Salamander Magazine
Fiction, poetry & memoir
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Salamander, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary organization that publishes a biannual magazine of poetry, fiction, memoir, and works in translation. It was founded by Jennifer Barber in 1992 with the aim of publishing a generation of writers reaching artistic maturity and deserving of a wider audience alongside new work by established writers. In addition to the magazine, Salamander, Inc. sponsors events and readings in the Boston area and in New York. Salamander became affiliated with Suffolk University in the fall of 2005. Its annual fiction contest began in 2010.
Salamander has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Council for Literary Magazines and Presses, Bradford College, and the Brookline Council on the Arts and Humanities.
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Pages (PDF): 170
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IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry:
Ciaran Berry, Elyse Fenton, Nick Courtright, Frannie Lindsay, Joseph Spece, Julia Story, Maggie Dietz, Jessica Plante, Daniel Tobin, Eva Hooker, Nathaniel Hunt, John Gibler, Todd Swift, Elizabeth Lund, Michael Bazzett, and others
Fiction:
“Dimension” by Barrett Warner, winner of the 2014 Fiction Prize (judged by Jennifer Haigh); “When Desire Can’t Find Its Object,” honorable mention, by Margaret Osburn; “A Hunting Trip” by Elliot Ackerman; “The Last Auspicious Day,” by Parini Shroff, and “Humping the Bush,” by Karen Tucker
Reviews:
“Vanishings and Returns: Second Childhood: Poems by Fanny Howe & Our Vanishingby Frannie Lindsay,” by Jacqueline Kolosov
“The Sharp White Background: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine & Forgiveness Forgiveness by Shane McCrae,” by Valerie Duff-Strautmann
Pages (PDF): 173
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IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Beth Woodcome Platow
Mooring
The Door
Dan Beachy-Quick
Ode on a Mountain
José Angel Araguz
Advice
Stephen Gibson
On a Tapestry Copy of Guido Reni’s Slaughter of the Innocents
Marsha Pomerantz
Ping
Fortune
Tomasz Różycki, tr. by Mira Rosenthal
But I Am Not Here
Susan Cohen
In Her Eyes
Wyn Cooper
This Lightness
Joey Kingsley
Solo: Traveler’s Lid
Threshing Time
Brandon Krieg
Fireweed
Martha Carlson-Bradley
Book of Three Leaves
New-England Primer
J. L. Conrad
Blood Orange
Christina Olson
The Residents of the Last House on Highway 158 in Point Harbor, North Carolina, Addresses Vacationers Headed to the Outer Banks
Three-Month Anniversary
Lesley Wheeler
Long Distance
Islomaniacs
Changming Yuan
Y, Y
Kim Stafford
Why I Was Medieval as a Child
Saudamini Siegrist
Kansas Promise
Laurie Filipelli
Wife’s Song
Kathleen McGookey
Long White Hallway
Dian Duchin Reed
How Your Leaving Left Me
Adam Tavel
Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader
Kim Farrar
To My Old Lewis Turco The Book of Forms
Virginia Heiserman
The Nineties
Tim Mayo
Every Poet Needs a Brother
Daniel Bănulescu, tr. by Adam J. Sorkin and Lidia Vianu
University Square
Jonathan Barrett
After Reading an Article on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
The Thought of Death is Overwhelming
Leslie McGrath
Brotherhood and the Strait Jacket
David Johnson
Praying in Bedlam
Amy Wright
Collage of Headshots of Thirty Dragonfly Species
Adam Wiedewitsch
Butterfly Testament
Christopher Merrill
Against History
Porcelain
Colin Pope
If You Ever Become a Paper Doll
Eric McHenry
The Song of Stationary Nathan
Assisted Living
The Darker Grass
Five-Legged Spider
Pamela Greenberg
Words, No Words
Ben Berman
Re Form
Elaine Terranova
Embedded
Kay Cosgrove & Lauren Hilger
Flour
Gwenn A. Nusbaum
In Her Hive
James Grabill
The Idea of Throwing Tires
Annie Rudy
In Pieces
Cindy Hunter Morgan
Omar D. Conger, 1922
Black River
Henry Clay
1851 Lake Erie
Moira Linehan
Ladies Union
Balling Yarn
Andrea Moorhead
From a hospital bed
Charles Harper Webb
Ordeals
Edith Goldenhar
The Two Bettys
Steven Cramer
A Poe Moment
Mentalese
Tracy Zeman
Grist
Charlie Clark
Devil Says the Word “Sedulous”
Devil Watching Football
Matthew Dulany
Black Friday
Fani Papageorgeiou
Unhitching
Matt Morton
Fermata
Art Nahill
Crosswords
Alan Feldman
A Little Ode to Television
Fiction
Alice Elliott Dark
DDT
Carys Davies
Miracle at Hawk’s Bay
Joe Neal
Jimmy’s Day Off
Essay
TaraShea Nesbit
Where the River Makes a Noise
Reviews
Aviya Kushner
Reclaiming the Self: Door of Thin Skins by Shira Dentz
Jacob Strautmann
The Letting Go: Portal by Mary Pinard
Jacqueline Kolosov
In Darkness I Throw Open the Door: Black Stars by Ngo Tu Lap, tr. by Martha Collins and Ngo Tu Lap
Anna Ross
Sad Gargantuans: Striven, The Bright Treatise by Jeffrey Pethybridge
Pages (PDF): 185
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IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Anthony Caleshu
The Commiseration of Whale-Watchers
Annik Adey-Babinski
Miami as Lover
The Convention
Sharon Dolin
Faithful Is Not Blind Belief
Your Will Is Always
Jill McDonough
I Don’t Know Greek
Liliana Ursu, tr. by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Healings
The Tower of Welders
The Street of Measuring Scales
Drew Calvert
Lullaby #29
Fred Marchant
Fennel
Matthew Fee
A History of Love
A History of Waves
A History of Ghosts
Julian Stannard
I’m Homesick for being Homesick
Christ Stopped at Hollesley
Stations of the Cross
Lindsay Illich
Cleaning House
Gabriel Welsch
The Broken Story
Lauren Camp
Hush—16
Brad Johnson
Easter, 2012
My Daughter’s Teeth, My Father’s Beard
Judy Katz
Nursing Mother Dreams of Chagall
Lesley Kimball
Last Year
Brandon Lewis
Starling?
