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Questions for Octavio Quintanilla Alice In Voices de la Luna A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 15 July 2015 Volume 7, Number 4 www.voicesdelaluna.com “As If the Empty Chair” by Margaret Randall Questions for Octavio Quintanilla Alice in Wonderland Turns 150 Jim LaVilla-Havelin, “Cut and Paste” Table of Contents I-Write, Alonzo McKee 23 Voices de la Luna, Volume 7, Number 4 Leaving CPS, Tara L. Carnes 24 Editor’s Note, James R. Adair 3 San Antonio Sunset: A Combo Poem, Voices Barnes & Cover Page Art, Lauren Browning 4 Noble Workshop Poets 24 Bios of Selected Contributors 44 The Stolen Child, W. B. Yeats 25 Ocean Tao, Chris Yan 25 Featured Poet Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll 37 Hermes Leaves His Winged Shoes – Through Broken Men Improve with the Years, W. B. Yeats 37 Shards of Earth, Margaret Randall 5 As If the Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacía – Where International Poems the Human Spirit Cannot Breathe 19 Solneto / Sunnet, Urayoán Noel 20 Herbstliche Bahnfahrt durch die Mark Brandenburg, Featured Interview Hejo Müller (Autumn Trainride through Mark Questions for Octavio Quintanilla, Gerard Robledo 6 Brandenburg, trans. James Brandenburg) 20 Tristezas, Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (Sorrows, trans. Gerard Robledo) 21 Collaboration in Literature & the Arts Creative Writing Reading Series 8 Editors’ Poems Utopia Means No Place, Susannah Hollister 9 Residue, Joan Strauch Seifert 22 San Miguel Sketches, James R. Adair 22 Book Reviews A Court Date in March, Carol Coffee Reposa 22 Across A Hundred Mountains (Reyna Grande), B. B. Saidi 10 The Marchers: A Novel (Mo H Saidi), James R. Adair 10 Poetry Therapy The Quiet Born from Talk: Festschrift for Wendy Barker Without, Catherine-Grace Patrick 26 (Catherine Kasper, ed.), James R. Adair 10 Because It Is There, Joyce Collins 26 Pathways to Ancient Shelter: A Sojourn in Langtry, Texas Poem, Victoria Conerly 26 (Mary Locke Crofts), Lou Taylor 11 Mind and Body, Josh Divin 26 Untitled, Oshanda Collins 27 Art & Culture in the City Made With Dad, Vivian Kearney 27 McNay Art Museum 13 Life’s Banners, Milo Kearney 27 The Witte Museum 13 Protest as an Art Form 13 Art Therapy Once Upon a Time, Frances Rosales Ford 27 Youth Poems Take a Moment, Richelle Vasquez 27 The Boy Met a Girl, Elizabeth San Miguel 14 Guides and Blessings for Creative Work, Maripat Munley 28 Lamed Vovnick, Kathleen Kinlin 14 This Powerful Thing, Tara Layer 28 Night: A Prose Poem, Henry Constantino 14 Love’s Worth, Maria Santin 28 He Called It Love, Mei-Li Jew 14 A Place for Everything, Darian Miera 14 Poetry & Dreams Maya Indians, James Brandenburg 29 Select Poems Immigrant Child, James Brandenburg 29 Cut and Paste, Jim LaVilla-Havelin 15 Happiness, Nadia Gerassimenko 15 News & Notes Bruised, Loretta Walker 15 April Hill Country Roadways, Mo H Saidi 7 Down You Go, John Grey 15 The Fate of the Dodo 8 Cheshire, Walter Bargen 16 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta 11 Untitled, Ruth Friedberg 16 Juan Felipe Herrera Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate 12 dead man’s hand, Michelle Hartman 16 Carmen Tafolla Selected Texas Poet Laureate 12 Unclasping Alice, Charlotte Renk 17 Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, 1927-2015 12 Interlocking, Eloisa Perez Lozano 17 Can Listening to Beethoven Lower Blood Pressure? 12 Solitude, Lewis Carroll 17 High School Teacher Fired for Reading Ginsberg to Honeycakes, She Calls Me …, Judith Toler 18 Senior AP English Class 29 How I Love You in This House Today, Chris Yan 18 Chupacabra at the Statue of Liberty, Clarence Wolfshohl 18 Essays Campari, Elina Petrova 18 Lewis Carroll and a Child’s Imagination, Dani Never Give All the Heart, W. B. Yeats 22 Adair-Stirling 30 The Mad Gardener’s Song, Lewis Carroll 23 Welsh Town Celebrates Alice 30 Between Her Thoughts, Nina Knueven 23 Southeast Alaska – May 2015, Lou Taylor 31 2 Voices de la Luna, 15 July 2015 Short Fiction Editor’s Note When the Dust Settles, Katherine Mansfield 32 James R. Adair Symphony Art, Sarah Martinez 33 Laurel, Kiana Noelle Johnson 34 In the summer of 1862 or 1863, an The Princess and the Puma, O. Henry 35 Oxford University mathematician visited family friends in North Wales. During his visit he spent time strolling around Serialized Novel the grounds, gazing out into the bay next The Marchers, Chapter Twenty-Six, Mo H Saidi 38 to the house, and talking with members of the Liddell family. His conversations San Antonio Small Presses with one of the family members, ten- Wings Press 42 year-old Alice, inspired him to write a Pecan Grove Press 42 children’s book that defied contemporary Word Design Studio 42 norms for juvenile literature, employing mythical creatures, silly rhymes, and Our Sponsors 43 (gasp!) a wholesale endorsement of children’s imagination. The resulting book was part children’s entertainment, part fantasy, Brief Bios of Selected Contributors 44 and a work of complete genius. It revolutionized the world of children’s