I wasn’t able to figure out how to share an image of the cover of the Winter 2021 issue of Tipton Poetry Journal, published out of the poetic circles of Tipton, Indiana, so instead I am sharing a similar (but vintage) image from my small orbit here in Northfield, Minnesota.
I hope that you will take a moment to open the link below, though, not only to see the lovely image of the cover but to read the contents of this ingenious e-facsimile of a paper journal. (I love being able to turn the digital pages instead of scrolling down.) Naturally, I am delighted to see my poem about Edna St. Vincent Millay appearing in the new issue of Tipton Poetry Journal.
I have long been taken with the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Milly. (If you have ever used the expression “burning your candle at both ends, then you, too, might enjoy this four-line poem of hers, first published 101 years ago, in 1920.)
My own poem was inspired when my friend, Sally Nacker, (whose poetry and essay work is familiar to readers of Winona Media) returned from visiting St. Vincent Millay’s home in Steepletop, now the headquarters of the Millay Society, in Austerlitz, New York. Sally sent me a postcard of the poet’s writing studio and also shared the story of her relationship with her husband, Eugene Boissevain, who devoted his life to help her vocation as a poet.
This issue of Tipton Poetry Journal also contains diverse work by these poets:Tobi Alfier, Jonathan Bracker, Matthew Brennan, Simona Carini, Alan Cohen, Ken Craft, Michele Penn Diaz, Diane Glancy, G Timothy Gordon, Charles Grosel, Shakiba Hashemi, C.T. Holte, James Croal Jackson, Jennifer Ruth Jackson, Jerry Jerome, Michael Jones, Robert S. King, Mary Hill Kuck, Charlene Langfur, Bruce Levine, J. Lintu, Jack e Lorts, Ken Meisel, Karla Linn Merrifield, Theresa Monteiro, George Moore, Julie L. Moore, Cameron Morse, Thomas Osatchoff, Lynn Pattison, Akshaya Pawaskar, Nancy Kay Peterson, Timothy Robbins, Seth Rosenbloom, Michael Salcman, Hamilton Salsih, Sara Sarna, Leslie Schultz, Dave Seter, Mary Shanley, Raj Sharma, Michael E. Strosahl, James Eric Watkins and Diane Webster.
Dan Carpenter reviews Linda Neal Reising’s The Keeping.
Cover Photo: “Snowman 2021” by Barry Harris.
Fun factoid: Sally took the author photo of me outside of the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis.
Wishing you a fun if frosty day!
LESLIE
