Spring 2012 VOLUME XVIII NUMBER 2 ISSN 1945-0559
Welcome to Off the Coast!
Featuring poems by Betsy Scholl, Robert Chute, Kathleen Ellis, Steve Lautermilch, Lyn Lifshin, Lewis Turco, Tam Lin Neville and others.
Artwork and photos by Eleanor Leone Bennett, Betsy Headley, Kimberly Callas, Vishal Vaibhav, Nermin Kurs, Jacob Oet, and Taylor Watson with cover images by Sarah Katharina Kayß and Swati Sevlani.
Moving House and Saint Sinatra by Angela Alaimo O'DonnellGod, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World, by Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens
All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song by Rebecca Foust
Wildness within Walking Distance, by Robert M. Chute
Making a Clean Space in the Sky by Paula Yup
Dissolves. Terra Lucida IV-VIII by Joseph Donahue
Fumbling in the Light by Sidney Hall Jr.
From the Box Marked Some Are Missing by Charles W. Pratt
Earth Listening by Becky Sakellariou
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What's green and off the coast?
Thursday, March 8, 2012
By Michele Leavitt, Unity House
On Tuesday, March 6th, Unity House hosted a marathon nine hour editorial meeting for Off the Coast: Maine's International Poetry Journal. The journal is collaborating with students in AR 2113: Poetry of Social Change... More.
The Winter 2012 issue, "What Draws the Eye" is available now.
Featuring poems by Rhina Espaillat, Simon Perchik, Ruth Holzer, Jan D. Hodge, Paul Hostovsky, Tom Lyford, and others.
Artwork and photos by Nancy Henry, Chuck Marecic, Genevieve Leet, Steve Cartwright, Stephen Ajadi, and Yaseen Anwer with cover images by Kailash Mittal and Brett Stout.
Just Beautiful by Tim Suermondt
New Poets of the American West edited by Lowell Jaeger
Wrestling Angels: Poetic Monologue by Freddy Frankel
Ballroom by Lyn Lifshin
Brushstrokes and glances by Djelloul Marbrook
A Leaf Called Socrates: A Poetry Memoir by Ann Holmes
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The Fall issue, "Everything Here" is available now.
Featuring poems by Karie Friedman, Ray Skjelbred, Gayle Elen Harvey, Michel Young, Carolyn Gelland Frost, and J. Stephen Rhodes.
Artwork and photos by Cesar Augusto, Jean Schild, Ali Asghar Abedi, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Sherman Poultney, and Yaseen Anwer with cover image by Irene Koronas.
Books reviewed:
Turn of a Phrase: Pivotal Positions in Poetic Prose by Branch Isole
The Battlefield Guide by Rodger Martin
The Bodies Beneath the Table by W. D. Ehrhart
Within Reach by M.J. Iuppa
Maine in Four Seasons: 20 Poets Celebrate the Turning Year edited by Wesley McNair
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The Bangor Daily News reviewed the Summer Issue, Taming the Tides.
The small magazine tradition sails along Down East
By Dana Wilde, BDN Staff
Posted Oct. 16, 2011, at 2:59 p.m.
For the uninitiated, Off the Coast is one of Maine's many independently edited and produced small literary magazines, a publishing tradition that reaches several decades back into the 20th century. "Independent" means without affiliation to a college or university... more
The Summer issue, "Taming the Tides" is available now.
Featuring poems by Ruth Arnison, Jean Howard, Laura Sobbott Ross, David Wagoner, and translations of Rainer Maria Rilke by Len Krisak.
Artwork and photos by Eleonore Leonne Bennet, Betsy Headley, Chuck Marecic, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Sherman Poultney, and Yaseen Anwer with cover images by Meghan Agresto and Steve Lautermilch.
Books reviewed:
Vanitas by Jane McKinley
The Immaculate Conception Mothers' Club by David R. Surrette
Night Flight by Kenneth Frost
Under the Legislation of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets edited by Rick Agran, Hildred Crill, and Mark DeCarteret
Young of the Year by Sydney Lea
When Performers Swim, the Dice Are Cast by Judith Katz-Levine
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Off the Coast Seeks Submissions of Poetry and Art/Graphics/Photos
Our next deadline for submissions is June 15 for an open theme issue.
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- Center for Maine Craft in Gardiner, ME
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Valerie Lawson & Michael Brown, Editors
