Editors’ Commentary
The past year has been another year that challenges the imagination. The continuation of racial, political, health, and social issues has been unrelenting. As editors of River Heron Review, we once again felt compelled to put out a call for poems that respond to “…the current socio-political climate,” knowing that poets feel and respond differently, taking what the rest of the world sees and interpreting through a distinct lens. This perception pares thought and emotion to the most naked of language, challenging the reader to sit with poem a while in the whole of the experience, whether that experience comforts or discomforts us. Here, we have the result of that call.
~Robbin Farr and Judith Lagana
Founders and Editors, River Heron Review
Poems, for Now
TABLE OF CONTENTS
September 2021
Helen Chinitz
”Quinby, South Carolina”
Ellen June Wright
”Translator’s note”
John Jeffire
”The Nickel of Truth”
“Meghan Sterling
”I’m Not Thinking About the End of the World”
Lynn Domina
”Chant to Lift Up the Soul of George Floyd”
Michael Young
”White Magic”
Anita Lerek
”Tondo Politique”
”Refugee Blues”
Michael Sandler
”Proverbs 27:1”
Jen Karetnick
”An Abecedarian for When All That Glitters is Glitter”
Gloria Heffernan
”Epistle for Jack Gilbert After Rereading “A Brief for the Defense”
Bradley Samore
”What I Heard”