Bücher veröffentlicht von Lily Poetry Review

Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal devoted to poetry and visual arts, flash fiction and literary criticism by emerging and established writers and artists. Volume 1, Issue 2 includes work by Steven Cramer, Kevin Mclellan, Susan Rich, Wendy Drexler, Rukhsar Palla, Ace Boggess, Steven Riel, and Barbara Siegel Carlson among others

Good Harbor is a book of poems about trying to provide shelter for the ones we love. In poems rooted in New England and New York, Max Heinegg writes about parenting and teaching, navigating the rough waters of life to find safety in the harbors of home and community. Max's poems are grounded in places and real-life experience, but also draw on a lifelong passion for music, history, mythology, cooking, exploring nature, and a quarter-century in the classroom. His work reveals what is magical in the mundane and the complexity of the expected.

Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal featuring poetry, flash fiction, and art. In this issue, Jenna Le, Jennifer Franklin, Jennifer Martelli, Richard Hoffman, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, and others. Cover art by Ashley Parker Owens and designed by Martha McCollough.

"What strange mercy I sew with dull pins," says Florence Nightingale in Bernadette McComish''s fascinating new chapbook. In spare, deadly accurate lines--a nurse''s work in Crimean winter is "closing eyes/frozen open"--McComish will show you the antipodes of the human condition: our capacity for suffering, our ability to love in the face of horror, and the silence at the heart of our lives. Florence Nightingale''s Lost Log is a brilliant achievement." -Dennis Nurkse Florence Nightingale''s Lost log is an imagined affair between history''s most famous nurse and a soldier during the Crimean War. Nightingale unapologetically gave up romantic relationships to be in service of others. In these lost pages she reveals a longing and passion for connection, if only in her mind. 

Rikki Santer's dazzling How to Board a Moving Ship makes the familiar brilliantly strange again. Neighbors are bears in "golden vanilla coats," garden gnomes wander, adolescence is electric and ever present, headlines promise life on other planets, and the cruel pageantry of our government is loud as a carnival. Between the lights and neighborhoods and catwalks, loss lives here, too, as when Santer describes her mother: "the palindrome of my mother's / chest scars, targets where her breasts used to be." Santer is both a magician and our Virgil, guiding us through each vignette, whether it's a vision from childhood - "memories wash / lean in the tides-red rover, red rover" - or "the politics of textile" and the splendor and harm of fashion. Santer invites us to marvel and reminds us that even in an unpredictable and painful world, there is still so much wonder ready for an audience.-Ruth Awad, author of Set to Music a Wildfire.