Announcing! Fall/Winter 2011-12 Issue of The Smoking Poet!

"Words that turn the page to flame."
Pottery by Ed Gray (Jikiwe)
www.thesmokingpoet.com Something about a New Year … a clean slate. Whatever didn't meet our hopes and standards in the previous year can be left behind, marked "lesson learned," and we can move ahead with reinvigorated creativity. Think of it as a rewrite—writers get that. Almost nothing comes off the pen, or the keyboard, without room for improvement, and it's the rewrite that brings polish to the pearl. 2011 was an...