Voices De La Luna a Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 15 August 2016
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Voices de la Luna A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 15 August 2016 Volume 8, Number 4 www.voicesdelaluna.org “Phineas Talbot” by Brian Kenneth Swain Questions for Donna Dobberfuhl “Nocturne for Bellsong and Train Horns” by Bryce Milligan “Honoring Joy Harjo” by Abbie Massey Cotrell Table of Contents Rio San Pedro, Peter Holland 39 Voices de la Luna, Volume 8, Number 4 O. Henry Breathes Here, Carol Siskovic 39 Editor’s Note, James R. Adair 3 San Pedro Creek, Lea Lopez Fagin 39 Cover Page Art, Adam Green 4 International Poems Featured Poet Manchmal, Hejo Müller (Sometimes, trans. James High Country Caravan – Nocturne for Bellsong and Train Brandenburg) 19 Horns – The Watch – There Is No Cure for Desire, America! Tear Up This Bloody Amendment, Bryce Milligan 5 ( ), Majid Naficy 20 Advent’s End, Bryce Milligan 23 τί ἐστιν ἡ ἀγάπη; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (What Is Love? trans. James R. Adair) 20 Featured Interview Questions for Donna Dobberfuhl, Lauren Walthour 6 Stone in the Stream/Roca en el Río Six Brown Pelicans, Toni Heringer Falls 21 Collaboration in Literature & the Arts On the Edge of Town, Janice Rebecca Campbell 21 Creative Writing Reading Series 8 If I Had Attended, d. ellis phelps 21 How Many Painters Does It Take to Change a Nation, d. ellis UTSA Featured Poet phelps 21 Scales on the Harp, Alexis Haight 9 Editors’ Poems Book Reviews Genesis II, Mo H Saidi 22 The Train to Crystal City (Jan Jarboe Russell), Carol CalGarSi, Joan Strauch Seifert 22 Coffee Reposa 10 E. B. White Remembered, Carol Coffee Reposa 23 The High Mountains of Portugal (Yann Martel), James R. Adair 11 Poetry Therapy Evolution of a Poetry Therapist, Cyra S. Dumitru 26 Art & Culture in the City In the Shelter of Poetry, Joshua Madrid 26 Interview with Rick Riordan, Lyn Belisle 12 Betwixt and Between, Joshua Madrid 27 Under the Gloomy Moon, Joshua Madrid 27 Youth Poetry To Dad on Father’s Day, 2016, Martin Riley 27 Kalua Pork, Dylan 14 The Immigrant Child, Kathleen Henry 27 The Jellyfish in the Sky, Mia 14 One Day, Lynn Navarro 27 The Grandfather Clock, Sarah 14 I Have My Doubts, Haddie 14 Art Therapy My Skin, Olivia Valenzuela 15 Instant, Frances Rosales Ford 28 This Is, Glory Fisher-Jones 15 The Change, Richelle Vasquez 28 Mom, Zion Talavera 15 Untitled, Frances Rosales Ford 28 Untitled, Susan Herrera 28 Select Poems Untitled, Trichele Allen 28 You Are Old, Father William, Lewis Carroll 13 Nocturne for Rattlesnakes and Lechuzas, Joe Jiménez 16 Poetry & Dreams Kicking Super Hero, Ndaba Sibanda 16 Return to Kentucky, James Brandenburg 29 Aging, James G. Piatt 17 When I Was a Child, James Brandenburg 29 Umbral, Vickie Vértiz 17 To the Little Girl I Can’t Quite Recall, David Bowles 17 News & Notes In Defense of a Beautiful Mind, Julie Gates 17 Taiwan Elects First Woman President, Alice Frederick 7 Mash, Alice Frederick 18 Obama and Abe Visit Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park 7 Wordless with My Father, Tom Keene 18 Roald Dahl at 100 11 Honoring Joy Harjo, Abbie Massey Cotrell 19 San Antonio Poetry Archive, Alice Frederick 13 A Clear Midnight, Walt Whitman 19 Thanks to Voices Intern Alice Frederick 13 Poetry Class, John Grey 19 Elie Wiesel, 1928–2016 38 Leveling, Alan Berecka 24 In Defense of Harlots, Loretta Diane Walker 24 Essays Visiting the Nursing Home, 1962, Elizabeth Raby 24 A Confederacy of Dunces Revisited, Lou Taylor 30 Yellow Jackets, Jeffrey DeLotto 25 Who Is the Matriarchal Figure? Using Biography to I See It on Your Arms, Angela Consolo Mankiewicz 25 Explore Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of The Last R-Train of the Day, Yuxi Lin-Yuxi 25 Granny Weatherall,” Andrea Kraus-Lozano 31 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, Eugene Field 29 Writers Take a Walk along the San Pedro Creek, Don Easter, 1916, William Butler Yeats 38 Mathis 39 2 Voices de la Luna, 15 August 2016 Short Fiction Editor’s Note Phineas Talbot, Brian Kenneth Swain 32 James R. Adair True Silence, Graeme Carey 36 As we stand at the midpoint of sum- Serialized Novel mer, we can look back to spring, when The Marchers, Chapter 31, Mo H Saidi 40 the year’s first flowers began to poke their heads through the soil in search San Antonio Small Presses of the sun, or forward to winter, when Wings Press 42 leaves will drop from the trees and icy Word Design Studio 42 cold winds will chill our bones. The prepositions we use to describe time are Our Sponsors 43 instructive: we look behind our backs to see the stages of life through which Back Page we’ve already passed, and we face for- Brief Bios of Selected Contributors 44 