ISSN # 1549-0327

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R o c k   S a l t   P l u m   R e v i e w            Anniversary Issue: Winter 2005

P O E T R Y:     

Denise Duhamel              Laurie Kuntz                    Nancy A. Henry                Michael Estabrook

Christine Leche

Alyson Dayus

Cheryl Snell

Tripp Howell

Deauwand Myers

Greg Rayborn

Jessie Housty

Dan Sicoli

Josh Hanson

                              

E S S A Y: Gary Lehmann

Jabberwocky is a précis of all the romantic tales of medieval poetry ever written. . . .read more

N O N F I C T I O N:

Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Does he wait for the chattering of the keys, a music all its own? read more

Feature Poet

I N T E R V I E W:

Denise Duhamel

"Maureen and I wrote the poems as witches' spells.  The octave of each sonnet is the set up or preparation for the spell and the sextet is the incantation of the spell. . . " read more...

B O O K   R E V I E W:

Nancy A. Henry's Erosion

"Erosion is the altar of the body, mind, and spirit; the small worlds that swell and crumble with a kiss. . .read more

2004 Pushcart Nominations:

John Sweet

Theresa Boyar

Kristy Bowen

Karyna McGlynn

Kelli Russell Agodon

DeAnne Lyn Smith

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We must bless ourselves with peaches.

Pray to the eggplant, silent among her sisters,

That the seeds will not be bitter on the tongue.

Confess our fears to the flesh of tomato:

We too go forward only halfway ripened

Dreaming of the deeper red. - Naomi Shihab Nye

Jalina Mhyana: Editor in Chief

Rebecca Cook: Fiction Editor