Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. P. V. Beck | In the Deep Midwinter Amanda Boyle | Following Bruce Black | The End of Shloshim Anastasia Afanasieva | She Speaks | “I Used to Like…” | **Olga Livshin and Andrew Janco Raymond Wong | I’m Not Chinese | Review by Charse Yun Broadstone Books | Review by Nettie Farris **Indicates Translators 
Poetry:
(Guest Edited by Karen George)
Lorcán Black | Fields | Tapestry
Bruce Bond | New Moon
D. H. Bruun | the blacksmith
Kathleen Boyle | Fire at the Grand Storehouse of the Tower of London, 1841 | Sierra Valley
Sherry Chandler | Rhapsody in Common Time | For the Nameless Grandmother in the Attic
Lori Desrosiers | Salt
Kate Fadick | When Hildegard cannot sleep | In my dream of Hildegard | When Hildegard drops a blue sapphire into her wine…
Annie Hinkle | Across the Atlantic
Marilyn Kallet | Paris Elegy | Ode to a Lost Poet
Tim Mayo | The Mussel Pickers
Mary Moore | Ear To the Sun
Sarah Nix | The Easel | Museum Pieces | Seascape
Susanna Lang | Tulips | In the Garden
Nancy Chen Long | A Drift of Dust
Triin Paja | Murmuration | Thanatos | Senescence
Barbara Sabol | Echolocation
Wally Swist | Black Bear
Andrea Uptmor | When K Gets Home
Patrick Venturella | The Geologist | The Lake Is Ink
Will Wells | Beneath the Seal, Ferrara | Under an Amulet, Venice GhettoFiction:
Ashley Kunsa | Marine Life
Sharla R. Yates | Two Truths and a LIE Nonfiction:
Chauna Craig | A Glittering of Hummingbirds, a Charm
Heather Durham | Earth to Earth
Margot Anne Kelley | Living While Large
Jen Soriano | Making the Tongue Dry
Clinton Peters | Sailing the Iowa Sea Translations:
Marat Baskin | The Mad Trumpet Player’s Wife | **Nina Kossman
Eduardo Milán | Undress Your Language | **John Oliver Simon
Elhanan Nir | This Winter | **Ross WeissmanBook Review:
Spotlight on a Press:
Tag Archives: Blue Lyra Review
Issue 5.2 Summer 2016
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. M. L. Brown | When Girls Swim Beth Sherman | Between Terry Barr | When the Truth Is Found René Agostini | Walking along the Rhone | **June Sylvester Saraceno Fabienne Josaphat | Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow | Review by Kelsey May Glass Lyre Press | Review by Nettie Farris **Indicates Translators
Poetry:
(Guest Edited by Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz)
Alexis Groulx | An afternoon with Cal
Rage Hezekiah | February Cove
Gopika Jadeja | Newsprint in the dark
Les Kay | Reprise, Nachtmusik
Barbara Krasner | Bei Mir Bistu Shayn
Laurie Macfee | Bone Music
Elisabeth Murawski | Never from Here
Leonard Neufeldt | Letters from the Ghetto
Valery V. Petrovskiy | On a town street
James Prenatt | Can I, may I?
