“Love, enter.
This place is a different
kind of prayer—”
So begins Amanda Roth’s poem in the Summer 2024 issue of Whale Road Review, and these lines seem like a good lens for this issue, which holds many kinds of love and many poems that feel like prayer—some address or ponder God, some offer cries of lament, some celebrate beauty and sensuality—and this feels like a good place to be.
Issue 35 features poetry and short prose by Jordi Alonso, Jared Beloff, Sheila Black, Nicole Brogdon, Lisa Charnock, Marc Alan Di Martino, Zoë Fay-Stindt, Maggie Frank-Hsu, Tammy Greenwood, Katherine Huang, Ayòdéjì Israel, Heather Jessen, Andrea Krause, Annie Marhefka, Jane Muschenetz, Yamini Pathak, Amanda Roth, Luci Shaw, Merna Dyer Skinner, and Rashna Wadia.
The pedagogy paper from Jacob Butlett offers not just one, but three multilayered poetry prompts. This issue also contains reviews of recent books by Jennifer Ruth Jackson, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Mary Pinard, and Bruce E. Whitacre by a wonderful group of reviewers: Susana H. Case, F.I. Goldhaber, Gloria Monaghan, and Christina M. Rau. To close things out, we have an excellent interview that Jennifer Fliss conducted with Jess Bowers about her new book, Horse Show.
If you enjoy what you read, please consider using the Tip the Author links below many of the contributor bios. It doesn’t take a large amount to make a writer feel seen and to let them know their work meant something to you (but they won’t say no to a larger amount if you’ve got it to send).
And you—yes, you—thanks for being part of Whale Road Review! We’re grateful to have you as a reader, and I hope you’ll want to share this issue with others as well.
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief
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