RED: Recurring Ekphrastic Discourse

A few random thoughts on ekphrastic poetry:

http://clevelandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/06/red-recurring-ekphrastic-discourse.html

Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy

Now Available from Karen Romanko's Raven Electrick Ink:

Contents and Info:
http://ravenelectrick.com/cinemaspec.html

Amazon:
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Iron Angels

My review of Geoff Landis' Iron Angels:

http://clevelandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/05/book-review-iron-angels-by-geoff-landis.html

Just Out: Sybil's Garage, Number 6

http://www.sensesfive.com/sg6.php

Let's all get on the G train and take a ride into speculative land. Descartes had it right. Cogito ergo Sybil.

When you lie awake dreaming at night, do you know that Sybil lies awake and dreams about you?

Here's what else Sybil dreams: She dreams of a world where humans are an endangered species. A universe where creatures are born, live, and die without ever touching the ground. She dreams of a town where once a year all men go mad, and of a community where basketball becomes the artbiter of life or death. Where children are trees that live in the desert and where ghosts drink your whiskey when your husband's away. And when she awakes, Sybil wonders if you still exist, or if you were just a figment of her imagination.

Cogito ergo Sybil indeed.

Table of Contents

Poetry
Liz Bourke — “The Girl”
Donna Burgess — “Ashes”
Lyn C. A. Gardner — “God’s Cat”
Alex Dally MacFarlane — “The Wat”
Susannah Mandel — “Metamorphic Megafauna”
Tracie McBride — “An Ill Wind”
Kristen McHenry — “Museum”
Jaime Lee Moyer — “One by Moonlight ”
Daniel A. Rabuzzi — “Backsight”
Michel Sauret — “Brick Wall Giants”
Michel Sauret — “Son of Man”
J.E. Stanley — “City of Bridges”
Sonya Taaffe — “Skiadas”
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff — “Sun-Kissed”

Fiction
Rumjhum Biswas — “Mother’s Garden”
K. Tempest Bradford — “Élan Vital” (read online now)
Autumn Canter — “Day of the Mayfly”
Becca De La Rosa — “Not the West Wind”
Eric Del Carlo — “Come the Cold”
Jason Heller — “The Raincaller”
Paul Jessup — “Heaven’s Fire ”
Vylar Kaftan — “Fulgurite”
Keffy R. M. Kehrli — “Machine Washable”
Sean Markey — “Waiting for the Green Woman”
James B. Pepe — “I am Enkidu, his Wild Brother”
Simon Petrie — “Downdraft”
Genevieve Valentine — “The Drink of Fine Gentlemen Everywhere”
Stephanie Campisi — “Drinking Black Coffee at the Jasper Grey Café”
Toiya Kristen Finley — “Eating Ritual”
Donald Norum — “An Old Man Went Fishing on the Sea of Red”

Non-Fiction:
Interview with Paul Tremblay by Devin Poore

From Matthew Kressel's Senses Five Press blog

http://www.sensesfive.com/blog/2009/04/21/in-our-own-backyard/

We use the word "billions" quite often when speaking of the universe. But, unless I'm mistaken, there are only about 4,000 stars visible to the naked eye.

My Review of Joshua Gage's "breaths"

Check it out:

http://clevelandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/01/review.html

Sampling of Rhysling Award-Eligible Poems from 2008

A sampling of my Rhysling Award eligible poems from 2008 (a handful of cinquains and a ghazal). Publication credits are printed at the bottom after the poems.

***
Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah

Rust-toned
monoliths rise
from the barren desert,
red, like the russet hues of Mars,
like home.

***

Distant Cousins of Kerouac on the Outskirts of Europa

On the
sheerest of wings,
we ride the solar wind,
trying to lose our selves -- and find
freedom.

***

The Oracle of West 25th Street

I see
right through her scam.
Still, she claims to know my
future. “Dust,” she says, “and ash. Dust
and ash.”

***

Escape Clause

Re-wired,
the mind’s “I” lost
in endlessly looping
detours of charged electrical
chaos.

***

Resolution

Tombstones
weigh down the dead,
enforce the claims of earth
and ash-- all memories of sky
erased.

***

Lunaticus (in D Minor)


With steel and fire, we fly to the moon.
Apollo reveals a new sky from the moon.

Lunar depths house the machinery of gods
in this vast cosmic storm whose true eye is the moon.

Artemis unleashes the arrows of Fate.
With the blood of her prey, she baptizes the moon.

The river returns variations of night.
In untempered song, it reprises the moon.

Lilith would promise you undying life
through venom and lust. She trades lies with the moon.

With no light of its own, it survives each eclipse
while prophets predict the demise of the moon.

Its origin debated, a mystery, unknown;
only I know the how and the why of the moon.

The poet is lost, seduced once again
by the unadorned flash of white thigh ‘neath the moon.

***
© Copyright 2008. J.E. Stanley.


Publication Info:

“Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah,” Scifaikuest (Issue 20: Vol. V, No. 4, Sam’s Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. May 2008, Online Edition). Editor: Teri Santitoro at gatrix65@yahoo.com


“Distant Cousins of Kerouac on the Outskirts of Europa” and “Resolution,” Scifaikuest, Featured Poet Section (Issue 20: Vol. V, No. 4, Sam’s Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. May 2008, Print Edition) Editor: Teri Santitoro at gatrix65@yahoo.com


“The Oracle of West 25th Street,” Scifaikuest, Featured Poet Section (Issue 20: Vol. V, No. 4, Sam’s Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. May 2008, Print Edition) Editor: Teri Santitoro at gatrix65@yahoo.com. Reprinted in Sein und Werden 18: Memento Mori (Vol. 3, No. 2. Manchester, England. Autumn 2008, Print Edition) Editor: Rachel Kendall at r_p_kendall@hotmail.com


“Escape Clause,” Sein und Werden 17: Sein; Cosein; Tangent (Vol. 3, No. 1. Manchester, England. Summer 2008. Print Edition) Editor: Rachel Kendall at r_p_kendall@hotmail.com


“Lunaticus (in D Minor),”The Ghazal Page: The Moon Radif Challenge (Rolla, Missouri. July 2008. Online at http://www.ghazalpage.net/2008/moon_challenge/waning_moon.html. Editor: Gino Peregrini at gdoty@fidnet.com