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Volume 11 launched December 2002

Radames Ortiz, our featured poet is, above all, an exciting artist. 
He shares with Dylan Thomas, an ability to galvanize our attention through the urgency and immediacy of his words. Nothing is extraneous and all is music and painful awareness. His poetry is visual, tactile and aural. He has a theatrical command of images and mood and uses these to build a powerful, focused experience. His poems are love-poems to life and suffering.

Kenneth Ashworth’s poetry is elusive and evocative. He creates delicate but arresting images. His poems are saturated with a wistful longing. The aftertaste is one of beauty.

Economical, strong writing, intelligence and a sense of beauty characterize the work of Janet Buck. Her ability to alight on the perfect image has established her reputation as a poet worth reading.
John Sweet speaks for our modern conscience. He says what we daren’t say. Without a poet like John Sweet our era would seem unaware of the silent horror lurking behind our civilized facade. His minimalist poems touch dark corners of our hearts and release the unshed tears we suppress in our daily lives.
T. Birch’s poetry conveys a feeling of human helplessness in the larger scheme of things. Details and events are examined but not explained. Subtle menace blends with resignation. The writer seems detached from her own experiences, accepting whatever fate delivers. Her writing is always disturbing.


January through March 2003 ~ Volume 11 
Publisher D. Menendez, EIC Jim Christ
Editors Janet Kenny & Ani Gjika - Joe Carcel Ghost Editor