January 2026
Right Hand Pointing
Right Hand Pointing issue 162, atmospheric rivers, is available.
This issue features work by Allison Blevins, Jane Bloomfield, Leah Browning, Cherry Cheesman, Constance Clark, Howie Good, Anne Eyries, Sharon Hoffmann, Elizabeth Jeane, Jennifer Mills Kerr, Judy Kronenfeld, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Tony Press, Michael Riedell, Brad Rose, Chad Rutter, Mark Seidl, Flora Trost, Chelsea Utecht, and Tarn Wilson.
Thanks to all contributors and editors.
Our next reading period is Feb 1-March 15.
So, like, what? Next week?
https://righthandpointing.submittable.com/
Friends,
Here are some updates on Ambidextrous Bloodhound projects.
A member of our team of volunteer editors, Ken Chau, has been the chief editor at Unbroken journal for some time now, which has been a huge help. He also is one of the editors of Unlost. Really, Ken anchors the presence of Ambidextrous Bloodhound in the entire southern hemisphere of Earth.
Now I have persuaded him to add to all he does to join us as an editor of Right Hand Pointing, confirming the common observation that if you give Dale an inch, he'll take a mile. Or, in Ken's case, centimeter/kilometer.
Ken will now be eligible for both the Ambidextrous Bloodhound dental insurance plan AND our brand new podiatry plan. Both services are provided by our in-network podiatrist, Tony, who now lives and practices in Camargo, Kentucky. We still don't know Tony's last name. He won't tell us. He says to just call him "Dr. Tony."
Thank you, Ken.
Unbroken #44
We're excited to release Unbroken issue 48, "Soaring Gloriously in the Sky." Featuring: Amy Allen, Arvilla Fee, Bea Sophia, Beate Sigriddaughter, Debbie Feit, Edith-Nicole Cameron, Erika DeShay, Gary Finke, Howie Good, Janet Ruth, JeFF Stumpo, Jim Tilley, John Brush, Kimmy Chang, Kip Knott, Lisa Badner, Lynne Schilling, Maggie Bell, Mikki Aronoff, Nadja Maril, Nancy Kline, Naomi DeMarinis, Nels Highberg, Nicole Gulotta, Ozge Lena, Peter Chiu, Rick Pongratz, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sheri Alms, and Tom Vandel.
Thanks to editors Ken Chau, Katherine DiBella Seluja, Tom Fugalli, and Tina Carlson.
https://www.theunjournals.com/unbroken48
Our next reading period is Feb 1-March 15. You know, the one that's practically here already.
https://righthandpointing.submittable.com/
and the December 2025 issue of....
Submission periods
February for the April issue
June for the August issue
October for the December issue
Thanks to my co-editors: Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Clare Rolens, and Natalie Wolf.
Amanda Weir-Gertzog | “she greets us briefly" | cento
Cheryl Martone | “After Another Debate About Gender Roles, I Ask What’s Next" | cento
Flavian Mark Lupinetti | “Virginia Woolf’s Undiscovered SciFi Novel” | erasure
Pamela Ahlen | “[She picked a fine time to leave him, laughing in his face]" | cento
April Woody | “For a Homecoming” | cento
Roger Camp | “Ghost Figure" and "Peeling Graffiti" | 2 photographs
Seth Hagen | “there are these things we can speak of only in writing” | erasure
Linda Eve Diamond | “What's your racket?" | collage
Vic Pickup | “Use pencils only please” | cento
Bob Lucky | “In the Rain in Spain” | cento
Lucien Levant | "Last Words No. 35 (Memorial for a Drowned Girl)" | erasure
JDG | "To Mark a Friend’s Remains These Stones Arise" | cento
Robin Turner | "[the moon had long been]" | erasure/collage
Taylor Powers | "weather report: may", "a clock that keeps star-time", and "weather report: january" | 3 centos
The next issue will be out
on February 15. Featuring...
Amy G. Smith
Dixie L. Partridge
J.I. Kleinberg
Janina Aza Karpinska
Janet Ruth
Jeanne Carey
Jennifer Mills Kerr
Karen Greenbaum-Maya
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Margot Wizansky
Nancy Haskett
sheena daree romero
Sheena Graham-George
Trudi Sissons
Vidya Premkumar
Wendy Grossman
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. Sample poem to the right.
I'm scheduled to be on A Conversation with Jimmy and Friends to talk about moral injury poetry on Feb 2, 2026. Join us!
David Anson Lee
Retina of Witness
The ambulance wheezes in;
a mother clutches her child, blood like ink on skin.
I peer through the slit lamp, the world shrunk to a red circle.
Other surgeons joke, check charts, ask about coffee,
while I see what they cannot see:
the betrayal in every unnoticed fracture,
every second of inattention in a system that claims care but delivers chance.
I suture tiny veins and nerves,
but morality is a wound I cannot stitch.
At night, I replay the hands I’ve watched fail,
the promises broken by authority,
and I wonder if witnessing is its own kind of crime.
Thanks for your support!
Dale
righthandpointing@gmail.com
---