Issue 28 Contributors

Perigee's 28th issue will be released on April 20th, and we are excited to present the following work:

FICTION
"Foreword to Volume 421," by Simon Barron
"Seeing the Rabbit," by Barbara O’Byrne
"Tragedy in the History of a Comedy," by Lawrence Lawson
"The Wish," by Rebecca Lawton
"'Redemption,' an excerpt from Tempest," by Robert Miltner
"The Sad Ballad of Santiago Pancho Sanchez," by Tatjana Soli


NON-FICTION
"Burying Dogs," by David W. Berner
"I Grew Up With Running Water," by Stanley E. Ely
"Brain Games," by Mike Finley
"Half-Moon Wide," by Sarah L. Miller
"Finding Fathers," by Joelle Renstrom
"Notes from 1970: A Memoir," by Claude Clayton Smith
"All the Leaves are Brown," by Sean Finucane Toner


POETRY
"I wish his swimtrunks," by Bonnie Auslander
"Formal Proof In 9 Steps That Right Now You’re Standing In A Puddle, Thinking Of Me," by Danielle Blau
"Thomas: Appoggiatura," by Gabriella Brand
"My Father Was a Wandering Aramean," by Lawrence Cronin
"What I Recall After Thirty Years," by Billie Dee
"I Had Tea with Mary Oliver," by Trish Dugger
"Completely in my own Mind," by Michael Estabrook
"Once a Dancer," by Ellen Friedman
"Answer the Phone," by Erica Goss
"Autumnal," by Erica Goss
"Bubble Cut," by Kate Harding
"Coyote Eating Apricots," by Kate Harding
"After the Rains," by Michael Hettich
"First Day of Class," by Michael Hettich
"Mouse," by Michael Hettich
"An Indication I May Be an Optimist," by Terry Hertzler
"I Love my Body," by Terry Hertzler
"Looking Glass," by David Holper
"’62 Cadillac," by David Holper
"Folding Baby Clothes with Emily Dickinson," by Una Hynum
"Matthew," by Una Hynum
"Phlebotomist," by Una Hynum
"The Son Witnesses how the World Works," by Sean Karns
"Good Deal," by Gail Levine
"Elegy for Raymond," by Sarah B Marsh-Rebelo
"If God Hath a Beard," by Gary Metras
"As Much As I Want," by Michael Nieman
"It's Early Yet," by Michael Nieman
"Especially the Bridges," by Joyce Nower
"After the Squall," by Joyce Nower
"Moon Shining on a Deserted Courtyard at the Foreign House at Beijing Normal," by Joyce Nower
"Proprieties," by Joyce Nower
"After the deep sleep," by Colby Cedar Smith
"A Walk on the Shore," by Liliana Ursu
"Strolling between Millennia," by Liliana Ursu
"Obituary," by Jon Wesick
"Outside the Vatican," by Jon Wesick

Issue 27 Contributors

Perigee's 27th issue is due out on January 15th. The last issue of our sixth year is a fine one indeed. 10 short stories, 6 works of non-fiction, and 30 poems are included. Here's a list of the contributors:

Fiction (10)
“Little Life,” by Walter Cummins
“The Bracelet of Date Stones,” by Sahar Delijani
“Lonely Tylenol,” by Okla Elliott
“Long Distance Call to Heaven,” by Clyde Fixmer
“La Palette,” by John Givens
“Afterlife Answers,” by Michael Lee
“Invaders from Mars,” by Timothy Reilly
“Paperboy,” by Jay Rubin
“The Inept Imitator,” by Tom Sheehan
“Something Borrowed,” by Ellen Visson

Non-Fiction (6)
“A New Reading of Rilke’s ‘Elegies’, by John Mood,” reviewed by Duff Brenna
“In Memory of Jack Myers,” by Thomas E. Kennedy
“Revisiting Birmingham,” by Thomas E. Kennedy
“Margaret Atwood,” by Chauncey Mabe
“Wrestling with the Angel: The Image as Writer’s Antagonist,” by John Rember
“The Place on Kansas Street,” by Linda Sandoval

