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and we are learning letterpress. a first book: engulf.
13 AprA book of instant haiku, made with Bryan Baker (of Signal Return press in Detroit) and two other poets.
our top 11 posts: poems and interviews you chose
3 NovWe’ve been here for a year now, and we’ve shared work we believe in, artists and writers who matter, work we love and know you’ll love, too, if you just know it exists. We’re happy you’re walking this path with us.
And as we complete work on the Remaking Moby-Dick special issue and start preparing our late-fall regular issue of the Pea River Journal, we’re reminded of what you’ve loved the most at PRJ in 2013.
Everybody else has a top ten. We have a top 11:
Robert Gray, “Humidity”
Robert Gray, “The Day I Was Born”
Grant Clauser, “Objects in Motion”
Robert Daniels, “County Employee”
Weam Namou, “A Mentor”
Joseph Sentrock Perez, Stay Fly
Cheryl Dumesnil, “It’s not the Holy Spirit”
Rita Patel, interview
Remaking Moby-Dick call
Jeff St James, “Bush Soul”
Molly Gaudry, interview
If you missed any of them, please go read or view them now. And let us (and the artists) know what you think.
And, of course, more is on the way. We are seeing the light at the end of the Melville tunnel and starting to hear the hum and churn of the river again.
park, morning
6 AugEarly morning. Empty park. Empty playground. A class-change bell at the empty school next to the park sounded, inexplicably. No students to change classes in the echoing halls. At the pool, a clot of children in swimwings bobbed in the deep end listening to their teacher who knelt to explain watery things.
Matt Kish’s page 26 illustration for Moby-Dick: the forest, childhood terrors, and what we imagine in the dark.
8 MayHere’s more of our conversation with Matt Kish, this time focusing on his image that evokes Hawthorne and Jewett and the fairytale.
And Moby-Dick: “…and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bedside.”
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