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Welcome to the twenty forth issue (Volume 6, no 4) 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 (who have just published their latest anthology).
The stories, articles, poems and examples of art have
been presented as PDF files. This is a format that
allows for a much cleaner presentation than would otherwise be available on
the web. If you don’t have an Adobe Reader (used to read a PDF file) on your
computer you can download one from the Adobe website. The files are large and we hope you will be patient when downloading
but we think the beauty of the words deserves a beautiful presentation.
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copyrights are owned by their respective authors whose opinions are theirs
alone and do not reflect the opinions of our sponsors or partners.
There is nothing more bewildering to an artist than a blank canvas. Writers too are baffled by the empty page. To those of us compelled to write, an empty page can be a nightly demon, a personal challenge or an exciting playpen where there are no rules, basic grammar aside, and one is only limited by the scope of ones imagination and time.
We have filled this edition of Wilderness House with some extraordinary talent. To mention one would do a disservice to all so we’ll only mention that Susan Tepper, our fiction editor, as a new novella out (published by Wilderness House Press, of course) titled From the Umberplatzen. Wilderness House Press is also releasing a book of short stories by Fran Metzman titled The Hungry Heart, some of which have already been seen here. We are also publishing in its entirety a new translation of Ajax. We’ll be printing a paperback version this spring.
Bridget Galway: For quite some time now I have been casting my line out to Louie Doucette to reel him into sharing his art with us. Louie is a fisherman, artist and musician who embodies the history of Provincetown, steeped in the life of commercial fishing and the artistic bohemian culture.
Essays
Alice Weiss tells us about when Demon Ghost, the pimp, came slinking around the parlor door in search of Legitimate Business
Our fiction editor loves Anton Chekhov and despairs the notion that there are no latter day Chekhovs submitting works for her consideration. This is not to say that the work he receives isn’t excellent … it’s just not Chekhov. To that end WHLReview announces a new prize for fiction to be called “the Chekhov Prize.” A google search reveals several other Chekhov prizes with cash. Alas we’re not offering cash. We will look for a bearded bobble-head doll. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the Chekhov Prize logo available. Just click on Chekhov's head.
For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:
Our poetry editor, not wanting to be outdone by our fiction editor is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry. Anyone published in Volume 3 (and beyond) is eligible. We don't have any idea what the prize will consist of - a T-shirt for sure. Perhaps we can find a Plaster of Paris bust of Julius Caesar, put a rose in its mouth and decorate it to look like Gertrude Stein. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the our rose prize logo available. Just click on Gerturde's head.
We have a remarkable lineup of poets, enjoy.
We start off with a translation of Sophocle's Ajax by Dennis Daly. Wilderness House Press will be publishing a paperback edition of the work next spring but for now here it is in its entirity. We think this will become a classic:
We end with a poetic dialog between Tomas O'Leary our poet in residence (although he's never been to Littleton) and our poet/editor irene koronas: Dialog
Come back often. We post up to ten new reviews every week.
As we said when we started this is a joint
production of Wilderness House Literary Retreat and the “bagel bards”.
The “Bagel Bards” have just published their fifth
anthology. You may purchase them here:
WHLReview is brought to you by:
An exciting travelog:
Seven Days in Fiji
by Steve Glines