Poetry (30)
“Lavese Las Manos,” by Claire Hsu Accomando
“Decimas to God,” by Guadalupe Amor (translated by Megan Webster)
“Old Country,” by Stanislaw Borokowski (translated by Chris Michalski)
“Sweet Hereafter,” by Stanislaw Borokowski (translated by Chris Michalski)
“Kansas,” by B.F. Fairchild
“Song,” by B.F. Fairchild
“Fragments from the Hospital,” by Elisabeth Farrell
“Runners,” by Clyde Fixmer
“Sign Language,” by Diane Gage
“Legend,” by Andrei Guruianu
“Nothing to Tell Him,” by Eric Johnson
“Bakersfield, 1969,” by Dorianne Laux
“The Beatles,” by Dorianne Laux
“Disco,” by Joanne Lowery
“Drummerboy,” by Joanne Lowery
“Majorette,” by Joanne Lowery
“The Not Sonnets,” by Suzanne Lummis
“The Bear Who Lives in Me,” by Morton Marcus
“I Still Complain About the Government,” by Morton Marcus
“The Town Where he had Never Been,” by Morton Marcus
“Wait Here,” by Morton Marcus
“Clark Kent, Naked,” by Federico Moramarco
“Easter Poem for My Mother,” by Mil Norman-Risch
“My Brother’s Blackberry,” by Leigh Pollack
“For Pablo Neruda,” by Doren Robbins
“Tomato,” by Linda Leedy Schneider
“Burial at Sea,” by Peter Skrzynecki
“Coming Across an Old Girlfriend’s Poems,” by Tom Speer
“The Moment,” by Tom Speer
“The Return,” by Tom Speer

Our thanks to everyone who submitted work. We hope you'll stop by to read our 27th issue when it's released on Friday, January 17th.

Dave Seter's Chapbook Coming Early 2010

Perigee author Dave Seter's first collection of poetry—a chapbook entitled Night Duty—will be released by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in early 2010. Seter's poem "Billboard," which is part of the chapbook, appeared in Perigee's 22nd issue (October 2008).

The title poem, Night Duty, was inspired by the author's first job out of college. As a field engineer with Public Service Electric and Gas Company, he was assigned to cover gas fires and explosions after hours, in the urban centers of Newark, Patterson, and Jersey City.

Sonoma County poet Maya Khosla says, "Night Duty is full of precise dissections of nights and days rendered with rhythm, punctuated by bolts, grit, rattling and, more often than not, humble questions left floating in the air."

Night Duty will be released in March, but is currently available for pre-order at a substantial discount through the publisher's web site by clicking here. Additional information can also be found at Seter's web site, www.daveseter.com.

Donors with access to Perigee's archives can find his poem, "Billboard" in our October 2008 archived issue.

Perigee Archives

Perigee's archives are available through our regular issues, to donors and contributors. As always, authors are welcome to link to their work as it appeared in Perigee. If you don't already have a link, simply contact us at info[at]perigee-art[dot]com and let us know in what issue your work appeared, and the title(s).

Many thanks to our donors who continue to support Perigee!

A New Reading of Rilke's "Elegies: Affirming the Unity of 'life-AND-death'" by Dr. John Mood

The Edwin Mellen Press is pleased to announce the publication of A New Reading of Rilke's "Elegies: Affirming the Unity of "life-AND-death" by Dr. John Mood. While meeting Mellen's usual high standards of a significant contribution to scholarship, this book, unlike many of Mellen's publications, is also accessible to the general reader of fine poetry in translation. Such readers will find this book both intellectually stimulating and enjoyable. Indeed, it could easily serve as an introduction to Rilke's poetry. It is the long awaited follow-up to Mood's Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties (Norton, 1975, 2004), which has been in print for 34 years now and still going strong; it is indeed the second largest selling Rilke book in the English speaking world. More details of Mood's new book are available at www.mellenpress.com.

Issue 26 Contributors

Perigee's 26th issue will be released this coming Thursday, October 15th. It will include all new fiction, non-fiction, and poetry—including the winners and honorable mentions from our 2009 Poetry Contest. Altogether we're publishing 41 phenomenal poems, short fiction from Brandon Cesmat, Walter Cummins, and Gavin Pate, an interview with Mich Cochrane, and much more.

We hope you will enjoy all that the new issue has to offer. Subscribe for free to be sure you are notified when the new issue is released.

