Volume Nineteen, Number One

Poetry:

Anthony Caleshu, Sharon Dolin, Jill McDonough, Annik Adey-Babinsky, Liliana Ursu, Julian Stannard, Lindsay Illich, Anzhelina Polonskaya, Octavio Quintanilla, Shane McCrae, Aviya Kushner, others

Fiction:

“Iphigenia in Baltimore” by Jen Fawkes, “O Thou, Whom My Soul Doth Love,” by Rochelle Distelheim, “Tiny Rhode Islands” by Eugenio Volpe, “Do You Know What a Leader Is?” by Luke Fiske, “The Dome” by Gary Scott

Reviews:

Heather Madden, Immersed in Song: If One of Us Should Fall by Nicole Terez Dutton

Valerie Duff-Strautmann, Directions: Westerly by Will Schutt; Strange Borderlands by Ben Berman

Jacqueline Kolosov, Metamorphoses: Song & Error: Poems by Averill Curdy

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Reading 11/14: Sophie Cabot Black and Greg Delanty

Posted on: November 6th, 2013

We hope you’ll join us for a reading on November 14^th! Sophie Cabot Black and Greg Delanty will be reading from their recent books, The Exchange and Loosestrife. 7PM 73 Tremont St. Suffolk Poetry Center Mildred F. Sawyer Library (near Park St. T; free and open to the public;…

Poetry Reading with Lee Sharkey and Tess Taylor

Posted on: October 10th, 2013

Join us for a free, open to the public reading on Friday, October 11, at 5:30 for a reading by poets Lee Sharkey and Tess Taylor. They will be reading poems from their new books, Calendars of Fire and The Forage House. Suffolk University Poetry Center Milred F. Sawyer Library 73 Tremont St.…

“We Watch Shelley Winters Drown for the 100^th Time”

Posted on: September 19th, 2013

This was the winning entry of our “Write a Great Last Line of Poetry” contest, held at the Harvard Bookstore Warehouse Weekends Literary Magazine Fair. Congratulations to to Sebastian Morris-White, who won a two-year subscription to Salamander! Catch up with us at more events this fall: A Reading with Lee…

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