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Pandemic of Violence Anthology

North of Oxford

Topsy Turvey by Lois Schlachter

© remains with contributing poets/ artist

Thanks to all the poets who contributed to Pandemic of Violence from North of Oxford. In order of appearance we present Howie Good, Rustin Larson, Susana H. Case, Dee Allen, Alex Carrigan, Naila Francis, MaryAnn L. Miller, Megha Sood, Steven Croft, TS Hawkins, Lauren Camp, Chad Parenteau, Henry Crawford, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Michael T. Young, M.J. Arcangelini, J.C. Todd, Antoni Ooto, Byron Beynon, Jane ‘SpokenWord’ Grenier, Linda Nemec Foster, Sean Howard, Brian Donnell James and Greg Bem

Thanks to Artist Lois Schlachter for her contribution of art work to this anthology.

Introduction

With the current state of escalating violence in all cities and an increased division between political parties, there is a state of fear throughout our country. As Poetry Editor at North of Oxford, alongside my partner & Contributing Editor, g emil reutter, a decision was made…

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Five Wonderful Poems by Rustin Larson

https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2021/12/five-wonderful-poems-by-rustin-larson.html?fbclid=IwAR3A9En-LUwXkAW-lblkbxn_cMAquw9iok1eYBMfwJO4JBSEM2acmspRJ7w

Mipoesias

https://docplayer.net/130522039-July-edited-by-didi-menendez-issn.html

Calliope

https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1027&context=calliope

Crazy Star Sale

This is my special virtual Christmas wordsmith crafts table sales booth. I am selling Crazy Star, $10 a copy. Paypal: bluebells2004@yahoo.com. Crazy Star. It’s a Star. It’s Crazy. My labor of love from above with a cooing dove. Loess Hills Books. If you want it signed, let me know. I’ll send it through the snow, with a ho-ho-ho! And away we go.

Holiday Reading Recommendations 2021

North of Oxford

A Little Excitement by Nancy Scott

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/a-little-excitement-by-nancy-scott/

Erotic by Alexis Rhone Fancher

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/erotic-by-alexis-rhone-fancher/

Danish Northwest/Hygge Poems from the Outskirts by Peter Graarup Westergaard

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/danish-northwest-hygge-poems-from-the-outskirts-by-peter-graarup-westergaard/

Red Rover Red Rover by Bob Hicok

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/red-rover-red-rover-by-bob-hicok/

The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness and Mercy by Rosemary Daniell

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/08/01/the-murderous-sky-poems-of-madness-and-mercy-by-rosemary-daniell/

American Quasar with poems by David Campos and art by Maceo Montoya + A Camera Obscura by Carl Marcum

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/american-quasar-with-poems-by-david-campos-and-art-by-maceo-montoya-a-camera-obscura-by-carl-marcum/

Bright Star, Green Light by Jonathan Bate

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/bright-star-green-light-by-jonathan-bate/

The Likely World by Melanie Conroy-Goldman

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/the-likely-world-by-melanie-conroy-goldman/

Razor Wire Wilderness by Stephanie Dickinson

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/razor-wire-wilderness-by-stephanie-dickinson/

Adjusting to the Lights- Poems by Tom C. Hunley

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/adjusting-to-the-lights-poems-by-tom-c-hunley/

The Philosopher Savant Crosses The River by Rustin Larson

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/the-philosopher-savant-crosses-the-river-by-rustin-larson/

Come-Hither Honeycomb by Erin Belieu

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/come-hither-honeycomb-by-erin-belieu/

And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey by Amy Beeder

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/and-so-wax-was-made-also-honey-by-amy-beeder/

Poisons & Antidotes by Andrea L. Fry

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/poisons-antidotes-by-andrea-l-fry/

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/the-maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett/

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The Alembic, Spring 1996

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This is a contributors copy I never received. Just found it today, November 2, 2021. Enjoy.

Slap by Rustin Larson

North of Oxford

By Lynette G. Esposito

Rustin Larson’s poetry volumeSlapoffers a wide variety of poetry lengths, forms and images. Published by Alien Buddha Press, it is ninety-two pages of insightful messages in poetic form.

For example, the poemFour Stepson page twenty-four, creates in thirteen stanzas, a situation of how many steps lead away from home when at the train stop and what it represents. Larson turns this image into the constant life journey of taking steps to all the doors that lead to or away from home.. Four steps, please. Four steps into the train’s platform in the middle of the night.. Four steps before you trip and fall down the basement. Four steps into the bower. of wild roses. Four steps in fever into your mother’s arms in the cool kitchen of your childhood. Four steps.Larson has used the image of four…

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