Description
Celebrating our 57th year of continuous publication, issue 113 includes a supplement of poems curated by Yolanda Wisher and a remembrance and poems by longtime Hanging Loose author, Gary Lenhart.
Additional special features:
- Work by Pia Deas, Quincy Scott Joens, and Trapeta B. Mayson; and
- Four of Gary Lenhart's last poems.
Others included in this issue are some of our regulars—Sherman Alexie, Indran Amirthanayagam, Jack Anderson, Rosalind Brackenbury, Jiwon Choi, Bill Christophersen, Pablo Medina, Charles North, Martin Skoble, and Tom Wayman; as well as many poets new to HL: Keith Althaus, Peter Bakowski, John Wall Barger, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Debra Cash, John Corley, Matthew Feeney, Dan Grote, Hunt Hawkins, Robert Hirschfield, Walt Hunter, Jennifer Martelli, Victoria Kohn Michels, Juan Mobili, Thomas Moody, David Shaddock, Marc Vincenz, Moira Walsh, and Brother Yao (Hoke S. Glover III).
And—as always in each issue—we’re proud of our special section of high school poetry and prose. Issue #113 writers include Meryn Banks, Evelyn deVos, Maira Faisal, Claire Fox, Jeannie Kim, Maya Miller, Phoebe Price, and Jayna Yoon.
Magazine. Poetry. Art.
Author Bio
Jiwon Choi is a Brooklyn poet, preschool teacher, and urban gardener, her work has been widely published in various online and print publications, including Painted Bride Quarterly, Bombay Gin, and Hanging Loose. She is the author of I USED TO BE KOREAN (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) and ONE DAUGHTER IS WORTH TEN SONS (Hanging Loose Press, 2017).
Joanna Fuhrman's work has been published in many journals, in including the Pushcart Prize Anthology (2011). She writes essays on teaching poetry to young people, and she is the author of six previous full-length poetry collections, five of which have been published by Hanging Loose: FREUD IN BROOKLYN (2000), UGH UGH OCEAN (2003), MORAINE (2006), THE YEAR OF THE YELLOW BUTTERFLIES (2015), and TO A NEW ERA (2021). A past winner of the Kenereth Gensler Award, her books have been widely reviewed and praised.
Elizabeth Hershon is a painter, ceramicist, poet, teacher, and the art editor of Hanging Loose. She lives in the East Village, but grew up in Brooklyn.
Of Dick Lourie's poems, Denise Levertov wrote that "his voice speaks with a unique and convincing eloquence." His 2009 book, IF THE DELTA WAS THE SEA (Hanging Loose Press, 2009), is based on the history and music of the Mississippi Delta, where he has performed as a blues sax player for 25 years. He has released two CDs of sax and spoken word with a blues band. A founding coeditor of Hanging Loose Press in 1966, Lourie has edited more than 100 titles for the press. His most recent (2021) book of poems, JAM SESSION (Hanging Loose Press, 2020), is a free-floating meditation on jazz and blues.
Mark Pawlak has been a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press since 1980. Pawlak has a degree in physics from M.I.T. and is Director of Academic Support Programs at UMass-Boston.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA