Summer 2024
Hi!
It's been a while since I created a newsletter. I've been relying heavily on our Facebook group, which excludes those who are not on Facebook or left the platform. I apologize for that and now let's get started.
Right Hand Pointing
This summer we celebrate our 20th year of publication. I'll just say that being at the helm has enriched my life.
20th Anniversary Issue
I am so pleased to present the 20th Anniversary issue or Right Hand Pointing, now available on the World Wide Web. This issue features new and previously published works by some of our most faithful contributors. In addition, we suspend our usual rule and offer work by many on our editorial team at Ambidextrous Bloodhound.
In this issue: Allan Peterson, Annie Stenzel, Bill McCloud, Brad Rose, Clare Rolens, Katherine DiBella Seluja, Corey Mesler, Dale Wisely, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Eric Burke, F.J. Bergmann, John Sharp, Howie Good, J. I. Kleinberg, John Grey, Jordan Smith, Ken Chau, Larry D. Thomas, Laura M Kaminski, Lynn Strongin, Mark Cunningham, Mark Danowsky, Meg Pokrass, Natalie Wolf & Katherine Schmidt, Steve Klepetar, Tina Carlson, Tom Fugalli, and Wendy Taylor Carlisle.
Thanks to all!
www.issues.righthandpointing.net/156
Now Accepting Submissions for the Fall issue
Today we opened for submissions of poetry and very short fiction. We'll be open through September 30.
https://righthandpointing.submittable.com/
One Sentence Poems converted to an issue-based publication (switching from our long-running blog approach) late last year. Here's our second issue:
June 2024: sky of one star.
Featuring
Krista Carson
Leslie Hodge
Linden Van Wert
Mi-Seong Kong
Mykyta Ryzhykh
Ryan Brennan
Sandra St-Laurent
Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Steve Klepetar
Allan Lake
Amanda Weir-Gertzog
Colm O’Shea
H. Russell Smith
J. I. Kleinberg
Jennifer Browne
Jim Kacian
Our next issue will be out in December. We'll be reading for it Oct 1-November 15.
Unbroken #42
Devils Have the Best Tunes: The Ekphrastic Issue
Our summer issue of Unbroken is out, thanks to editor-in-chief Ken Chau, our team of editors, and these contributors.
Cherie Hunter Day
Cora McCann Liderbach
Ella Wong
Gwen Sayers
Isaac Sleadd
Joanna Theiss
Kathleen Aguero
Kathleen Hellen
Kathleen McGookey
Kathryn Jones
Linda Eve Diamond
Mikki Aronoff
Olga Dermott-Bond
Peter Anderson
Robin Michel
Sara McClayton
Sarah Tate
Sean Whalen
Timothy Nolan
Vera Sandronsky
And, today, we opened for submissions. Aug 1-Sep 15 for our October issue.
I am currently assembling the August issue and it should be out about the 15th. It will feature work by
Sara Wenger
Tracy Morin
MJ Mello
Nina Nazir
Karen Neuberg
Bob Lucky
Jesse Norman
Dagne Forrest
Susan Barry-Schulz
Emma Dandy
Sarah Nichols
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
Simona Carini
Unlost. Our current issue is #32,
The World Mostly Gone
We will accept submissions Nov 1-Dec 15 for the February 2025 issue. Mark y'all's calendars, y'all!
Our twice-a-year print journal of haiku & senryu just closed for submissions for the November issue. We hope to have a first pass completed on the 675 poems received for that issue. We publish only 44 poems per issue! Our April issue in on sale via KDP. Click on the image to get there.
We'll read in January for the spring issue.
I recently started a new experimental journal: The Scarred Tree: Poetry and Moral Injury. It is part of a capstone project I did on the way to earning my certification in the study of Moral Injury. I'm randomly posting poems there submitted to the project. Visit us and see what you think. Sample poem to the right.
Jianqing Zheng
The Chained Woman
A case of human trafficking and ill-treatment exposed to light in 2022
What must be chained
to the neck & locked
in that dirty hut
are devils of cruelty,
barren fields of moral illiteracy,
cold faces of idiocy,
& dumb heads of vacuity
that show human apathy
in a land with a long history
of civilization.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuzhou_chained_woman_incident)
A few more things. We published a limited edition of a chapbook
by our own F. J. Bergmann, The Book of Burning. 29 poems, 36 pages, each with a unique cover by yours truly. The covers look like they were done by a gifted 9-year-old. But the dang poems are fantastic. I mean fantastic. We have only a few copies and so be in touch with me if you want one.
Okay, this has gone on quite long enough. Just let me end by thanking our team of editors who are incredibly devoted, talented, NICE people to work with.
We lost our beloved colleague Mike James to cancer. We miss him.
Thank you all for your support,
Dale
Count out the steps to the closest source of light
Save all the letters you receive, let them be a constant,
a journal of all that you know.
Read the comics while in the bathtub.
Be both ordinary & mystic.
Mike James
Senior Editors
F. John Sharp, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco,
Ken Chau, Howie Good,
Michael Dylan Welch, Dale Wisely
Editors
Annie Stenzel, Bill McCloud, Eric Burke,
Ina Roy-Faderman, Katherine DiBella Seluja,
F. J. Bergmann, Natalie Wolf, Clare Rolens,
Steve Klepetar, Tom Fugalli, Tina Carlson
