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Welcome to the twenty third issue (Volume 6, no 3) 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 (who have just published their latest anthology).
The stories, articles, poems and examples of art have
been presented as PDF files. This is a format that
allows for a much cleaner presentation than would otherwise be available on
the web. If you don’t have an Adobe Reader (used to read a PDF file) on your
computer you can download one from the Adobe website. The files are large and we hope you will be patient when downloading
but we think the beauty of the words deserves a beautiful presentation.
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alone and do not reflect the opinions of our sponsors or partners.
Here in our small corner of New England when we think mountains we think of the Green Mountains of Vermont and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. These mountains are old, ground down by millions of years of ice, rain and vegetation. The coastal plain is narrow here, just a few miles in most places. Contrast this with the high plains and Rocky Mountains of Alberta Canada, where flat is flatter and vertical is an adequate description of the topology.
Calgary Alberta is known for two things: cows and oil. The high plains to the east were, for millions of years, the bottom of a massive shallow ocean. Beneath the sod lies thousands of feet of sedimentary rock trapping more gas and oil than has ever been pumped out of North America to date. To the west lies the sudden start of the Canadian Rocky Mountains which rise almost unannounced from the high prairie. The collision of the Pacific tectonic plate with the American plate has yielded some very dramatic results.
Our trip to Calgary was made possible by Vicky Glines and Dave Macneil. Dave is a petroleum engineer whose world wide travels in pursuit of energy have left him with more airline miles than he can possibly use.
Anthony Majahad: I had the pleasure of meeting Anthony at one of the Bagel Bard’s get together every Saturday at Au Bon Pan in Davis Square Somerville. Anthony and I hit it off right away. I told him I was an artist that writes a poem from time to time. He told me he was a writer, photographer, and that he enjoyed creating art.
Essays
Jim Krosschell tells us about what may have happened in the FOG
Our fiction editor loves Anton Chekhov and despairs the notion that there are no latter day Chekhovs submitting works for her consideration. This is not to say that the work he receives isn’t excellent … it’s just not Chekhov. To that end WHLReview announces a new prize for fiction to be called “the Chekhov Prize.” A google search reveals several other Chekhov prizes with cash. Alas we’re not offering cash. We will look for a bearded bobble-head doll. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the Chekhov Prize logo available. Just click on Chekhov's head.
For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories:
Our poetry editor, not wanting to be outdone by our fiction editor is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry. Anyone published in Volume 3 (and beyond) is eligible. We don't have any idea what the prize will consist of - a t-shirt for sure. Perhaps we can find a Plaster of Paris bust of Julius Caesar, put a rose in its mouth and decorate it to look like Gertrude Stein. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the our rose prize logo available. Just click on Gerturde's head.
We have a remarkable lineup of poets (some more than once), enjoy:
Come back often. We post up to ten new reviews every week.
As we said when we started this is a joint
production of Wilderness House Literary Retreat and the “bagel bards”.
The “Bagel Bards” have just published their fifth
anthology. You may purchase them here:
WHLReview is brought to you by:
An exciting travelog:
Seven Days in Fiji
by Steve Glines
erican plate has yielded some very dramatic results. 
