Welcome to Spring 2022 Issue #9 of Lightwood magazine. It continues to be a difficult year on multiple fronts for all of us, and we at Lightwoodpress.com want to send you some positive reinforcement. This issue of Lightwood brings you exciting fiction, poetry, book and music reviews and essays to help you move into Spring and beyond.
We want our focus to remain on the restorative properties of the arts. And no matter how toxic the viruses of disease, violence and ignorance are that strike at us, we can be comforted that our world-wide arts community will bring the seeds of healing. We must not let April be the “cruelest month” but one of hope and rejuvenation. Enjoy the offerings of these writers and artists, and please look over the earlier Lightwood issues for pieces that you have missed. And contact us with comments, ideas and future submission thoughts.
Stay well and keep your forward motion.
L. Carr, Publisher
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Welcome to Lightwood Spring Issue #9
Welcome to Spring 2022 Issue #9 of Lightwood magazine. It continues to be…
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Paradise Loft/ poems by Laurence Carr/book review by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
One rainy Sunday, I decided, was the time to read and be illuminated…
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White Bird/Bare Tree and Was It Basho//two poems by Ann Lauinger/ photo by Pauline Watts
WHITE BIRD / BARE TREE An egret, or maybe a heron. This bird-app’s…
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First, the Clowns/ fiction by Gregory Seth Harris
First they came for the clowns, herding the sad-faced funny men into wooden…
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To the Person at the Zoom Poetry Reading, Unmuted, Doing Hand Laundry, June, 20, 2020/ poem by Suzanne Cleary
I hear you. Meaning not only that I hear water circle and splash,…
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“Underground Figures” music by Nkeiru Okoye, Julia Wolfe and Florence Price/ music review by Laurence Carr
I recently had the pleasure of attending a live concert, something missing from…
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Li-Po, Larry and Bill: thoughts and poems inspired by the Chinese master poet
Over these last months of self-hibernation and self-reflection, my friend and fellow writer,…
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I Want to Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe/anthology edited by Susana H. Case and Margo Taft Stever/ review by Laurence Carr
Years ago, when President Barack Obama asked composer/director Lin-Manuel Miranda what he was…
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Woman Seated Before an Easel/ poem by Mary O’Melveny
. . . After paintings by Camille Corot In one frame, she stares…
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mooncussers/ poems by Mike Jurkovic/ book review by Joann Deiudicibus
Mooncussers is published by Luchador Press and is available from online sources. Modern…
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Over the Moon…Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini/ poetry chapbook by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt/spotlight review by Laurence Carr
Jan Zlotnik Schmidt has brought her own conjuring trick to readers. This insightful,…
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Thinking of Billy Collins on My 66th Birthday/ poem by Matthew J. Spireng
As I’m leaving Bodacious Bagels and approaching my car, I notice a man…
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The Damage Done/ poems by Susana H. Case/ book review by Laurence Carr
Susana H. Case’s The Damage Done is a unique poetry volume and one of the…
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Hilda and Mack/ micro-fiction by Jess Nadelman
Hilda and Mack made their way up the stairs of the downtown Starbucks,…
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that each drop/ poem by David Appelbaum
that each drop in the ocean is what makes up the ocean a…
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In Cataluya/ travel essay by Carole Bell Ford
The Costa Brava Sheer cliffs punctuate the shoreline; the color of the water…
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Liberty Call/ novel by Dennis Doherty/ spotlight review by Laurence Carr
Liberty Call takes Radioman Petty Officer Walter Schmertz and his shipmates on a maelstrom…
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you know what the wind means/ poem by Elena Botts
you know what the wind means, when you dream of wind you have…
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The Time Between Dawn and Daylight/ poem by Sara Vinciguerra
A strange hour for awakening in the dark morning that keeps the day…
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Mother Kingdom/ poems by Andrea Deeken/ book review by Laurence Carr
Mother Kingdom, a chapbook of poems by Andrea Deeken is an intimate reflection…
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Pajama/ poem by Linda McCauley Freeman
The poet Thomas Lux once told me he loved the word pajama. Use…
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