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    Better Than Starbucks September 2018
    Better Than Starbucks September 2018
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    Interview Jerome Rothenberg & three poems. Haiku Contest: Hanoch Guy, Evan Guilford-Blake, Michael Kang'a, John Hawkhead, Dan A. Cardoza, Greg Schwartz, Ray Spitzenberger, Sally Clark, Pamelyn Casto, David Bankson Poetry: Brittney Rangel, Ivan Jenson, Pamela Sumners, Michael Minassian, Jill Sharon Kimmelman, R.D.McManes, Glenn Pearl, Heikki Huotari, Diane Webster, John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco, Angie Davidson, April Pitts, Jennifer Smith, Mick Rose, Angelee Deodhar, Angela Sargent, Bob Whitmire, Joseph Davidson, Shalane Harrigan, Goran Gatalica, Richard Wakefield, Kim Bridgford, Siham Karami, David Berman, John Beaton, C.B. Anderson, Gail White, Janice Canerdy, Jerome Betts, Tamara Kvitko, Ann Philips, Gary Young, Yanwen Xu, Rainer Maria Rilke, Claude Neuman, Nalini Priyadarshni, Faiz Ahmad, Prasang Agarwal, Muhammed Rafeek E, Ramon Martensen, Ben Taylor, David McLintock, Kim Overton, Claire Grace, Phil Huffy, Tissy Taylor Ross Lehman. Fiction: Laura Austin, Sharon Frame Gay, Ana Vidosavlievic. CNF: Larry D. Giles
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateAug 31, 2018
    ISBN9780359051533
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      Better Than Starbucks September 2018 - Better Than Starbucks

      Better Than Starbucks September 2018

      Vol III No VIII

      Copyright © 2018 by Better Than Starbucks.

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      Contributing authors retain copyright to their works.

      First Printing: ISBN 978-0-359-05153-3

      Managing Editor Vera Ignatowitsch

      Publisher & Editor-In-Chief Anthony Watkins

      Cover Image: Mulberry Tree 1889

      by Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)

      Visit the current issue and read archive issues

      online at https://www.betterthanstarbucks.org

      Better Than Starbucks September 2018

      Featured Poem (Editor’s Choice)

      Written in Despair

      She crests the hill between their farm and town

      and ponders their west fifty in the sun.

      The new-tilled soil glistens a richer brown,

      but half the morning work remains undone.

      Abandoned at a furrow-end, the plow

      is punctuation — a period? a dash?

      a finish, or a pause?  She shades her brow

      to read the message in the ruts that slash

      across the tillage, as if a writer struck

      his morning’s labor in despair. The line

      leads home where, in the yard, beside the truck,

      the John Deere clicks as it cools. She knows the sign.

      If only she could strike a lifetime spent.

      No lease or purchase should be ironclad —

      no earthly contract — as the sacrament

      that keeps her throwing good years after bad.

      Her pickup rattles across the cattleguard.

      The house is silent, as if there’s no one home.

      She steers the tractor back across the yard

      to finish the story written in the loam.

      Richard Wakefield’s first poetry collection, "East of Early Winters (University of Evansville Press), won the Richard Wilbur Award. His second collection, A Vertical Mile" (Able Muse Press), was short-listed for the Poets Prize.

      Featured Poem (Publisher’s Choice)

      Jardín Los Viveros

      —Valencia, España

      It’s rare to even exist;

      the quest for calm comes

      second to the wind’s relief

      tickling the silver hairs on the back

      of a blue-collared neck who checks

      his watch for the end of his 30 minute break,

      while he feeds fuzzy-headed peaches

      to fuzzy-haired children, who dance

      in dead leaves under swaying Spanish moss.

      Impossible to seek solitude

      from a willow’s earthly locks as they cascade

      down in forest-green waterfalls, her tendrils

      tickling the grass until they wet themselves

      with laughter, their morning dew erased by

      the leaps of woolly squirrels

      on their overgrown jungle gym.

