Welcome to Lightwood and to the Spring (or Fall depending where you are) issue #13: your leap into a new season of creativity. This issue is filled with poetry to celebrate April’s Poetry Month; book and music reviews and writings from new and returning Lightwood writers.
Recently I was listening from one of many media sources and found something that stayed with me. Writers, poets and visual artists create landscapes, seascapes, urbanscapes and a host of other scapes. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins brought up the term “inscape”, when we explore the inner constructions from a being that reaches for life. Perhaps this is the “scape” that constantly drives us forward and that we want to share with others.
Lightwood is here publishing the inscapes from a variety of word and visual artists. Enjoy them in this and in our back issues. And help us build our Lightwoodpress.com community by spreading the word and encouraging others to submit works in a diversity of themes and subjects. And, of course, stay well and be kind. The world depends on you.
L. Carr, publisher
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Welcome to Lightwood Spring 2023 Issue #13
Welcome to Lightwood and to the Spring (or Fall depending where you are)
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Spotlight on writer Suzanne Cleary/ Pushcart Prize Nominee
Lightwood congratulates writer Suzanne Cleary on her nomination for a Pushcart Prize for
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The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series: A Totally Subjective Retrospective/ music review by Mike Jurkovic
The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon Rides Again The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series: A
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The Devil’s Fools/a poetry book by Mary Gilliland/review by Laurence Carr
Lightwood congratulates poet Mary Gilliland for her book, The Devil’s Fools, winner of the 2023
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The Distance in Light Years of Dreams/ poem by Matthew J. Spireng
Some mornings we wake disturbed by a memory of what had danced through
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The Golden Record (SETI) / poem by Ann Lauinger
Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977 into interstellar space, each carried a
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The Girl and the Kouros/ prose poem by David Stuntz
She serves with skill at the small café in rocky hills above Naxos’
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The Best Thing in the World/ poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What’s the best thing in the world? June-rose, by May-dew impearled; Sweet south
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Embracing Aimlessness/my trip to Nepal 2017// a memoir essay by Jason Woehlke
You might think that this will be a picturesque story of my time
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COMMENTS ON A MOTHER’S COMMENTS ON HER DAUGHTER’S POETRY I don’t understand it. It’s so abstract/ poem by J.R. Solonche
Don’t feel so bad. Mothers are not supposed to understand it, their daughter’s
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The Obscure Substance of the Sky/ poetry by Alicia Wirt-Fox/ book review by Laurence Carr
Alicia Wirt-Fox is a muti-talent: poet, visual artist, writer, designer, educator. For her
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Watching the eclipse without him (moon)/ poem by Kateri Kosek
I’ve already offered all the usual things—so now, barns. The soft dark flanks
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The Figures I Discern/ poem by Arthur Russell
Behind closed eyes, there is a darkness,a darkness that can be altered by light
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The Refugees on the Train/ poem by Lucia Cherciu
The Refugees on the Train are looking at empty fields. The windows—mirrors of
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Earthen, poems by Thomas Festa/reviewed by Ken Holland
EARTHEN by Thomas Festa is published by Finishing Line Press (www.finishinglinepress.com) (2023). The
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Spotlight on Earthen, poems by Thomas Festa/ reviewed by Laurence Carr
With anticipation, I awaited the arrival of Earthen, poems by Thomas Festa who
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To March or to Marry: A Novel (excerpt) by Violet Snow
This short excerpt is from Violet’s Snow’s novel published in 2021 by Epigraph
Lightwood 