In our fall issue we are falling and failing a little, but picking ourselves back up and transcending through simple understandings and little joys. Thank you to all the contributors for another wonderful issue, and thank you to everyone who reads the magazine. You are all appreciated more than you know!  Star 82 Review 13.3 online here . Star 82 Review print copies at LULU here . I'm still reading for winter issue 13.4; guidelines, as usual, are here . 

The first issue of the tenth year of Star 82 Review is now available! It's a special one, with artwork from a selection of NIAD artists, and some excellent writing that touches on our place in the world: mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional. Star 82 Review, Issue 10.1 free online is here . Or if you would like to read a physical copy and support the magazine, you can find one at Lulu here .

Here are the nominations for the ten pieces allowed by Sundress Publications' Best of the Net , selected from Star 82 Review issues 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, and 8.2. Contributors, chosen or not, I love you all.  Good luck everyone! Shared Struggles by Deonte Osayande Why We Sing by Oak Morse Oatmeal Cookies by Tracy Ann Johnson pi- stash -ee-oo, stah -shee-oh by Seth Grindstaff Not Quite Autumn by Martha Christina Plastic Loss by Yash Seyedbagheri There is a pigeon in the airport by Angie King Fish Kills by Emily Weber Still Dogwood by Carmen Gordon-Rein Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewidowed by Melissa Knox

Online: Star 82 Review 8.2 Enjoy a printed copy: Star 82 Review 8.2 Contributors Jamie Alliotts Daniel Bailey Carol Barrett Jan Bartelli Andrea Byrd Martha Christina Benjamin Davis Erin Jamieson David Johnson Robert Keal Ray Malone James McAdams Deonte Osayande Mandira Pattnaik Simon Perchik Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad Yash Seyedbagheri John L. Stanizzi Hsien Min Toh Emily Weber John Zheng

It's great for writers to have so many awards to be nominated to, but that means lots of difficult choices for the editors. Once again, here are the six Pushcart Prize Nominations from Star 82 Review , this time for works published in the year 2019. And again, even if you were not nominated, please know that your work is loved and appreciated! Good luck to all. Poetry Borders and Boundaries by Carol Dorf  (7.2) Gardening by Sarah Shapiro  (7.2) Why We Sing by Oak Morse  (7.3) pi- stash -ee-oh, -stah -shee-oh by Seth Grindstaff  (7.4) Prose Crescent Moon Autobiography by Alia Hussain Vancrown  (7.2) Still Dogwood by Carmen Gordon-Rein  (7.3)

Star 82 Review issue 7.4 features the absurd and the serious, lighthearted fun and deep thoughts, all to delight our way and lift our spirits. We have some wonderful art, predictive and found poems, a look back at New York City, poems about foster kids, a pond, and lethargy, and a variety of other playful and human interactions. Online link to 7.4 is here . Link to the print copy of 7.4, available from Lulu, is here . (The link is also at the bottom of the online web page.) Contributors Geonni Banner Amita Basu Wendy Bourke Rebecca Buller Roger Camp Marizio Caste Martha Christina Jane Costain John Darr Liz DeGregorio Coz Frimpong Laura Garrison Darryl Graff Seth Grindstaff Richard Herring Michael Hill LuAnne Holladay Shaun Holloway Linda Lowe Rebecca Minnich ayaz daryl nielsen Toti O'Brien Steven Pelcman Dan Richman Lindsay Shen Mark Simpson John L. Stanizzi Robert Stone Gene Twaronite Jennifer Woodworth

The new Star 82 Review 7.3 issue holds up different lenses to the world, showing how each of our experiences helps shape us and see things in various ways. We have a poem about roping cows, one about dresses with pockets, an ode to a park, and reflections on regret, children, grandparents, and shared struggles, among others. The things that make us human. 7.3 online is here . 7.3 print version may be ordered from Lulu  here . (There is also a link to it at the foot of the online page.) Thank you to all the contributors and thanks for reading! Contributors 7.3 Dan Alter Robert Beveridge Dmitry Blizniuk Roger Camp Martha Christina Genevieve Creedon William Cullen Jr. Susan Dashiell Nicholas DelloRusso Maggie Dove S. Preston Duncan Jodie Filan Robert Funderburk Sergey Gerasimov Carmen Gordon-Rein Nels Hanson Tracy Ann Johnson Toshiya Kamei Sarah Kobrinsky Elaine Mead Catfish McDaris Oak Morse Karen Neuberg Deonte Osayande Leland Seese Natsumi Tan...

As always, Contributors, whether you were nominated or not, I love all of your work. Here are the six poems, two fictions, two creative nonfictions nominated by *82 for 2018-19 Best of the Net, Sundress Publications . Good luck to everyone! POETRY Fall 6.3 Thinning Beets by Martha Christina http://www.star82review.com/6.3/christina-beets.html Fall 6.3 Flip it on the Solstice and rotate on the Equinox by Kali Lightfoot http://www.star82review.com/6.3/lightfoot-flip.html Winter 6.4 Stanley by Gale Acuff http://www.star82review.com/6.4/acuff-stanley.html Spring 7.1 Plane after plane by Simon Perchik http://www.star82review.com/7.1/perchik-plane.html Summer 7.2 Borders and Boundaries by Carol Dorf http://www.star82review.com/7.2/dorf-borders.html Summer 7.2 Gardening by Sarah Shapiro http://star82review.com/7.2/shapiro-gardening.html FICTION Fall 6.3 The Angels’ Day Job by Ona SIporin http://www.star82review.com/6.3/siporin-angels.html Fall ...

This week, Star 82 Review brings words off the page in a lively reading at Etui in  Berkeley, California . Join us Friday, July 12, 2019 at 4pm to experience some local writers who have contributed to *82's pages. The new art, gift and art center Etui is graciously hosting us at 2518 San Pablo Avenue , between Dwight and Parker. The lineup: Dan Alter, Sarah Kobrinsky, Jaime Robles, Lynn Mundell, Maxine Chernoff, Alastair Johnston, and your editor, Alisa Golden. Contributors are from issues 1.1, 1.3, 2.1,  2.3, 2.4, 3.3, 4.1, 6.1, Flash 50/50, and Pocket Poems.

The first proof for summer issue 7.2 has been ordered, and I'll be working on web pages for a June release. Watch this space for the poem created from either the first two or last two words from all the written works in Star 82 Review Issue 7.2. Meanwhile, you can read the new print version of  Star 82 Review Pocket Poems anthology , or check it out online first , and I'm reading and viewing, selecting for fall 7.3, so keep the submissions rolling in!

Issue 7.2 is coming together and just needs a couple more short poems or prose for this twenty-sixth issue of Star 82 Review . It appears to be shaping around symbols and reflections, smells and memories, and specific places. Looking for a smile. : ) https://star82review.submittable.com/submit

Star 82 Review Spring Issue, 7.1 Is Now Available! Online & in lovely Print 7.1 Contributors Frances An, Ann Calandro, Simona Carini, Thad DeVassie, Jessica Dunne, Michelle Geoga, Olivia Germann, Howie Good, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Chelsea Humphries, David Johnson, David Koehn, Ron. Lavalette, Richard LeBlond, Erana Leiken, Ray Liversidge, Herbert Woodward Martin, Yoram Naslavsky, Simon Perchik, Rebecca Resinski, Anne Hicks Siberell, Michael Thompson, Phoebe Thomson, John Van Kirk, Nicholas Yingling Thank you to all our contributors and supporters! If you would like to be notified and receive a discount on future pre-publication print copies, consider signing up at the sidebar at this blog or at the pop-up window at www.star82review.com .