Fall 2024
Issue Published September 2024

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:

 “Food is our common ground—a universal experience.” – James Beard
 
Welcome to our Fall 2024 issue where your editorial team has laid out a banquet of verse, art, and photography to arouse your appetite and satisfy a hunger for poetry and images. The work represents a diverse menu in terms of culture, gender, and experience. Some poems offer food for thought or describe specific fruits or vegetables. Others revolve around ethnic cuisines or explore rituals of meal preparation. Many poems celebrate coming together around a table to break bread, savor the link between memory and unforgettable flavors.
 
As my Italian grandmother would admonish, “Mangia!” Feast on the tasty smorgasbord we have served up in our current issue.

 
Kate, Laura, Jennifer

 

2. Poems

Alejandra Sánchez Alanís
Kate Aver Avraham
Laura Bayless
Robert Beveridge
Jeff Burt
Alan Catlin
Sarah Colby
C.S. Crowe
Suzanna C. de Baca
Jo Angela Edwins
R. Gerry Fabian
Arvilla Fee
Thomas Feeny
Catherine Fletcher
Diane Frank
Gene Goldfarb
Kathryn Santana Goldman
Jennifer Grant
John Grey
Cleo Griffith
Lynn Hansen
Nancy Haskett
Richard Hedderman
Victor Henry
Lynn Hess
Barbara E. Hunt
D.R. James
Terry S. Johnson
Kendra Kehde
Noah Soria Kevy
Karen Kilcup
Mi-Seong Kong
Jennifer Lagier & Gene McCormick
Meg Lindsay
Juan Luzuriaga
Jacquie Marietta
Richard Elliott Martin
Joan Mazza
Judith Mikesch-McKenzie
Keith Melton
Robin Michel
Angie Minkin
MJ Moore
Sharon Lask Munson
Robert Nielsen
Claudia Reder
M.S. Rooney
Laura Schulkind
Katherine Shehadeh
Bruce Spang
Maria Garcia Teutsch
Mike Wilson
Ellen Gerneaux Woods
Nanci Lee Woody
Angela Yeh
Andrena Zawinski
Marc Zegans
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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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Submission Period for the Spring 2025 issue: October 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024. Please submit only once during a submission period. and review submission guidelines prior to sending your work.

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