Discourse on the Method and Sidewalk Artist by Charles Raglund; Water & Air by Sibel Catana.

Jerseyworks is a cummulative collection of poetry, prose, photography, and art. In our tenth year, we have regular readers in over forty countries, yet we maintain a local flavor. As Northfield poet Susan Canvanaugh has written, "When the drawbridge goes up, get out of your car and breathe..."

INSIDE JERSEYWORKS:
COMPLETE CONTENTS OF POETRY, PROSE, ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY.

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

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Soul Kitchen

Come in,
this is where the cat and the dog
rub themselves against you,
this is where the wars inside of you end,
this is the soup kitchen of the soul,
the air is a little smoky
and warm, but cool as you need,
the furnace burns,
but the window stays open
showing a few leaves and light,
we listen, we laugh
but not at you,
bring your fiddle,
you can come and go anytime,
we're always open,
you might make a friend,
this is our only function,
it's a start.

RG

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JERSEYWORKS CLASSICS

2008 Poetry Prize Winners. Prize page contains links to further collections by winning poets John Grey, Angela Mankiewicz, Sheema Kalbasi.

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.

Once again Jerseyworks has received strong submissions in poetry. Our end of summer issue features poems by Hugh Fox, Abigale Louise LeCavalier, Linda Ann Strang, and Sandy Green. Sterling Brown has given us a new version of one of Jerseyworks' first short stories, Ski the Beach. In Kal Wagenheim's memoir, Siblings, Kalman discovers at the age of 24 that he has a sister. Wagenheim's new novel, The Secret Life of Walter Mott, is just out from All Things That Matter Press.

Get a laugh and get smart at the same time. The Wisdom of Christopher Murphy, by Jerseyworks editor Ron Gaskill, is now available for $10 in paperback from Amazon or directly from the CreateSpace eStore. A Kindle edition ($5.95) is also available on Amazon. In a dialogue with his audience, Christopher Murphy spoofs the guru scene while giving up some wisdom, and actual philosophy, in spite of himself.

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 PAST ISSUES:

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.

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.

MO' CLASSICS

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

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.

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

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