Toms River to Manhattan on New Jersey Transit;
Hudson News in Port Authority Terminal; Hoppin' John String Band at Dizzy's Club Lincoln Center; globe and cabs on Columbus Circle; Kefi Greek restaurant on Columbus at 84th Street; friends on the subway.
Photos by Charles Raglund


MASTHEAD
Updated July 2008: Who we are and where we're going / Contact and submissions guide. Jerseyworks to stay at home while expanding internationally...

INSIDE JERSEYWORKS:
Complete contents of poetry, prose, art and photography.

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Not Far From Atlantic City

The big brown gull mewed
as it wobbled, searching on thin legs
the hills and valleys of footprints.

The black hair of a woman reading in a beach chair
flowed through the sky on a strong sea breeze.
Words swam up from the pages

into her eyes, into her mind,
telling, of course, only part of the story.
Low sun crossing the miles of sand

turned the walls of the distant city golden.
The woman stood in her black beach dress
which waved with her hair in the August wind.

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FOUR ON THE APPLE
Braman, Raglund, Sypniewski, Gaskill—
4 photographers in New York City,
28 images from the Cloisters to Soho.

Sypniewski visits Belgium, the 12th century-- Photos and text.

Cumberland County panoramas. Visit "the other" South Jersey. Or maybe this is the real South Jersey, where the words "Jersey corn" and "Jersey tomato" have attained their highest meaning. Scroll further to see Sypniewski's impressionist images of Brussels and Poland, his visit to a poetry reading, and his images at the circus.

FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANA LIPP

HAVANA SCENES BY RIMA LYN

APRIL IN PARIS: photography by Charles Raglund.

Four poems by Marylisa W. DeDomenicis.
And you can check out DeDomenicis' own beautiful website at notherpoet.com

Photo essay, portrait of the artist and paintings by Hal Quistgaard.

COFFEE WITH GOD, a short story by Kal Wagenheim.

Melissa Montimurro, "Parasol" and "Mourning Becomes Electra," past fiction prize-winner.

NANCY KAY PETERSON —Four poems. Poetry by David Breeden also appears on this page.

Nancy Priff, "Cranberry Love," past jerseyworks fiction prize-winner.

The Train Continues... has been added to Therése Halscheid's previous jerseyworks collection. Halscheid's latest book, Uncommon Geography, is now available from Carpenter Gothic Publishers.

SUMMER PAST:  FOUR POEMS BY ELLIOT RICHMAN ARE ADDED TO HIS COLLECTION. Read about conversations deep in the night, shadows and garbage, sailors and shooting stars, pyramids and Jews (sort of), girls of San Francisco, and his poetry from an aircraft carrier.

Editorial esthetics. jerseyworks editor offers prose about poetry...

SELECTED LINKS: PLACES, PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS, EVENTS

Dale Tushman's 2007 prize winning poem is accompanied by the poetry of Svea Barrett, Sari Grandstaff, and Erum Ahmed.

APRIL 2009

NEW POEMS by Barbara Daniels and Linda Leedy Schneider

PORTRAITS, photography by Bernard Sypniewski, faces of a dozen folks mostly from Cumberland and Cape May counties. Bernard sent us such a large and excellent collection that we will rotate the selections over the next several weeks.

Stay tuned for new poetry and art coming soon.

"The Camino de Santiago in Spain stands alongside the Hajj to Mecca and the circumambulation of Tibet's Mount Kailash as one of the world's great pilgrimage routes..." Photo-essay by Patrick Pfister. You can visit Patrick on his own website for more photos, poems, and accounts of his travels.

2008 Poetry Prize Winners. Prize page contains links to further collections by winning poets.

First prize ($200): John Grey's "The Wolf Man Will Be With You in a Moment."

Second ($100): Angela Consolo Mankiewicz, "From."

Third place ($50): Sheema Kalbasi, "The Passenger."

Jerseyworks now pays its poets and artists. See Masthead for details.

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Don't miss "The Oral History of Dolphins" and other poems by New Zealand writer Holly Painter. Also: "How to Read a Choose Your Own Adventure Book" and "Hemingway's House" by Christina M. Rau. Page includes additional poems by second-prize winner Angela Consolo Mankiewicz.

The editors of Jerseyworks recognize that the time since our last update has been ridiculously long. Our only excuse is that we have jobs. Our intention is to be more consistent in the future. Please check back for further additions as the days lengthen and time becomes more abundant. We're always looking for new directions, still waiting for poetry submissions that blow us out to sea like the tail end of a Northeaster.

Nimbus by Peter Schwartz, whose work was featured last December at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea NYC. Click for more.

Other recent additions:

Poems by George Bishop.

Two poems by Don Bloch.

And once again, Kal Wagenheim:
Almost Like Heartburn, a short story.

THE PLAZAS OF BARCELONA
Photography by Carlos Catalán, Ignasi Ferrer, Alex Llopis; poetry by Pilar Benito, Javi Inglés, Elena Vilallonga, with English translations and an introduction by Patrick Pfister.

"To walk
the thin tightrope of the present

To ride
the hindquarters of this instant
knowing it is not ours..."

      Pilar Benito

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WALT WHITMAN, WE MISS YOU
verse by Kal Wagenheim

You also need to read: poetry by Trina Scordo. The Asbury Park poet's latest work now accompanies her 2002 Jerseyworks collection. In something lighter than a jugular vein, check out Wagenheim's verse, "The Ballad of Pubic Pediculi"), and more seriously if you will, four new poems plus six by Mary Kennan Herbert, and finally two poets new to jerseyworks, Max Gutmann and Marisha Huber.

To accompany her prose poem concerning an encounter at a gas station in Berkeley Heights, NJ, we present three poems by Michèle LaRoche of Berkeley Heights. In French with translations by Ron Gaskill.