Happy 10-year anniversary of Whale Road Review! In some ways it’s hard to believe it’s been a decade, but when I think of all that’s happened during that time, I feel like it should be at least 2 decades. The tasks of reading submissions and setting up issues have been with me in hard situations (like several days in an unconscious loved one’s hospital room) and in happy times (like late at night on vacation near my sleeping kids). It’s a gift and a profound honor to be trusted with other writers’ work in this way. Thank you to all who have contributed and to the peer reviewers who have spent countless hours reading and shaping this journal with me. Here’s another fantastic winter issue that we’re excited to share!
Issue 41 features poetry and short prose by Caron Andregg, Michael Boccardo, M. L. Brown, Stephanie Burt, Lauren Camp, Jia-Rui Cook, Kristie Frederick Daugherty, Brian Delaney, Melanie Figg, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Doug Fritock, Adam Grabowski, Connie Jordan Green, Jane C. Miller, Devon Miller-Duggan, Dayna Patterson, Alan Perry, Katherine Plumhoff, Nayt Rundquist, Rikki Santer, Karen Elizabeth Sharpe, Trevor Patricia Watkin, Patricia Aya Williams, Melody Wilson, and Jane Zwart.
We have two pedagogy papers in this issue: Ginger Hanchey brings us a poetry jukebox activity, and Laura Sweeney invites us to consider who gets to be angry and how to practice anger as method.
We’re grateful to B.K. Jackson, Lesley Wheeler, and Jenny Wong for sharing their thoughtful reviews of new books by Elissa Altman, Rosa Castellano, and Karen Pierce Gonzalez. We’re also happy to share Melody Wilson’s engaging interview with Annette Sisson.
If you’d like to celebrate our anniversary tangibly, please send a little something to our contributors using the Tip the Author links below many of the author bios throughout the issue. We’ll also be holding an anniversary reading via Zoom on Saturday, December 13, at 9 a.m. Pacific. Register here!
Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next 10 years!
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief
Congrats and Mazel TOv and Kudos Katie ! I ‘ve known you for at least a decade
but we’ve never met, and I need to reconnect.
Love your new poem in Poems Only and lovely to find you again by chance!
I will hope to submit and be read by you soon!
With great admiration and a hug
Patricia B if you don’t remember me, I”ll email you to follow this comment!