OPUS III:Theme Music and Poets Identified

The music used as the inspiration for the OPUS III theme was:

Adagio for Strings  – composer Samuel Barber.

The poems in the THEME SECTION are identified by title only. Here is the list of the poets who wrote each poem in page number order. Please note that 12 of the poets submitted poems in this challenge.

pg 131 Venus – Yaqoob Ghaznavi
pg 132 Green Music – Allan Briesmaster
pg 133 midnight sun – Shawn McLeod
pg 134 This is the BBC Overseas Service calling.. – Joan Latchford
pg 135 pas de deux – Dorothy Sjoholm
pg 136 Conversation with a Dead Composer – Daniel Kolos
pg 137 Epitaph on a Flat Rock – Kate Marshall Flaherty
pg 138 Spinning - James Dewar
pg 140 Adagio at the Tate Modern – Kurt Zubatiuk
pg 141 helicopter heart – Diane Mascherin
pg 142 Unhealed Wound – Susan Lynn Reynolds
pg 143 At Liberty – Susan Lynn Reynolds
pg 144 Blasphemy – Catherine Penny

Congratulations to Yaqoob Ghaznavi, whose poem “Old Age in a Foreign Land” has just been published on line in Carte Blanche: the literary review of the Quebec Writers’ Federation.

Read Yaqoob’s poem here:

Old Age in a Foreign Land

Katie Marshall Flaherty’s Hobbledehoy and Susan Lynn Reynolds’ skinned (published by James Dewar’s Piquant Publishing) are finalists in the WCDR’s first annual poetry chapbook contest.

Congratulations!

Click here to view the July 2008 issue of:
Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts

This month’s table of contents:

INTRODUCTION

Ryan Tansiel
Benefit Concert

CONTENTS

Ryan Tansiel
White Girl
Non-Smoker
Imagination Light
Depth of Field

Rose Grimaldi
Birth Poem of New York

S.F. Wright
Across the Bridge

navkirat sodhi
carousel
untitled
up till
untitled
untitled
move
untitled
it

Peycho Kanev
Hangman
love letter
one laugh and one woman and one red dog which is
not here at all
something
heart in barb wire

Michael E. Barrett
The Naked Ape
her words float
Like the Back of My Hand

POST SCRIPTUM

Ryan Tansiel
Congenital Heart Defect

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