WHLReview

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The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.

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Editor & Publisher

Steve Glines 

Arts Editor

Bridget Seley Galway

Poetry Editor

Ravi Yelamanchilli

Fiction Editor

Ian Halim

Nonfiction Editor

Steve Glines

Book Reviews Editor

Doug Holder

Poet in Residence

Tomas O’Leary

 Submissions

Deadlines are as follows
March 1 – Spring
June 1 – Summer
September 1 – Autumn
December 1 – Winter

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Poetry may be submitted in any length. Please don't submit 100 poems and ask us to pick 3.

Fiction may be submitted in three formats:

We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally.

 Please, one fiction submission only per author, per issue. If you submit multiple stories for a single issue, we reserve the right not to review additional stories you submit after the first one.

Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes. Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words

Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it..

Any form of art may be submitted with the constraint that it must be something that can be published in 2 dimensions. It’s hard to publish sculpture but illustrations together with some intelligent prose count.

Published works are welcome with proper attribution.

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Welcome to the 68th issue (Volume 17, no 4) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. WHLR is a result of the collaboration between a group of poets and writers who call themselves the Bagel Bards.

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Table of Contents

Opine

Happy New Year, we hope.

It’s a new year and we are supposed to pretend that we are starting from scratch. We make new resolutions that mirror the same ones we made last year and that we know we will not keep despite our proclaimed resolve. In some cultures we are a year older and one would think a bit wiser but evidence would suggest otherwise. The world is at war. At the moment it’s limited to Ukraine but it could spread at any moment. The gravity of the situation has not been truly appreciated as yet and we still hope and, some of us, pray that Putin will come to his senses or those around him will, and that the war will be over in a flash. No one believes that, of course, but it’s possible.

The best analogy I’ve heard is that the current war is like the “French and Indian War” that was started by our own George Washington when he killed a French diplomat on May 28, 1754. It quickly evolved into the “Seven Years War,” perhaps the first truly World War that involved all the great powers of Europe and was fought all over the world. In the case of the current Russian-Ukraine war we might add Iran who is gleefully supplying a weakened Russia with missiles and “kamikaze drones and who may end up being helped in their nuclear ambitions by an angry Putin. Who knows how many ways this could go wrong?

Meanwhile, the world grows warmer, the windmill and solar cell business is booming, the worlds population passes 8 billion souls, and TFG still roams his golf courses untethered.

We would like to thank Will Broderick and Paul Callaro for their donations. Every bit helps.

We would like to welcome Ian Halim who is taking over for for Tim Gager who is writiing yet another novel.

We'd like to welcome back Bridget Seley Galway as our arts editor again.

Search the house

Art

• Rebecca Ann Bleecher
• Paul Rabinowitz
• Emma Harding
• Edward Supranowicz

Fiction

For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:

Poetry

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

Reviews

WHLReview is brought to you by:

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
by Sonia Meyer

What Drives Men
By Susan Tepper


The Last of the Bird People
a novel by John Hanson Mitchell


Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

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