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Steve Potter

Steve Potter's poems, stories and reviews have appeared in print and online journals such as; Arson, Blue Collar Review, Chrysanthemum, Drunken Boat, Freefall, Howling Dog, Pindeldyboz, Spout, 3rd Bed and the recent anthology, Paumanok:Poems and Pictures of Long Island. He published and edited the short-lived Wandering Hermit Review. When not reading or writing, he's usually making something to sell at one of the many summer arts and crafts festivals in the Rochester, NY region where he lives.

When Morning Comes

Corridors

Corridors is a collection of visually refreshing, and literary accomplished poems. Samantha Le, in her debut effort, exhibits a vibrant confidence, alluding to a poetic preoccupation of the fist order. The poems are self-referential but compassionate, objective but personal. The prose is reminiscent of Paz’s Agulia y Sol, Dario’s Azul, and Rimbaud’s Illuminations in its tendency to expose the poetic and mystical side of intersubjective human experiences. The work, as a whole, forms a loose narrative of coming-of-age poetry.

author: Samantha Le
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891823035
binding: Paperback

Little Sister Left Behind

This novel is a fictional memoir of a family's struggles through post-war Vietnam and their journey in search of a better life on foreign soil. It is the story of wounded pride, as personified by Father, silent resentment, as depicted by the conventional Mother, and the fragility of innocence, as embodied by our young heroine. The novel takes us from the private struggles of familial bonds to the public crumbling of old traditions. This novel tells the universal tales of all immigrants in the United States through the eyes of a young girl.

author: Samantha Le
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1891823116
binding: Paperback

Samantha Lê

Born in Vietnam, Samantha Lê immigrated to the United States in 1983. She is currently working on her MFA at San Jose State University. Some of her publications include: My Solitude, a collection of spoken poetry; Corridors, a collection of poetry and short stories; and Little Sister Left Behind, a fictional memoir. She is also the creative director of e33 design.

For My Father

           ‘ . . . discord which has ripped
           you from your father, stripped
           away known places, play and friends . . .’
                   – Andrew Waterman, ‘For My Son’

What Passing Bells

A policeman blocks the road so I stop
and tut and tap the wheel and find a sweet
and scrape it through its wrapper with my teeth.
More cars stop. Then bright rustling up the street
from snare drums and some reedy trumpet-calls
remind us all what day it is. In front

Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, but has spent most of his life in England. A number of his poems will be included in a Carcanet anthology in 2011, and poems have been taken by various magazines including Agenda, PN Review and Stand. He lives between Leicester and Bristol, and is studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester.

Lust Redeems Her Car from the Parking Valet

Rebecca Foust

Rebecca Foust’s books include All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving Prize, 2010) and God, Seed, environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens (Sept. 2010). Foust’s poetry won the 2007 and 2008 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prizes and appears in Hudson Review, Margie, North American Review, Spoon River Review, and elsewhere.