Letter from the Editor
Volume no. 6 – Winter
End of the year? Pshh. Our winter issue is the first of every volume. Why? Oh, a clean slate, a new beginning, etc. Endings have a habit of spawning newness, don’t they?
Let’s consult the oracle (poetry compiled from the last lines of every piece in this issue):
demands a response. I can’t sing. I don’t play a musical instrument. So I answer with language.
Loud thunders drowned out her words.
or answers; the plan; twin divorces; their brown dog running under a kite-filled sky.
notes sound clear and echoic, the way an old doorbell does when you are already inside the house.
out there with so many cultures to explore, many of which are right under one’s nose.
the Gulf of Guinea, or GMT sped so far ahead of Ghana Man Time.
beating every spectral color from the light.
as seen from New Jersey in 1995.
never a natural way to leave any of it behind.
know, one can’t just say that kind of stuff.
presses them into something confounding and wonderful.
It’s the holidays, people. Love us lots? Give us your money in the form of a tax-deductible donation (tax season is just around the corner…). Or buy some cute merch. We just released our first print issue! Um, gorgeous stocking stuffer? Yes, buddy.
THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us during this amazing year here at Newfound and allowed us to keep doing amazing work.
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Keep an eye out for news about our super AWP off-site reading and related contests/good stuff.
Until then, keep beginning … ending … you know what I mean.
Yours,
Daniel Levis Keltner, Managing Editor
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