The title of this, the latest of our annual Not One of Us special publications, speaks to its dual nature. “Under” is the theme of the art, stories, and poetry. We have blue clay hidden under dead earth, a present not found under a tree, and two people trapped beneath the waves, a wordy monster and a stealthy coyotl, the kouros of Poseidon, a gnome hiding in shadow, and a long lost love. And we have under review two outstanding new collections from Papaveria Press: Patricia Russo’s Shiny Thing and Sonya Taaffe’s A Mayse-Bikhl.
Under Review contents:
Piscky’s Ascent, by Kate Murray
The Gnome (poem), by K.S. Hardy
Wordy, by Lake William Wharton
Coyotle (poem), by R L Raymond
A Long Lost Love (poem), by Kent Kruse
Review of Patricia Russo’s Shiny Thing, by Francesca Forrest
Review of Sonya Taaffe’s A Mayse-Bikhl, by Erik Amundsen
Theseid (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
Blue Clay, by Patricia Russo
The Present, by Alarice K. Breidert
Art: Teresa Tunaley (cover), Allen Koszowski, Kathleen Weldon