E·ratio Poetry Journal is delighted to welcome Coleman Stevenson as a new Contributing Editor. 

Coleman’s first appearance in E·ratio was in 2013 in issue 17.

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E·ratio is reading for issue 25. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

a noun sing e·ratio 24 · 2017

with new work by Jake Berry, margareta waterman, Mary Jane White, Rosanna Licari, Apryl Miller, Joanna Fuhrman, Giavanna Munafo, Tony D’Arpino, Andrew Leggett, Carol Dorf, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Eileen R. Tabios, Joseph F. Keppler, Hannah Rego, Amanda Laughtland, Jude Cowan Montague, David Annwn, Denise Bonetti, Tomáš Přidal, Mark DuCharme, David James Miller, Sean Howard, Aaron Bauer, Mark Young, Jon Cone, Peter Philpott and Daniel Y. Harris 

e·ratio editions e·chap special:

Poets East: An Anthology of Long Island Poets

with work by Erin Corrigan, Anthony DiMatteo, Peter V. Dugan, Daniel Giancola, Justin Goodman, George Guida, Gladys Henderson, Joan Higuchi, Vicki Iorio, Nancy Keating, Mindy Kronenberg, Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Tom Oleszczuk, Alphonse Ripandelli, Rita B. Rose, Robert Savino, Barbara Southard, Tom Stock, M. J. Tenerelli, JR Turek and George Wallace

 e·ratio is edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino with contributing editors Joseph F. Keppler and Jacqueline Winter Thomas

 E·ratio has been online for over ten years and has consistently presented a diversity of new, first-time and emerging writers alongside some of the most recognized writers of our time. E·ratio will never ask for a donation. Please support us with a “Like” on our Facebook Page or “Follow” us on Twitter. 

E·ratio is reading for issue 25. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.


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E·ratio is reading for issue 24, the summer 2017 issue. The deadline is June 3rd. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

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E·ratio is reading for issue 24. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

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a noun sing e·ratio 23 · 2017

with new poetry by Marcia Arrieta, Irene Koronas, Andrew Brenza, Marnie Bullock Dresser, Sarah Green, Kelli Allen, Anne Fitzgerald, Anna Keeler, Stephen Ellis, Becca Menon, Carey Scott Wilkerson, Jacqueline Winter Thomas, Joseph F. Keppler, Alifair Skebe, Aria Riding, M Robin Cook, Ian Gibbons, Judith Roitman, Diana Magallón, David A. Welch, Peter Kenny, Elizeya Quate, Rose Knapp, Paul Brookes and Daniel Y. Harris & Irene Koronas

Valerie Morton reviews Eileen R. Tabios 

e·ratio editions e·chaps by Ezra Mark and Larry Laurence

e·ratio is edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino with contributing editors Joseph F. Keppler and Jacqueline Winter Thomas

E·ratio has been online for over ten years and has consistently presented a diversity of new, first-time and emerging writers alongside some of the most recognized writers of our time. E·ratio will never ask for a donation. Please support us with a “Like” on our Facebook Page or “Follow” us on Twitter.

E·ratio is reading for issue 24. Please see the contact page for guidelines and where to send.

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My pal, artist and poet Diana Magallón, made this illustration to accompany my poem “Janes.”

Jane is taking that which cannot be opened
Jane, that uses no words

this is taking Jane into the nameless
and, into the naming of Adam and the earth

Diana writes: “Ilustración realizada para el poema ‘Janes’ contenido en el libro The Valise del poeta y artista Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

Hay amigos a los que siempre es grato volver a encontrar.

A los del muro para acá, felices fiestas, y a los del muro para allá también.”

“Illustration made for the poem ‘Janes’ contained in the book The Valise by the poet and artist Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

There are friends who are always happy to meet again.

To those of the wall here, happy holidays, and those of the wall there too.”

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E·ratio is reading for issue 23, the January 2017 issue. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

E·ratio has been online for over ten years and has consistently presented a diversity of new, first-time and emerging writers alongside some of the most recognized writers of our time. E·ratio will never ask for a donation. Please support us with a “Like” on our Facebook Page or “Follow” us on Twitter.

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a noun sing e·ratio poetry journal 22 · 2016

with new work by

Jacqueline Winter Thomas, Lital Khaikin, Claire Warren, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Jennifer Firestone, Colin Campbell Robinson, Sean Howard, Dan Eltringham, Paul A. Green, Joey Frances, Carleen Tibbetts, John M. Bennett, Jared Chipkin, Mark Young, Matina L. Stamatakis, visual poetry by Joel Chace, Ren Adams, Parker Tettleton, Bill Yarrow, Deb Jannerson, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, JJ Rowan, Sarah B. Boyle, Daniel Y. Harris, Irene Koronas, Eileen R. Tabios, art by Jacklyn Janeksela

and featuring “The Aha Moment” an E·ratio Editions E·chap by Márton Koppány

e·ratio is edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino with contributing editors Joseph F. Keppler and Jacqueline Winter Thomas

E·ratio has been online for over ten years and has consistently presented new, first-time and emerging writers alongside some of the most recognized writers of our time. E·ratio will never ask for a donation. Please support us with a “Like” on our Facebook Page or “Follow” us on Twitter.

