Photo by Andrea Walker

Spring has sprung throughout North America. Trees have been in bud here in Pensacola for a few weeks now, the joy of rebirth and renewal. Our contributors renew our own spirits, and we hope they renew yours as well! 

Once again, we happen upon bunches of work that touch on certain themes. Coincidence is nearly a rule here at Panoply! Issue 12 features a clutch of poems about sex; another about family; another about home towns, both current and former. And of course, there are a host of other wonderful works on a variety of other themes, all flowing with art and wonder. We hope you enjoy the issue!

Issue 13, unthemed, is scheduled for publication around August 23, with our Call for Submissions, July 5-28. We’ll update our announcements as those dates approach. As usual, we’ll be posting our weekly Editors’ Choices starting before the end of May, followed by a chapbook review in late June. Thanks to all for submitting; thanks to all for reading.

Best wishes,
Andrea, Jeff, and Ryn, Editors

Contents

#38 – Brendan Connolly
Amid the Alien Corn – David Swerdlow
Among Stones – Jeff Hardin
April Snow – Ginger Dehlinger
Aqua Pura – Charlotte Hamrick
Being a Bishop – RC DeWinter
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered – Patricia Carragon
Caminata – Lorraine Caputo
Caught in a Snare – Gloria Nixon-John
County High Point – Craig Finlay
Delphi Falls – Ellen Austin-Li
Footprints In the Snow – LindaAnn Lo Schiavo
Galahad – Patricia Nelson
The Hostages – Niles Reddick
How to Tell an Old Man He Can’t Climb a Tree – Brooke Schifano
I Saw Myself – Jacquelyn Shah
I Didn’t Know Snow Then – Lauren Davis
In the knee-high grass of Eastern Montana, Independence is a luxury few can afford – John McDonough
the irreversible future – Mike Jurkovic
Japanese Kites – Peter Scacco
The Joys of Sex – Ciara Dall
A Kind of Nothing is Prominently There Instead  – Nancy Jentsch
Lazarus Explains – Bruce McRae
Legend – Max Heinegg
Like the Big Bang – Catherine Arra
Mother’s Fudge – CL Sostarich
My First Death – Ellen Sander
Naive and Sentimental Sonnet #10 – Thomas Zimmerman
Newton Corner – Andrew Furst
Night Eagle – Dee Allen
Night Watch – S.E. Clark
Noah’s Ark – Betsy Mars
A Note on North Stars – Emma Johnson-Rivard
The Patriots – Traci Mullins
Pleasant Lane – Jeremy Voigt
Promise #9 – Tony Burnett
Reconciling with Home – Brian Fanelli
A Ribbon at at Time – Ann Howells
Saturday Morning Remorse – Adrian Potter
Sex at Sixty – Cheryl Caesar
The Shape of Rain – Lois Harrod
Show Me the Way – David Lohrey
A Simple Gesture – Robin Wright
Smile – Billy Thrasher
Sorrow Bed – Kimberly Becker
Something There is that Doesn’t Love a Neighbor ~ – Ken Gosse
Special Carousel – Gary Glauber
Spend Less Time with Nightingales and Peacocks. One is Just a Voice, the Other Just a Color – Rebecca Macijeski
Spider Catch – Mark Youssef
Stenciled With Palm Trees and Flamingos – Francine Witte
Sugar – Christian Fennell
Summer Festival – Paula Kaufman
Thanksgiving – Joy Gaines-Friedler
They’ll Call Me Deserter – Darwin Pappas-Fernandes
Tornado Watch – Carl Boon
Tune – Gale Acuff
Wasco Woman – Penelope Schott
Without Speaking – Eliana Swerdlow
Your Son’s Birthday Party – Kimberly Wright
Your City, My Unincorporated Town – Laura Voivodeship