Susan Isla Tepper has a new Novel just out titled “Hair of a Fallen Angel” from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. A twenty-year writer, she’s authored 12 books of fiction and poetry and 7 stage plays. Honors include 21 Pushcart Prize Nominations. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review. A Youtube music video for her new novel was produced by Tim Young and Paula Parente: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqY

WITHOUT WARNING

By Susan Isla Tepper

Winter we will not forget
your hard bone
splicing our thoughts
setting an anxious tone

the paths now mostly mud

during daily walks
procrastinating
which route to take

Without warning

Bits & pieces of
loveliness pop up
unaccountably:

a branch in the stream
splayed like a woman
exalting in her ecstasy
the water icy, still
puffs out bubbles
makes its own desire.

Jamie Cat Callan’s work has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love Column, American Letters & Commentary, Story, Sun Magazine and The Missouri Review. She is the recipient of grants from the New York Council on the Arts, The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has been awarded artist fellowships to the Ragdale Foundation, The Millay Arts, Dorland Mountain Artists, the Vermont Studio Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Arts (in Virginia, as well as international residencies in France and Germany). She received a B.A. in Literature with a focus in poetry from Bard College, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College and an M.F.A. in Film, Theatre and Television from U.C.L.A. Jamie and her husband live in Valatie, New York on a small working farm built in 1820. She is currently at work on a novel about an American girl in Paris who gets caught up in the 1968 demonstrations.