The Hermit Poet

The new issue is up — come and get it! Great work as always — and from all over the world.

Read the issue here

Here’s what’s in store:

Poetry:

• Jeffrey Alfier: “Last Words to an Old Miner Leaving Albuquerque”
• Jon Ballard: “Trees Make You Think of Other Things”
• Pris Campbell: “Undertow”
• Heather Green: “Valentine’s Day at the SF MOMA, Again”
• Rachel Eliza Griffiths: “Wake for Memory”
• Jee Leong Koh: “Hungry Ghosts”
• Ted McCarthy: “Lines with a Latin Dictionary”
• Rhonda Mino-Melanson: “Memories and Condolences”
• Tolu Ogunlesi: “On Reading ‘A Wedding in Hell’ by Charles Simic”
• Doug Ramspeck: “Oneiromancy”
• Sam Rasnake: “This is not my testament”
• Yun Wang: “Space Journal: Day Dreams”
• Joe Wilkins: “North Carolina By Greyhound: First Christmas After the Funeral”

Interview:

• “Obsession, Grace, and the Second Book: An Interview with Oliver de la Paz” ~ Diana Park

Review:

• “Sally Ball’s Annus Mirabilis – Logical Affect” ~ Tatiana Forero Puerta

Photography:

• Arthur Westover: “Field” and “Walkway”

This issue is dedicated to my father Kenneth George Aitken (1947-2007), who passed away last month on April 21 from ALS. Although most of you never met him, he was a staunch supporter of this journal and of literature in general, and provided much encouragement at the onset of this endeavor. In fact, I wouldn’t be here without his love for poetry — as a young man he wooed my mother with poetry — evidently successfully…