*Loch Raven Review, Volume 20, No. 2, 2024*

Poetry

Fay M. Ashby
Because

Jane Blanchard
Syncope
Etiquette

Sarah Carleton
Type-B Holiday
Lyme World

CS Crowe
You Chose to Paint Your Room Purple

Johanna DeMay
The Food Chain
Cave People

Steve Deutsch
Riding the Rails

Claudia Gary
Cadenza

Al Maginnes
Late Visions

Marc Alan Di Martino
Anti-Romantic Ghazal
Father to Daughter

Jan FitzGerald
Letter to Holden Caulfield

Rena Fleming
Three Funerals

Diana Fusting
Colton
Calluses: An Apology

Bruce Gunther
Birdsong
Fistfight in a Small Town Bar

Jan Hudson
Love Poem
Witches

Paul Ilechko
Keeping it in Perspective

Craig Kirchner
Undertow
Second most

Caleigh Larkin
A Poem About a Dying Bird on My Drive to Work
making space

Suzanne Lummis
Sex in ’32 – The Pre-Code Poem

DS Maolalai
All the illegal brazillians
Remembering is a comparison game.

Julian Matthews
Gravity’s End

Joyce Meyers
Overtones

G.H. Mosson
Whistler’s Sketchbook: See With Me

Faith Paulsen
Poem Inspired by a Bloomingdale’s Ad
Code Red Air Quality Alert

Ellen Sazzman
From Scratch
Soliloquy Upon Finally Seeing King Lear in My Seventieth Year

Scott Silsbe
The Night the Stars Fell

Ann Weil
not in this world

Frederick Wilbur
She Reaches Out Online

Anne Harding Woodworth
Weeds Day

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Translations

Nine Persian-Language Poets: Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Mahsati Ganjavi, Siavash Kasrāi, Esmail Khoi, Sheida Mohamadi, Fereydun Moshiri, Rumi, Sa’adi, and Ahmad Shamlou
Translated by: Mahnaz Badihian, Mojdeh Bahar, Farideh Hassanzadeh, Hassan Javadi, Sheema Kalbasi, Richard Newman, and Sholeh Wolpé

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Fiction

Betsy Boyd
Leftovers

Whitney Gordon
Holy

Sean Knight
Drive With Your Knees

Rosalia Scalia
The Women in Maxine’s Bridal

Dennis Vannatta
A Good Long Rope

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Non-Fiction

Elizabeth Bird
The Gravity of Years

David L. Garrison
Ambush

Harvey Silverman
Calling Coach

Patty Somlo
Fitting In

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Reviews

Stephen Falconer
Mountains and the Moon, Reviewed by Michael Fialkowski

Matthew Flamm
Grieving for Beginners, Reviewed by Alan C. Reese

Eric D. Goodman
Faraway Tables, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Dotty LeMieux
Henceforth I Ask Not Good Fortune, Reviewed by Ginny Phalen

Frank Paino
Pietà, Reviewed by Michael Fialkowski

Charles Rammelkamp
The Trapeze of Your Flesh, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Michael Salcman
Crossing the Tape, Reviewed by G.H. Mosson

Anne Harding Woodworth
The Spare Parts Saga, Reviewed by Dan Cuddy

Literary Craft Essay

Michael Fallon
The Ghost Line: In search of closure, haunted by those missing words

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