 11:40 AM
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Gail Gilliland is the author of a story collection, The Demon of Longing (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and of a poetics, Being A Minor Writer.
Larry D. Thomas was recently selected as the 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate.
Website: www.larrydthomas.com
john sweet, b. 1968, single father of 2, author of HUMAN CATHEDRALS (ravenna press) and ASH WILDERNESS (dis-productions) among others. a believer in writing as catharsis. in full ranting mode at http://blog.myspace.com/148870962
I’m thrilled to be included in Issue 16 of Perigee.
So far in my life: literary journals have published eight of my more than 40 short stories (lots of pounding the pavement still to go!); I've traveled to 10 countries and lived in three, with eight different addresses, gathering a BA from Cal State San Marcos and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College along the way; and I've totaled two cars in a two-year period on crowded Southern California roads! I'm a North County native and currently live in Oceanside with my wonderful hubby, totally sweet Pit Bull and rather cranky pony.
I'm honored to be included once again.
With kind acceptance by the editors of Perigee I recognize in the two prose poems they chose for publication another time & location, two opposite seasons & perspectives: driving through summer picking up images, almost cinematic, or sorting through the abundance & magnified colors of the harvest at the farmers’ market verses the stationary view out the window of my study looking over a neighbor’s yard in the middle of winter to witness his sailboat used to rival with strings of lights the clarity of vastness in stars above. Fun writing both pieces, & seeing them again at the distance of a couple of years from the perspective of digs in a new state. That was Scituate, Massachusetts, while we’re still privileged to live near the water here now in Portland, Maine. I’ve been trying to write every day for the past 6 or 7 years. For 3 years I haven’t sent much work out, so I feel honored to have work in this wonderful site with its sounds of turning pages & other technical advances, which make publishing & reading poetry & prose online so interesting. After a recent flurry of submissions, I’ve had work in Stirring & a chapbook collection, Beyond Time published in Dead Drunk Dublin. Work is forthcoming from Ars Interpres (Sweden), Istanbul Literature Review (Turkey), Jacket, Shadowtrain, & Wheelhouse. My fourth full-length book, Beyond Time: New & Selected Work will be published by Trivium Publications http://www.janushead.org/Trivium/ in August or September 2007. I am Poetry & Fiction Editor of Janus Head, whose latest special issue, “The Situated Body,” will go online tomorrow 4/16/07 http://www.janushead.org/ with the print issue to follow in a few weeks. This is my first blog posting.
Thank you so much for considering my words to be worthy of publication. Allowing me to dance around the circle of diligent contributors to the mastery of language is truly an honor.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to share my work with so many readers. Anyone interested can read more of my work in current editions of 'Double Dare Press' and 'The Green Muse'.
Thanks again!
jp Rodriguez
Marte Broehm, b. 1951; first book, MARGINALIA IN FULL BLOOM, looking for a publisher in 2007.
I am a poet and visual artist, but first I am a reader of poetry. I am a reader of many forms of communication (poetry, prose, art, advertising, cartoons, faces, body language, eyes). I believe that each of us bring personal experience and knowledge to whatever we read... and that is how we make it relevant to ourselves... I'm delighted to be included in Perigee's 16th edition.
I'm delighted to have won 3rd place, and to have been selected for publication. I'm also pleased by the company I'm in; Corey Mesler in particular, who. like me, has a story in the fantasy anthology Touched by Wonder, forthcoming from Meadowhawk Press, and whose prose poem chapbook Short Stories was published by the University of Wisconsin's Parallel Press, as was my recent poetry chapbook, Aqua Regia. See fibitz.com for more dubious activities.
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