Spring 2024
Issue Published January 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:

Welcome to the Spring 2024 edition of Monterey Poetry Review, themed, Imagine... Imagine all the people living life in peace... John Lennon
 
Imagine...the very word opens doors, hearts, minds, infinite possibilities. Pablo Picasso said Everything you can imagine is real. Wow! Think of all the things we can “imagine” that would manifest change. Then add action to those and we can, as a united humanity, move together towards peace, a healed mother earth, an end to prejudice and cruelty in all forms...
 
Once, when activist Gloria Steinem spoke about change she said, We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it. We, as poets, writers, artists can have such an impact with our words, images, creative endeavors. Ralph Waldo Emerson so aptly added “heart” to this when he said, In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
 
Enjoy this edition of MPR and keep imagining your own beauty and potential in all ways.
 
Kate, Laura, Jennifer

 

2. Poems
M.J.  Arcangelini
Kate Aver Avraham
Tohm Bakelas
KB Ballentine
Laura Bayless
Jeff Burt
William Doreski
Matt Duffy
Bart Edelman
Jennifer Fenn
George Freek
Jennifer Grant
John Grey
Cleo Griffith
Nancy Haskett
Christina Hauck
Jennifer Read Hawthorne
Victor Henry
Linda Holmes
Louise Kantro
Helga Kidder
Jennifer Lagier
Kent Leatham
Karen L. Marker
Judith Mikesch McKenzie
MJ Moore
Bruce Morton
Bob Nielsen
Mark Novak
Michael O'Brien
Cathy Porter
Mary Kay Rummel
Wayne Russell
Mylo Schaaf
Linda Scheller
Robin Shepard
John Tustin
Nanci Woody
 

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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 Fall 2024 issue will open on April 1, 2024 and run through July 1, 2024. The theme is "Food." We look forward to reading your food for thought poems. Please review submission guidelines prior to sending your work.

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