Down the Hill
John McCarthy
Planting
Anzhelina Polonskaya, tr. by Andrew Wachtel
It’s Autumn
The Stableboy
Octavio Quintanilla
Mal de Ojo
Finding My Way
Dawn Potter
Go??bki
Kimberly Driggers
Memento Park, Hungary
Carol Westberg
Yellow Door in Open Field
Kenny Tanemura
Giotto Blue
Larry Beckett
Willamette
Gabriella R. Tallmadge
If I Were a Fisherman’s Wife
M-16
Mary Buchinger
Earrings I Never Wear
Peter Schmitt
Good Egg
David Zerby
Otto Loewi Narrates His Famous Experiment
Daniel Meltz
Statistical High
Aviya Kushner
Strange Remarks in the Market*
Women
Errors of the Mortals
Mary Natwick
Almost Paradise
M. Shahid Alam
Start My Day
A Ghazal: Intimations of Ghalib
Deborah Leipziger
Daffodil Waves
Robert Hirschfield
Feldenkrais Class, Jerusalem
Rick Gray
The Stillness
Shane McCrae
The Narrow Road to the Monastery
Fiction
Jen Fawkes
Iphigenia in Baltimore
Rochelle Distelheim
O Thou, Whom My Soul Doth Love
Eugenio Volpe
Tiny Rhode Islands
Luke Fiske
Do You Know What a Leader Is?
Gary Scott
The Dome
Reviews
Heather Madden
Immersed in Song
If One of Us Should Fall by Nicole Terez Dutton (University of Pittsburgh, 2012)
Jacqueline Kolosov
Metamorphoses
Song & Error: Poems by Averill Curdy (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013).
Valerie Duff-Strautmann
Directions
Westerly by Will Schutt (Yale University Press, 2013);
Strange Borderlands by Ben Berman (Able Muse Press, 2013).
Pages (PDF): 170
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IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Stephen Ackerman
Paper
Molly Bashaw
Letter to a Farm
There’s A Liturgical Sound To Our Names For Her Stomachs
Michael Bazzett
After Machado
Denise Bergman
Jersey
Pam Bernard
Selva Oscura
Karina Borowicz
The Only Story
Sarah M. Brownsberger
Church Site
Christopher Citro
Kindling Me
Andrea Cohen
On Blueberry Picking
Last Wish
Still Life with Fast-Forward
Puzzle
Hannah Craig
From the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary on the First Warm Day in March, a Man Comes Running in a White T-Shirt
Chard DeNiord
Inside the Song
Carol Dine
If Adam and Eve Were Old
Susan Eisenberg
Friends and Enemies
Rita Gabis
And Then
Beginnings
Greenhouse
The Apple Wood Fire
Danielle Legros Georges
Egg
Arc
Jessica Greenbaum
Ring of Life
Elegy for a Tree
Holly Guran
Dali Museum, the morning after
Heather Hartley
You, unusual among fish, live in no aquaria
Michael Hettich
The Open House
Gwendolyn Jensen
I am learning to be old.
