The June 2025 issue of The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics is now available and features works by Ian Clarke, Barbara Daniels, Lyudmyla Diadchenko, PM Flynn, Gabrielle Meadows, Sreeja Naskar, Tony Press, Hannah Stone, Jeanine Walker, and Louise Worthington. Book reviews include Greg Rappleye’s Barley Child and John Gilham’s Footprints in the Mud. The Lake’s unique feature of One Poem Reviews spotlight one poem from a recently published collection, with June shining a light on works by Whitney Coy, Dagne Forrest, John Savoie, and Elaine Sexton.
Readers can also find Editor John Murphy’s new book, Notes, on The Lake‘s SHOP page.
The subject for these poems are artists and producers in the music industry, covering all major genres: rock, jazz and blues, and some of the artists included are Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Cleo Laine, Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson , Buddy Holly, and Jimi Hendrix.
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