Look at Those Reds!

"Strapped In"

E Chap

Cheryl's new poetry E chapbook can be seen at the Gold Wake Press site. It's called "Murmuration" and yes, Virginia, there are birds in it!

Layering the Space

Green

Summer samples all the greens in the wheel—
forest for grass, lime for new leaves, moss
green slicked over trees. Tea- green rain
slants through a wet sky and clouds huddle
around hills colored fern, pine, shamrock.

A praying mantis, camouflage-green thighs
thrumming against a spear of hunter green.
Green-winged teal paddling in circles
in the pond.

Blue's Cruzio Cafe

Our friend Cat Townsend has an animated piece here. Click on "Seduction, Almost."
Cool concept!

"A Man Walked Into a Bard One Day..."

Hear about the suspect in the Shakespeare Folio theft? Stranger than fiction...

Museum poems

Beltway Poetry Quarterly, an online journal, seeks poems for a special themed issue celebrating museums. Poems should be about specific museums (of any kind, of any size, in any location) or specific items exhibited in museum collections. The issue will be co-edited by Kim Roberts and Maureen Thorson.

Only poets who live or work in DC, VA, MD, WV, or DE are eligible. Poems may be any length. Submit up to 4 poems by email only. Poems that have already appeared in print publications are acceptable if copyright has reverted to the author (and author secures any permissions for reprinting). Poems appearing elsewhere on the web are not eligible.

Submit poems in the body of a single email (no attachments, and please no multiple emails) to beltwaypoetryquarterly@gmail.com. Include your full contact information (snail mail address, phone, email) and a one-paragraph bio. Incomplete entries and those made outside the one-month reading period will not be considered.

The issue will be published in January 2009. All entries must be received during the month of August 2008.

Busy bees

Cheryl is interviewed here and you can see Janet's cover art on Eight Octaves Review here.

Don't those girls ever take a vacation?

Influence and Inspiration

Janet says about this painting, 'I wanted to start with thin paint in a free sketchy style, and then put on thicker paint in places. I think Gorky did that, although this doesn't look like a Gorky.'

White

This oil painting shows two sisters, the well one cradling the ill one, as a friend anxiously waits beyond the dividing line. Is it autobiographical, someone asked. You bet, one of us may have said.