Subscriber News: March 2025
Recent Honors
Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter won first prize in the 2024 Saints & Sinners Poetry Contest sponsored by the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. The next submission period for this $1,000 award for LGBTQ authors will open May 1, with an expected deadline in October. In other news, Jendi's erasure poem "CULTURE FAG TRAINING" was accepted by Room Magazine for their humor issue, #48.1, forthcoming in March 2025. Jendi will be reading from their latest novel, Origin Story (Saddle Road Press, 2024), on Thursday, April 10, at 6pm as part of Village Story Salon, an event co-hosted by Cheryl J. Fish and Jonathan Vatner at the New York Public Library, Hudson Park Branch, 66 Leroy Street, New York City. Read Heather Jones' review of Origin Story in The Massachusetts Review.
Congratulations to Noah Berlatsky. Nun Prophet Press recently published Brevity, his collection of cinquains, a five-line syllabic form related to haiku. Roberta Beach Jacobson, editor of the poetry journal Five Fleas, says of this book: "His work is bold, sexy, innovative, witty, and at times bordering on satirical madness."
Recent Publications
Lucy May Lennox's historical novel Eroshenko was released in February in print and Kindle editions. Set in 1915 Tokyo, a hotbed of radical and cosmopolitan ideas, the novel centers on a blind Ukrainian writer and a Japanese feminist reporter who are working together to make their society more free.
Laura Buxbaum's poem "Tattoo" was published in Rat's Ass Review (Spring/Summer 2025). Scroll down to read the poems in this issue alphabetically by author.
Marilyn McVicker's new book is I Still Sing Your Lullabies: A mother's love and loss (Long Field Publications, 2025). This hybrid poetry and essay collection is the story of a disabled lesbian mother losing custody of her daughters because of the "fathers' rights" backlash against feminism in the Reagan era. Visit her website for all of her books.
R.T. Castleberry's poem "Never More Beautiful" was published in Bare Hill Review.
Eva Tortora had letters to the editor published in the New York Daily News, the Queens Chronicle, Tristate (a Pennsylvania newspaper), and the Delaware and Hudson newspaper in Delaware.
Lesléa Newman will be reading with Jayne Benjulian, Owen Lewis, and Richard Michelson at the event "Poetry in Times of Crisis". There will be two presentations of this event: Friday, April 4, at 4pm, at Forbes Library, 20 West Street, Northampton, MA; and Saturday, April 5, 3pm, at the Stockbridge Library, 46 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA. Some of Lesléa's recent publications include the essay "My Grandmother's Chutzpah" on the website On Being Jewish Now, and the poems "Complicated Fruit" and "Underground" on the Jewish Book Council's website.
Published: March 8, 2025
