We ran a bit past the one year mark for this issue. It features another great woodcut by Peter Scacco, who is also featured on the cover of issue #23 and issue #21. I am once again grateful to the authors who have shared these poems. Each one is strong in its own way. It leads me once again to a desire to publish a big issue–perhaps for the next issue #25. The idea would be to make it an “Albatross Anthology” or “the best of Albatross.” Maybe what I need to do is to create a budget and launch a kickstarter campaign. Were it to win funding, it would allow me to print enough to hire a distributor and have it distributed nationally. This is a dream of mine.
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Kit Zak said,
June 2, 2014 at 12:25 pm
My comment pertains to writing about “environmental right for nature” as you suggested. I do this repeatedly whether talking about “mountain top removal, BP ‘s failure to clean up or fracking. How can one write about nature without attacking the forces that destroy nature.
I have been told that my poetry is too political repeatedly.
I don’t think it is easy to be subtle when the planet is on the way to extinction.
But I applaud your idea. It seems if one wants to rant one must temper words and it’s too late for that I fear.