Lori Huskey, our dear Poetry Editor, is hitting the road, moving by, going upward by way of onward. Taking the ski and daddling.  Which is to say we’ll miss her. Lori has been a rock-solid teammate, bringing to our humble magazine her wonderful gifts as an editor, reader, writer, and collaborator.

Rock on, Lori. We wish you hot fudge sundaes and millions of dollars and other splendid successes…

That said, our doors are now open for a new Poetry Editor. I have a couple potential replacements in mind, and one kind fella has already agreed to come onboard as a reader, but I wanted to post here to see if someone I haven’t even thought of yet might be interested.

DSM has got many cool projects in the works. And I’d love to have a Poetry Editor who is involved in all of them — reading submissions, building out our Web and Print issues, blogging, promoting, helping us with the book publishing side of things, etc.

There’s much to be done, yes. But we’re an easygoing group that simply wants to conquer the world. Nothing to it, right?

Then shoot me an email, I’d love to hear from you.

Thanks.

Have you read Android Karenina or Jane Slayre? Do you feel comfortable knowing registered nurses can take care of you from the comfort of their own homes? Come on, seriously: did you think the Texas Rangers could do it, get to the ALCS against the Yanks, with their fans sporting foam antlers and claws? Did you wonder about a thirty-fourth miner in Chile on Tuesday, still stuck down there? If the world’s a ship and the pulpit its prow, then the john must contain the waters of sweet salvation, right?

Good. You’re ready. Take a deep breath. Yell “CHI-CHI-CHI-LE-LE-LE!” if you want to. It’s all good. Then read these. And if your soul gets thirsty after that, don’t drink out of the toilet. Say a prayer. It’s not as messy.

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Hey People. Ethel Rohan’s CUT THROUGH THE BONE is available for pre-order starting tomorrow, 10/15.

To whet your appetite, here’s a new trailer:

And this comes from Outside Writers Collective, a review written by Mel Bosworth:

The stories in this collection — many only a few pages long — are extremely potent. Pungent. Deceptively rich. Like stepping into a puddle and being swallowed whole. Whoops. There goes your umbrella.

Rohan writes about loss, about being trapped, about desperation, delusion. And she does so with a hand so steady you might think she’s a doctor slicing open a patient with a scalpel. And you’d be right, at least in part, because that’s precisely what she’s doing. Only you’re not simply observing. You’re the patient.

This is the sound of one hand clapping…

For my second-last Spotlight On… installment I am delighted to bring Erin Fitzgerald to Dark Sky Magazine. Again I only know Erin through Cyberville, and again I feel a warm connection to her. Her fiction and her literary magazine, The Northville Review, speak for themselves. Thank you, Erin, for your excellent responses and notable free-write, all of which greatly moved me.

Writing-wise, where are you now? Where are you going?

Right now, I am pulling back out onto the track. My mother died in June after a brief illness, and most of this past summer was about absorbing that blow. I wrote a lot, but it didn’t come from or go to the same places my fiction does, at all. I am headed toward small pieces grouped into larger projects. It’s been a while since I have had a large writing project, and I miss that a lot.

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And clocks
++they decide
inside of every one
++of what was
and went missing
++which calls
for the newness of old
++what blood
and what skin and bone
++I’ll have a little
of that please Please
++me just this time
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Parker Tettleton’s work has appeared in DOGZPLOT, > kill author, elimae and Mud Luscious, among others. His chapbook Same Opposite was recently published by Thunderclap Press. He blogs at http://parker-augustlight.blogspot.com/.