In the Current with Sarah Brockhaus Issue Five
Dear Reader,
Issue 5 of The Shore came out in the Spring of 2020, on the brink of the global pandemic. It is difficult to believe two years have passed since, and yet it feels like a world entirely separate from us today.
The work in issue 5 lives on the cusp of change, it challenges and explores the bounds of memory, plays with opposition and dances through problems of identity and image.
In the face of the pandemic, the contributors of issue five have continued to boldly make art and share it with the world:
Julia Bouwsma is the poet Laureate of Maine, the guest editor for The Ilanot Review, and recently published in The American Poetry Journal.
Charlie M Brown has poems forthcoming in Cincinnati Review.
Nicholas Samaras published poems in Ruminate and Image.
Sarah Marquez published a poem in Mud Season Review and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Library Science at San Jose State University.
Nicholas Holt received his BFA in creative writing from Florida State University.
Rachel Small published the poetry collection, Where Do We Go from Here? with Whispering Wick Chapbook Press in 2021.
Noah Stetzer published poems in Waxwing, The Cortland Review, Hobart, Green Mountains Review, Under A Warm Green Linden, Scoundrel Time and The Night Heron Barks.
Kathryn de Lancellotti was interviewed by Shoutout SoCal and published poems in Night Heron Barks and Beaver Magazine. In June 2020 she published her chapbook Impossible Thirst with Moontide Press.
Molly Tenenbaum published a poem in Moria.
Jide Badmus published poems in Neuro Logical and African Writer.
Satya Dash published poems in Superstition Review, Wildcourt, Atlas and Alice, Sangam House and Cincinnati Review.
Wheeler Light published a poem at Broadsided Press.
JK Anowe had work featured in Bakwa 10: Family Politricks.
Jennifer Saunders published poems in Whale Road Review, Grist, Ninth Letter, Heron Tree, and Twyckenham Notes.
David Dodd Lee published in Rattle, Packingtown Review and Thrush Poetry Journal.
Maxine Patroni received an honorable mention in Broad River Review’s 2021 contest.
Stephanie Seabrook published poems in Birdcoat Quarterly and Kissing Dynamite.
Tara Ballard published in Diode, Glass: A Journal of Poetry and The Normal School and is currently a PhD candidate in English at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Ned Balbo received a 2022 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and was a 2021 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He was also interviewed by Hocopolitso.
Joanna White was a 2021 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Panelist on the topic of Cross Art Collaboration.
Pat Hanahoe-Dosch published poems in Thimble, Rust & Moth and Red Fez.
Barbara Westwood Diehl is the founding and current managing editor of The Baltimore Review, and recently published a poem in Matter Press.
KG Newman published poems in Gasher Journal, Reed Magazine, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Harpy Hybrid Review, Sledgehammer Lit, Rough Diamond Poetry, Hash Journal, The Crank and Miniskirt Magazine.
Bryan D Price published poems in New World Writing, Josephine Quarterly, Hole in the Head Review, Barzakh, Watershed Review and The Broadkill Review.
Kathryn Merwin has had poems published in American Literary Review and Puerto Del Sol.
Jenny Irish published her third poetry collection, Toothbox. She also has poems forthcoming in Grist and Constellations.
Nicholas Molbert had a poem accepted by G U E S T and poems published in Flyway Journal and TIMBER.
Alicia Hoffman published the poetry collection ANIMAL with FutureCycle Press in May of 2021. Alicia has a poem forthcoming in Rock Paper Poem, and published poems in Marrow Magazine, SWWIM, The Night Heron Barks, Feral, South Florida Poetry Journal and Thimble Literary Magazine.
TW Selvey had art published in Waxing and Waning.
Theresa Senato Edwards published in Naugatuck River Review. Theresa was also a poetry mentor for the 2020 and 2021 COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective and is currently a senior poetry editor for Harbor Review.
Clay Matthews is the current poetry editor at The Tusculum Review and published a poem in Appalachian Review.
Anna Sandy-Elrod has recently published poems in Limp Wrist Magazine, Angel City Review and Florida Review. She has poems forthcoming in Exhume and Stained: An Anthology of Menstruation.
Clifford Brooks is co-hosting a podcast called This Business of Music and Poetry.
Stephen Furlong is the current staff reviewer for the journal Five:2:one.
Melissa Marsh continues to create across multiple genres, her work can be found on her website.
To the contributors of issue 5: congratulations on your incredible achievements and thank you for sharing your talents with us.
Issue 5 closes with the words of Stephen Furlong, which seem as appropriate today as they were two years ago, “I used to believe
the one true teacher was grief
revealing itself as a butterfly
such beauty from chaos
for as long as I could remember your light has shined through
the corners of the home I’m building—”
Sincerely,
Sarah Brockhaus