Views and Mechanics Publisher's Note Editor's Note Review of Coventry Review of Virginity Or Death! Review of Imperial Reckoning Poetry Politico By Beth L. Block Peonies By Natasha S. Garnett A Foreigner in the Street By Tony Zurlo Sand Hill Cranes and Other Eccentricities By Jaqueline Powers On Sleepless Nights By Joy Harold Helsing I Don't Want To Be Hughes By Joe Koch Fiction Baseball Games and One-Eared Cats By Pete Laffin Beige By Dawn Merrow Geezer Cage By Scott W. Alten Sandlot By J. Conrad Guest Dinosaurs and Barbie Dolls By Michelle McMahon Burlesque Show By Stanley P. Anderson About the Contributors © 2006, River Walk Journal and respective authors and artists. All rights reserved. Do not use or reproduce without permission. River Walk Journal, Inc. Board of Directors Chairman - Elizabeth Ross Vice Chairman - Joseph Koch Secretary/Treasurer - Geri Stock-Ross Editorial Director - Patti Kurtz, DA Literacy Director - Vacant Policy Director - PA State Rep. Jess Stairs Advisory Board Chairman - Patti Kurtz, DA Asst. Chairman - Dan Lachenman, PhD Samuel Hazo Christopher Leland Edwin Yoder Joseph Bathanti Journal Staff Publisher - Elizabeth Ross Editor-In-Chief - Joseph Koch Sen. Fiction Editor - Patti Kurtz Sen. Poetry Editor - Neeldhara Misra Sen. Creative Nonfiction Editor - Brenda Coxe Contributing Editor - Robert Dittman Blog Contributing Editor - Maggie Koster Publicity Director (PA) - Geri Stock-Ross For information about submissions, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/subs.html. Questions about promotions, subscribers' services, and advertising should be sent to publisher@riverwalkjournal.org. River Walk Journal, Inc. is a non-profit corporation run entirely by volunteers. For information about volunteer opportunities and internships, visit VolunteerMatch. |
Contributors' Bios Beth L. Block - Beth is an attorney and high school history teacher. She is also a self-taught musician and a singer/songwriter. Beth's poems have appeared in Pemmican Press, Identity Theory (Editor's Choice), Red Booth Review, Cautionarytale, and The Dogwood Journal. Her short stories are published in Doorknobs & Bodypaint, and are forthcoming in Long Story Short and Cautionarytale. Beth's haikus are published in the anthology, Across The Long Bridge. Natasha S. Garnett - Natasha S. Garnett writes poetry, fiction, and essays at home in Connecticut. She is the wife of one, and mother of four. When she is not wrestling at the keyboard, she likes reading, running, playing tennis, and walking the dog. Tony Zurlo - Tony taught in Nigeria with the Peace Corps in his careless youth. His quest to repel middle age routed him through China. There his students convinced him he'd accumulated too much negative karma in his previous life as a corrupt Qing Dynasty official. So his punishment was reincarnation as an American trapped in Texas. To conceal from editors his age, gender, size, race, religion, politics, and other private predispositions, Tony survives folded up in a back room in Arlington, Texas, working on Alice in Cyberland, his anxiously-awaited history about 21st century American foreign policy. Jaqueline Powers - Jacqueline Powers’ work has been published in anwehaveourballback, [plug].poetry, Delirium Journal, kaleidowhirl, Poesia, Chronogram, California Quarterly, Blood Orange Review and Storyglossia. Her play, “Swimming Upstream,” was produced in Ithaca, N.Y. Joy Harold Helsing Pete Laffin - Pete Laffin is a senior at SUNY New Paltz, majoring in philosophy. He's 23 years old and started writing stories about a year ago. Dawn Merrow - Dawn Merrow is somewhere in-between amateur and up-and-comer. With a self-published compilation of her poetry and shorts available online, Merrow is starting to take steps toward making this legit. She's nineteen years old, lives in LaVergne Tennessee, but grew up in New England surrounded by snow and Robert Frost references. She'd like to do her home region some credit with this writing thing. Scott W. Alten - Scott Alten lives and teaches English in southern New Jersey. He has been featured in the 2005 Poetry is Alive Festival and has had work previously published in the Margie Review (Sept. 2006). J. Conrad Guest - J. Conrad Guest’s writing credentials include January’s Paradigm, first published in 1998 by Minerva Press, London, England. He recently completed One Hot January and has commenced work on January’s Thaw, the third book in the January series. Several of his short stories and non-fiction pieces have appeared on Internet publications, including Cezanne’s Carrot, Saucy Vox, River Walk Journal and Redbridge Review. Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine published Guest’s Mother’s Day: Coming to Terms with the Cruelty of Parkinson’s, a memoir chronicling his mother’s battle against Parkinson’s. J. Conrad Guest also provides manuscript evaluation and editorial services at j.c.guest@att.net, and is on the editorial staff at insolent rudder as well as fiction editor for The Smoking Poet. Michelle McMahon Stanley P. Anderson - Stanley P. Anderson has been writing poetry and fiction for about 35 years, has published poetry in various literary journals, including Whole Notes, descant, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Forgotten Ground Regained, The Raintown Review, Contemporary Rhyme, and Prairie Poetry, and have published flash fiction in VerbSap. He has worked as an editor for the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, since 1974. Anderson has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland, is married and has three sons. |