[Melissa Balmain]

Yes, the virus-delayed, so-called Winter/Spring 2020 issue of Light is live at last:

*Featured poet David Hedges.
*X.J. Kennedy's appreciation of David's work.
*Three dozen more hilarious poets, at least half of them Spherean.
*Barbara Egel-eyed book reviews.
*Our most Zeitgeisty cover photo ever.
*News page updates on contests, publications, and more.
*Enough laughs to get your blood pressure down to pre-pandemic levels (at least for an hour or two).

Thank you, thank you, to all you amazing contributors!

[Jerome Betts]

Good to see Light belatedly flooding the verse firmament again and banishing the C-virus blues with bears, dog-walkers, landlines, litter, little Willies, lost maps, masks, moons, owls and runcible geese among many other topics.

Thank you Melissa, Kevin, and the rest of the team for piercing the pandemical pall.

[Susan McLean]

The darker the situation gets, the more I need a dose of light verse to lift my spirits. Thanks, Melissa, Kevin, and all of the people who came together to provide it.

Susan

[Jerome Betts]

And now Light POTW, the bi-annual's weekly topical offering, has just posted another record-equalling fourteen pieces of the very best butter, putting what Orel Protopopescu calls the Trumpandemic firmly in its place.

Thanks again, M & K!

[Melissa Balmain]

Thanks so much, Jerome and Susan--for the kind words and for your own great work in the winter/spring issue. We couldn't be "piercing the pandemic pall" without the likes of you.

[Gail White]

This is a truly delightful issue & I am proud to supply the last page (in alphabetical order).