A trip to The Lake sounds like a great way to spend a hot summer’s afternoon, so lucky for readers, the July 2026 of this journal of poetry and poetics is now online featuring new work by Gemma Blakeley, Marilyn Cavvichia, Joe Garvey, Eric D. Goodman, Marcia Roberts Gregorio, Harriet Pinklock, J. R. Solonche, Shogo Olalekan Uthman, Ping Yee, and Lee Yongha.
The Lake offers readers reviews of newly published books of poetry. For readers this July 2026, Hannah Stone reviews Life Immediately by Lily Blacksell, Usha Kishore reviews Map of the Self by Mona Dash, Dustin Pickering reviews The Tao According to Calvin Coolidge by Charles Rammelkamp, and Loralee Clark reviews Love Song by Ann Chinnis.
Unique to The Lake are “One Poem Reviews” which share a sample poem from a recently published collections, with this issue spotlighting poems by both Martin Agee and Maggie Mackay. Poets with published books who would like to share a poem with The Lake readers only need to email Editor John Murphy to start the process.
Editor John Murphy has had his own work published in Notes, which can be purchased on The Lake‘s SHOP page. The poems in this book focus on artists and producers in the music industry, covering all major genres: rock, jazz and blues. Some of the artists: Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Cleo Laine, Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson , Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, and more.
