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| Jim Zola |
[Four Digital Artworks + One Poem]: |
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Untitled Image 6760 |
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Untitled Image 6794 |
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Untitled Image 6868 |
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Untitled Image 6988 |
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Weeping Cherry |
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| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
Enter Here
[Photographs and erotic poems] |
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[4+4: Poems & Photographs]: |
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“For Kate in Absentia” |
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San Pedro Sunrise, 14 February 2018 |
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“She Says Stalker/He Says Fan” |
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Fire Sky Sunrise |
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“Coercion” |
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San Pedro Sunrise, 24 March 2018 |
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“Sibling Rivalry” |
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Full Moon Over San Pedro, 7 August 2017 |
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| Thomas E. Kennedy |
“Only for the Moment Am I Saying Nothing”: A Journey to J. P. Donleavy [recently deceased author whose best-known novel is The Ginger Man, initially banned in the 1950s as obscene] |
| Carol Smallwood |
Interview With Carolyn Howard-Johnson [author of HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers] |
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| Clare MacQueen |
About Kowit’s Korner and
“The Kowit” Poetry Prize
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| Sylvia Levinson |
Packing Steve
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| Carolyn Miller |
Sometimes Pie
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| The Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2017 |
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We deeply appreciate that William Harry Harding (publisher of Garden Oak Press) and the San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild (SDEAG) have acknowledged the “time and love” that went into Steve Kowit’s work at Serving House Journal. And we are deeply touched that they believe “The Kowit should have a home of sorts” here as well. With kind permissions from Garden Oak Press and the poets, we are honored to reprint the following cash-prize winners and the Honorable Mentions (unranked) from the second annual Steve Kowit Poetry Prize competition. These works were first published in the San Diego Poetry Annual 2017-18 in February 2018.
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| William Harry Harding |
Introduction from the Publisher of SDPA
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| Vivian Shipley |
Cargo [Grand Prize Winner] |
| Leona Sevick |
Johns Hopkins Hospital, at the Corner of Orleans and N. Broadway [Second Place Winner] |
| David Allen Sullivan |
Walking the Eight Verses Trail at the Land of the Medicine Buddha [Third Place Winner] |
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Honorable Mentions:
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| Robin Becker |
Words With Friends |
| Linda Bryant |
No One Knows Why |
| Molly Larson Cook |
The Pursuit of Happiness |
| Rachel Guido deVries |
Tattoo: A Memory |
| Frankie Drayus |
Blue Agave |
| George Drew |
Camping Out on the Styx |
| Dick Eiden |
Eclipse at Wounded Knee, August 21, 2017 |
| James Ellenberger |
Geometry makes you tender; |
| Jana-Lee Germaine |
The Manicure |
| Janlori Goldman |
Ode to the Apricot Tree on 9th Street, Durango, Colorado |
| Diana Ha |
Age |
| Jeremy Halinen |
Siren |
| Matt Hohner |
You Learn a Friend’s Friend Has Died |
| Rosa Lane |
Dear Shakespeare |
| Tamara Madison |
Waiting for the Scythe |
| Debra Marquart |
Even on a Sunday Drive |
| Mary O’Connor |
Cut and Save |
| Cece Peri |
Who Says Bodhisattvas Can’t Have Fun? |
| Tania Pryputniewicz |
Moscow Road |
| Vivian Shipley |
August 21 2017, The Solar Eclipse, College of Charleston, SC |
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Open, Sesame |
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Note: Works listed in this section were selected by SHJ editor Clare MacQueen.
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| Marit Anderson |
Something About Bob |
| Bob Elmendorf |
Grackles |
| Christien Gholson |
Two Poems: |
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Dead of Night |
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Drought |
| Lola Haskins |
Two Stick Insects [ekphrastic] |
| Deborah P. Kolodji |
[Three Haiku] |
| Sylvia Levinson |
See Kowit’s Korner above |
| Mary Makofske |
Two Poems: |
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Bequeathing the Roses |
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Into the Teeth of It |
| Carolyn Miller |
Reckless Polka
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See also Kowit’s Korner above |
| Simon Perchik |
[Bowl] |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
See Featured Author above |
| Ron Salisbury |
Cosmology |
| Beate Sigriddaughter |
Emily’s Letter to Her Husband’s Lover |
| Mel Takahara |
Leelah |
| Amie Whittemore |
Ode to Avocado |
| Sanjida Yasmin |
no consensus reached |
| Jim Zola |
See Featured Artist above |
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| Duff Brenna |
The King of the Underground Writers [A Review of The Best of Bumpus, short stories by Jerry Bumpus] |
| Francine Witte |
Enter Here by Alexis Rhone Fancher [photographs and erotic poems] |
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| Vera Gubnitskaia |
[Three Paintings]: |
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Abstract 1002 |
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Boardwalk |
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Standing |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
[Photographs]: |
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Fire Sky Sunrise |
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Full Moon Over San Pedro, 7 August 2017 |
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San Pedro Sunrise, 14 February 2018 |
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San Pedro Sunrise, 24 March 2018 |
| Jim Zola |
[Digital Artworks]: |
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Untitled Image 6760 |
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Untitled Image 6794 |
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Untitled Image 6868 |
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Untitled Image 6988 |