In this issue - January 2008
Happy New Year! Welcome to our first Moon Notes of 2008. We have a little catching up to do; a whole fall of delicious color with articles and updates we've received through last quarter of 2007.
(Fall - Shawn Nacona Stroud)
In this very full issue you'll find all of our IBPC news, site challenge winners, book reviews, art, and essays along with our usual site member updates and a list of places to submit your work.
In this Issue:
News
IBPC Updates - What's happened in the last six months
Challenge Winners Announced
Blog Eye - Notes on our member's blog sites
Publication News - Where to get published
Books
The Sister - A Novel Of Emily Dickinson by Paola Kaufmann,
reviewed by Mitchell Geller
The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, reviewed by Shawn Nacona Stroud
Essays
Putting It All Together by Christopher T. George
A Study of Enjambments by Bill Flewelling
Thoughts from the Publisher
Give praise is a mode toward children these days. Even No Child Left Behind and certainly Head Start back the words in the title.
For over a decade I’ve maintained my make-over of compassionate fidelity. Online considering posts,critiques and responses I’ve, in all honesty, suffered the slings and arrows of the angry, the arrogance of the haughty, the tripe of the ignorant.
I must say, that I’ve lost it a few times as the manure ran in a raw liquid stream of nastiness. Through it all I’ve been reliable, though not flawlessly, as Desert Moon Review surges and recedes.
We’ve watched friends arrive and depart, like a river dependent upon snow melt -- not without continued trust and stalwart support of strong poetry and congenial interface.
by James D. Corner