Themed Issue - Reverence, February 2020
poetry by Cal Freeman, Hibah Shabkhez, Robert R. Bensen, Lynne Shapiro, and Purbasha Roy
Surrogate Reader: Hena Ahmah
Guest Editor: Brendan Walsh
Brendan Walsh has lived and taught in South Korea, Laos, and South Florida. His work appears in Glass Poetry, Indianapolis Review, Baltimore Review, Wisconsin Review, American Literary Review, and other journals. He is the author of five books, including Go (Aldrich Press), Buddha vs. Bonobo (Sutra Press), and fort lauderdale (Grey Book Press).
"Floodplain Ode" @
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Cal Freeman is the author of the book Fight Songs. His writing has appeared in many journals including Southword, The Moth, Passages North, The Journal, Hippocampus, Drunken Boat, and The Poetry Review. He currently serves as music editor of The Museum of Americana and teaches at Oakland University.
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Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, a teacher of French as a foreign language and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Black Bough, Protean, Ideate, The Dawntreader and a number of other literary magazines.
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"Golden Eagles Over Franklin Mountain" @
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Robert Bensen is Emeritus Professor of English, Hartwick College, where he directed the writing programs (1978-2017). Before is his most recent of six collections of poetry. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Native Realities, Jamaica Journal, AGNI, Akwe:kon, Poetry Wales, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.
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"Summer of Snakes" @
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Lynne Shapiro’s work has been published in such journals as Contemporary Verse 2, Mslexia, Platte Valley Review and terrain.org and in anthologies, including: Eating Her Wedding Dress, A Collection of Clothing Poems and Decomposition: An Anthology of Fungi Inspired Poems. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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"Reverence" @
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Purbasha Roy is from Jharkhand, India. Her work is published in Bewildering Stories, Teesta journal, Biscuit Root Drive, and Rigorous Magazine. Her love includes family, writing, photography and staring at skies.
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Surrogate Reader for "Journal Entry" and "Reverence"
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Hena Ahmad is Professor of English at Truman State University where she teaches Postcolonial Literature and Theory, with research interests in South Asian diasporic literature. She is the author of Postnational Feminisms and is a Trustee of the Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust.
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