Spring 2020
Issue Published January 15, 2020

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:

Honored to be Associa​te Editors, Kate Aver Avraham and Laura Bayless are pleased to introduce the Spring 2020 issue of the Monterey Poetry Review. The poetry and art submitted reflect an abundant and varied range of topics, emotions  perspectives and styles. Poet Mary Oliver wrote:

                  "Still, what I want in my life
                   is to be willing,
                   is to be dazzled,
                   to cast aside the weight of facts
                   and maybe even
                   to float a little
                   above this difficult world."

We hope you will find the offerings in this issue meaningful, enjoyable, perhaps "dazzling" here and there and able to lift and inspire you "above this difficult world."
Special thanks to Jennifer Lagier, Editor, for her dedication to keeping MPR alive and for all her work on this issue and those to come. Thanks, too, to John Laue, former Editor, for his many years of devotion to the publication.

As Rita Dove says, "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."
Thank you, poets and artists. We invite and look forward to your future submissions for the Fall 2020 issue later this year.   

 

2. Poems

• Joan Ashworth-Ward
• Kate Aver Avraham 
• Laura Bayless
• Marie Boucher
• Cynthia Bryant
• Dane Cervine
• M.J. Donovan
• John Dotson
• Pat Egenberger
• Vern Fein
• Victor Henry
• Michael Lee Johnson
• Louise Kantro
• Tom Lagasse
• Jennifer Lagier
• Kent Leatham
• Ellaraine Lockie
• William Minor
• Robert Nielsen
• Marina Romani
• Ken W. Simpson
• David Allen Sullivan
• Maria Teutsch
• Illia Thompson​

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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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Submissions of poetry, photography and art for the Fall 2020 issue will open on April 1 and run through July 1, 2020. The theme is Positive Transformations: “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
 ― Mother Teresa