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Journal information: Sentence: a journal of prose poetics. Published by Firewheel Editions. They prefer email submissions with attached PDF file, although Word files are acceptable (one single attached file), to editor@firewheel-editions.org. Subscriptions available at firewheel-editions.org or on amazon.
Wow. Excellent stuff in here. There was also, of course, a lot of stuff that I didn't really "get", but that's kind of to be expected--prose poems vary so much, and leave so much room for experimentation. But it's a nice big thick journal full of really good work, and I really enjoyed reading it.
Poems that made me gasp with love for the world:
- "Three Poems", Gary Young (all three of them--need to look into getting his book, No Other Life, also reviewed in this issue)
- "The Next Village", David Shumate
- "How to Draw a Horse", Robert Miltner
- "Cloudberries", Jay Meek
- "At Mazeau", George Godeau (trans. Kathleen McGookey)
- all three poems by Russell Edson (of course--need to look into getting some of his books as well--any recommendations?)
- "The Neighbor's Dog", Jamey Dunham
Other poems I really liked or that moved me in deep and inexplicable ways:
- "Barbecued Toad", Kirby Wright (so spirited!)
- "The Rose at the Hem of the Door", Max Winter (so sad!)
- Tom Whalen's doll poems. How creepy and strange!
- "Instant Baby", Charles Harper Webb (so true, so sad)
- "Primer Lesson", Mark Vinz (I love to see somebody stick it to Dick and Jane)
- "Mom", Kerry Reilly (this is what my life will be after my mother someday dies)
- "Poetry is no Cure", Ethan Paquin (the last three lines caught me)
- Michelle Noteboom's first two "Dear Chia" poems, especially the first one.
- "Poem in the Manner of an Eric Ambler Spy Novel", David Lehmann (clever and fun!)
- "Old Men Driving with Dogs", Mary A. Koncel
- "The God of Falling Objects", Christina Boyka Kluge (for some reason I keep coming back to this one)
- "Hush-Harbor Scene", Roxanne Beth Johnson (so peaceful)
- "Expanding Universe", Louis Jenkins
- "Gravity", Nolan Heinz
- "W", Denise Duhamel (she has new books out that I don't have! OMG!)
- "Killing the Nurse in the House", Cortney Davis (so disturbing)
- "Basement", Andy Cox
- "Time Folds", Margaret Atwood
- "Southern Comfort", Nin Andrews (whom I ordinarily don't like all that much, interestingly)
And lest ye think that I just loved the whole darn issue because I listed like 30 poems there--it's a 232-page journal. There's reviews and things in the back (and I like the bibliography, that's a cool idea), but that's still a whole lot of poems. There were more that I didn't like as much.
Overall: I'm definitely going to submit, and I think I might subscribe, too.
Wow. Excellent stuff in here. There was also, of course, a lot of stuff that I didn't really "get", but that's kind of to be expected--prose poems vary so much, and leave so much room for experimentation. But it's a nice big thick journal full of really good work, and I really enjoyed reading it.
Poems that made me gasp with love for the world:
- "Three Poems", Gary Young (all three of them--need to look into getting his book, No Other Life, also reviewed in this issue)
- "The Next Village", David Shumate
- "How to Draw a Horse", Robert Miltner
- "Cloudberries", Jay Meek
- "At Mazeau", George Godeau (trans. Kathleen McGookey)
- all three poems by Russell Edson (of course--need to look into getting some of his books as well--any recommendations?)
- "The Neighbor's Dog", Jamey Dunham
Other poems I really liked or that moved me in deep and inexplicable ways:
- "Barbecued Toad", Kirby Wright (so spirited!)
- "The Rose at the Hem of the Door", Max Winter (so sad!)
- Tom Whalen's doll poems. How creepy and strange!
- "Instant Baby", Charles Harper Webb (so true, so sad)
- "Primer Lesson", Mark Vinz (I love to see somebody stick it to Dick and Jane)
- "Mom", Kerry Reilly (this is what my life will be after my mother someday dies)
- "Poetry is no Cure", Ethan Paquin (the last three lines caught me)
- Michelle Noteboom's first two "Dear Chia" poems, especially the first one.
- "Poem in the Manner of an Eric Ambler Spy Novel", David Lehmann (clever and fun!)
- "Old Men Driving with Dogs", Mary A. Koncel
- "The God of Falling Objects", Christina Boyka Kluge (for some reason I keep coming back to this one)
- "Hush-Harbor Scene", Roxanne Beth Johnson (so peaceful)
- "Expanding Universe", Louis Jenkins
- "Gravity", Nolan Heinz
- "W", Denise Duhamel (she has new books out that I don't have! OMG!)
- "Killing the Nurse in the House", Cortney Davis (so disturbing)
- "Basement", Andy Cox
- "Time Folds", Margaret Atwood
- "Southern Comfort", Nin Andrews (whom I ordinarily don't like all that much, interestingly)
And lest ye think that I just loved the whole darn issue because I listed like 30 poems there--it's a 232-page journal. There's reviews and things in the back (and I like the bibliography, that's a cool idea), but that's still a whole lot of poems. There were more that I didn't like as much.
Overall: I'm definitely going to submit, and I think I might subscribe, too.
