Poetry Life and Times 2008

Dear Poets and Readers,

§ April's edition kicks off our second bi-monthly issue 2008 with some new features.

In place of our regular cover interview, we introduce Richard Vallance's masterpiece Sappho's Odes.
These Odes have been entirely reconstructed through the poet's imagination from the existing fragments in their original Greek form. As the work is quite extensive (six Odes), their full publication will be done serially in this and the forthcoming issue.

§ Sara Russell is contributing her Song of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba's reply to The Song of Solomon


§ We are also pleased to introduce as a new Resident Poet, our old friend, worldwide web famous, the one&only Jim Dunlap. We look forward to his regular contributions, together with Mike Burch, author of The HyperTexts -which features the work of many modern poets, Canadian Helga Ross and Sara Russell with her Norris Cartoons, as well as yours truly, the present editors.

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π]άντι τ[ο]ῦτ΄͵ ἀ γὰρ πόλυ περσκέθοισα
κάλλος [ἀνθ]ρώπων Ἐλένα [τὸ]ν ἄνδρα


§ Featured poets this month include --in random order: Richard Vallance, Gary Beck, Elisha Porat, James Schwartz, Marianne Zirkle,
Tendai Rinos Mwanaka and Richard Doiron.