We're back with a somewhat belated Issue 6, although since I have never
made a statement, let alone a decision, about the frequency with with
Issues will appear, it's belated only in my heart; because I care about
(1) you, (2) promptness, and (3) the ribs at (a) Dreamland Barbeque
(Tuscaloosa, Alabama and a few other lucky locations) and (b) Gridley's
in Memphis. The ribs aren't really related but, hey, would it kill
one of you guys to have a slab FedEx'ed to me from Gridley's?
We're pleased to announce that
Allan Peterson, whose poems appeared in
Issue 3 of Right Hand Pointing and who won our recent
Best-of-First-Four-Issues Contest, has won the Juniper Prize for
Poetry, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press. Allan's
collection, All the Lavish in Common, will be published by the press in
2006. We're happy for Allan, whose new Juniper Prize is second only
to the Right Hand Pointing T-Shirt he got when he won OUR prize.
Special thanks to Kat Lemmons for contributing
another
lovely cover painting.
Although I'm not at all sure about this whole blog
phenomenon, I'm
giving it a
go.
Well, it's a big issue, this Issue 6, chock full
of poetry. No fiction, really, but a few prose poems anyway.
Special call for submissions for future special
issues:
Memoir, under 400 words, on
encounters with mean people.
Pieces, any genre (with usual limits of
400 words for prose, 20 lines for poems) on bad music.
Pieces, any genre (with usual limits)
on people loving machines.
That'll keep you busy.
Dale
Your Editor
