Hot Air Quarterly Summer Issue No. 19
The summer issue of The Hot Air Quarterly is now available at The Shasta County Arts Council, Pacific West Graphics, Sue’s Java Café and the Redding Library. On the cover of this issue, we are honored to showcase the work of Atsuko Dowling (above), a gifted traditional Japanese painter of great dedication and skill. Atsuko was born in Tokyo, Japan where she graduated college and began a seven year study of traditional Suiboku-ga. Subsequently, she studied Nihon-ga for eleven years and became a member of Japan Artist Association. She has shown her works in Japan, the United States, Mainland China, and Greece. Atsuko has also had the honor of seeing one of her works hung, for a short time, in the Imperial Palace in Japan.
Inside, we’re delighted to be publishing work from the following talented authors and poets:
Peter Wright went to sea in 1943 at the age of 17. Apprenticed to a West African Liner company, he finished his time in 1946 and sailed to Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria until 1952. He returned to sailing deep water in 1957 with The Bristol City Line, sailing as First Mate and Master until 1965, then emigrated to the USA. He is the author of three books: All Things Betray Thee, A Drop of the Hard Stuff, and Triumphs and Tragedies.
Dan Pettee: A former teacher and advertising manager, I currently operate my own freelance writing business in Grand Rapids, MI. I’ve had poems published in a wide range of publications including Chicago Review, Texas Review, Amherst Review, Descant, Puerto del Sol, and Evansville Review.
Errol Miller: “The Woolworth Poet of America,” has published extensively since 1972. A featured artist in the 2000 Poet’s Market, some of his publications are in Poetry International, Montserrat Review, Caliban, Harpur Palette, Skidrow Penthouse, Santa Clara Review, etc. He lives in West Monroe, Louisiana.
Bill Siemer is the author of several novellas and books of poetry. The complete work of Scratched Up, excerpted here, is available for sale at the Shasta County Arts Council and the Enjoy magazine store.
Simon Perchik is an attorney whose peoms have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. For more information, including his essay “Magic, Illusion and Other Realities” and a complete bibliography, please visit his website at www.simonpercik.com.
John Fitzpatrick has received Vermont Studio Center poetry residences, the Hackney Poetry Literary Award from Birmingham-Southern College, and a Ph. D. from New York University with a dissertation that treated the poet as writer and reader of poetry, with poets Barbara Unger and Michael Burkard participating in his research. Currently he is completing certification to teach Kundalini Yoga, with work featured or forthcoming in Third Wednesday, The Rockford Review, BIG MUDDY, Writecorner, and Deus Loci.
Cliff Saunders has been cutting out newspaper headlines and arranging them into poems for over thirty years. His poems have appeared most recently in Hawai’i Pacific Review, Marco Polo Quarterly, Pilgrimage, and California Quarterly. He teaches Creative Writing in the Myrtle Beach area.
Jon Wesick has had his prose published in Space and Time, Zahir, Tales of the Talisman, Blazing Adventures, Bracelet Charm, Everyday Weirdness, Metal Scratches, Journal of Experimental Fiction, CC&D, and American Drivel Review, among others, while his poetry has appeared in The New Orphic Review, Pearl, Pudding, and Slipstream.
Susan Richardson has published articles, stories and poems in various magazines and anthologies, most recently poems in Eclipse, Saranac Review, Inkwell and Slant, with a poem upcoming in Southern California Review. She works as a small press publisher, agent, and medical transcriptionist in Boise, Idaho.
Elaine Dugas Shea has lived in Montana for forty years, enjoying a career in social justice working with American Indian Tribes and civil rights. Her writing was featured in Third Wednesday, South Dakota Review, the anthology The Light in Ordinary Things, the anthology Hope Whispers, Samsara, Front Range Review, CAMAS, Spillway, the anthology When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over Fifty, and Montana Voices Anthology.
Royal Scanlon, a dedicated practitioner and teacher of Yang Style Short Form t’ai chi ch’uan is a poet, photographer, and musician who lives, works and dreams in Kansas City Missouri with his wife actress/musician Peggy Friesen.
Celeste White is the author of the novel, The Last Good Fairy, winner of a New England Book Show Award, as well as the award-winning title, The Legend of the Flying Hotdog.
Electronic subscriptions will be sent out later this week.
Above: Path in Bamboo, by Atsuko Dowling ©
Monday, August 8, 2011