Mikki Aronoff’s poems appear in House of Cards: Ekphrastic Poetry, Rolling Sixes Sestinas: an Anthology of Albuquerque Poets, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems, The Lake, 3ElementsReview, the Love & Ensuing Madness Collection of Rat’s Ass Review, Silver Birch Press, Legends & Monsters, and forthcoming in Rise Up Reviewand Eastlit. Towards the floor from her reading chair –īuried in the crook of its yellowed pages. Several of his poems have won awards and subsequently appeared in anthologies. Adams is an emerging poet with something over a dozen poems published or in the process including, most recently, those in Vallum Contemporary Poetry and in Feathertale. No problem there’ll be her many admirersĪll agree: she has an expansive history.” Riposted progressively: “If its up to she “How much of a he and for how long it may Twigging to her parry he tried this thrust: I can provided, of course, he’s no ‘minute man!’” “Can you keep free some days of the week?” One of her happiest art accomplishments was designing the winning Sogn Blush wine label, which will debut in summer 2016 at Cannon River Winery in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Susan Solomon () is a freelance painter living in the Midwest. ONE HEART gouache on panel by Susan Solomon. And this is where we remind our readers that there is a reason why we named the magazine as we did. We also say that even the most broad-minded of you will probably find something here that makes you squirm, and not in a good way. If you have not been here before and are a completist, find a comfortable chair you will be here a while.ĭisclaimer: this page is not intended for children, nor for those adults whose view of individual liberty and freedom of expression would best suit them for life in 1630 Massachusetts or modern-day Syria. If you have been to this site before and are a completist, you will need only read down until you hit familiar territory. The poems are displayed chronologically, with the newest material at the top. Her immediate response was “Women sex poems! I love the notion of a Ladies Getting It On dossier.” Martha’s well-timed encouragement was the Fiat lux! moment.Īnd now, 714 poems later, our work is done.

For the statisticians in the crowd, our final tally has 468 poems from women poets, and 245 from men for 65.6% and 34.4% respectively.įor the historians, the origin of the collection has to do with an email exchange with poet Martha Silano, in which I stated that I was getting a lot of love/relationship poems, mostly from women poets, and floated the idea that Rat’s Ass Review might be well served by a separate section which specialized in our varied attractions to one another. We have amassed over 700 poems on the subject of love and lust and relationships and drunken sex and heartbreak. The year is over the collection is complete.

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