Announcing Not One of Us #37

[lesser_celery]

“Welcome, tovarich, to our comrades issue. We have friends for life, a man and his nano, a fugitive and her Shape, frogs and fish, ghosts of an expedition, Kameraden in an exhibition….”

Contents:

No Good Deed, by Patricia Russo
Cydonia River (poem), by Danny Adams
Ebb, by Amanda Downum
A Chrome Attic (poem), by Elizabeth Barrette
Smother, by Brian Worley
The Open-Faced Sandwich (poem), by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Locum, Yellow Rose, by Chris Bell
Grave statue of an unknown baboon-headed god, c. 300 B.C. (poem), by Jennifer Crow
Sticks (poem), by Karen R. Porter
Your First Time (poem), by Samantha Henderson
Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song, by Joshua Reynolds
Kameraden Obscure: A Retrospective (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
Featured artist: John Stanton

Not One of Us #37 is now available from The Genre Mall, and can soon be found at Shocklines, BBR Distribution, and Chris Drumm Books.

Later this week I’ll be heading out to Anaheim for the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). No, I’m not going to visit Mickey Mouse, even though I’ll be within shooting distance of Disneyland. But I look forward to seeing friends and comrades from my profession.

Comments

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I worked on a couple poetry collections with people and we spent so much time trying to get everything to flow from start to finish, thematic issues, tone, rhythms, etc., but we both knew that people pick up collections, leaf through and just stop when something strikes. Maybe there's something still there though, a certain sense that when the reader flips to a middle poem, they're immersing themselves in something that's already started in a way. I've found that if I really like a collection, or I like a story I've randomly selected from the middle, I'll often go back and read it start to finish, in order. It's all worth it :)