Luke Johnson
Man Dies on Transatlantic Flight
Kasey Jueds
Window and Field
George Kalogeris
Stéfaná
Judy Katz-Levine
The Everything Saint
Ellen Kaufman
Asters
A Flemish Still Life
Raising an Orchid
Karen An-Hwei Lee
Blue Moon Is Not Blue
Yan Lin
The Third Mountain
Frannie Lindsay
Shepherds
Estanislao Lopez
The Family Endures Magritte’s Revisions of “La Chambre d’Écoute”
Heather Madden
Untitled
Untitled
Calvin Olsen
Kokanee
Idaho History
Lee Peterson
Fortune
Mary Pinard
Gone in Search
Jo Pitkin
Village: Persistence
Village: White Money
Jacquelyn Pope
Common Tremor
Steven Ratiner
Time on Earth
Black Quilt
Dian Duchin Reed
from Crooked Cup of Awe, based on the Daodejing
from Crooked Cup of Awe, based on the Daodejing
Elizabeth Rees
Graduate Housing
Minneapolis Blues
Anna Ross
Self-Portrait with Catastrophe
Self-Portrait as Fox in Daylight
Self-Portrait Instead of Engine
The Land of Nod
Danielle Shutt
Afterlife as the Line at Friendly Mart
Tara Skurtu
Catechism
Skurtu, Romania
Maggie Smith
Lights, Lemons
David R. Surette
Hummels
Fiction
Naira Kuzmich
The Kingsley Drive Chorus
Linda Rui Feng
The Importance of Floating
Mel Wells
A Missionary Position
Steven Wingate
Cherry Red Fender
Reviews
Jacqueline Kolosov
Made in Brooklyn: The Two Yvonnes by Jessica Greenbaum
Valerie Duff-Strautmann
Is It Life? Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine
Pages (PDF): 207
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IN THIS ISSUE
Poetry
Partridge Boswell
Saltimbanques
Quiz
Joanne DeSimone Reynolds
Full Pink Moon
Sarah Burke
Fishing with Ghosts
Betsy Johnson-Miller
Leap, soft
Yehoshua November
I Made a Decision
Live Like the Ark in the Holy of Holies
To Come Back
Mary Ann Mayer
Tracks
Joseph Spece
Beacon Hill
Task
Leslie Williams
Practice
Brought in Safety to This New Day
Sjohnna McCray
The Pear Tree
Winter Anesthesia
David Blair
At Gooseberry Beach
Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Hunger, White-Tailed Deer and Hosta
Michael Brokos
Allison and Iowa
Brian Simoneau
Lines from Wherever My Father Finds Himself
New Year’s Eve
Wesley Rothman
Instructions for Stardust
Alzheimer Aubade
Anna Lowe Weber
By metaphor you paint a thing
Blessings for the Unborn
David Thacker
A Fetus Dreams of Narrative
Ben Berman
Nothing Archaic About It
Brittney Scott
Microchimerism
C. Dylan Bassett
Butcher Shop
A Protest, Tahrir Square
Lori Wilson
Because Even the Dog Star Hid
The Day He Ran over the Dog
Amorak Huey
Pursued by an Angry Mob, Fire God Buries the Blues in a Bayou
Elegy for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Written by His Favorite Guitar
Adam Day
Cave Hill
Matthew Mahaney
Dear Elizabeth, I dream a cherry orchard on fire
Dear Elizabeth, I fear I am a little salt ghost stuck
Fred Marchant
Fresh Ink
The Meltemi*
Matthew Landrum
Trieste
Sally Wen Mao
Friendship Evening
Gregory Lawless
Riprap
Tuesday
Amy Dryansky
Cake & Eat it Too
Dear Tender Place
Alan Feldman
Hate
Ashore in Oak Bluffs
Chelsea Wagenaar
Letter to My Girlhood
Kim Triedman
Witch Hazel
Raymond Philip Asaph
The Icicle
P. J. Williams
Blues Poem (There’s hope for us on the porch)
Brian Culhane
Derivations
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Odysseus to Diomedes, at Lemnos
Jaydn DeWald
Encounter
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
My Hiroshige
Jacob Strautmann
Benwood Mine and Queen Anne’s Lace
Mercy Prayer
Christopher Lee Miles
Baling Hay
Susan Donnelly
Woman Reading
Marcela Sulak
Decency
Stan Badgett
At Cumberland Knob
Tom Sexton
On Being Asked to Write a Poem About the Moon
Benjamin Myers
A Production of Hamlet
None of This
Andrea Moorhead
For Bobby, 1954-2011
#4
Gary Dop
To My Love Handles
Betty Buchsbaum
First Encounters
Diane LeBlanc
Intervention
Wendy Drexler
Squirrel Eating the Milky Way
Lee Colin Thomas
Lifeguard
When It’s My Turn at the Counter
Jennifer O’Grady
Dusk
Scott Withiam
Landscape and Interior, Considering Recent Political Claims and Polls
Matthew Minicucci
Crassus
Lana Rakhman
Waltz
Laurie Sewall
Painted Skirt
Hilary Sideris
To a Majolica Jug
Wildflowers
Melting
Wendy Mnookin
That Summer
Fiction
Lynne Butler Oaks
A Sudden Absence of Sound
Jenn Chan Lyman
Two Old Fools
Dana Diehl
A Place Without Floors
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Grief
Dan Pinkerton
Parkwood Manor
Reviews
Jacqueline Kolosov
Crossings Over: Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation by George Kalogeris
Valerie Duff-Strautmann
Ancestral Lines: Bewilderment by David Ferry