Fiction (9)

"The Insomniac and the Singer,” by Michael Bradburn-Ruster
“Aphasia,” by Brandon Cesmat
“Dreaded,” by Walter Cummins
“Fisher of Herms,” by Rosalie Freese
“The Swap,” by Marisa Labozzetta
“At the Twin Maples,” by Tim Myers
“All the Acid in the World,” by Gavin Pate
“Tractor Twang,” by Anna Sheaffer
“Angelina and Me,” by Tatjana Soli

Non-Fiction (9)

“Jack Marshall, The Steel Veil,” Reviewed by Duff Brenna (originally in South Carolina Review)
“End of the Sixties” Excerpts from an Autobiography, by Robert Gover
“Mick Cochrane on Baseball, ‘Butterflies’ and his New Book,” by Jean Westmoore (The Buffalo News)

“America/Armenia/Angelina,” by Nancy Agabian
“Four Generations of Men,” by David W. Berner
“Old School Bush,” by T. Nicole Cirone
“No Apology for Happiness,” by Steve Davenport
“Words Under the Sky,” by Thomas E. Kennedy
“The Blood of Children,” by Allen Learst
“Therapy,” by Richard Reiss

Poetry (41)

Contest winners:
First - “The Seed Jar,” by Corrie Williamson
Second - “Sweet Molasses,” by Ginny Lowe Connors
Third - “Yosemite,” by Peter Bolland
Honorable Mention – “The Last Battle of the Civil War,” by Peter Bolland
Honorable Mention – “Crossroads,” by Cameron Keller Scott

Standard submissions:
“Fourteen,” by Deborah Harding-Allbritain
“Molluska: Gastropoda,” by Deborah Harding-Allbritain
“Lure and Tryst,” by Deborah Harding-Allbritain
“Lost Dog,” by Brandon Cesmat
“Repo,” by T. Nicole Cirone (Editor’s Choice: T. Kennedy)
“Closing Up the Bungalow,” by T. Nicole Cirone (Editor’s Choice: T. Kennedy)
“Soldier of Fortune, 1969,” by Steve Davenport (Editor’s Choice: R.A.Rycraft)
“American Girl,” by Steve Davenport (Editor’s Choice: R.A.Rycraft)
“Shape,” by Steve Davenport (Editor’s Choice: R.A.Rycraft)
“Torch Song,” by Allison Elliott
“Loosestrife,” by Kathleen M. Kelley
“What Did She Read in the Grand Canyon,” by Ken Kibler
“Summer Turning,” by Jen Kindborn
“Confessions of an Ensenada Cruise,” by Clifton King
“A Woman with a Chameleon on her Hat,” by Suzanne Lummis
“You Will Visit a Far-Away Country that has been in Your Thoughts,” by Suzanne Lummis
“Setting Out,” by Jack Marshall
“Dimming,” by Jack Marshall
“Matter,” by Carolyn Miller
“Happiness,” by Carolyn Miller
“After Swimming in the Public Pool,” by Carolyn Miller
“Orange and Gray,” by Miguel Murillo
“The Kingdom of Six A.M.,” by Michael Nieman
“Road,” by Michael Nieman
“Before and After Tampico,” by Doren Robbins
“Alone Together,” by Doren Robbins
“Reaching for a Star,” by Madeline Sharples
“Demolition,” by Madeline Sharples
“Just South of Epinal,” by Lloyd A Stoller
“What You Don’t Know,” by Bill Sullivan
“Sculpting,” by Rebecca Tolin
“The Adjective Cellar,” by Archie Wilson
“The Zen of Housework,” by Al Zolynas
“A Nightmare Concerning Priests,” by Al Zolynas

Issue 25 Contributors

Perigee is excited about our upcoming 25th issue—which will include work selected by our new Poetry Editor, Steve Kowit, as well as the 2009 Fiction Contest winners—and is pleased to announce the contributors for our July 15th, 2009 issue.

POETRY
“Wigs Galore,” by Claire Hsu Accomando
“Manuscript Found by Natasha Rostova During the Fire,” by Polina Barskova (tr. Ilya Kaminsky)
“A Still Life,” by Polina Barskova (tr. Ilya Kaminsky)
“The Blur,” by J. Mark Beaver
“Someone I Hardly Knew,” by Peter Bolland
“Boxes of Photographs,” by Peter Bolland
“It Doesn’t Have to Be Much,” by Peter Bolland
“Fishing the Backwash,” by Jack Driscoll
“Elegy: Charles Atlas,” by Jack Driscoll
“Victims,” by Andrei Guruianu
“On the 10th Anniversary of My Divorce,” by Terry Hertzler
“Visiting Detroit,” by Terry Hertzler
“A Taste for Falling,” by Judy Jordan
“Shedding,” by Nancy Lemke
“Done,” by Tamara Madison
“The Beautiful Hidden,” by Jack Marshall
“Swimming,” by Carolyn Miller
“Driving with Robert,” by Carolyn Miller
“Note to the Near World,” by Carolyn Miller
“baptize,” by Anis Mojgani
“Publishing,” by Miguel Murillo
“Exaltation in Starbucks,” by Michael Nieman
“Shoes,” by Michael Nieman
“A Tribute to Everyday,” by Dan Turéll (tr. Thomas E. Kennedy)
“The Interruption,” by Al Zolynas
“Trying to Save an Insect,” by Al Zolynas