Wesley Riggs | Even If
Beate Sigriddaughter | Bricks
Joseph Somoza | Natural Poetry
Jamie Wendt | When Amma had Four More MonthsFiction:
Meg Tuite | Hollow Gestures Nonfiction:
Stacy Lawson | It’s Just Sex
Kelsey Lahr | Coyote Nights
Zach Marson | They Knew the Land Was Beautiful
Translations:
Anna Akhmatova | After 23 Years | **Don Mager
Shatha Abu Hnaish | Alienation | **Francesca Bell & Noor Nader Al Abed
Jóanes Nielsen | Burnt Out Light | **Matthew Landrum
Rasool Yoonan | Fire and Human | Try | **Siavash SaadlouBook Reviews:
Lucia Cherciu | Edible Flowers | Review by Donelle DreeseSpotlight on a Press:
Issue 5.1 Spring 2016
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. Matthew James Babcock | The Fall Olympics | Sexual Limbo Michelle Elvy | Black and White and Grey Susan Bloch | The Mumbai Massacre Ivonne Gordon Carrera | Tiger | **Cindy Rinne Paul David Adkins | Stick Up | Review by A.J. Huffman Two of Cups Press | Review by Nettie Farris **Indicates Translators
Poetry: (Guest Edited by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow)
Roy Bentley | Sugar Ray Robinson Leaning against His 1950 Pink Cadillac
Lynn Marie Houston | Jealousy | With Love to California, Now that I No Longer Live There
Lynn Levin | Spending Small Change | On Knowing One’s Goblet at the Banquet Table
Hillary Kobernick | Springing
Patrick McCarthy | Suspicion
Kendall Pakula | The Good Guest
Erin Redfern | Graduate School
Rakhshan Rizwan | Partition
stephanie roberts | People Believing Badly
Gerard Sarnat | 67% Hopperized BathosFiction:
Mercedes Lawry | Sooner or Later
Heather Dewar | ID
Nonfiction:
Lisbeth Davidow | You Have to Get over the Color Green
Steven Wineman | Tear-Water Tea Translations:
Cesarco Eglin | Connotations | **Scott Spanbauer
Pablo Neruda | Past | **Domenic James ScopaBook Reviews:
Margaret Lazarus Dean | Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight | Review by Carla Sarett
Matthew Lippman | Salami Jew | Review by Neil SilberblattSpotlight on a Press:
Issue 4.3 Fall 2015
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. Gail C. DiMaggio | Girls in Pictures Neil Carpathios | The Man with No Future Melissa Grunow | White Spirit Kurt Drawert | Personal Pronoun | **Paul-Henri Campbell Sue Eisenfeld | Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal | Review by Donna M. Crow **Indicates Translators
Poetry: (Guest Edited by W.F. Lantry )
Rosie Prohías Driscoll | Colando Café
Jeff Hardin | A Short Distance from Mountains
Ed Shacklee | Elephant Ear Plant
Mary Ann Sullivan | St. Catherine of Siena
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming | The Space Between The Rain
Lonnie Monka | my mistake
Ashley Parker Owens | Itch
Sophia Pandeya | Mona Lisa Postcard
Jane Wayne | His ShirtFiction:
Katie Cortese | Quitting Time
Sherrie Flick | Now
Philip Kobylarz | What’s On The Other Side Of Doors Nonfiction:
Rick Kempa | Honing the Edge
Sandell Morse | The Crossing
Translations:
Louise Dupré | Stone Hands of the Tomb Figures | **Karen McPherson
Gili Haimovich | Signing a Place | What Lights Up the Sky | **Dara Barnat
Moyshe Kulbak | from Songs of a Poor Man | **Allison DavisBook Reviews:
Jeff Klima | L.A. Rotten | Review by Ginger Beck
Sandra Marchetti | Confluence | Review by Danielle Susi
Issue 4.2 Summer 2015
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. Madeleine Barnes | In Harmonium Rahad Abir | Johnson Road Robert Boucheron | Snowmelt Guillaume Apollinaire | Sadness of a Star | **Rebekah Curry Lowell Levant | A Poet Drives a Truck: Poems by and about Lowell A. Levant | review by Thomas Dukes **Indicates Translators
Poetry: (Guest Edited by Jason Koo)
Emily Blair | The Deadly Years
J. Scott Brownlee | Ascension
Falconhead | I Have Set My Face Like Flint or The Misanthrope Goes Into Town
Peter Cole Friedman | The Perfect Phospholipids
Julie Hart | Resting Bitch Face
Tim Kahl | Tasking the Guardian
Christine Kitano | Lesson: Chicken Soup
Debora Kuan| Teen Ghost
Justin Maki | Watch
Derek Mong | An Ordinary Evening in San Francisco
Laura Plaster | Candids
Erin Redfern | Photograph of a Drugged Giraffe
Chris Roberts | What ever happened to the compass?
