Mudfish 24 superheroMudfish 24 is "thick and handsome," as Donald Hall said of all its issues in his book, Notes Nearing Ninety, and this issue lives up to Mudfish's stellar reputation for beauty, intensity, originality and excellence. Each poem is a miniature novel, a universe. Poems by Tim Nolan (the winner of the 17th Mudfish Poetry Prize judged by Deborah Landau) and by the two Honorable Mentions, Doug Smith and Francis Klein are featured, along with Dell Lemmon,
But what he was called to do following a devastating sports injury was so far from normal it left him forever changed
The results have been profound
these poems sing of the natural world
John Mandel TheMillions
Santa Clara
Tracy Sides is an epidemiologist who has worked in public health for more than twenty years
Jasmine Sawers is a Kundiman fellow and Indiana University MFA alum whose work has appeared in such journals as Foglifter
Mike McGregor and police detective Kelli Moore have a meet-cute in the University of Michigan hospital
inviting the reader into a deeper relationship with each poem to embrace a renewing journey speaking to them on so many levels
and the Schomburg Center and a Letras Boricuas fellowship in poetry from the Mellon and Flamboyán Foundations
as a long-practicing physicist
not just for translation but for literature as a whole