Issue 8, Winter 2017-8

Happy New Year to our friends in the literary community! We hope you passed the holidays in fine fashion and are looking forward to a wonderful 2018. We sure are! And to kick it off in style, we’re honored and proud to present Issue 8. Once again, it’s chock full of artistry, beauty, and fine craft from a wide array of writers. (Oddly but proudly, we boast a few pieces about fathers, particularly fathers and their tools. But not all are paeans!) We thank you for your interest in Panoply and hope you enjoy Issue 8!

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Best wishes,
Andrea, Jeff, and Ryn, Co-Editors

Poetry
Acceptance – Mark Mansfield
The Ambassador of Mirrors – Ray Marsocci
and you, little bird – Lisa Reily
Another Massacre and Driving Home (after Nazim Hikmet) – Patricia Nelson
Biscayne Bay Lies Still, Like Glass – David Colodney – Pushcart Prize Nominee
Celebrity Celibacy – Carl “Papa” Palmer
Civilization in the Here and Now – John Grey
Conversations with Water – Tyrek Greene
A Day from the Window – Alexander Menachem
Dear Dad – Emily Gates – Editors’ Choice
Departure – Sue Scavo
Dinner Time in the Alzheimer’s Wing – Sherri Wright
Driving Down the Mountain at Sunset – Laura L. Mays Hoopes
Elemental – Alan Girling
Empty – Steve Gerson
Evening Walk – Joan Mazza
Fado: The Missing Key – Joe Amaral
A Father’s Shovel – Frank Babcock
The God Kvasir – Bill Garten
Grit: The Resilience of New Yorkers – Kathleen A. Lawrence
The Hail – Jacob Butlett – Pushcart Prize Nominee
The Harrow – Bill Newby – Pushcart Prize Nominee
Helsinki – Robert Okaji
Hidden – Hannah Rousselot
How to Be a Malacologist – Stephanie L. Harper
In the Heaven of Hopscotch – Anne Higgins
In the Orcan Field – Michael Cooper
In the Women’s Locker Room – Carolyn Martin
Intersection, Midtown Atlanta – Jude Marr
It Wasn’t You – Sarah Brown Weitzman
Knees – Sandra Lindow
A Lasting Rhyme – Richard King Perkins II
Leaving Louisiana – George Such
Mimaropa – Michael Mira
Mortician – S. J. Wojo
Mother Tongue – Toti O’Brien
My God – Ion Corcos
A New Hope for a New Zion – Charles McCaskill –Pushcart Prize Nominee
On Meeting Plato in Fairview Cemetery, Council Bluffs – Robert Klein Engler
Osoberry, Overripe – Paula Persoleo
Passing By – Irene Fick
Penny/Heart – James Croal Jackson
The Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle – William Reichard
Port – Laura Madeline Wiseman
The Prairie – Bridget Fertal
Prayer – Darian Kuxhouse
Rite of Passage – Susan Holck
Scholars Hence – Mike Jurkovic
Scratch in My Throat – Hannah A’Enene
Skyscape – Emman Usman Shehu
Some Things Must Be Believed to Be Seen – Kevin Brown
Stripping Scrap Wire – Michael VanCalbergh
Surviving Snappers – Ed McCourt
Toy Park – Beau Boudreaux
Truncated – Devon Balwit
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – Ann Howells – Editors’ Choice
The Wardrobe – Gareth Culshaw
When Someone Dies – Carla Schwartz
When We Were Together – Colton McLaughlin
The Wolves – Alexandra Gaines