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A collection of short fiction, poetry, and essays from an international perspective. Juried selections from post-graduate editors assembled in a thematic compilation - entertaining, thought provoking, and educational.

The work of a young 1st generation American poet with strong cultural ties to India. Her obsevations on social dynamics exhibits skill and insight beyond her years.

Roger Hart writes with savvy, grace, and abiding tenderness about people in love and in trouble. He's an enchanter casting his spell with impeccable sentences and exquisite details. He knows that characters only truly exist when they interact and entangle with other characters. What ingenuity on these pages, what nerve, and what an exhilarating collection of stories Mysteries of the Universe is. And in this universe, future events can influenc...

The 13th volume of The Ocotillo Review. This theme of Alternative Family occurred organically through the selections presented by our team of editors and editorial assistants. It is the most diverse and expansive edition we have released in our seven years of publishing international poets, writers, and journalists.

In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as complicated, bewildering, even sorrowful. A New Orleans girl spends a year collectin...

A Floe of Life is the third in a series of "personal - universal poems by Austin Texas poet Eugene S. Cuny ( GeneX Cuny). The poems explore familial and intergenerational relationships and the interactions of the author with cultural mores in an often humorous and always empathetic voice. These minimalist, mostly rhyming poems are meant to enlighten and enliven the reader with a spiritual message.

Since 2013, Dan Smart has devoted himself to writing a poem a day. After the 3, 000+ poems this project has so far produced, he has proved that the old masters were right when it comes to the value of ritual: daily devotion invests "the ordinary" with curious new powers. Crafting unseen connections between mundane objects and events of this world-the rotting flesh of an avocado, the sound of a bell not being rung, the decision to either crush ...

This collection of poems by of international poets compiled by John Bradley focuses on the hardships suffered by the citizens of the Ukraine caused by the vicious attack by Russia under the direction of Vladimir Putin. Poets from around the world weigh in on the devastation, death, ancnd grief that this abhorrent assault has wrought on the Ukrainian people. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be directed to support international aid to su...

Not Yet a Jedi is the 2022 winner of the Saguaro Poetry Prize. Partridge Boswell's Not Yet a Jedi rockets through the late 20th century and into the present with its diction in hyperdrive, fusing whimsy to seriousness, blunt statement to syntactic complexity. These tautly constructed poems evoke the aspirations, fresh-cut grass smell, and low-level depression that characterize cookie-cutter suburbia-and the ways the adults who grew up there cl...

Volume 5.2Summer 021Lust - Love - LongingOnce again, we bring some of the world's most profound scribes to play in our literary garden. As with all our previous summer issues this collection is thematic. Having been sequestered by the dasterdley Covid 19 virus for what often seems a lifetime, we feel the desire to deal with the desire, those strong subcutaneous emotions that drive our head, heart, and hormones. We dubbed The Ocotillo Review Vo...

This collection of hand-painted popular culture icons is the culmination of a 40 year project by iconic Houston-based artist, Larry Crawford. These portraits have graced galleries from NYC to San Francisco and even the White House. Subjects are an eclectic mix of entertainers, politicians, newsmakers and daredevils.

As KB navigates burning issues of love, identity, race, and enforced gender, bearing witness to how intimacy can be a battleground, a declared truce, or an Eden, How to Identify Yourself with a Wound is never less than compelling and absorbing: 'Let me tell you the story of a tenderness the world refused to call / beautiful but it lives.' The powerful lines, the no-holds-barred voice, and risk-taking candor of these dynamic debut poems make th...