poetry

David Anthony Sam

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

David Anthony Sam, the proud grandson of peasant immigrants from Poland and Syria, lives in Virginia with his wife and life partner, Linda. Sam’s poetry has appeared in over 90 publications and his poem, “First and Last,” won the 2018 Rebecca Lard Award. Sam’s five collections include Final Inventory (Prolific Press 2018) and Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson, the 2016 Grand Prize winner GFT Press Chapbook Contest. He teaches creative writing at Germanna Community College and serves on the Board of the Virginia Poetry Society. 

The Exile Knows This Ghost, Volume 2, Issue 1
End of Romance, Prometheus, and Green Wings, Volume 4, Issue 1
Interview
Superhero at Work, Kind of a Stupid Game, Isn’t It?, and Chain-Smoked Monkeys, Volume 4, Issue 2
Book Release, Final Inventory
Charitable Erasures, Love Loss, Lost and Found, On Finding an Abandoned Firepit, A Pipe of Ghosted Smoke, and alt-right killer, Volume 5, Issue 1
Unfinished, Saturnine Hypotyposis, Inquiry into Matter, The Formation of Standing Waves, The Sea is Everything, and Resurrection, Volume 5, Issue 2

One the Edge of 1969, Beneath the Six-Sided Farmhouse, April 22, 1994–For Linda, The Context of February, October 25, 2001, at 6:45 p.m., and Today (September 11, 2001), Volume 6, Issue 1

Doug Bolling

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Doug Bolling’s poems have appeared in Posit, Kestrel, Water-Stone Review, Folia, Redactions, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and The Deronda Review among others. He has received several Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations and, most recently, his poem “Body and Soul” was awarded the Mathiasen Prize by the University of Arizona’s Harmony Magazine. He has taught at several colleges in the Midwest and resides in the environs of Chicago while working on a collection.

Where Light, Where Shadow, Volume 2, Issue 1
The Gift, Volume 3, Issue 1
Interview
Chalice, Journey, Meeting, and All The Lost Things, Volume 4, Issue 1
Winner of The Magnolia Review Ink Award, for “Journey,” Volume 4, Issue 1

Issue 5 Update!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

We are accepting art, photography, comics, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, and fiction for our fifth issue. This time we are going to have a themed section, and we will accept other pieces that do not fit with the theme.

The theme: Depression. Show us the diagnosis, dealing with depression, overcoming depression, anything to do with depression. Give us artwork, stories with depressed characters, poems with depressed speakers, comics, and so on. Interpret it yourself and show us what you created.

Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!

DSM-IV-TR Mood Disorders

1. Major Depressive Episode and Major Depressive Disorder

Major Depressive Disorder requires two or more major depressive episodes.

Diagnostic criteria:

Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in life activities for at least 2 weeks and at least five of the following symptoms that cause clinically significant impairment in social, work, or other important areas of functioning almost every day

1. Depressed mood most of the day.
2. Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities.
3. Significant unintentional weight loss or gain.
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much.
5. Agitation or psychomotor retardation noticed by others.
6. Fatigue or loss of energy.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt.
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (APA, 2000, p. 356).

 

Issue 5 Open to Submissions!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Don’t forget to submit to the fifth issue of The Magnolia Review! Deadline is November 15. For information on how to submit, check our Submit page. We publish art, photography, poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction. We are interested in comics, so please send them our way!

Issue 4 is on its way!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

For the fourth issue of The Magnolia Review, 9 artists submitted 50 pieces of art and photography, 8 creative nonfiction writers submitted 8 creative nonfiction pieces, 75 fiction writers submitted 78 stories, and 77 poets submitted 334 poems.

The Issue will be available on July 15.

Update: The issue has been delayed and will be available by the end of July. Apologies for the delay.

 

Volume 2, Issue 1

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Welcome to the third issue of The Magnolia Review!

To download the PDF, click The Magnolia Review Volume 2 Issue 1 Jan 2016.

Thank you, and enjoy the issue!

Contributors for Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2016: W. Jack Savage, Samantha Peterson, Richard Vyse, Patty Paine, Sharon Tapia, Amy Wood, Meghan McNamara, Rob Sobel, Robert Schuster, Sri Ram, William Morris, Elisha Holt, Margarita Meklina, Todd Mercer, Kevin Rabas, Richard Jones, Aden Thomas, Tom Montag, Matthew Wallenstein, Jesse Millner, Danny P. Barbare, Cathryn Shea, Art Heifetz, Joseph Dorazio, J.R. Solonche, S. Whitaker, Carol Lynn Grellas, Gary Beck, Tobi Alfier, Tom Pescatore, Doug Bolling, David Anthony Sam, Chumki Sharma, Lavana Kray, Lisa Stice.

Reviews for Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2016: Scrapper: A Novel by Matt Bell, The Bloody Planet: Poems by Callista Buchen, Camp Olvido: A Novella by Lawrence Coates, My Unsentimental Education: A Memoir by Debra Monroe, and Beautiful Day: Poems by J.R. Solonche.

Issue 3 is almost here!

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

The Magnolia Review Volume 2 Issue 1 will be available on Friday, January 15!

Here’s a sneak peek at our cover.

This Is Where He Fell

For the third issue of The Magnolia Review, 5 artists submitted 25 pieces of art and photography, 11 creative nonfiction writers submitted 11 creative nonfiction pieces, 61 fiction writers submitted 67 stories, and 104 poets submitted 440 poems.

 

J.R. Solonche

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

J.R. Solonche is the author of Beautiful Day (Deerbrook Editions), Won’t Be Long (Deerbrook Editions), Heart’s Content (chapbook from Five Oaks Press), Invisible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Five Oaks Press), The Black Birch (Kelsay Books), I, Emily Dickinson & Other Found Poems (Deerbrook Editions), In Short Order (Kelsay Books), Tomorrow, Today & Yesterday (Deerbrook Editions), If You Should See Me Walking on the Road (forthcoming July 2019 from Kelsay Books), The Time of Your Life (forthcoming April 2020 from Adelaide Books), and coauthor of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). He lives in the Hudson Valley.

Four Swans and Four Peonies, Volume 1, Issue 1
Death and Taxes, Volume 2, Issue 1

For a Friend Who Wants to Hear the Music Better, Winter Afternoon, and Lying on My Back on the Bench, Volume 5, Issue 2

Maria S. Picone

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Maria S. Picone has an MFA from Goddard College. Her work appears in the Homestead Review, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, GTK Creative, and, of course, the Magnolia Review. Her photography documents the interesting and unusual places she’s been, including Cambodia, Uganda, and Australia. Her Twitter is @mspicone, and her website is mariaspicone.com.

Water Kinesis 1, Water Kinesis 2, and Water Kinesis 3, Volume 1, Issue 2
Elephant in the Forest and Brink of the Nile, Volume 2, Issue 2

Migration, Tell the Story, and A Moment of Silence, Volume 6, Issue 2

Interview

Richard King Perkins II

by Suzanna Anderson Creates

Richard King Perkins II is a state-sponsored advocate for residents in long-term care facilities. He lives in Crystal Lake, IL, USA, with his wife, Vickie and daughter, Sage. He is a three-time Pushcart, Best of the Net and Best of the Web nominee whose work has appeared in more than a thousand publications.

Four Flashes After Midnight and Flesh Shall See, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Mote in Her Eye and The Inconstant Blue, Volume 1, Issue 2
Ruins of Black Opium, The Offering of Any God, and Seaside Graphic Novel, Volume 3, Issue 2
Wreath of White, October Fire, and Orange Flame, Volume 4, Issue 1