Note to Note

“Why this overmastering desire to communicate with others?” ––Virginia Woolf

Harder fought than many issues that precede it, Issue 6 comes out of the haze of 2012. One son birthed, two jobs lost, an apartment vacated. As the poems and prose included here show, our personal details both make our art and are incidental to it. What remains is our maniacal impulse to share it all, laid out and distorted.

Poems by Jean Hartig, Christopher Kondrich and Ellen Welcker explore the other-worldly. Dave McNamara and Sean Zhuraw weave and counter-weave reference, line, image. Ira Lightman catapults us into sound and experience head first. JoAnna Novak’s struggle and observation become like our own.

We’ve also reviewed an excellent first book by Lynn Melnick and two chapbooks from the exciting Gold Line Press.

We’d like to thank our readers for submitting so much work to us––several of our contributors in this issue and going forward are from submissions. Please keep us in mind (our guidelines are in “Submit”) and spread the word. The word is JERRY.