O&S (Oranges & Sardines) - Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2009

by Billy Collins, Tony Trigilio, Daryl Rogers

Featuring: Rainer Andreesen, Billy Collins, Luivette Resto, Miro Sinovcic, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Jared Joslin, Tony Trigilio, William Palmer, C. Robin Janning, Marcus K. Anderson, Daryl Rogers, Emilia Faro, Mark Terrill, Van Arno, Wes Hempel, Kent Leatham Craig Hawkins, Igor Kraguljac, Oliver de la Paz, Dan Murano, Stephen Cefalo, Rob Cook, and Yuri Martinez.

Genres: Poetry

148 pages, paperback perfect bound

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

William James Collins is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

Reviews

[Grady · Rating 5 out of 5]

This issue is your best yet!
Grady

Oranges & Sardines: New Year, New Look

ORANGES & SARDINES (now referred to as O & S) presents the first issue of its second year/Volume with a richly varied collection of superior art and poetry and short stories, reviews and interviews of writers and visual artists, and retains all of the design elements that make this publication so essential in the art world, but the publication also continues to grow even more sophisticated.

Beginning with the cover image by the superb realist painter Rainer Andreesen, accompanied by the comments and interview with the artist in tandem with excellent full page reproductions of his luminous black and white figurative works as well as this traditional color paintings, this issue features some of the more interesting painters of the O & S series to date. Such well-known figurative artists as Wes Hempel, Stephen Cefalo, and Gerard Huber are enhanced by the excellent photographic works by Igor Kraguljac and Dan Murano and the surrealistic paintings of Van Arno and Yuri Martinez and the fresh new looks in the paintings by Craig Hawkins, Markus K. Anderson, and Emilia Faro's extraordinary watercolors.

And for the poetry and literary appetites there are numerous complete poems and short stories by writers whose names may be new to many readers, but whose works here displayed seem to assure they will be attracting the interest they so highly deserve. One writer who is familiar to all lovers of new literature - Kirk Curnutt - offers a fine short story while famous poet Billy Collins is represented by two fine poems. The list goes on, but that is part of the beauty of this quarterly publication - all art and literature without the interruption of advertising. Once again Didi Menendez and her staff have gathered artists and writers worthy of our attention and honored them with a publication that is inimitable in the marketplace today. Grady Harp

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading O & S and ringing in the New Year's! I had a blast!

[Dan]

As with the previous editions, this one is filled with fabulous art!