      Hard to convince the wind

      your peace is more important than lifting

      up the weathered leaves who aren’t strong

      enough to hold on, because

      a driver’s 10 and 2

      is curling his mustache

      and flicking his Marlboro, while

      barreling into the carefully-placed canopies

      sending her children to the ground.

      And yes, I know it’s selfish to ask the quiet to stifle

      the gray moss waltzing in the breeze—

      the gust a perfect partner. She belongs here,

      foreign or not, because she’s relentless,

      her slick, skinny limbs encompassing

      each leaf, giving shade to sunburnt branches

      while pooling as pillows

      for those who have no homes.

      Brittney Rangel graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Creative Writing. She currently teaches and is finishing her Masters of Arts in English Education. Brittney lives in St. Petersburg.

      Haiku Contest 2018

      Thank you to John DeCesare of CraftekDesign for sponsoring this contest!

      Many of the wonderful submissions were on the border of haiku and senryu, leaning more toward human affairs than nature. Here are the 10 finalists, including the 3 winners. We hope that you enjoy them.

      First Place

      corroded barbed wire

      on Sinai border

      rain exposes land mines

      Hanoch Guy

      Second Place

      Fly on the window:

      do you stare with wonder and

      sense eternity?

      Evan Guilford-Blake

      Third Place

      at the beach

      I leave footprints

      for my son to follow

      Michael Kang’a

      spilt milk

      he demands to know

      why she’s crying

      John Hawkhead

      a breeze through open

      window not finding her song

      stills the lace curtain

      Dan A. Cardoza

      yard sale

      the toddler in the doorway

      hugs her doll

      Greg Schwartz

      newly hatched tadpoles

      circle water poppy

      exploring life begins

      Ray Spitzenberger

      my cowboy saddles

      up his tractor, rides the range

      corralling hay

      published in 2013 in Manifest West: Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones, published by Western Press Books

      Sally Clark

      in the library—

      silent books

      speak volumes

      Pamelyn Casto

      rub hands together

      ready for my lunchtime meal

      a fly on my plate

      David Bankson

      Author Bios

      Hanoch Guy is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English. His poetry has won awards in Poetica Mad poets, Phila poets and Poetry super highway. He is the author of six poetry collections, among them a haiku collection, A Hawk in Midflight, published in 2017. His new book Spring Time in Moldova will be published by Kelsay Press.

      Evan Guilford-Blake’s work includes two novels, two short story collections, and 39 plays. It has appeared frequently in journals and anthologies. He and his wife (and inspiration) Roxanna live in the Southeast. He reads and writes haiku constantly.

      Michael Kang’a is a psychologist who keeps two pet pigeons (Mandy and Mindy) and a dog (Mikhail) — also a pet. If kitchen gardens count, he’s a prolific *sic* small-scale farmer.

      John Hawkhead is a writer from southwest England. His haiku book Small Shadows is available from Alba publishing.

      Dan A. Cardoza has a B.A. in Psychology and a Master of Science Degree in Counseling. His publishing credits include: Pierian Spring, Brandon University, Canada, Aleola, The Avocet, Ardent Poetry Journal, Pacific Poetry and the California Quarterly.

      Greg Schwartz works in a cubicle. His poems have appeared in Frogpond, New York Quarterly, Blue Collar Review, and Modern Haiku. He was fortunate enough to have two of his haiku reprinted in annual Red Moon anthologies.

      Raymond Spitzenberger is a freelance writer who has published poetry, haiku, fiction, non-fiction, and history in numerous publications. He holds a Doctor of Arts in English from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Houston.

      Sally Clark is the author of Where's My Hug?, Ideals Children’s Books, a WorthyKids imprint, 2015, the Winner of a 2015 Silver Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

      Pamelyn Casto has articles on flash fiction in Writer’s Digest, Fiction Southeast, OPEN: Journal of Arts &

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