Summary of poetry, poems and info, 2014,   plus!  Angelee Deodhar and Dennis Rhodes!

publications (online and/or print) seeking poetry -
contact editor/site for finite details -
and, best to your holidays and to your 2015 publishing endeavors. . .

                                                                      

Whispers in the Wind  Karen O'Leary for details  gksm@cableone.net  

Asahi Haikuist Network  David McMurray mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp

Speed Bump Journal website with details - 

 http://speedbumpjournal.wordpress.com/about/ 

Cattails (The United Haiku and Tanka Society) review guidelines and - submittocattails@gmail.com

Dead Snakes (another day at the office)

editordeadsnakes@gmail.com

Cheap Seats, Canyon Wren Press - 

canyon.wren@q.com (next issue will have additional editor)                                                       

The Weekly Avocet  www.AvocetReview.com

Charles Portolano, Editor/Publisher

Vivi and Valerie Portolano, Co-Editors  

                    The Avocet, a Journal of Nature Poetry 

                            and 

                    The Weekly Avocet, every Wednesday

Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, ed. R D Bailey

Shamrock  Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society

Writers & Lovers Cafe! - email submissions to wojnicki@yahoo.com

Shemom. . .  print pub., ed. Peggy Dugan French (am pleased to know her as ‘friend’) - sub’s with SASE to 

Peggy French   

2486 Montgomery Ave  Cardiff  CA  92007

or pdfrench@cox.net  

(personal favorite)

Eye on Life Magazine. . .  online, ed. Tom Rubenoff

aushcreates.blogspot.com -ISteve Ausherman - ‘I am a poet, photographer, potter, painter and high school fine arts instructor. In love with my wife. Loves to travel. Loves to read. Can't sit still. Needs nature to balance the insanity of life. Music lover. Cat lover’  Picture of two aunts, of an occasional handmade card - a certain relaxing decentness therein (a bear creek haiku contributor)

also, consider requirements/sending poetry to friends at Issa's Untidy Hut/ lilliput Review/Wed. Haiku, (ed. Don Wentworth), New Verse News (ed. James Penha) 

a haiga from Angelee Deodhar. . . 

lovely! from Angelee Deodhar and Dennis Rhodes - 

may this new year be full of graciousness for one and all -

see you in a moment

ayaz daryl nielsen                                            darylayaz@me.com

                                                      

                                                                                                                                     
                                                                    homeow

         
                   

   

Dennis Rhodes' 'THE LETTER I' - from Chelsea Station Editions

    about poet Dennis Rhodes (and THE LETTER I):  his poetry has long had/will continue to have a home in my poetry publication (bear creek haiku), and, two or so months ago, I welcomed an opportunity to review the most recent collection of his poetry (from Chelsea Station Editions) -

    the poetics of THE LETTER I - gay sex, surviving HIV and OCD, et al. (the infamous et al., herein including psychotic break/suicide attempt, love, faith, graciousness, death, humor) as lived by this very successful editor/activist/businessman/world traveler/poet’s innermost being. . .

    and delayed writing this review until I could sort through how to 'be about' it. . .  Basho! one of our early haiku heroes was (again) here to help - in the 17th century Japanese world of Basho, no stigma was attached to choosing between wakashudō, 'the way of gay love', and nyodō, 'the way of loving women'. . .  as a young man, Basho became fascinated with 'the ways of gay love'* - one of Basho's well-known haiku -  

                    The moon is clear - 

                    I escort a lovely boy

                    (‘chigo no tomo’, chigo: 

                    homosexual)            

                    frightened by a fox.**

    So, here we are:  Chelsea Station Editions has published within THE LETTER I a strong, 'searing' (swiped from the back cover 'cause it’s so often suitable) compassionate and endearing poetry collection from one of our finest.  Even if some poems aren’t for all, many of us can expand our own creative realm(s) by engaging with this poetic collection. . . 

    here are two -

                         How much does the world weigh?

                         How much does the world weigh?

                         There are ways to find out.

                         Science has its equations

                         but I have no doubt

                         that Jesus would tell you

                         if you ask him nicely -

                         he bore, on his shoulders, every pound.

                         He knows, precisely.

Poets in Cafes

Poets in cafes

on rainy days

reflect and brood

over human ways.

They never stop

even when asleep:

the urge to express

runs very deep.

Think nothing of them.

They are quite at tome

with an expresso

and half-finished poem.

             THE LETTER I    Published by 

                         Chelsea Station Editions

                         362 West 36th Street, Suite 2R

                         New York, NY  10018

www.chelstationeditions.com/info@chelstationeditions.com

Dennis Rhodes can be reached at dennis1954@att.net

              one more from Dennis (and Chelsea Station) -

              

                           credo

                        I bloodied my knuckles

                           to get where I am

                           against a stone wall

                           to get where I am

                           I wrung out my heart

                           to get where I am

                           like so much laundry

                           to get where I am

                           I am nothing but scars

                           and scaborous peeling.

                           I am always wounded

                           and always healing.

*info on Basho abused from ed. Robert Hass and his 'The Essential HAIKU Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa'

**and from ed. Faubion Bowers: “The Classic Tradition of Haiku - An Anthology‘      

(two current favorite reference sources)

see you in a moment 

ayaz daryl nielsen                                   darylayaz@me.com

                                                         and, of course,

                                                         Frosty