Dear Adventurous Readers…We’re crazy pleased to offer our first quarterly edition of the Roadkill Zen Journal (RKzJ 1.08). There was a great response – from both widely published and newly aspiring poets – for this edition’s challenging themes of urban / rural decay, Appalachian mountain cultural confusion and appreciation, misunderstood or overlooked beauty, and mountain Zen. Tall orders, gracefully accomplished by these talented word shamans from all over the country.
The more I read their work the more I want to write myself. I think that’s how this “poetry thing” is supposed to work, isn’t it? The best advice we can give one another is to read, read, read. This is how we learn to hear voice in writing, how we find our own voice within our ever-moving soul. These writers’ bios and thoughts on poetry reveal a lot about who they are, but reading their work tells you even more. Support them and love them as you soak in how they see and feel the world we all share and long to understand. LTCT
Melissa Anderson — Looking for Home
Judith Skillman — Field Mouse
Cynthia Croot — Spine
J B Mulligan — decembrous dawning
Lorraine Fountain — It May Be
Ryan McLellan — Where are our legends?
Stephen A. Rozwenc — I have slept in the breathing of your valley
Lucille Gang Shulklapper — Two Possums // Implosion
Lee Evans — Millpond Gardens
Kenneth Pobo — Real Gone