Sokunthary Svay | At Least Prostitutes Bring Home Money
Ed Toney | The Baptist GrowlFiction:
Ashley Cowger | Public Access
Emily Kiernan | Enola Gay
Charlie Sterchi | The Running Dog
Nonfiction: (Guest Edited by Suzanne Cope)
Ruth Z. Deming | We Look Out Windows
Sarah Pascarella | Swimming Lessons
Laura Rankin | Natural Neighbors
Translations:
Javier Etchevarren | Lungs | **Don Bogen
Agustín Lucas | General Flores without Flowers | **Jesse Lee
Kercheval Dimitra Kotoula | Case Study V (on Ethics) | **Maria Nazos
Book Reviews:
Michele Battiste | Uprising | review by Kayla Haas
Issue 4.1 Spring 2015
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. “Station 14” Art by Jean Wolff Eugene H. Davis | Howl No More Gordon Ball | The Breaking *runner up in our 2014 flash fiction contest Caroline Allen | Little Woman Charles Baudelaire | The Clock | **Lola Haskins Robert Cooperman | Just Drive | review by Barry Marks **Indicates Translators “Flipbook” Art by Jean Wolff
Poetry:
(Guest Edited by Judy Juanita)
Arika Elizenberry | Red Summer, 1919
Bridget Gage-Dixon | Hew Paints Crickets
Gail Goepfert | Revivify *runner up in our 2014 short-ish poetry contest*
Karen Greenbaum-Maya | My Uncle the Perfectionist
Kamden Hilliard | Hong Kong, Summer
Lowell Jaeger | A Salesman’s Song
David Kann | The Language of the Farm *runner up in our 2014 long-ish poetry contest*
Issa M. Lewis | The Catacomb Saints
Joel Lewis | Looking For Soup
Noorulain Noor | Chronology of Evil Eye
Jennifer Raha | Perennial | Resupination
Maryann Russo | Joe Redota Trail
Eva Schlesinger | With You in Hildesheim
Benjamin Schmitt | We were radicals
Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong | Mother | A Day in British Hong KongFiction:
Marie Mayhugh | An Old Cowboy’s Dirge
Eliana Osborn | Turning Japanese
Nonfiction:
Sharon Goldberg | Let Us (Not) Pray
Grace Mattern | Granite
Lisa Romeo | Not Quite Meet-CuteTranslations:
Cyrille Fleischman | Monsieur Lekouved’s Revolt | **Lynn Palermo
Imanova Günel | Untitled | **Arturo Desimone
Marcel Lecomte | The Schoolmaster | Number | **K. A. WisniewskiBook Reviews:
Justin Hamm | Lessons in Ruins | review by Karen J Weyant
Jamaal May | Hum | review by Susan Cohen
Issue 3.6 Fall 2014
Theme Issue: Far From The Maddening Crowd
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. Paul David Adkins | Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan Experience a Night Thunderstorm while Stranded on Nikumaroro Island Katherine Bell | The Sulphur Sink Marlena Maduro Baraf | La Misa Rivka Basman Ben-Haim | Doves Speak Yiddish | **Zelda Kahan Newman Helène Aylon | Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist | review by Lenore Weiss **Indicates Translators
Poetry:
Aaron Bauer | Unnamed Woman—State Hospital, Michigan
Francesca Bell | Burdens
Susan Cohen | We Bones That Are Here | Reading Fernando Pessoa in Portugal
Donelle Dreese | Sophrosyne | The Surrender Tree
Anthony Frame | When Rain isn’t Rain
Karen George | Alaskan Cruise Haibun
Kathryn Gessner | Cargo
Tom Holmes | At L’Estaque
Lori Lamothe | Intersection with Edward Hopper | Greylock
Sandra Marchetti | Swing | The Language of Ice
Jean Nordhaus | A Jew Returns to Cairo
Michael Spring | Ghazel for Music | Bear Totem
Maranda Stewart | For BirdsFiction:
Kevin Finnerty | Rachelle Hates Wearing Clothes
Nonfiction:
Therése Halscheid | Into the Iceberg
Anne Liu Kellor | Sky Burial
Linda Saslow | The Shiksa SisterhoodTranslations:
Yves Bonnefoy | He Is Leaving | **Susanna Lang
Hafez | Ghazal 6 | **Roger Sedarat
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi | Untitled | **Roger Sedarat
Avrom Sutzkever | From Diary Poems | **Zackary Sholem Berger
