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POETRY

Four poems by Marylisa W. DeDomenicis

Poetry by Susan Cavanaugh

PRIZE WINNERS--
winners of jerseyworks' 2002 poetry contest: Mary Kennan Herbert, John Grey, Trina Scordo.

BERT GLICK
The one-time street poet of Santa Cruz and Berkeley has now sold thousands of copies of his several books.

The Train Continues... has been added to Therèse Halscheid's previous jerseyworks collection. Halscheid's latest book, Uncommon Geography, is now available from Carpenter Gothic Publishers.

THREE NEW POETS OF SPRING 2006: Lynn Strongin, June Logue, Wayne Richards.

NANCY KAY PETERSON —Four poems.
Poetry by David Breeden also appears on this page.

Poetry by ELLIOT RICHMAN Read about conversations deep in the night, shadows and garbage, sailors and shooting stars, pyramids and Jews (sort of), girls of San Francisco, and his poetry from an aircraft carrier.

JOHN GREY, jerseyworks prize-winning poet.

DR. KELLEY WHITE

Five poets: Kenneth Pobo, John Stubley, Thomas Stein, Michelle Cameron, Catfish McDaris.

Prose-poems by Australian writer Marge Cronin. Our Editor is belatedly catching on to the possibilities of the prose poem, and these have an intriguing edge.

A selection of two poets: LIZ DOLAN and DR. RAM MEHTA

And please don't miss the writers of Trenton State Prison.Wagenheim ( jerseyworks 2003 first place poetry winner and author of the short story "We Beat Whitey Ford" ) leads a creative writing group at Trenton State and for the past several months has been sending us both prose and poetry. In this issue, we bring our readers poetry by Marvin Ali Mays, Anthony Leahey, Eugene Thomas, and Jamal Muhammad. Writers to appear soon include, among others, Richard D'Agostino, Sammy Moore, Desi Ricardo Sykes, and Christopher Flynn.

Poetry by Kelley White, Miriam Sagan, Ann Cefola, and r.j. savino.

POETRY BY CHARLES FISHMAN
author of several collections including The Death Mazurka (1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee).

Two poems by Shelly Reed now included with her photographs.

CLINT CAMPBELL

SHIRLEY LAKE, Editor of Still Waters Press

DALE LASZIG

Three poets: Wilhelmina Young, Craig Czury, Penelope Talbert

Poetry by Barbara Daniels, Michael Estabrook, Barbara Lefcowitz

Poem by Sharlene Chiang: ex-Jersey girl sends a vision from Berkeley, CA.


2003 CONTEST WINNERS

1st Place Poetry: Kal Wagenheim,
"December 7, 1941."
2nd Place: Natalia Zaretski,
"Into the Artist's Winter World."
Honorable Mention: Kelley White,
"Habit."

1st Place Fiction: Nancy Priff,
"Cranberry Love"
2nd Place: Melissa Montimurro,
"Parasol"
"Mourning Becomes Electra."

Honorable Mention: Kal Wagenheim,
"We Beat Whitey Ford."


PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART

IMPRESSIONIST IMAGES:
Brussels, Brugge, Gniezno, Krakow, Munich--
jerseyworks photography 1st prize 2003.
IMAGES UPDATED
second series by Bernard Sypniewski.
SERIES THREE
A Reading at Deli on the Square, Pleasantville, NJ: poets, audience, meat slicers, sandwiches transformed.

Paintings by John Turnbull
Sypniewski visits Belgium, the 12th century-- Photos and text
"Coolblue" and other photos by Shelly Reed
Photography by Charles Raglund

Photography: Billy and Kelo on the bay near Cape May
Asbury Park, photography and text by Mark Hillringhouse
Tom Celandine--photography
San Francisco scenes by A.D. Winans
Webart, an interactive excursion into time
Photo essay, portrait of the artist Hal Quistgaard
Paintings by Idelsa Rodriguez
JERSEY COAST BY NOREEN BRAMAN.
FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANA LIPP.

HAVANA SCENES BY RIMA LYN

APRIL IN PARIS: photography by Charles Raglund


FICTION / MEMOIR / COMMENTARY / INTERVIEWS

Offhand Poetics, Ron Gaskill, jerseyworks editor

A talk with Shelly Power, dance instructor and Administrator of
Houston Ballet Academy

THE MONKEY DIARY, Thomas Boulan's second story to appear on the pages of jerseyworks. See also LAST BRAVE ACT. Thomas Boulan's fiction has appeared in many journals; he is a social worker in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

ARRIVAL, short story by Ryan Miller: A professor observes the ritual return of students to a mythic women's college, where "the fullness of being is not in refinement, but in the discovery of the limits of experience..."

A Reflection by Ron Gaskill on the work of Gerald Stern

An Interview with Bernard Paul Sypniewski,
photographer, naturalist, computer scientist

"Traumatic Tattoo Love," a story by DeLeon DeMicoli.

Charles Fishman's Country of Memory reviewed.

The Taffy Pull, fiction by Richard K. Weems

"Fire," short fiction by Jenny Steele

COFFEE WITH GOD, a short story by Kal Wagenheim.

The Big One, the story of one gambler, fiction by Sterling Brown
Ski the Beach: story by Sterling Brown

Two short stories: Of Clams and Men by Nancy Priff, and Melissa Montimurro's Shooting Star,
jerseyworks fiction prize-winners.

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