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

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

More Than The Alley

Poetry

Interior Noise Press

"the Captive and the Dead" is a 2015 Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v258) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include writers and artists like Janet Kuypers, Michael Ceraolo, Jackie Wolk, Cheryl Townsend photography, I.B. Rad, the HA!Man of South Africa (with art), R. N. Taber, Chen Okafor, Doug Draime, G. A. Scheinoha, Aaron Wilder (with art), Fritz Hamilton, Brian Looney (with art), L. Payne, CEE, David Hernandez, Patrick Fealey (with art), MCD, Ronald Charles Epstein, Eric Bonholtzer (with art), Richard King Perkins II, Bill Yarrow, Bob Rashkow, Eric Allen Yankee, Luis Martinez, Eric Burbridge, Liam Spencer, Kyle Hemmings (with art), David J. Thompson (with art), Patrick Fealey, David Michael Jackson (with art), Aaron Wilder (with art), Dennis Delrow, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI (with art), Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with a story and art), Linda Griffin, Peter LaBerge (with art), Spencer Pearman, Kyle Hemmings (with art), and Charles Hayes.

the Captive and the Dead: cc&d magazine v258 (the October 2015 issue)

Kuypers, Janet

Burbridge, Eric

Fealey, Patrick

Rad, I. B.

Ceraolo, Michael

Taber, R. N.

Spencer, Liam

Wolk, Jackie

Okafor, Chen

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"When the Walls are Paper Thin" is a 2015 Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v259) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include writers and artists like Janet Kuypers, MCD, CEE, the HA!Man of South Africa (with art), Doug Draime, G. A. Scheinoha, Eric Bonholtzer (with art), Richard King Perkins II, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI (with art), Brian Forrest (with art), Michael Ceraolo, Dr. Shmooz (with art), Patrick Fealey, David Russell (with art), Charles Hayes, Cheryl Townsend (with art), R. N. Taber, Jay Frankston, Christopher Davis, Drew Marshall, Aaron Wilder (with art), Bill Yarrow, Eric Allen Yankee, Dean Jones, Liam Spencer, Fritz Hamilton, Charles Hayes, William Jablonsky, Maria Carroll, Kyle Hemmings (with art), Bob Strother, David Michael Jackson (with art), Natasha Cabot, David J. Thompson (with art), Micah White, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with art), Steve Slavin, and John Amendall.

When the Walls are Paper Thin: cc&d magazine v259 (the November/December 2015 issue)

Hamilton, Fritz

Yarrow, Bill

Frankston, Jay

C E E

M C D

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