Better Than Starbucks February 2021

Better Than Starbucks February 2021 The Interview — Jeffrey Alfier by Tobi Alfier and Five Poems by Jeffrey Alfier. Featured Poems: out to kill rabbits by Jack Henry, Bitter Honey by Steven Willett, Dig by Allison Thung, The lost garden by Susan Sklan, Archetypical Desiccation by R. Gerry Fabian, The Inhabitants of Paradise by Janet McCann, and An Abstraction on the Tangible, With Trees by Carol Casey. Sonnet Contest Top Ten: Barbara Loots, Armen Davoudian, Catherine Chandler, Kit Rohrbach, Enriqueta Carrington, Ciarán Parkes, Mark J. Mitchell, Richard Wakefield, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, and Max Gutmann. Free Verse: Glen Armstrong, John Dorsey, Larry Pike, Diane Webster, Howard Gershkowitz, Greg Huteson, Sudhanshu Chopra, Catfish McDaris, Michael Ceraolo, Alan Cohen, Sue Fagalde Lick, and Ash Slade. Haiku with Kevin McLaughlin: Douglas J. Lanzo, Jessica Wheeler, Mathew Wenham, Manoj Sharma, Armando Quiros, Stefanie Winton, Kenneth Lynn Anderson, Dennis Maulsby, Sarah Calvello, Carrie Ann Thunnell, Denise Shelton, Carlton Holte, R.K. Singh, Bill Dee Johnston, Sandy Brian Hager, Goran Gatalica, and Rachel Zempel. Formal Poetry with Vera Ignatowitsch: Richard Wakefield, Robert Donohue, Tad Tuleja, Max Gutmann, Marly Youmans, Neil Kennedy, Bruce McGuffin, Judy Koren, Kiersta Recktenwald, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Richard Lorr, Russell G. Winick, Drew Nathaniel Keane, and Mary Kipps. Poetry Translations with Susan McLean: Yun Wang translating Li Bai, Jerome Betts translating Anonymous, and A. R. Bekenstein translating Paul Éluard. Poetry for Children with Robert Schechter: Nina Parmenter, Diana Murray, M. Rory Daws, Kate Williams, and Lorna Davis. International Poetry: Kalyani Bindu, Ziaul Moid Khan, Shifali Gulati, Kushal Poddar, and Fizza Abbas. African Poetry: Soonest Nathaniel, Banqobile Virginia Dakamela, Nnadi Samuel, Ndaba Sibanda, and Lind Grant-Oyeye. Poetry Unplugged: Bruna Gushurst, Gale Acuff, Gavin Bourke, Scott C. Kaestner, and J. Tarwood. Experimental, Prose, & Form Poetry: Sydney Hazen, Paul Ilechko, Gene Twaronite, and Rich Ives. Fiction: Houses of Straw by Benjamin Davis Flash Fiction: Domestic Duplicity by Victoria Lynn Smith Creative Non-Fiction: The Desert Air by Pamela Cottam From The Mind: A Sort of Poetic Manifesto by Tom Merrill Cover: Page from a Priest’s Book by Betty White Photograph by Andre Beneteau