WHLReview

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The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.

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Editor & Publisher

Steve Glines 

Poetry Editor

Ravi Yelamanchilli

Poetry Readers

Carol Smallwood
Teisha Twomey

Fiction Editor

Tim Gager

Nonfiction Editor

Steve Glines

Book Reviews Editor

Doug Holder

Arts Editor/Curator

 Steve Glines

Poet in Residence

  Tomas O’Leary

 Submissions

Deadlines are as follows
March 1 – Spring
June 1 – Summer
September 1 – Autumn
December 1 – Winter

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Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes. Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words

Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it..

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Welcome to the 61st issue (Volume 16, no 1) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. WHLR is a result of the collaboration between a group of poets and writers who call themselves the Bagel Bards.

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Table of Contents

Opine

Rejoyce, It's Spring

It’s spring but the thermometer outside says winter. A few days ago the crocus poked their heads out for the first time this year reminding us that the Sun is rising higher and higher each day with the promises of the warmth of May and the heat of summer. We wait impatiently for summer just as we wait impatiently in our cocoon for the Covid-19 pandemic to pass as we know it will. In the U.S., at least, the rate of vaccination has reached four million shots (pinches, jabs, stabs, pricks) a day. At this rate, every person in the United States will be vaccinated by July 1st. That’s good news for us but the rest of the world still hides in whatever shelter they can. It’s not a pretty sight. We can be thankful for the progress of science. Without science, a vaccine would still be years in the distance if at all. It could have been worse. The pandemic of 1918 was worse, the Black Death was far worse. Still, this is a nightmare for this generation. We’ve had plenty, the attack on Perl Harbor, the launch of Sputnik, the murder of JFK, RFK, and MLK, 9/11, and now Covid-19.

It’s spring by the calendar and it will soon be spring by the weather and will soon be back to normal, for better or worse, by virtue of the science of vaccination. Let's enjoy it and push the boulder of literature just another inch.

In 2008, Marsha Russell began writing poems documenting each abusive case of a black man or woman being killed or poorly treated in the extreme. This September Wilderness House Press published, “This is why we kneel.” We hope that this slim volume of poems triggers a dialogue that, somehow, begins to heal this problem. We are not born racists; we learn it. We hope that this volume explains to a mostly white audience why people of color are scared and, perhaps, change their behavior.

Don't forget to take a look at Poplar Hill by Stephen Ramey Glines in e-book or on Amazon for hardback. It's super cheap on Amazon.

Search the house

Art

• Edward Michael Supranowicz
• Edward S. Gault
• Madari Pendas
• Mario Loprete

Fiction

For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:

Poetry

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

Reviews

WHLReview is brought to you by:

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
by Sonia Meyer

What Drives Men
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The Last of the Bird People
a novel by John Hanson Mitchell


Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

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