April Issue Out

Check out April's North of Oxford by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter. 

g emil reutter and Diane Sahms-Guarnieri at Moonstone

Courtesy of Alien Buddha Press.

 

While We're At It

Check out the March issue of North of Oxford from Editors Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter.

Check Out the December Issue of North of Oxford

Edited by g emil reutter and Diane Sahms-Guarnieri. Read it now.

 

North of Oxford Open for Submissions

From g emil reutter and Diane Sahms-Guarnieri:

North of Oxford is open for submissions of poetry, book reviews and essays. Please feel free to send for consideration of publication. Follow the guidelines on our About page.

 

Happy Belated Birthday, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

 

 

Before I Forget

Check out the latest North of Oxford from Editors g emil reutter and Diane Sahms-Guarnieri.

 

Call for Submissions: Pandemic of Violence

Submissions close at 11:59 pm on December 1st .

Violence across the globe continues to tear at social fabric and government. There are many causes such as ego of the governing class, false propaganda, bigotry, misogyny, autocrats, dictators and cowards who fail to stand up. The pandemic of violence needs to be addressed by poets. In 2019 g emil reutter released a chapbook, Violence – In My City, addressing the systemic violence in Philadelphia. North of Oxford will now publish an issue dedicated to ending systemic violence. Please submit up to five poems for consideration, a brief bio, and photo in jpeg. 

Submissions are to be sent to: sahmsguarnieriandreutter@gmail.com no later than December 1st. Join with us to call attention to the violence that grips the globe. We look forward to reading your work. 

Happy Belated Birthday, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

 

By the Way

Check out this month's issue of North of Oxford by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter, with poetry just uploaded today.

Happy Birthday Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

New Call for Submissions

 From editors Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter:

North of Oxford is open for submissions of poetry, book reviews, and essays/commentary. 

When submitting please follow our guidelines located here. 

Happy Birthday Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

See you soon again, I hope.

Since It's National Poetry Month

Check out the latest issue of North of Oxford from g emil reutter and Diane Sahms-Guarnieri.

Almost Missed This

New poetry and reviews are up again from g emil reutter and Diane Sahms-Guarnieri.

It's December's North of Oxford.

North of Oxford in November

Check out the poetry that g emil reutter, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri have put together this month at North of Oxford. 

New North of Oxford

Diane Sahms-Guarnieri  and g emil reutter have come out with another collection of poetry and other goodness in this month's North of Oxford. Check it out here.

New Poetry Collection from Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

Diane Sahms-Guarnieri's second full length collection of poems, Lights Battered Edge, has been released by Anaphora Literary Press.

What others say about Light’s Battered Edge by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

The familiar Gospel song may reassure us that “His eye is on the sparrow,” but for those at the battered edges of our society, too often it doesn’t seem that way. Here, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri catches sight of “a sparrow by its own forgotten self,” and that sparrow stands in for other “forgotten” ones: the homeless, the wrecked, the ill, a family of forebears “visited” by comprehensive Job-like “Misery.” Even as she shows us “light’s battered edges,” however, Sahms-Guarnieri makes us sharply aware of “life playing / disharmoniously and harmoniously”: love so close it’s “like being safely snug inside / the lining of another’s skin”; earth itself surrendering “to each / sunset” “in a thankful swaying sort of way”; a soul snatched up animistically, “lifting, lifting, lifting into light.” These compelling poems leave us disquieted, as much by beauty as by sorrow.

Nathalie F. Anderson
Author of Quiver
Professor, Swarthmore College







Think of the spirit of place as the frame of memory shaping language, of the perpetual soliloquy of being who you are in counterpoint with echoing phrases others have uttered at or to you, and you will have some idea of the chant and enchantment of the poems gathered in Light's Battered Edge. There are some hard truths in these poems — about abusive spouses, about the wear and tear of caring for others. But underlying it all is the sense of what love really means.
Frank Wilson
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue

You can find Lights Battered Edge here. 

On Motherhood

Just a few days before Mother's Day. The perfect time for Oddball Magazine to publish this power piece by Diane Sahms-Guarnieri. I've been waiting to publish both this and Allison's picture for over close to a year, and it was worth the wait.