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Melissa Balmain 09-29-2020 05:46 PM

Just what the doc ordered: the summer/fall Light is here!
 
Fill your prescription here.

The cure for news that leaves you reeling?
Stallings, Bennett, Swett, and Kreiling.
For woes that keep you up at night?
Garcia, Taylor, Schreiber, White.
At breakfast, dinnertime, and tiffin,
Take heart with Parmenter or Griffin;
Should Covid slam you like a rock,
We bring you Kipps and Videlock.
And if you’re wrestling doubts and debts,
There’s Celia, Corbett, Gary, Betts,
Plus—way more fun than should be legal—
Yezzi, Conelly, and Egel.
Instead of throwing in the towel,
Choose Allen, Coben, and/or Vowell;
Verse that stimulates and tickles
By Dempsey, Gilbert, Scribner, Nicholls;
And (twice as zippy as Ricola)
Lines by Williams and Nicola.
Next time you fear for valid votes?
Cheer up with Lorentson and Loots.
Next time your insides boil and lurch?
Fight back with Soderling and Burch—
Then have yourself a distanced party
With Steelsmith, Pearson, Pepple, Harty,
Gutmann, Galef (dad and son),
O’Carroll, Goldberg, Campion,
The always naughty (therefore nice)
D’Amico, Bobrow, Willis, Grice,
And—tastier than any muffin—
Shacklee, Southward, and McGuffin.
We could keep on (you know we could)
But go now: read some stuff that’s good!

Jerome Betts 10-01-2020 05:02 AM

Gad, Melissa, tiffin. It’ll be chits and cushy next I shouldn’t wonder. Anyway having had a dekko at the latest pukka publication of Light in its 15th on-line avatar, let me felicitate you and the team of editorial box-wallahs, not to mention the 47 contributors, on another multi-coloured antidote to the depressing khaki of these Covid-stricken times.

Melissa Balmain 10-01-2020 01:51 PM

Jerome, as we say here in the American south, bless your heart. :D

Always lovely to know Light's being read by discerning poets (and contributors!) across the pond. Your own page is among the highlights.


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