Photo by Andrea Walker
Hello Panoply world!
We’re pleased to present Issue 25. Thanks to our submitters and congratulations to our contributors. We hope the blaze of summer (here in much of the US) cools as you sit back and enjoy this fine art.
We noticed an unusual amount of narrative in this issue. Some flash, and also some in the more familiar poetic forms. Lots of stories to tell! And some bonus the fine storytelling with snappy voices. (Speaking of poetic forms, we do enjoy a traditional format from time to time. So, considering sending us a pantoum or sestina sometime.) There are also a few long pieces included. We love them all, hoping our name reflects our values and priorities.
We hope you enjoy Issue 25! Thanks for thinking of Panoply.
Pray for Ukraine.
With love,
Andrea, Clara, and Jeff, Editors
Contents
actually – by Mark Fisher
Apple of My Eye – by Beth Gordon
Avast – by Karla Linn Merrifield
Beeldenstorm – by Kathryn Jordan
The Best Use of My Time in the Universe Where You’re Still Alive – by Michael VanCalbergh
The Boxer at Rest – by Mark Madigan
Broken Needles, Lost Pins – by Laura Jan Shore
Circuit Breaker – by Jeanne Blum Lesinski
Compass – by Cheryl Snell
Cyst Cold – by Aakriti Kuntal
Daddy is Just Like You – by Aly Allen
Do You Believe in Gar Jesus? Wanna Meet Him? – by Zach Arnett
Endangering the Urban Dwellers – by John Milkereit
Fish on Plate – by Frederick Pollack
Ghazal – by Joshua Gage
Ghosts in Dreamland – by Kaecey McCormick
He’ll Tell the Chicas in Biology Cuz That’s Where We Learn About Bones – by Brian Dickson
idaho – by Nicholas Barnes
In the House of God – by Mitch Roshannon
Keep My Head When You Go – by Geoff Sawers
Langkawi Archipelago – by Sandi Stromberg
Leaving – by Melissa Eleftherion
lego love – by Norah Mayer
Lessons in Derivatives – by Gary Glauber
Life Without Make-Up – by Ilari Pass
Mother is a Verb, too – by Gus Peterson
My Father, Howling – by Katie Hoerth
On Our Way to Sal’s Market – by Ed Gaudet
Pamela Brown Thomas* – by Janet Ruth Heller
Posted – by Steve Gerson
Simple Symposium – by John Zedolik
Smells – by Ronald Pelias
South Bar, December – by Steven Fortune
Spraying DDT – by Donald Sellitti
The Universe is Broken – by D.A. Hosek
A Walk With the Wild – by Preeth Ganapathy
What Passes for Laughter – by Simon Thalmann
Wherever You Are, Get Here – by Tom Squitieri
Wild Little Girls – by Rowan Waller
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Dear Editors,
Thank you for publishing my poem “Pamela Brown Thomas” in your September 2023 issue! I’m pleased to have my work in a journal with so many good other poems. Best wishes!
Sincerely,
Janet Ruth Heller
Author of the poetry books Nature’s Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011), the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990), the middle-grade chapter book for kids The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016), and the award-winning picture book for kids about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; seventh edition 2022).
My website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/
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Hello Janet, Thanks for sending it to us! We’re pleased to have published it. Andrea, Clara, and Jeff, Editors
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