Dear widows and orphans and all others, I am honored to bring you ISSUE 07: Wordsworth! We have named this issue in honor of the famous poet and half-orphan, William Wordsworth. After the death of his mother when he was eight-years-old, Wordsworth would have little contact with his father for the rest of his life. Wordsworth is remarkable for writing some of the most famous poems in the English language, penning lines that are often quoted today–but that is not why we selected him to be our namesake this issue; no, it isn’t for the excellent verse, but rather his preface to Lyrical Ballads, second edition. In this preface he holds the poets of the day to a new standard–a standard in which the common person’s stories are the ones to tell, and the epics over the lyrical are thrown into question. Modern poetry changed with the publication of this preface, and it’s still changing today because of it. As evidenced by this issue constructed in it’s honor.
I have some general news to announce. We are in the throes of putting the final touches on The Tavern Lantern, and my oh my, will it be a gem. This will be a subsidery website, here on LO, that will be run by Managing Editor and good friend Scott Waldyn! It will be updated on a more frequent basis than our regular magazine, and will feature movie reviews, book reviews, music reviews (lots of reviews!)–and also fiction from various individuals, published in a rolling blog format that some of you may be familiar with from many other literary journals. This versatility will be able to keep us in better contact with you in the awkward two months where we don’t speak or see each other.
TO,Ink met with a minor hiccup, as can be expected in such an endeavor. The issue is safe in my hands, and I will be sending it back to the UK soon, into the arms of Krishan Coupland of Neon. Please take a look at this if you haven’t already–the project examines geography and space and “analogedness” like nothing else heretofore.
Robert Vaughan makes an appearance in this issue, in both a review of his book by John Riley, as well as his stellar poem Aretha! A popular writer who was published in LO in the past as a photographer, makes her word-smithing debut with Bucket List; it’s Misti Rainwater-Lites.
All the way from Ireland, Mark O’Connell makes his LO debut with the short short Tabasco. Be sure to see what this co-founder of the Penny Dreadful Review has in store for you.
Kenny Mooney, the Fiction Editor or A-Minor as well as a contributor to TO,Ink, contributes two haunting flash piece: Her Dragons and Dolls and The Holy.
Be sure not to miss Amanda Deo’s prose poems, she is the inspiration behind Thunderclap! And make sure you don’t miss Jen Conley, of Shotgun Honey fame!
Check out the photo based content page and the text based content page to start reading! Bookmark it now, so you can keep coming back. You won’t want to miss a single piece in this issue.
Thank you to everyone who submitted to us, I can’t stress how amazing this issue was to edit!
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