E·ratio is reading for issue 23. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

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E·ratio is reading for issue 22, the January 2016 issue. The deadline for submissions is November 30. Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

E·ratio has been online for over ten years and has consistently presented new, first-time and emerging writers alongside some of the most recognized writers of our time. E·ratio will never ask for a donation. Please support us with a “Like” on our Facebook Page or “Follow” us on Twitter.

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a noun sing e·ratio poetry journal 21 · 2015

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The language of these poems is at once precise and given to mystery. This is pannarrativity, the world writ large. Things are named and made new—given new meaning for both poet and reader. These are poems that see the world as one great narration. This is logoclasody, poetry as discourse—where the reader is a conscious participant in the breaking out of signification. Where, as Carey Scott Wilkerson writes in his foreword, “knowledge and experience . . . show their metaphysical hand.”


Labor Day

is for
and louder than our own

among and above all the steps
in order to

are needed, see
or

in that fashion
to part company

increased and further drawn
to give,

and say no more
drawn,

or cannot go
to let or do or say

are ramp
and see and at an end

a fold or band
the tuft and wear

“St. Thomasino seeks the origin of words, the space that exists before the word is uttered or known, a practice which has occupied male poets and philosophers over the centuries.  He is aware, however, that women poets now attempt the same.  And this might be the meaning of his poem, ‘Janes.’

Janes

Jane is taking that which cannot be opened

Jane, that uses no words

this is taking Jane into the nameless

and, into the naming of Adam and the earth.

“I highly recommend, The Valise, by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, for any poet who longs to reach the realm beyond the physical.  In a sense, his poems are a valise, a carrying item for meaning.”  —Mary Ann Sullivan

“Gregory Vincent St Thomasino writes with a philosopher’s precision. Perhaps he is a refugee from paradox, finding asylum in these two-line stanzas so spare and direct. Fastidious in gathering particulars he makes statements when statements are needed and knows the time and place for a fragment. This, this and this: these poems are a lesson in ostensive definition. What St Thomasino keeps in his valise calls out in a restrained but singular voice for undivided attention.” —Alan Halsey

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino was born in Greenwich Village, New York, and was raised in both the city and in the country across the Hudson River in New Jersey. He was educated at home, eventually to enter Fordham University where he received a degree in philosophy. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Doctor of Arts in Leadership program at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. His poetry and prose have appeared in OCHO, Barrow Street, jubilat, New York Tyrant (v3.3), Verse Wisconsin, In Posse Review, Big Bridge, Cordite Poetry Review, The Germ, Onedit, Pindeldyboz, Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, Rattapallax, Empty Mirror, GAMMM and EOAGH and in various anthologies including the Georgia anthology Stone, River, Sky (Negative Capability Press, 2015) and the language art anthology The Dark Would (Apple Pie Editions, 2013). His digital poetry has been anthologized in the Brazilian book Poesia Eletrônica: negociações com os processos digitais [Electronic Poetry: negotiations with digital processes] (Jorge Luiz Antonio, 2008). His e-chaps include The Logoclasody Manifesto, Six Comets Are Coming and The Galloping Man (Eratio Editions 2008, 2009, 2010).

If you would like to purchase a copy of The Valise, you can via paypal.me/GregoryStThomasino. Copies are $20 and that is including postage within the USA.

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E·ratio issue 21 is in production. Proofs are on the way.

Check out  The E·ratio Authors Page.


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E·ratio is reading for issue 21.  The deadline for submissions is May 31.  Please see the Contact Page for guidelines and where to send.

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Bob Grumman, Poet 1941 - 2015

This was taken by Carol back on July 10, 2010, at the Bowery Poetry Club, at John Sims’ project The Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection.

Robert J. “Bob” Grumman, 74, of Port Charlotte, Florida, passed away Thursday, April 2, 2015 in Port Charlotte. 

Born February 2, 1941 in Norwalk, Connecticut to the late Frederick W. and Evelyn F. Grumman, Bob served with the U.S. Air Force as a Medic during the Vietnam War, and also as a member of the USAF Tennis Team.  A graduate of California State University, Bob moved to Charlotte County in 1985.  He worked for Charlotte County Public School System as substitute teacher until his retirement.  Among his many achievements Bob was proud of, he wrote and published “Visual Poetry.” 

He is survived by his brother, F. William “Bill” Grumman, and sister, Louise G. Anderson, both of CT; many nieces, nephews and extended family members.  In addition to his parents, Bob was preceded in death by a brother, Sherman Grumman. 

Services celebrating Bob’s life and committal will be held in his native Connecticut at a later date. 

Cremation arrangements are by Roberson Funeral Homes & Crematory Port Charlotte Chapel. 

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