will blank for blank

not waiting at all...
instead we expect
to continue existing
to the day when the
want ads finally come
unto us & say who all
of us are going to be...

KJ's will blank for blank leads off Jerseyworks' April poetry collection, which includes works by Goerge Moore, Melissa Carroll, Susan Cavanaugh, and Wayne Richards.

Our poetry collection is followed by Michele Laroche's reflection on her 14th of July celebration during last summer's visit to her childhood home in the south of France. Un jour férié à la française is accompanied by an English translation.

Next up is Larry Lefkowitz' memoire A Face From the Past, in which his thoughts take him back almost a half century to a basketball court in the old Y.M.H.A. building on Stockton Street in Trenton, New Jersey, where former New Jersey Senator and NBA star Bill Bradley was guest of honor at the league championship awards ceremony.

FROM THE OCTOBER ISSUE:

It was the winter our guy took the White House
when food was expensive and nobody had a job
It was goddamn beautiful
The ex-prez moved to our town...

Continue reading Dallas 2009 by Romie Stott.

Here's a story set in Newark by real New Jersey writer Kal Wagenheim: Purple Heart. We have just learned that Kal's novel The Secret Life of Walter Mott will be published later this year by All Things That Matter Press. We will keep you posted.

At the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Zoe Gabriel of Hyattsville, Maryland wants to read the paint with her fingers, "like Braille." Poetry by Zoe Gabriel.

New photography not to be missed: Brenton Rossow's beautiful portraiture from Southeast Asia, where he has been living for the past nine years. Photographer Bernard Sypniewski's collection has been updated with ten new South Jersey portraits, faces of Cumberland and Cape May Counties.

Jerseyworks began locally and expanded internationally. The following selections were among our earliest:

Four poems by Marylisa W. DeDomenicis.
Marylisa also maintains her own beautiful website at notherpoet.com

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

Poem by Shirley Lake. Shirley was the editor of Stillwaters Press, publisher of a series of chapbooks representing many of Southern New Jersey's best poets.

Jerseyworks' contest has been suspended in favor of paying our contributors regularly. Check Masthead for rates.