Fall 2023
Issue Published September, 2023

This issue is organized in two sections; scroll down the page or click the links below to jump to a section:

1. Introduction
2. Poems

1. Introduction

To Readers of Monterey Poetry Review:

Welcome to the Fall 2023 issue of Monterey Poetry Review! We are pleased to include some new voices, as well as selections of poetry from names you’ll recognize from previous issues. Contributors represent diverse communities all over the United States as well as local writers from the greater Monterey Bay area. Their work features a variety of perspectives, topics and writing styles, offering a smorgasbord of observations, experiences, and stories.
 
​Annie Dillard wrote, “It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the valley like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, all the leaves of the hardwoods from here to Hudson’s Bay. It was as if the season’s colors were draining away like lifeblood, as if the year were molting and shedding. The year was rolling down, and a vital curve had been reached, the tilt that gives way to headlong rush. And when the monarch butterflies had passed and were gone, the skies were vacant, the air poised. The dark night into which the year was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening, a new and necessary austerity, the sparer climate for which I longed. The shed trees were brittle and still, the creek light and cold, and my spirit holding its breath.”
 
As the change of season brings us colorful foliage, the last of harvest and the beginning of a new school year, we offer you the gift of poetry to nourish the soul and wish you all the best.
 
Jennifer, Laura & Kate
Jennifer, Laura, and Kate

2. Poems
Jevin Albuquerque
Kate Aver Avraham
Laura Bayless
Jeff Burt
Marisa P. Clark
Joe Cottonwood
John Desjarlais
Matt Duffy
Jennifer Fenn
George Freek
Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
John Grey
Cleo Griffith
Lynn Hansen
Nancy Haskett
Peggy Heitmann
Victor Henry
Janis Butler Holm
Louise Kantro
Jennifer Lagier
Judith Mikesch McKenzie
Bruce Morton
Fabrice B. Poussin
Cathy Porter
Ramzi Albert Rihani 
Scott Rosin
Mary Kay Rummel
Mykyta Ryzhykh
John Tustin
Katieann Vogel
James Von Hendy
Patricia Wentzel
J.M. Yager


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Editor's Note

Our vision is to publish art, photography and the highest quality of poetry online twice a year drawing on the talents of artists, photographers and poets, especially those in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties.

The Monterey Poetry Review is made possible by the following volunteers:

Dr. Jennifer Lagier Fellguth – Editor & Webmaster

Kate Aver Avraham -- Associate Editor
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Laura Bayless -- Associate Editor

Megan Lee – Founder
John Laue – Editor Emeritus
Nicole Henares – Editor Emeritus
Belen Arellano – Graphic Web Design

Learn more about us and how to submit: Click here.

NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
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The submission period for poetry, photography and art for the Spring 2024 issue will open on October 1, 2023 and run through December 31, 2023. The theme for this issue is "Imagine".

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