Doug Holder

Poetry by Linda Conte, Ted Kooser, Hillary Sallick, Marge Piercy, Tomas O'Leary, DeWitt Henry and more... Also: An interview with the late Ifeanyi Menkiti - former owner of the iconic Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square by Doug Holder

Poetry from Ravi Yelmanchili, Ted Kooser, DeWitt Henry, Jennifer Barber, DeniseProvost, Marge Piercy, Kathleen Spivack and more. Interview with Lloyd Schwartz by DougHolder

Poetry by Pui Ying Wong, Joyce Peseroff, Ted Kooser, Brendan Galvin and more...

Poetry by Kathleen Spivack, Marge Piercy, Mary Buchinger Bodwell, Ellaraine Lockie and more...

Poetry from Jennifer Barber, Ted Kooser, Kathleen Spivack, X.J. Kennedy, Danielle Legros Georges, Mary Buchinger Bodwell and more...Interview with novelist Paul Harding.

In this issue you will see poetry by the likes of Marge Piercy, Andrea Cohen, Ted Kooser and many others. We are also grateful to have great photographs on our front and back covers by Glenn Bowie and Jennifer Matthews. Lawrence Kessenich has an insightful review of Endicott Professor Charlotte Gordon's new book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.

In this issue of Ibbetson Street you will experience poetry by such fine poets as Jared Smith, Brendan Galvin, Jennifer Barber, Kathleen Spivack, Marge Piercy, Linda Conte, and many more. We are very pleased that Melissa Shook, a retired Professor of Photography at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a nationally and internationally exhibited photographer, has a self-portrait gracing our front page, and an alluring sketch adorning our back.

Well, yet another Ibbetson Street has arrived. You will note the striking front cover - an arresting photograph of an enigmatic spiral staircase from Jennifer Matthews, with splendid graphic touches (note the spectral birds) by Rose Gardina. On the back, our long time contributor the accomplished artist Bridget Galway, has a haunting painting of a woman captured in the face of a clock - of all things. Ah! sweet mystery of life! Not only do we have fine art, but we have our usual lineup of fine poetic talent with folks like Jean Valentine, George Kalogeris, Teisha Twomey, Marge Piercy, Kathleen Spivack, X. J. Kennedy, Diana Der Hovanessian, Victor Howes, Mike Ansara, Rhina P. Espaillat, Maggie Dietz and so many others.

Ed Galing Tribute Issue. Poetry from Ted Kooser, Michael Collier, Marge Piercy and others ...

Main Street Rag-- (S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.): "Aside from being the founder, publisher, and co-editor of the prestigious and influential Ibbetson Street Press, Doug Holder writes poetry with a passion and insight that deserves prestige and influence all its own." Laurel Johnson ( Midwest Book Review): "Holder's work is rich with textual imagery...a master poet who sees the world clearly and shares that vision generously with readers." Joe Gouveia (Host of Poet's Corner- Provincetown Radio): " A great poet and a Boston legend." For other fine books see http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/index.html