Carmen Vascones | How lonely love remains | **Alexis LevitinBook Reviews:
Tarfia Faizullah | Seam | Paul David Adkins
Sue William Silverman | The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as A White Anglo-Saxon Jew | review by Kelly O’Toole
Issue 3.5 August 2014
Special Focus on 10 Singapore Poets
Guest Edited by Jee Leong Koh
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Leong Liew Geok | After Wordsworth | Air Conditioning | CNY | Soliloquy
Yeow Kai Chai | The Ghost Writer | From Z to A, a Zoetrope with Spiracles | From A to Z, a Glamorous Zoetrope Names Parts of Singapore’s Latest New Town via Gemstones, Female Singers and Outer Space Phenomena
Grace Chia | Swallow | Tingle | Decal Duplex
Alvin Pang | Karung Guni Daughter | Obituary | Liverpool Easter
Christine Chia | bloom | irony | finally
Cyril Wong | Taxi | Hotel | Mindfulness
Pooja Nansi | Watching my man polishing his shoes | Exile | Dear Alvin
Aaron Maniam | Off Kilter | Almost
Tania De Rozario | Red
Joshua Ip | put down the phone | buzzed
ESSAY | Jee Leong Koh | New Poems by Ten Singapore Poets: A Postscript
Issue 3.4 Summer 2014
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read. Isaac Black | Hiroshima Migara de Silva | Of Fences- Kurt Caswell | Haboob Katrine Marie Guldager | The Car Accident | **Lindy Falk van Rooyen Christopher Lowe | When You’re Down By The River | review by B. Kari Moore **Indicates translators
Poetry:
Charlie Bondhus | Jeffrey Dahmer Talks to His Father
Bill Brown | Ladders
Ruth Foley | Benthos | Consolation
Risa Denenberg | Tisha B’av
Anthony Frame | Everything I Know I Learned from Kermit the Frog
Denise Low | Garden of William Burroughs | Crop Duster Plane
Cindy Hunter Morgan | Columbia, 1859
Elisabeth Murawski | The Birthday Party
Jean Nordhaus | On the Road to Qumran
Lee Slonimsky | Pythagoras’s Bees | Mid-Autumn Languages of Trees
Cheryl Snell | Reinventing the WheelFiction:
Mike Koenig | The Lost Ones
Robert Joe Stout | A Big and Wonderful Now
Leslie Santikian | An Old Fashioned Voice
Nonfiction:
Sigrid Erro | Bones
Danusha Goska | Star Tattoo
J.W. Young | Big Dumb BabyTranslations:
Fernando Valverde | Snow Covered Landscape | ** Liam Walke Spotlight on an Artist:
Book Reviews:
Jake Marmer | Jazz Talmud | review by Shlomo Liberman
Jake Adam York | Abide | review by Simon Seamount
Issue 3.2 Spring 2014
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read.
Lucille Lang Day | Rituals | I Am Afraid Fiction: Sara Henning | Cutting It Down Book Reviews: Rutu Modan | The Property | review by Maya Klein Balvinder Banga | Bare Footed Dreams of my Father Translations: Edna Aphek | My Father Spotlight on an Artist: **Indicates translatorsPoetry:
Julie R. Enszer | Imperfect
Natalie Fisher | Watering the Roses
Kayla Haas | Another Tamarind Night
Cheryl Anne Latuner | What Rests in the Earth
Hart L’Ecuyer | Carnival in Neosho, Missouri | A Subway in New York with Hart Crane
Zvi A. Sesling | Excerpt from the Inquisition
Adrienne Su | Procrastination
Wally Swist | Dinner with Camus
Donna Vorreyer | Finding A Way | Instructions for Stones
R A Santos | Body in Hands
Sarah Seltzer | Disorder
Elaine Starkman | Hearing Beyond Sound | review by Zara Raab
Nonfiction:
Ellen Brooks | Dayenu
Susan Knox | Autumn Life
Tom Leskiw | Family Matters
Moshe Dor | Old People Talking | **Barbara Goldberg
Inna Kabysh | Triptych | **Katherine E Young
Kim Myung Won | 49th Day | On the Road | **EJ Koh
Issue 3.1 January 2014 (Nonfiction)
Nonfiction Only Issue
Click on a title to read an author’s work(s) and bio. Let us know what you think on our Facebook page and on Twitter using #BlueLyra. Also, consider leaving a comment for everyone to read.
