Oregon cat, Paris cat; backyard art by Wayne Richards, Medford, Oregon; self-portrait reflections Oregon and Paris.
Photos by Charles Raglund.

INSIDE JERSEYWORKS:
COMPLETE CONTENTS OF POETRY, PROSE, ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY.

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JERSEYWORKS CLASSICS

2008 Poetry Prize Winners. Prize page contains links to further collections by winning poets John Grey, Angela Mankiewicz, Sheema Kalbasi.

Poem by Shirley Lake. Shirley was the editor of Stillwaters Press, publisher of a series of chapbooks representing many of Southern New Jersey's best poets.

Sypniewski visits Belgium, the 12th century-- Photos and text.

Dale Tushman's 2007 prize winning poem is accompanied by the poetry of Svea Barrett, Sari Grandstaff, and Erum Ahmed.

POETRY BY ZOE GABRIEL, THERESE HALSCHEID, JOHN GREY.

Four poems by Marylisa W. DeDomenicis.
Marylisa also maintains her own beautiful website at notherpoet.com

THE PLAZAS OF BARCELONA
Photography by Carlos Catalán, Ignasi Ferrer, Alex Llopis; poetry by Pilar Benito, Javi Inglés, Elena Vilallonga, with English translations and an introduction by Patrick Pfister.

Ignasi Ferrer / Nine photos of the Pyrenees.

Sterling Brown, short story: Ski the Beach..

Photography not to be missed: Brenton Rossow's beautiful portraiture from Southeast Asia, where he has been living for the past nine years. Photographer Bernard Sypniewski's collection has been updated with ten new South Jersey portraits, faces of Cumberland and Cape May Counties.

More poetry: Hugh Fox, Abigale Louise LeCavalier, Linda Ann Strang, and Sandy Green.

Jerseyworks is a cummulative collection of poetry, prose, photography, and art. In our eleventh year, we have regular readers in over forty countries, yet we maintain a local flavor. As Northfield poet Susan Canvanaugh has written, "When the drawbridge goes up, get out of your car and breathe..."

SURPRISE SEASONAL VERSE BY WAYNE RICHARDS

NEW POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY, FALL 2011.

Somebody is out there reading and writing good poems and sending them our way. John Grey, KC Wilder and Christina M. Rau return to Jerseyworks, accompanied by Hannah Craig and Anne Whitehouse and by the photography of Keith Moul. Rau sets an irresistible rhythm in "Salsa on Pier 54" and then she delineates the differences between "Groupie Love" and "all those other loves / the ones involving reciprocation." Anne Whitehouse wonders who would want a special "Room for Gift Wrapping" and then succeeds in making you question whether you might. Robert Frost wrote that the world might end by either fire or ice, and Hannah Craig, "Death by Domestic Arrangement," knows of a few other ways, as well. John Grey's elegant verse has appeared in several Jerseyworks issues as well as in many other journals, and KC Wilder once again brings us the gift of his language. And for more of KC Wilder and "FauxBrow" (humorous) poetry, try "The Decadence Channel."


Photographer Keith Moul of Blaine, Washington, is also a poet whose work has been published for forty years. His chapbook, The Grammar of Mind was released in November 2010 by Blue and Yellow Dog Press.

POETRY OF SPRING 2011:

Helen Ruggieri, Paul Lamar, Don Bloch.

D.H. Sutherland, Andrew Merton,
Jen Karetnick, Jennifer Hollie Bowles.

Rainer Maria Rilke: five translations by Susanne Petermann.

At School and Other Poems, dramatic and lyrical poems by Jerseyworks editor Ron Gaskill, available now in beautiful paperback directly from the publisher.

Editor's word or two: A month ago, when I began an ambitious poetry reading schedule in order to develop thoughts about what constitutes great poetry, Wallace Stevens was initially placed as a benchmark at the top of the scale, but yesterday Rilke replaced Stevens at the apex of my poetic heap — or mountain, for those who would prefer a more dignified metaphor. A friend mentioned Rilke in an email, which sent me back to my copy of Duino Elegies and then to Amazon.com to order a comprehensive edition of Rilke's work. Two days later, I found at my doorstep a book that is beautiful to both hold and read, The Poetry of Rilke, translated by Edward Snow. The translator does not sacrifice the vocabulary of the poet, and so I felt immediately in touch with Rilke's meanings. If only we too could find a pure, carved out, narrow / human place, our own small strip of fertile soil.... I am always asking, what can poetry do? Does poetry have a place in the creation of my consciousness? Or is poetry a metaphor contest played in literary journals? The poetry of Rilke gives a welcome answer to that question.
     I am also reading with pleasure two books by Anne Whitehouse, Bear in Mind and Blessings and Curses. More thoughts on these will follow soon. In the meantime, hit the link at the top of this page to read a selection of Whitehouse's poetry.

Kal Wagenheim, memoir: Siblings., Wagenheim's novel, The Secret Life of Walter Mott, is available from All Things That Matter Press.

From our April 2010 poetry collection: KJ's anthem for employment seekers, will blank for blank, as well as works by Goerge Moore, Melissa Carroll, Susan Cavanaugh, and Wayne Richards.

Michele LaRoche reflects on her 14th of July celebration during a summer's visit to her childhood home in the south of France. Un jour férié à la française is accompanied by an English translation.