Editor's Note 6/24

STRAWBERRY CORDIAL, No. 64
Take eighteen gallons of pure rum and forty pounds of brown sugar, two hundred baskets of strawberries; these you must mash in your mashing tub, and strain and squeeze until all the juice is completely pressed out; then take and throw as much water upon the fruit as you have juice, and strain again and mix it all with the juice, then make a complete syrup with your juice and sugar, and when cold add to your stand cask; take two ounces of nutmegs, one ounce of cinnamon, three ounces of mace, quarter of an ounce of the oil of carraway, and quarter of an ounce of the oil of peppermint: fine this with eggs, it will be of a sufficient color of itself.
The Complete Grocer
New York (1832)

Welcome to our twenty-fourth and June issue! Summer is here, and we’re kicking it off right with our trademark lively mix of poetry, prose poetry, and visual art.

Also in this issue: a creative nonfiction flash piece and a new essay in our regular critique column on the intersection of music history and modern haiku.

And look for new chapbooks in our ever-growing chapbook series in the near future. We have several in the works!

With that, we have poetry by:

David M. Alper
Devin Campbell
William Doreski
Karissa Ho
Petra Kuppers
Josiah Nelson
Cara Pleym
Kevin Riel
Christian Ward
Marceline White

Prose poetry by:

Brad Rose

Creative nonfiction flash by:

Lauren Crawford

Critical analysis by:

Jones Irwin

And visual art by:

Jack Bordnick
Robb Kunz
Nuala McEvoy
Whiskey Radish
Robin Young
Elzbieta Zdunek

All the best and happy reading,

Matthew Bullen
Founder & Editor-in-Chief

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