April 2026
Right Hand Pointing
Friends,
Here are some updates on Ambidextrous Bloodhound projects.
Right Hand Pointing issue 163, silent plumage, is available.
This issue features work by Aerin Higginbotham, Claire Booker, Ricardo Bernhard, Corey Mesler, Elissa Matthews, Ewen Glass, Fredric Koeppel, Hilary Sideris, J.I. Kleinberg, J.R. Solonche, Jared Frank, Jeremy Nathan Marks, K. Alma Peterson, Mark A. Hill, Morgan Chesnais, orha, Richard Fox, and Trish Saunders.
Thanks to all contributors and editors.
Our next reading period is May 1-June 15.
https://righthandpointing.submittable.com/
Telephone Exchange
Corey Mesler
I still remember the telephone
exchange
and number from my
childhood.
Evergreen, it began.
Once I tried to call it.
A ghost
answered and ever since then
I find myself
voiceless, bereft, just not myself.
One Sentence Poems
is just out. If you think you've read it already, you're probably wrong. Because I'm talking about just out.
Submission periods
June for the August issue
February for the April issue
October for the December issue
Catherine Allen
Kateri Boucher
Reem Faruqi
Rebecca Ferlotti
Alice Foxall
John Grey
Mera Baid Kaur
J.I. Kleinberg
Ryan McCarty
Juan Pablo Mobili
Boyd Razor
Brad Rose
Tim Tomlinson
Rowena Warwick
Marilyn Westfall
Thanks to my co-editors: Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Clare Rolens, and Natalie Wolf.
Photo by Chris Slupski
Brad Rose
Waiting for Your Call
In my dream,
you phone
to tell me
you will soon
be phoning me
and
when you do,
I should be sure
not to answer.
Unbroken #49
We're excited to release Unbroken issue 49, Unbroken #49:
The Flickering Lights of Life and Death. Featuring: Albert Hwang, Anja Lazar, Bill Miller, Caroline Barnes, Christine H. Chen, David Henson, Elle Estérre, Emily R. Daniel, Gerri Brightwell, Hillary Lightstone, Ian Willey, Jenne Knight, Jia Yi Ling, John Amen, John Bradley, Jordyn Damato, Joy Yin, Kathleen McGookey, Kathy Nelson, Kelly Murashige, Kumar Sen, Lou Storey, Michelle Bitting, Michelle Geoga, Robert John Miller, Robert Sparrow-Downes, Robin Michel, Sam Aureli, Scott Burau, Sean Bradley
Thanks to editors Ken Chau, Katherine DiBella Seluja, Tom Fugalli, and Tina Carlson.
https://www.theunjournals.com/unbroken49
Our next reading period is May 1-June 15.
Kelly Murashige
The Celestial Sea
I know two boys and love them both, though I can’t be with them. One lives for water. Slips through my fingers. I keep trying to hold on. The deeper I dive, the less I breathe; I swim on anyhow. The other loves space, starry-eyed. His feet don’t touch the ground. When we speak, our dialogue is vast and nebulous. I worry if I drift too close, I’ll lose myself in him.
I stand between them, terrestrial. One day, I will be gone. Dust in the sky. Soot in the sea. Then they’ll have all of me.
unlost
Collage by Trudi Sissons
Our next reading period is May 1-June 15
for the August issue.
https://righthandpointing.submittable.com/
The Scarred Tree: Poetry and Moral Injury. I'm randomly posting poems there submitted to the project. It's a narrow focus. Visit us and see what you think.
Howie Good
Maggots
Men at the highest levels of government
whose diseased brains breed maggots
eagerly plot the next round of war. History knows
of things we refuse to acknowledge,
the gratuitous collapse of civilizations,
the corpses of children buried under the rubble.
Any hill town or industrial city can be
rechristened with bombs.
Thanks for your support!
Dale
www.ambidextrousbloodhound.com
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