Ramshackle Review Concludes Publication

When I closed Ramshackle Review to submissions in June I hoped other obligations might allow reopening this fall. Unfortunately, that’s not feasible, and won’t be anytime soon. Difficult decision, one I've put off, but it’s time to shut RR down.

One of my goals was to give RR at least four issues. I’d hoped to publish many more. But I’m also happy with and proud of Issues 1-4. They’ll remain available for online viewing. Many thanks to all who’ve supported and contributed. It’s been an an honor to share your work.

Maybe Next Year

Tjaden Hall, Cornell.

Angie and Twitch

The girl singer Angie was hot. She was maybe twenty-five and ignored the crew or tried to. More on this later. The guy singer was older. It wasn’t like we were knowledgeable fans of the Sammy Kaye Orchestra but you figured he’d been with them awhile. Maybe when Sammy was still alive. The guy singer wasn’t badlooking but he had a bad eyetic. It scrunched up the whole left side of his face in a big exaggerated wink. It fucked with his phrasing. I didn’t know his name. We called him Twitch.

markreep.net

My new website is up. Most images are available as greeting cards and prints at my RedBubble store. Prices start at $3.

New and recent originals are also available. If you'd like to inquire about an original drawing, please use the Original drawing available links to get in touch with me, or the gallery exhibiting that drawing.

Thanks for stopping by, and hope you'll share.

Postcards from Cornell: Fuertes Observatory

Cornell's Fuertes Observatory, a few minutes before sunset. Postcards and greeting cards are available at my RedBubble store.

Old Spy

Applepicking. Sorry, deer. Spies make good pies.

Book Review: Kio Stark's 'Follow Me Down'

My review of Kio Stark's first novel, Follow Me Down, is included in the new issue of Word Riot. Readers of Kio's blog Municipal Archive will recognize many of the supporting cast, and like MA, Follow Me Down is great reading. As always, my thanks to Word Riot publisher Jackie Corley.

Alder Run Lane

On the way home from La Petit Chou's today I stopped to photograph this lane. A big monarch butterfly hung with me awhile, and I hoped it might have found its way into a shot, but when I looked through the files tonight, it was gone.

Last Load

Thunder rumbled to the south, but no rain fell, and I kept cutting. At sunset, I stopped to take this photo. She's an old horse, but she's still running.

Windows of Heaven

Windows of Heaven
Pen & Ink, Pencil; 2001

Postcards & greeting cards available at RedBubble.

A Good Stopping Place

In the little wood between Cornell Plantations' Herb Garden and the new Welcome Center. Greeting cards and affordable prints available at my RedBubble store.

Cut, Split, Stacked

No time for laying stone lately. But there's this. Much more momentary, but I've learned to value momentary. Life helps with that. Andy Goldsworthy's work does too, and opens up your head to a gazillion possibilities. Art is anything you make of it. Greeting cards of this image are available at my RedBubble store.

And A Woodcutter's Son

We make the path walking carrying firewood.

Parnilla.com

Parni's new site is live. Greeting cards and prints available at Redbubble; for information on available originals, contact West End Gallery, Corning. Thanks for stopping by!

Prints at RedBubble

Happy that several of my drawings are now available as affordable prints, greeting cards, and posters at my RedBubble store. Click on an image to view and browse. I'm sorting through archived files, selecting work to be made available; if you're interested in a print of a drawing you don't see, email me. Thanks for stopping by, and hope you'll share.

Ramshackle Review 4/June

The Moor
Cover photo by Karen de la Bald

RR4/June 2011 is live, here. In this issue:

Fiction by Jen Knox, Nicolette Wong, Jack Swenson, xTx, Danny Goodman, and Robert Wexelblatt.

Poetry by Meredith Weiers, Bill Yarrow, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Lucinda Beeman, Al Ortolani, Tony Brewer, Byron Matthews, Jennifer Wineke, Jessica Bell, Laura Grafham, David Tomaloff, Rachel Mangini, Barry Spacks, Brad P. Olson, John Tustin, Ally Malinenko, Sara Basrai, Jennifer Blair, Amanda Laughtland, Darryl Price, Andrea Spofford, Susan Keiser, Emily Severance, Heather Abner, Tina Barry, Howie Good, Randi Beck, and Heath Corlew.

Black and white photography by Karen de la Bald, Laurent Miaille, Stefan Randholm, Annie Atkins, Kirsten Thormann, Helene Fjell, Quervel Sébastien, Beatrice Belguiral, Marco Masciovecchio, Ana Moreno, Shlomi Kramer, Alessio Di Menna, Penny Hardie, and Netra Nei.

Also in this issue: Memoir by Maureen Eppstein, and Sheldon Lee Compton reviews Rusty Barnes’ book Redneck Poems.

As always, thanks very much to all who have contributed. It’s an honor to share your work in RR.

Operating Costs

My flash Operating Costs is included in Criminal Class Review 4.1. More on the issue here.

Berthier Door

photo: les specialistes

My flash Berthier Door is up at Used Furniture Review. My thanks to editor David Cotrone.

More on Julien Berthier on BLDGBLOG.

After Bukowski

My flash After Bukowski is up at Metazen. My thanks to Frank Hinton & Len Kuntz.

House By The Sea

Happy to have my story House By The Sea in the new issue of Word Riot. As always, my thanks to fiction editor Kevin O'Cuinn and publisher Jackie Corley.