As I flicked through my newly arrived copy of MiPOesias I became more delighted as my eyes alighted on each page. I recalled the excitement I felt going into a sweet shop after school and looking at all the neon coloured candy stacked in jars - shelf after shelf, enticing me with tbeir phosphorescent gleam. And I remember the tastes and textures - sour, sweet, fizzy, milky and chewy. Well I was never disappointed then and I am not now with this fabulous magazine. The poetry is top class and the illustrations are sumptious and high quality. Treat yourself! Absolutely delicious!!

MiPOesias DECEMBER 2007 MAGAZINE

By Hope Maxwell-Snyder

MiPOesias 2007 is filled with wit, fire, passion, and beauty, beginning with the cover, which entices us into a unique world where we discover portraits, photographs, and poems that seduce us with their aesthetic appeal as well as their fresh outlook and substance. I love the layout (neat and very chic) as well as the use of color throughout the magazine.

Miguel Murphy’s, Sara Femenella’s, Ken Rumble’s, and Grabiella Torres’s photographs remind me of Vogue . I think the fresh outlook of the magazine attracts readers of all ages, people interested in interdisciplinary fields and in a global culture. MiPOesias is a wonderful example of the human mind exploring possibility in order to bring us a fresh way of looking at art. Congratulations Didi Menendez. I am glad to know such a unique magazine exists in America and in the world today. Viva MiPOesias!
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Hope is a poet/playwright/world class photographer/publisher/entrepreneur/ Director of National poetry Festival "Sotto Voce" in West Virginia

ED ZAHNIZER SAYS:



If Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine were online—& Andy still involved—it might look like the new MiPOesias (December 2007) issue designed by April Carter Grant, LA graphic designer/photographer/(& closet poet?) only it

wouldn’t be full of mere celebs and parentally dough-ridden debs & tight-panted fashion dudes but poets, artists, bloggers, writers, designers, etc. trotted out in layouts way-colorful but clear, cleanly complex, & compelling & with ads, even one photo-based ad for Cheryl (A) Townsend, the poet formerly known as CAT, “not your normal photographer, ohio,” whose nekkid doll figures lock in maituna embrace or osculate hotly—read it on-screen or tax your printer’s memory, but do read it not just LOOK at it and drool.



Ed Zahniser, poet, Mall-hopping with the Great I AM (Somondoco Press) and Ransacking Desire for a Seed of Contemplation (e-chapbook

www.languageandculture.net

DAN MURANO SAYS:

My first impression is that this is a visually delightful issue, from its ruggedly engaging cover to the clean and balanced layout of portraits, drawings and poems. What stands out most to me as a visual artist are the haunting Duane Kirby Jensen ink paintings, the flash-of-light poetry pages of Gabriella Torres, Mario Gallucci's Ken Rumble portraits and the sensitive and smooth-toned black and white portrait of Lee Herrick (I could not find a credit for this). Reb Livingston's pages make me pause, smile and read her poems whenever I page past them, and I love the fabulous subway portrait of Sara Fermenella, perfectly levered with overlay blocks of her poems. And of course, Grace Cavalieri standing within the center of art, which is where I always see her. I do not see a bad photo or design here. The artful layout makes me wish I could hold and turn each physical page in my hands.



Dan Murano, Photographer / Photo Editor, www.danmurano.com

MARY MORRIS SAYS:

It's hip and it's hot. Check out the December 20007 issue of MiPoeseia Magazine online. One can download, print and forever admire this truly original and colorful concept of a place embracing the art of poetry. The layout and design particularly noteworthy. Not only will you find an amusing interview with Billy Collins by Jenni Russell, great poems by Christopher Stackhouse, Gabriella Torres, Reb Livingston and others, but extremely thoughtful reviews and a fair amount of exquisite portraits of artists who appear or have appeared before in this courageous zine, plus their websites. If a picture says a thousand words, the portrait of a poet contains fewer words with more intensity and speaks gorgeously (think of the portraits of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman or Langston Hughes and how they invoke). Herein, lies a caricature of Amy King, Grace Cavalieri in black leather pants in the center of a geometric sculpture. How did she get in there? Ah, the physics and beauty of poetry. Look at the face of Didi Menendez, the master mind of Mipo and into the eyes of Ivy Alvarez to connect with the souls of these artists. Then read. Read with pleasure.

-Mary Morris, winner RITA DOVE AWARD, 2007
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