literature. Booksellers couldn’t keep it on the shelves. Submission Guidelines Proper Victorian “experts” on children’s mental health were scandalized. In this issue of Voices de la Luna we celebrate the Voices de la Luna is a quarterly publication dedicated to the artistic 150th anniversary of the publication of that scandalous work, expression of a wide range of perspectives and topics. In the service Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, along with other works of the of that goal, we welcome diverse, well-written submissions from every Oxford don Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known today by quarter. To submit material for publication in Voices de la Luna, go to his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll. Some of the poems and stories voicesdelaluna.submittable.com. included in this issue show the influence of Carroll’s work, —————————————————————— either in theme or in the use of language. This is scarcely odd Voices de la Luna Monthly Literary Evening (to quote Carroll), since his works contributed more new words Poetry and Arts Presentation to the English language than any corpora other than the works of Every Second Wednesday, January through June *** New Day *** Shakespeare and the King James Bible. Several illustrations from and September through December Carroll’s books—mostly the work of John Tenniel but one from Poetry Workshop at 6:00 Featured Poet at 7:00 Carroll himself—appear throughout the magazine. Poetry, Music, & Open Mic at 7:30 This year also marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Viva! Bookstore *** New Location *** birth of the brilliant Irish poet W. B. Yeats, author of the following 8407 Broadway unforgettable lines (among many others): San Antonio, TX 78209 Turning and turning in the widening gyre —————————————————————— The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Voices Mission Statement Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, Voices de la Luna publishes a quarterly poetry and arts magazine in four The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere formats, focusing on writers and artists of South Texas. The organization The ceremony of innocence is drowned; is committed to inspiring youth, promoting poetry and arts through their The best lack all conviction, while the worst involvement, and serving as a platform for all poets and artists to share Are full of passionate intensity. their work with others. It is further dedicated to use poetry and arts for As always, Voices is privileged to share the work of both estab- both educational and healing purposes in the community. lished writers and those without previous publication credits. Our featured poet for July is Margaret Randall, whose poetry reflects a social activism influenced in large measure by her sojourn of Voices de la Luna more than two decades in Latin America. We present her poem A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine “As If the Empty Chair/Como si la silla vacía,” an achingly beau- and tiful poem about the familes of the desaparecidos, in both Eng- lish and Spanish, along with several other selections of her work. Other highlights in this issue include a conversation with local poet and scholar Octavio Quintanilla, award-winning short fiction by middle school and high school students from the San Antonio Book Festival Fiction Contest, and reviews of several interesting books, including Voices co-founder Mo Saidi’s first novel. There’s Are Pleased to Announce even an appearance by an erstwhile Texas author known for the surprise endings to his stories. And finally some good news: did The HEB Annual Youth Poetry Contest you know that listening to Beethoven may be beneficial to your for secondary school students 18 years old and younger health? I guess Schroeder was on to something all along! Deadline to Submit: 1 October 2015 The editors of Voices de la Luna hope that you enjoy reading the Awards Presentation: January 2016 poems, fiction, essays, news items, and notices of artistic events as much as we enjoy bringing them to you. Follow Carroll’s ad- For Submission Guidelines Please Visit vice and take a lazy summer afternoon or two to “pursue / The www.voicesdelaluna.com/submissions/ dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new.” Voices de la Luna, 15 July 2015 3 Cover Page Art Voices de la Luna A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine Presence ISSN 2168-4316 (print) by Lauren Browning ISSN 2168-4324 (online) www.laurenbrowning.com Board of Directors Lauren Browning is a sculptor Michael J. Burke, Chair who works primarily with stone but Mo H Saidi, CEO, Co-Founder also incorporates bronze, metal, and James Brandenburg, Co-Founder other media into her artwork. Her James R. Adair / Bruce Akright Ellen Riojas Clark / Hugh Fitzsimons sculptural designs are beautifully María Gabriela Madrid / Maripat Munley realized, highly refined, and Habib Nathan / Jim Oliver original, with strong flow, tension, Debra Peña / Rajam Ramamurthy and movement.
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