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From the Editor

The 9 Note

 
Here's issue number 9 and if you count web chapbooks by Allan Peterson and Susan Case, which you certainly should count, that's eleven issues of Little Orange.  This issue includes contributions by veteran poets Jordan Smith, R T Castleberry, Ed Pavlic, Lynn Strongin, and Charles P. Ries.     No fiction this time, although we continue to read for a future flash fiction issue.  My thanks to all the creative people who contributed.

We're delighted to announce the news that Allan Peterson has won the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize for Poetry.  His winning collection, All the Lavish in Common, will be published in 2006.

Some philistine wrote and suggested I abandon orange for 2006.  It's not going to happen.  We're staying the course.  Our enemies hate our orange. 

I don't know about you guys, but I'll be glad to see 2005 go.  And, if we get through December 31 without a plague of crazed, bird-flu infected, radioactive, fanged toads falling out of the skies and biting us on our necks, I'm thinking we'll be lucky.  What a year.  And now this whole War on Christmas thing.  Yo, I can't even sleep up in here.  But, listen, I will settle for nothing less than a completely victorious Christmas.  What is Christmas after all?  To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

I do hope you enjoy the reading the issue as much as I enjoyed slapping it together.  See you in 2006.  If the toad thing doesn't happen.