Views and Mechanics Publisher's Note Editor's Note Review of African Psycho Review of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Film Review of "Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind" Writing Contest Results Creative Nonfiction Back Pain...Who Cares? By Michael D. Burg Knit Two Together By Jo L. Gerrard Skin Odyssey By Holly Leigh Jacobson Leaves in the Wind By Molly Molloy Hydroglyphics By Phaedra Greenwood Poetry Indiana Poem By Michael Lee Johnson Inspire Me, Ms. Muse By Tony Zurlo A Poem Forgot By Gabrielle Rabinowitz Yours By Sheila McLaughlin Sikorski Confetti By Alan Girling Correction: Drive Me Home Again By Anne Cammon Fiction Scaffold By Joseph Bathanti For the Taking By Anne Leigh Parrish The Artistic Impulse By Johanna Lipford Justifiable Brew Aside By Barbara Anton Stopping at the DQ By Susan White Cover Art Bright Red By Dee Rimbaud About the Contributors © 2007, 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 Senior Editor - Patti Kurtz Senior Editor - Neeldhara Misra Copyeditor - Kathy Skaggs Blog Contributing Editor - Maggie Koster Education Blog Contributing Editor - Jordan Wirfs-Brock 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 Michael D. Burg - Michael D. Burg is an academic emergency physician. In his copious spare time he's pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction. Jo L. Gerrard - Jo L. Gerrard has previously worked as an Editorial Board member for the Harrow webzine. She has had poetry published in the Harrow, Astropoetica, and the California Lutheran University Morning Glory literary magazine. Her website is http://www.sistercoyote.com/. Holly Leigh Jacobson Molly Molloy Phaedra Greenwood Michael Lee Johnson - Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL. after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Vietnam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is interested in social, religious topics, and the need for universal health care in the United States. He is presently self-employed, with a previous background in social service areas. He has a B.A. degree in sociology, worked on a Masters Program in Correctional Administration. Recent published poems: The Orange Room Review; Bolts Of Silk; The Flask Review; Apollo’s Lyre; Chantarelle’s Notebook; Fresh! On Line Literary Magazine. Mr. Johnson has several poems pending publication March through July, 2007. 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. Gabrielle Rabinowitz - Gabrielle Rabinowitz is currently a Senior at The Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology in New Jersey. Passions include biology research, reading, and writing. Gabrielle has completed a 391 page fantasy novel (which is currently searching for a publisher). Sheila McLaughlin Sikorski - Sheila McLaughlin Sikorski is a student in the Master's in Writing Program at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Her works has appeared in poetsagainstthewar.org and voicesinwartime.org as well as a self-published chapbook titled "How Dare I? Or Poetry That Would Get Me Thrown Out of Most Anywhere." Sheila also worked as a journalist for almost 20 years. Alan Girling - Alan Girling lives with his family in Richmond, BC, where he works as teacher of academic English and writes prose and poetry in his spare time. His writings have appeared in such venues as Lichen Arts and Letters Preview, Hobart, The MacGuffin, Southern Ocean Review, The Menda City Review, Snow Monkey and Smokelong Quarterly. Anne Cammon - Anne Cammon is a poet and fiction writer who was educated at Barnard College. She curates a literary radio show for WKCR FM New York, featuring contemporary works of poetry, fiction, new music and radio drama. Her work has recently appeared in the Bloomsbury edition of Riverbabble and Rumble Magazine. Joseph Bathanti - Joseph Bathanti is a professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. "Scaffold" is to be published in a collection entitled The High Heart - winner of the 2006 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and slated for fall 2007 publication by Eastern Washington University Press. Anne Leigh Parrish - Anne Leigh Parrish's short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, New Century Voices, Clackamas Literary Review (winning the Willamette Award in Fiction), Carve Magazine, Fiction Warehouse, Small Voices, Big Confessions (an anthology of short fiction from Edit Red Books), Amarillo Bay, and elsewhere. She was a Finalist in So To Speak's 2007 Fiction Contest, both the 2006 and 2005 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, and Meridian's 2004 Editors' Prize. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two children, and teaches creative writing at the Richard Hugo House, Seattle's center for literary arts. Johanna Lipford Barbara Anton Susan White Dee Rimbaud - Dee Rimbaud is an artist, poet, novelist and occasional new age gypsy. He is currently living in Isla Cristina, in the south of Spain, with his partner and child, after four months of travelling about in a Mercedes 609d van. He is author of two poetry collections, The Bad Seed (Stride, 1998) and Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels (Bluechrome, 2004); and one novel, Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God (Bluechrome, 2004). He edited the charity poetry anthology, The Book Of Hopes And Dreams (Bluechrome, 2006). He also edits The AA Independent Press Guide, a free online directory of magazines and publishers, hosted on his website alongside a host of useful writers' resources, as well as a portfolio of his art and a selection of his writing. His art is frequently used in magazines and internet zines and has graced the book jackets of collections by Janet Buck, Rupert Loydell, Norman Jope and many others. Dee's art is now available on t-shirts, posters, cards and assorted gift items via his CafePress shop. |