Susan Isla Tepper has a new Novel published 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. In June, her darkly satiric domestic comedy CLANDESTINE showcased at EAG Actors Guild Theatre, NYC, sponsored by SHOPTALK. 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. Other honors include 24 Pushcart Prize Nominations. 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

This Is Where We Say Goodbye

By Susan Isla Tepper

A river runs backward
in dreams only

I learned hard
love can’t extinguish
your sorrow

Meeting at this barren place
not my idea—
your last gasp

I feel you against me
here, too,
pressing—
and in other ways

This earth makes impossible
claims—
on us, the wind,
You need to bend:
a simple everyday walk
can be lost
to other considerations.
The way churches and the rich
rationalize torture.

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.