Nonfiction: Terry Barr | Harvey: “My Burden Gladly Bearing”
Patricia Canright Smith | Me & The Toad
Patti Crouch | Pinhole
Eric A. Gordon | Memoir of a Mattress
Ken Lamberton | Chasing Gods
Tom Leskiw | Lithic Voices: Honoring Those Who’ve Come Before
Scott Russell Morris | On Whom Things Are Lost
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes | On the Question of Your Grandfather: A Letter
Carly Sachs | Headphones
Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb | Mouse-Rat, Kin, Kind, and the Rodent Mind
Steven Sher | Giving Up Trees
Christine Stewart-Nuñez | Marriage and Marble
Book Review: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass {Review by Sue Ellis}
Issue 2.3 August 2013 (Poetry)
Poetry Only & Turkish Poets Issue
Guest Edited by Lenore Weiss
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Poetry: Karen Craigo | Neither Created Nor Destroyed | Naming What Is
Lyle Daggett | The Greig Concerto | Apparition
Jim Davis | Fair Season, 1993
Grace Marie Grafton | Manifest | Sequestor | Entice
Julie Kane | Something Like A Telephone | Runner
Adrian C. Louis | Xmas At Wakpamni | Shadows | Gaudeamus Igitur 2.0
Florence Miller | Forebears
Garrett Murphy | Check, Please Don’t | The Adventure of Blackhoodlum, Chapter Umpteen or Whatever |
Melinda Palacio | When She Calls | When They First Come | Wet Mask
Evelyn Posamentier | I Am Ferminita | I Am Nikki Don’t Tell
Yiskah Rosenfeld | Four Klippot | Naamah | How The Sun Makes Love To The Moon
Nina Serrano | The Angel Of Death | 56th Birthday Insomnia
Genaro Smith | View From The Veranda Grasping | Grasping | Propaganda | A Museum Of Trees
Elaine Starkman | At A Russian Circus, Sochi, On The Black Sea, 1990 | For Sarah Simmons 1921-2013 | Day Of Atonement for Leon
Gary Turchin | The Poet’s Laureate’s Bald Spot | The Thicket
Translations: Gülten Akin | Spring
**Saliha Paker
Haydar Ergülen | Lost Brother
**Arzu Eker Roditakis and Elizabeth Pallitto
Ana Minga | I Have Sought The Dead Among The Living
**Alexis Levitin
Murathan Mungan | In A Way
**Gökçenur C. and Mel Kenne
Hasan Ali Toptas | from Loneliness #5
**Mel Kenne and Sehnaz Tahir Gürcaglar
Guven Turan | San Gimignano
**Ruth Christie
Zeynep Uzunbay | Wet
**Arzu Eker Roditakis and Elizabeth Pallitto
Book Reviews:
Christina Pugh’s Grains of the Voice {Review by Zara Raab}
Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s My Funeral Gondola {Review by Zara Raab}
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Interview by Zara Raab
Issue 1.2 Fall 2012
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David Breeden Kristen Blanton Suzanne Cope Anastasiya Afanasieva (tr. by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris)
Art by Robin Grotke
Art by Stephen Mead Poetry:
Peter J. Grieco
Meredith Kunsa
Robert Leary
Miriam Levine
Yvette Neisser Moreno
B.Z. Niditch
Yehoshua November
William Reichard
Jay Rubin
Myra Sklarew
Nomi Stone
Wendi WhiteFiction:
Matthew Dexter
John A. McDermott
Marge Piercy
Art by Rona Lesser
Nonfiction:
Neil Mathison
Linda Voss
Thelma ZirkelbachTranslations:
Dolores Castro (tr. by Toshiya Kamei)
Orit Gidali (tr. by Marcela Sulak)
Art by Marian Dioguard
Premiere Issue
Issue 1.1: Summer 2012
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