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The summer is little more than a memory, but the pieces in this issue, “Heat Wave” (Volume IX Issue 2 – Summer 2010), will give summer a graceful exit. Whether it’s tributes to a poet who died on the beach (“Ballad of the Skylight Diner” and “Run Down By a Dune Buggy on Fire Island”) or memories of a first kiss at summer camp (“Kissing Peter Tork”), these pieces evoke summer’s warmth, its bright light, and its impermanence. The artwork and photography in “Heat Wave” take us outside (“River Girl” and...
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The theme for this issue was “heat.” The theme for next issue will be “passion.” Poetry Ballad of the Skylight Diner — Lou Orfanella What We Do Not Say — Anthony Botti Run Down by a Dune Buggy on Fire Island — R. Steve Benson Sunday Evening — Joseph LoGuidice Late Night with a Seasoned Poet — Mary Sayler Finding Giverny Off A Sand Road In Rural FL — Mary Sayler The Monkey Chronicles — Doug Ramspeck Fiction Kissing Peter Tork — Lou Orfanella The French Teacher — Margaret Karmazin The Broken Cross (Part 1) — John T....
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Wild Violet is entering a new era with a redesign that incorporates more user interactivity. As the first issue of the new design, Wild Transitions (Vol. IX Issue 1, Spring 2010) includes works that demonstrate a transition: whether between relationships or places, between worlds or between viewpoints. Explore the transition between seasons with “Cut Grass in Snow,” “In Spring’s Bed” and “January Thaw.” Or traverse the worlds between the living and the dead in stories by Margaret Karmazin, Helen Tzagoloff, and Tony Dvorak, and with a poem by Frank De...
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Poetry Black Cherry – Carol Hamilton To Moon or Elsewhere – Ishita Bhaduri Israeli Morning – Daniel Wilcox Tonight’s The Night We Begin! – Bill Gillard A Neighbor’s Death – Frank De Canio Possibilities – Jeannine Pitas night flowers – Janet Butler The Sanity (1967-1997) – Robert Lietz On The Third Ring – R.S. Carlson Cut Grass in Snow – Michael Lee Johnson My Best Friend’s Mental Illness – Terri Brown-Davidson How to Write a Sonnet – Terri Brown-Davidson Between your two weakest fingers...
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