ward to look ahead to the uncertain future. No matter how old we Idioma: Brexit, James R. Adair 44 are at this point in time, or any other, we can always imagine our- selves standing at zero on the number line of our own lives, with our past accomplishments, joys, and sorrows lying to the left of Submission Guidelines zero and our future ambitions and dreams lying to the right. In this issue of Voices de la Luna, we address the theme of Voices de la Luna is a quarterly publication dedicated to the artistic ex- “Young and Old” from a variety of perspectives. We hear the pression of a wide range of perspectives and topics. In the service of that goal, we welcome diverse, well-written submissions from every quarter. perspectives of grandparents and youth, each with his or her own To submit material for publication in Voices de la Luna, go to voices- outlook on life, based not only on age but also on experience, delaluna.submittable.com. background, and worldview. In particular, this issue offers an ex- —————————————————————— panded youth poetry section, featuring for the first time a group Voices de la Luna Monthly Literary Evening of students called the Barrio Writers. Our featured poet, Bryce Poetry and Arts Presentation Milligan, takes us on a car ride through a blizzard toward a final Every Second Wednesday visit with a loved one. Renowned young adult author Rick Rior- Poetry Workshop at 6:00 Featured Poet at 7:00 dan discusses his approach to writing for young people, compar- Poetry, Music, & Open Mic at 7:30 ing it with writing for an adult audience. Other contributors recall Lyn Belisle Studio the halcyon days of youth, either their own or their children’s. 1824 Nacogdoches Rd Still others recount memories of parents and grandparents or of- San Antonio, TX 78209 —————————————————————— fer their own thoughts on aging. As always, select voices from the past join the chorus of con- Voices Mission Statement temporary writers (and, in this issue, a few frogs) on the pages Voices de la Luna inspires and promotes poetry and arts and serves as of the current issue. We expand our poetry therapy section in this a platform for all poets and artists to share their work with others. It issue, as poetry therapist Cyra Dumitru joins Voices co-founder further uses poetry and arts for both educational and healing purposes and poetry therapist James Brandenburg in offering her pespec- in the community. tive on the role that poetry can play in healing. Voices board member Lauren Walthour interviews local artist Donna Dobber- fuhl, a sculptor whose work can be found in such diverse locales as Northwest Florida State College and the San Antonio Zoo. The cover art comes to us courtesy of Adam Green, an artist and writer who splits his time between England and Spain. In this is- sue we also bid adieu to the magazine’s longest-running regular feature, the serialization of the novel The Marchers by Voices’ other co-founder Mo Saidi—but not to worry, the entire novel is now available in print and online! Finally, for those of us who are growing older—that is, ev- eryone reading this—I will close with the words of poet Robert Browning, from his poem “Rabbi ben Ezra”: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Child with a Whip Our times are in His hand Pierre-Auguste Renoir Who saith “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!” Themes for future issues of Voices de la Luna: November: Fantasy and Gothicism Welcome to the August 2016 edition of Voices de la Luna! February: African Independence and Postcolonial Literature Voices de la Luna, 15 August 2016 3 Cover Page Art Voices de la Luna A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine Good Use ISSN 2168-4316 (print) Photograph ISSN 2168-4324 (online) by Adam Green adamhalevi777.com Board of Directors Michael J. Burke, Chair / Allan F. Smith, Vice Chair Adam Green is an artist, illus- James R. Adair / Bruce Akright Lyn Belisle / Ellen Riojas Clark trator, and author. He trained at Hugh Fitzsimons / María Gabriela Madrid St. Martin’s School of Art and Tracy Moore / Debra Peña exhibited regularly in the UK and Rajam Ramamurthy / Carol Coffee Reposa abroad throughout the 1980s. His Robert Shivers / Sharon Martin Turner high point as an illustrator was Lauren Walthour designing the cover for the UK Advisory Board paperback edition of the novel Mo H Saidi, Co-Founder, Editor Emeritus Billy Bathgate. He lived in Israel James Brandenburg, Co-Founder, Editor Emeritus in 1970 and then again from 2009 Ivan Becka / Richard Becker until 2012. He currently divides Angelika Jansen Brown / Louise Cantwell Mike Gilliam / Harmon Kelley his time between London and Harriet Kelley / Habib Nathan / Darby Riley southern Spain, where he contin- David Shulman / Robert D.