This issue features an interviews with G. Tod Slone and Nathan Graziano. I went ahead and interviewed G. Tod Slone, editor of the American Dissident. Slone is known for his outspoken no-holds-barred opinions about corruption within the poetry world and uses it as a means of inspiration. I found this intriguing and needed more explanation... Doug Holder interviewed Nathan Graziano, a favorite among the small press for a few years now. Doug finds what drives this poet from my old stomping ground of New Hampshire to write actively.
 
Poetry this issue by: linda lerner, brian morrisey, jonathan greenhause, erich erving, michelle lerner, nancy gauquier, kristina olson, gerald nicosia, patti sirens, hugh fox, eugenia hepworth petty, kaveh akbar, christopher shipman, lee clark zumpe,  t. kilgore splake, michael desilets, b.z. niditch, a.d. winans,  david s. pointer, nathan graziano, g.tod slone, ellaraine lockie, david e. howerton, ed galing, neal wilgus


Photography this issue by: amanda oaks, david meyer,  jeanne moore, eugenia hepworth petty, john bower, t. kilgore splake, brian morrisey

Charles P. Ries reviews Louis McKee's Near Occasion of Sin book out on Cynic Press and I took a look into the 2006 winner of the Evil Genius Chapbook Series from Platonic3Way Press, Mark Wisniewski's One of Us One Night.


EXCERPT FROM THE INTERVIEW WITH G. TOD SLONE:
Do you find  rude truth  a vehicle for inspiration because you feel there is a lack of raw emotion in poetry? Or in editorial approaches? Is too much poetry glossed over with images workshopped so much that no raw emotion is left?

Yes, to your question. Certainly, far too much poetry is contrived... as in I think I’ll try to write a poem now... or okay class, your assignment is to write a poem on your grandfather. It is important to have passion as a fuel. Passion does not only occur when one meets someone new and ones sexual impulses are titilated. It can also result from first-hand experience/observation of injustice and corruption. The corruption I witness in the literary milieu, for example, often brings my blood to a boil.

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