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Magazine Stand :: Palooka – Issue 15

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Palooka celebrates 15 years of supporting the literary arts community as a global literary magazine of ‘daring’ fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives by new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers. All of Palooka’s published content comes from unsolicited submissions. In keeping with their moniker, Palooka ‘upholds, encourages, and fights for underdogs’ and ‘only pursues the writing and art they love.’

Readers can enjoy this celebratory issue with fiction by Katherine Flynn, Jacqueline Kaufman, Kevin Novalina; poetry by Yvonne Higgins Leach; nonfiction by Eric Day; Ian Dooley’s graphic narrative “The Little World,” and a portfolio of artwork by Judith Skillman. Some content is available for readers to access online.

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Magazine Stand :: Palooka – 13

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Palooka is an international literary magazine of unique fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. They’ve featured writers, artists, and photographers from United States, Canada, Australia, India, United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, Pakistan, China, France, Ireland, South Korea, Israel, Finland, Croatia, Brazil, Italy, and Austria. This newest issue features fiction by Jack Harrell, Shome Dasgupta, Michael Loyd Gray; poetry by Rachel R. Baum, Joel Peckham, Pamela Manasco, Sage Ravenwood; a graphic essay by Naomi Rhema Edwards; artwork by Avery Bursey, and cover art by Tomislav Silipetar. Palooka is available for purchase in print or digital format. Visit their website for more information.

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Magazine Stand :: Palooka – Issue 12

Palooka Issue 12 literary magazine cover image

Still thriving well into a dozen years of continuous publication, the newest issue of Palooka includes fiction by B. B. Garin, Nicole Sellew, and Arthur Klepchukov; poetry by Kaitlinn Rose, Troy Schoultz, and Deven Philbrick; nonfiction by Andrea Bianchi; and artwork, including this gorgeous cover art, by Bianca Rivetti Burattini. Palooka editors welcome writers around the globe to send their best unpublished fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips.

New Book :: Over the Moon…Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini

Over the Moon…Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini Poetry by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt book cover image

Over the Moon…Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini
Poetry by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
Palooka Press, December 2021

SUNY New Paltz Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita Jan Zlotnik Schmidt’s poetry chapbook Over the Moon…Gone: The Vanishing Act of Bess Houdini brings new light to the complicated life of Bess Houdini and gives voice to this stunning and admirable woman. The collection opens with the biography of Bess Houdini, a class magician in her own right, but sidelined as her husband’s helpmate as his career took the limelight. Following his unexpected death, Bess Houdini attempted many times to restart her career, as well as to connect with her dead husband through séance. In her author’s note, Schmidt explains her research approach to studying the Houdinis and her creation of Bess Houdini’s “state of mind, perspective, and experience” through her poems as “an expansion of the biographical fact.” She further explains, “It is my hope that these poems bring Bess from the margins to the center of the narrative of the great Houdini. For Bess shouldn’t be relegated to being another invisible woman standing in the shadow of the great artist or genius. This volume gives Bess Houdini the space and chance to speak.” It behooves us all to read and breathe life into this effort.