Welcome to the first issue of Alternating Current Press’ annual Poiesis Review that contains fiction and creative nonfiction right alongside the poetry you’ve always loved. We’ve expanded the journal to contain prose, and now this beast of a journal sits pretty at 200 pages of writing by some of the best writers in the independent press today. There are lots of literary journals out there, so why take a chance on this one? Because, after 20 years in the small press, Poiesis Review is one of the only literary journals in existence that features a blend of today’s up-and-coming promising rookies alongside the staples and legends of the last few decades in the literary underground. You can buy in confidence knowing that nowhere else will you find such a smattering of the writers’ spectrum or such a truly accurate cross-section of all walks of the literary world—what five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and Wisconsin Regional Writers Association Award winner, Charles P. Ries, called “young blood running with old blood.” We are proud to be one of the holdout bastions representing the full and true independent press. The Featured Writers in this issue are Norman Mailer Award finalist, Nathan Graziano; Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, two-time NEA Fellowship recipient, and Pushcart Prize nominee, Sean Brendan-Brown; and multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and three-time PEN grant recipient, Doug Draime. Their work is showcased beside 37 other artists and over 100 pieces of writing, including two of Alternating Current’s six 2013 Pushcart Prize nominations, the two grand-prize winners and four honorable-mention winners of our 2013 Luminaire Award for Best Poetry and Best Prose, and stunning cover and back cover art by the tremendously talented Terry Fan. This journal is hands-down one of the finest collections to which we have ever had the pleasure of affixing our name. If you’ve been wanting to give Alternating Current a try but didn’t know where to start, then this is the place. Other writers featured in this issue are: Leah Angstman, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Harry Calhoun, Paula Cary, Alan Catlin, CEE, Christina Elaine Collins, K. M. Dersley, Aleathia Drehmer, Michael Estabrook, Jason Fisk, Lawrence Gladeview, George Held, Kevin M. Hibshman, Justin Hyde, Merilyn Jackson, Angie Turner Jeffreys, Patrick Kindig, Angela Consolo Mankiewicz, Hosho McCreesh, Frankie Metro, Shauna Osborn, David S. Pointer, D. A. Pratt, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Charles P. Ries, Christopher Robbins, Robert James Russell, Janette Schafer, Robert Schuler, Neil Serven, Denis Sheehan, Jane Stuart, William Taylor, Jr., Travis Turner, Paula Anne Yup. Thank you for taking a chance on Alternating Current. Find out more at alternatingcurrentarts.com.

Poiesis Review #6

Literature & Fiction

Current, Alternating

Catlin, Alan

Draime, Doug

Berriozábal, Luis Cuauhtémoc

Brendan-Brown, Sean

Calhoun, Harry

Collins, Christina Elaine

Gladeview, Lawrence

Literary

Alternating Current

Fourteen prose poems in the voices of the major and minor figures of the Romantic Movement of the 19th century.

Shelley and the Romantics

Poetry

Adastra Press

Contemporary American poets write about authors of an earlier generation. Subjects include: John Ashbery, Emily Dickinson, Kenneth Koch, Carson McCullers, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and Richard Wright.

Writers Writing Writers: A Pathwise Press Compilation

James, Mike

Dalachinsky, Steve

Freiermuth, John

United States

Pathwise Pr

Alan Catlin fleshes out the complicated life of the photographer Diane Arbus through a vast diversity of perspectives ranging from Sadiko Murakami, Robert Lowell and even the bible (Matthew 17:17) to Arbus' own words in letters and journals. We meet the boy in Central Park with the hand grenade, Eddie Carmel, "the Jewish Giant," Tiny Tim at Hubert's in Times Square and the cavalcade of freaks from Arbus's oeuvre in Catlin's uniquely original poetry, often linking photography and poetry together to produce this complex portrait of the artist. Lisette Model, Richard Avedon, Susan Sontag all weigh in, leading up to the eleven "Untitled" poems that complete this remarkable portrait. As Catlin asks at the end of a poem about Mother Cabrini, a disinterred saint, one of Arbus's subjects, "All of this is normal, right?" -Charles Rammelkamp, author of The Field of Happiness, A Magician Among the Spirits, and Transcendence Alan Catlin's poetic sum of images recreates Diane Arbus's beautiful, freaky genius and her twisted personal hell. Covering both her life and her work, this collection provides readers with an unforgettable look at a photographer possessed, a deeply troubled woman who brought to light some of life's darkest subjects. -Virginia Aronson, author of Little Smiling Hooks (poems on Sylvia Plath) We've all seen the pictures but what of the woman herself? Diane Arbus was so much more than a photographer of freaks: heiress, wife, mother, sister of a renowned poet, fashion photographer, innovator, creator of a whole new way of seeing that transformed forever the medium she worked in. -Patrick Allen, poet and reviewer

How Will the Heart Endure?

Kelsay Books

Night in the City: 7/21 cc&d, v311

Kuypers, Janet

cc&d

Simon, Sally

Statham, Kevin

Weinzapfel, Aaron

Johnson, Brent

Maurer, Don

Persichetti, Jen

Robbins, L A

Independently published

Chaos Management

Short Stories & Anthologies

They're Conspiring Against The Alien Buddha

Focks, Red

Miner, Jay

Tanner,Paul

Buddha, Alien

Salvo, J de

Morningstar, Jared

Radna, Carrie Magness

Blakeslee, Heidi

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