*Loch Raven Review, Volume 19, No. 2, 2023*

Poetry

Dennis Barnes
My Silent Teacher

CL Bledsoe
A Mozart

R.T. Castlebury
The Current Situation

Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
The Aging

Wendy Freborg
Christmas Memories

Tom Gengler
Dallas the Legend
The Villanueva Floors

Anne Harding Woodworth
The Mattress

Katie Kalisz
Let Me Tell You About My Friend, David

Ron Lauderbach
Baby Jesus Overwhelms Virgin Mary
Prenup
Angioplasty

Richard LeDue
On Being 21

Dotty LeMieux
Making Out with Bobby Whitaker in the Back Seat of Cheryl MacIntosh’s Volkswagon at Salisbury Beach in 1965
On Time

Gerald H. Levin
Lead-free stripes

Nancy Machlis Rechtman
The World is a Prayer
Barefoot Reflections

Chris Mason
Early Voting
Reading Frenzy

Julian Matthews
Shadow
Death Wish

Yvette Neisser
Turning the Baby
Luquillo Dawn
Give Me the Raw
March Sunset

Christian Paulisich
The Gulf

Diana Raab
Not on Demand

Charles Rammelkamp
“Red is never boring”

Bruno Rescigna
The Sniper
Summer Love

Michael Salcman
Convergence of the Dead
Hard-Boiled Dicks

Don Sellitti
Snowfall, December 16, 1960
Abandoned Playground

Kathy Shorr
Olga of Kharkiv
My People Come from Berdichev

Alex Stolis
RIP Winston Smith

K.S. Taylor-Barnes
Uncelebrated Birthdays

Steliana Cristina Voicu
Three Haikus

John Wagner
A Silverfish

Richard Weaver
Postlude

Melody Wilson
Catechism Agnostica
Blame

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Translations

Fourteen Irish-Language Poets: Colm Breathnach, Eibhlis Carcione, Máirtín Coilféir, Philip Cummings, Celia de Fréine, Áine Durkin, Caitríona Lane, Proinsias Mac a’Bhaird, DS Maolalaí, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Aibhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Simon Ó Faoláin, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, and Gabriel Rosenstock
Translated by: Colm Breathnach, Paddy Bushe, Máirtín Coilféirm, Philip Cummings, Celia de Fréine, Caitríona Lane, Sean Lysaght, Proinsias Mac a’Bhaird, Thomas McCarthy, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Seosamh Ó Maolalaí, Billy Ramsell

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Fiction

Roland Goity
Submerged

Eric D. Goodman
Attaché

Susan E. Lloy
Deep Breaths of the Inanimate

Rosalia Scalia
All The Small Joys

Marcelle Thiébaux
Book Burning

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Non-Fiction

Kate White Drew
The House on South Stricker Street

David James
A Book Under a Bed

Susan Reslewic Keatley
Black Gold

Mike Marks
Exorcising

Steve Rouse
Bob

Brad Shurmantine
Fairy Tale

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Reviews

Celia Bell
The Disenchantment, Reviewed by Caryn Coyle

Shirley J. Brewer
Wild Girls, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Stephen Falconer
A Place to Breathe, Reviewed by Michael Fialkowski

Tony Hoagland
Turn Up the Ocean, Reviewed by G.H. Mosson

Drew Pisarra
Periodic Boyfriends, Reviewed by Michael Fialkowski

Charles Rammelkamp
Transcendence, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Eileen Trauth
Ordinary Time, Reviewed by Christopher T. George

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