Volume 8
As diverse as ever in the breadth of its art and depth of prose and poetry, Volume 8 features a knock-out poem, “DANCING,” by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass—read it alongside Prartho Sereno’s “Emergency Lock-Down Drill.” Look for fabulous fiction from Michael Sykes, Cynthia Fontaine Reehl, and Molly Giles, and a true tale of the American west by Dave Stamey. Many more surprises in this volume enlivened by artists of all persuasions, including Susan Hall, Bob Kubik, Julia Edith Rigby, and Mark Ropers.
On endless summer afternoons,
we set out to swim through the fields
towards the ends of the Earth,
Masculinities
My father was edgy about my Christmas request for a doll. “Gol-darnit,” he was saying to my mother, “where does that kid get his ideas?” What was the problem? My sister had a dozen and I was only asking for one. Innocent of the role of sailors in the gay imagination, he decided the answer was to get me a sailor doll. I named him “Petey.”
The radio clicks on—it’s poor swollen America,
up already and busy selling the exhausting obligation
of happiness
Waste in Paradise
Two summers ago, in 2015, I packed some sketchbooks and trekked through Iceland and Greenland, ultimately arriving in Kulusuk, a small village in east Greenland. I’d arrived at a time of transition—seasonal, global, and cultural. Summer’s cotton grass blooms were giving way to autumn’s northern lights, local hunters were flensing seals on the beach, the Greenland ice sheet was melting at an alarming rate.
I’m trying hard to see
what it is
I’m looking at
before I tell myself
what it is
I’m looking at.
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- FRONT COVER
- Kay Bradner Ten Birds
- BACK COVER
- Cathy Rose Balance
- PROSE
- Jackie Garcia Mann Bolinas Bound
- Michael Sykes Leaving for Italy
- Dave Stamey To Steelhead Lake
- Joan Thornton Two Short Stories
- Barbara Heenan On Religion: Oklahoma City
- G. David Miller Prepare for Landing
- Kaitlyn Gallagher The Blows
- Cynthia Fontaine Reehl What It Takes
- Molly Giles Next Time
- Paul Strohm Masculinities
- Brooke Williams Post-Election Walkabout
- POETRY
- Tobi Earnheart-Gold Untitled
- Mary Winegarden Between Birth and Song
- Ariel Wish Through Motions
- Nancy Cherry All My Biographies Are Lies
- Stephen Ajay Giving
- Karen Benke Spring Cleaning
- Lisa Piazza Here
- Barry Roth Henry Evans Poppies
- Thomas Hickey Monk’s Empty Eye
- Satchel Trivelpiece Oh, Animals
- David Swain Dead Reckoning
- Robert Hass DANCING
- Deborah Buchanan A Bowl’s Circumference
- Prartho Sereno Emergency Lock-Down Drill
- Dave Seter Douglas Iris
- Judy Brackett Swimming Through Summer
- Gina Cloud Ken
- ART + ARTIFACT
- Kay Bradner Ten Birds
- Christa Burgoyne Small Barn and Late Afternoon “C” Street
- Lissa Nicolaus Country Road
- Kimberly Carr Harmon Wooded Gate
- Emmeline Craig Living on the Edge
- Matthew Polvorosa Kline Tule Elk at Dawn, Point Reyes National Seashore
- Elizabeth Gorek Forgotten Summer
- Susan Hall California Twilight
- Sandy White Roy’s Redwoods
- Jaune Evans Fog Heaven
- Isis Hockenos Side Street Chickens #1 & #2
- Caitlin McCaffrey Biggie’s Vision
- Marius Salone and Sofia Borg Young Red Onions
- Lily Andrews Hummingbird
- Susan Putnam Untitled #261
- Amanda Tomlin Laird’s Boathouse
- Jani Gillette You Wearing You
- Christel Dillbohner Iridescent Cloud
- Philip Bone Three Masks
- May Ta Somber Summer
- Toni Littlejohn Fire Under Ice
- Xander Weaver-Scull Arctic Peregrine Falcons
- Grace Nichols and Belle Nichols Southworth Letters from Bolinas
- Julia Edith Rigby Waste in Paradise
- Van Waring Coastal Cross Section
- Rich Clarke Kehoe Morning
- Johanna Baruch Enthymesis
- Michel Venghiattis Lili Marlene
- Glenn Carter Night of the Falling Flower/Lucid N13-2
- Sherrie Lovler Crossroads
- Mary Siedman Bolinas Beach
- Jon Ching Flowers in Her Hair
- Mark Ropers Bound for Kilkenney Beach
- Mary K. Shisler Wabi Sabi Tulips
- Richard Kirschman Bogside Remembered
- Patricia Connolly Late Afternoon at McInnis
- Bob Kubik Fox
- Cathy Rose Accept and Balance
- Anne Faught Coming Together