issue 6

This issue is dedicated to Fred Voss

Poet and friend, gentleman and scholar, Long Beach legend.
FRED VOSS
A Sparkle That Can’t Be Stopped / Trying to Go Home / I Didn’t Want To Lose My Hands / Moving Ahead 5 Centuries / All the Roses Are Blooming
Literary machinist who stood for the working class and the hope for not ghosts, but roses in the machine.
KEVIN RIDGEWAY
Factory God / My Nephew Sent Me A Bluebird / Where Marilyn Rests Underneath The Stars
TONY GLOEGGLER
Born on the Bayou / My Other Life / Poet in the Family
ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER
Ripe / Bad Fruit / The God for Broken People
JOHN DORSEY
Watching Miami Vice Alone on Christmas Morning in a Missouri Garage / September Poem / Victor & Jason
WENDY RAINEY
Christmas in July
CURTIS HAYES
Long Beach, 1984
BARBARA EKNOIAN
For Dad / Back to the Forties
LUIS CUAUHTÉMOC BERRIOZÁBAL
Roses and Blood / Book of Excuses
BRENTON BOOTH
Gloomy Wednesday / A Wild One
RYAN QUINN FLANAGAN
Italian Sitars Covered in Nutella / Launching From the Jetty
STEPHANIE BARBÉ HAMMER
Pink Bikini / Beach Haiku
VICTORIA MELEKIAN
Maybellene / “Your Number is in My Address Book. Do We Know Each Other?“
BILL RATNER
House in L.A. / Possessions
LEAH MUELLER
Sunken Angel / Afterglow
GERARD SARNAT
Palisades’ Primo Power / Easter Sunday On
BRADFORD MIDDLETON
A Few Extra Hours of Freedom / Remembering This Life
CHRIS CALLARD
Laughlin / A Drawer
JENNIFER LAGIER
Swimming Out of My Dreams
MICHAEL PASSAFIUME
some things i’ll never learn
JONATHAN FLETCHER
Field Trip to a Ranch
JOHN GREY
Tattoo World
KERRY TRAUTMAN
Late ’80s Summer Storms
LYNDA WEBB
Fried Shrimp and Life / A Great Blue Heron
CHARLES LEGGETT
Romeo Y Julieta #1 / Out on the Causeway / Set in Direst Wales
PENNY NOLTE
The Fisher
KENNETH POBO
Beech Forest
ANDREW MULVANIA
The Greatest Poem I Ever Wrote
DIANA RAAB
A Creative Bath
JEFFREY ZABLE
In Theory
ZOÉ MAHFOUZ
Jellyfish Meets Marble / A Foggy Place: Day One
DS MAOLALAI
Full in the Moonlight / Landscaping. Glass and Grey.
R. GERRY FABIAN
Subjugating Consternation / Exalting Sunshine
BRIAN HARMAN
Machineland

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Peaceful Journey 1952-2025

Issue 6, Summer (2025) : 34 poets, 62 poems