Whitman lifts me
up from the Schuylkill
down to the shore
—Wendy Kaplan

The Walt Whitman Bridge and the Ben Franklin Bridge are the two major bridges that cross the Delaware River between Philadelphia and New Jersey. The Schuylkill Expressway (just say "Skookle") parallels the Schuylkill River on its way to the Delaware, winding through Philadelphia toward the Walt Whitman Bridge. Here "the shore" means collectively the beach towns of South Jersey between Atlantic City and Cape May, which is where everybody in the city and suburbs wants to be on a hot and humid summer day.

After reading Anne Whitehouse's chapbook One Sunday Morning, what is the best thing that can be said about it? That a poet was here, but something more: a person was here. It is certain that these poems portray exactly what they intend to portray, true feelings and a quest to understand our physical and spiritual existence. Review continued: The poetry of Anne Whitehouse.

NEW POETRY, SPRING 2012: Dennis Vannatta, Dianalee Velie, John Grey, Anca Vlasopolos, Kenneth Pobo.

FROM 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.

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.