FICTION
“A Modest Appetite,” by Ellen Akins
"Auscultating in the Fourth Dimension," by Jacob M. Appel (1st Place contest winner)
“The Rabbit Keeper,” by Luba Burtyk
“Shotgun Levine,” by Hesh Kestin
"Camping," by Sarah Lynn Knowles (3rd Place contest winner)
“The Snow Fort,” by Mary Ann McGuigan
"Equinox,” by Deanna Northrup
“On the Up and Up,” by Katey Schultz
"It Happened to River," by Rachel Allyson Stone (2nd Place contest winner)

NON-FICTION
“Paralyzed,” by Kim M. Anderson
“Books Everywhere,” by Walter Cummins
“Oddfathers,” by Mike Finley
“The Impulsion of Spontaneity: Allowing Chance Occurrence its Creative Influence on a Story,” by Thomas E. Kennedy
“Prelude at McKenzie Beach,” by D.C. Lynn
“Raked Stages: A Twelve Step Program,” by Renée K. Nicholson
“A Conversation with Linda Lappin,” interviewed by R.A. Rycraft
“The House No One Lived In,” by Tom Sheehan
“A Literary Agent Reads the Reviews,” by Nat Sobel

Issue 24 Contributors

Perigee is excited to be releasing its 6th anniversary issue this April 15th. The issue will be launched on a completely rebuilt web platform, and will include work from many noted and award winning writers including Perigee's newest contributing editors Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy. The 24th issue will present a special non-fiction section devoted to essays about, and an interview of, John Updike.

The following are the contributors to our upcoming issue. Thank you to all who submitted work and we hope everyone will enjoy our new web site and our new issue—coming April 15th.

FICTION BY:
Mick Cochrane
Walter Cummins
Stephen Goldfinger
Thomas E. Kennedy
Stephanie Manuzak
Mary McLaughlin Slechta
Garrett Socol

NON-FICTION BY:
Ellen Akins
Duff Brenna
Steven Cameron
Walter Cummins
Okla Elliott
Thomas E. Kennedy
John Mood
Peter Selgin
Tonny Vorm
Gordon Weaver
Jean Westmoore

POETRY BY:
Martin Galvin
William Charles Hardy
Rick Marlatt
Cameron Keller Scott
Michelle Webster-Hein

Issue 23 Contributors

Perigee is pleased to announce the work which will appear in our upcoming 23rd issue, due out January 15th. It's going to be another watershed issue for us, with an extra large fiction section (9 stories), a handful of meticulously chosen poems (6, from about 300), three reviews, an interview, and 5 memoirs which will haunt and inspire you.

Issue 23 also features the watercolor paintings of Derek McCrea, a US Army Infantry Combat Soldier with two tours in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, who has been painting since the summer of 1984.

Our thanks to all who submitted work—that which we've chosen to publish and the many other notable submissions which didn't make the final cut. We hope you will keep gracing us with the kind of submissions which make Perigee's corner of the Internet a warm one.

Fiction:
"Pretty When She Was Young," by Camilla Collova
"Gingerbread," by Jeannie Galeazzi
"The Overlook," by Ethan Joella
"A Pretty Face," by Marisa Labozzetta
"Compulsion," by Brendan McEntee
"Ten Dollars for Live Ones," by Michael Onofrey
"The Sound One Hears," by Bruce Rutherford
"The Storekeeper," by Tom Sheehan
"Orion," by Dennis Vannatta

Poetry:
"Having No Children," by Ann Cefola
"At Rexall's," by John Dutterer
"Umbrella," by Paul Hostovsky
"Plate Sharing," by Ethan Joella
"Omission," by Tony Leuzzi
"Lookout on Perdition Ridge," by Ann Walters

Memoirs:
"Loneliness Goes for Distance," by Garry Cooper
"Letting Go," by Joel Harris
"The Last Punch," by Randy Kohl
"Book," by Richard Reiss
"Darkness and Insanity," by Andrea Rosenhaft

Interview:
"An Interview with Jack Marshall," by Sam Hamod

Reviews:
"Global Psychology, by Benjamin Katz," reviewed by Thomas E. Kennedy
"Katherine's Wish, by Linda Lappin," reviewed by R.A. Rycraft
"Speaking for Others: The Poetry of Sam Hamod," by Kristen Scott

Visual Art:
Featuring watercolors by Derek McCrea