Issue 15: Walking through Clouds

Issue 15: Walking through Clouds (Mar-May 2018) is a (mostly) micro- (yet double-sized!) issue featuring micropoetry, microprose, short videos, and micropoetry-related artwork from writers and artists around the world. It is also the last issue of Gnarled Oak.

Solar Therapy

by on Apr 27, 2018

(Watch Marie Craven’s video & view full credits for “Solar Therapy” on Vimeo)

 

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Marie Craven (Queensland, Australia) assembles short videos from poetry, music, voice, stills and moving images by various artists around the world. Created via the internet, the pieces are collaborative in a way that belongs to the 21st century, with open licensing and social networking key to the process. In 2016 her video “Dictionary Illustrations” was awarded best film at the Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition in Ireland. To see more: vimeo.com/mariecraven

Spring Again

by on Apr 26, 2018

 

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Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and dozens of other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, The San Pedro River Review, Gnarled Oak and more than 300 other publications.

solstice night

by on Apr 25, 2018

 

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Debbie Strange is a Canadian short form poet, haiga artist and photographer whose creative passions bring her closer to the world and to herself. She is the author of Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads (Keibooks 2015) and the haiku collection, A Year Unfolding (Folded Word 2017). Please visit her archive of published work at Warp and Weft ~~ Images and Words.

a bridge

by on Apr 24, 2018

 

a bridge
spanning a frozen river
I sign the DNR

 

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Robert Witmer is an American who has resided in Tokyo, Japan, for nearly 40 years. A semi-retired professor and petanque aficionado, he looks forward to trekking again in the Himalaya mountains, where he once recited Whitman to the lovely woman who became his wife. His first book of poetry is titled Finding a Way.

Ice

by on Apr 23, 2018

Our coldest snap
in fifty years
I skated then
on frozen lakes
with not a thought
of broken ice;
this time around
on solid earth
i dread the thought
of broken bones.

 

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Mike Gallagher, an Irish poet, lived in London for forty years. His poetry has been published worldwide and translated into six languages. He won the Michael Hartnett Viva Voce award in 2010 and 2016, the Desmond O’Grady International award in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Hennessy award in 2011. His collection Stick on Stone was published by Revival Press in 2013.

the darkest

by on Apr 18, 2018

 

the darkest
corner of a closet
cut upon cut

 

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Jan Benson is a Pushcart Prize nominated haiku poet living in Texas. Her work is in translation in seven languages. Jan is a member of The British Haiku Society, and Poetry Society of Texas. She has work listed in the Living Senryu Anthology and at The Haiku Foundation poet registry. @janbentx

Crushed Bits

by on Apr 17, 2018

(Watch Jeff Bagato’s video “Crushed Bits” on YouTube)

 

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A multi-media artist living near Washington, DC, Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music, and glitch video. Some of his poetry has appeared in Empty Mirror, Futures Trading, Otoliths, H&, Ex-Ex Lit, and Zoomoozophone Review. His published books include Savage Magic (poetry), Spells of Coming Day (poetry), The Toothpick Fairy (fiction), and Computing Angels (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at jeffbagato.wordpress.com.