HOME Sunday, February 26, 2006 MiPo's All Ladies Issue MiPoesias, published by Didi Menendez, realesed an extraordinary All Ladies Issue, Vol. 20 Issue 2 for the month of February. The issue is replete with poignant little (and not so little) stories of growing up in England during the war; being raised to love someone you don't know; being the perfect mother; bearing children; bearing a stillborn babe; and losing a fireman father to a tragedy. There are the usual poems on the amazing qualities of nature, one especially notable poem regarding the thawing of winter. There is the unique and amazing rumination on loss--the loss of a friend leads the narrator to a wall of ivy covered with singing sparrows; and even insights to miracles--the healing properties of Christ's saliva. The All Ladies Issue is an impressive collection of quality poetry. Though I'm familiar with many of the names in the collection because of the MiPoesias community, and thus my opinion could be construed as biased, I dare say that this issue highlights some of the best poetic voices writing today. I'm including a list of my favorite poems below, but please don't take this to mean that I don't think the other poems are anything less. I just have my favorites, is all. "Honey" by Amy Gerstler "Doctor Pepper" by Birdie Jaworski "Principes Negros" by Rita Maria Martinez "Mammatus" and "Reservoir" by Lorna Dee Cervantes "Units" by Sawako Nakayasu "Hardball" by Pris Campbell "Tastes Like Lot's Wife" by Laurel K. Dodge (Best title of the issue) "My Grandmother" by Jenny Boully "Ivywall of Sparrows" by Amy King "The Bells Never Stop in Varanasi" by kari Edwards "Dead Girls, Dying Girls" by Lyn Lifshin "Once Was a Mouse" by Laurel Snyder "Silence" by Jill Chan "Fudge" by Shiela Murphy "Elocation (Or, Exit Us)" by Evie Shockley "God is Mad..." by Michelle Buchanan "Wifely Attempt at a Poem" by Reb Livingston "From 0 to Sixties" by AnnMarie Eldon 4:56:23 PM   | COMMENT [] | Blog banner taken from the oil painting "The Departure" (40"x 30") by Michael Parker, 1999. E-MAIL ME FILM PAGE BIO PREVIOUS POSTS Reaching Best of Family Films, 2005 A New Hero in Greece, New York MiPo's All Ladies Issue The Letting Go The Great Poetry Exchange Brokeback wins BAFTA Awards Slaughterhouse Five Utah Marathons 2006 U2 Goes 5 for 5 at the Grammy's! Five Weird Things About Me I Am From Saturn Birdie Jaworski My Latest Poem Selected for IBPC On Running and My Painting 'Marathon' It Was An Oscar Type of Morning Crash Wins SAG Award for Best Ensemble Cast! Ang Lee Wins DGA Ancora Shines! Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth at Sundance The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Mary Oliver and Monet Georg Trakl and Fallen Angel Now That the Whole Neighborhood Knows 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards® Goes Cowboy Mike in front of Costiera Amalfitana FAVORITE BLOGS    Archives July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 POETRY Walking to the Cineplex My Son’s Chants Plotting Escape Defending Yourself I Don’t Like FAVORITE POSTS The Portrait of Diego Keros Running Isn’t Supposed to be a Contact Sport The Door In the Floor (2004) Sin City (2005) The Head Bonker(2005) Little Terrorist (2005) MUSIC REVIEWS Mario Frangoulis Sarah Brightman's 'Harem' Spectacular Switchfoot: The Beautiful Letdown The Reinvention of Madonna Duran Duran "Astronaut" Tour U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb IL DIVO: Review of "Mama" Video NEWS   Salon   LiberalOasis   New York Times   Slate   Tom Paine   Mother Jones   The Guardian   CNN   The Washington Post   - Start your own blog   Subscribe to this blog in   Radio: