Latest and greatest issue of FM, the world's fastest growing literary quarterly, featuring this month a special tribute to a an artist with great integrity and rare powers of observation, retention and distillation, in the form of down to earth lyrical poetry: Lou Reed. With contributions from many poets and musicians who came naturally under his influence: SOY BLANCO, CHRIS BODOR(who put together this tribute), JOHN DORSEY, TIM HALL, CHUCK HOWE, MICHAEL HENRY LEE, STEVEN MICHAEL PAPE, PUMA PERL, AMA REYNOLDS, KIMMY VAN KOOTEN(also responsible for the cover artwork of FM8), and M.L. WILLIAMS. This issue of FM is jam packed with poems and stories by poets and storytellers from around the world, including RATTY ADALAN, ELISA ADAMS, ROXANA BIANCHI ALZAMORA, FRAN AYERS, JAMES KENNETH BLAYLOCK, ROSEANNE TERRANOVA CIRIGLIANO, ANGELA DAVIS, D.B.DEAN, DANIEL D'UWA, MELANIE MONTERREY EYTH, DAVID M. HENDERSON, JANE LYNAHAN KARKLIN, RANA KELLY, DEBORAH LEAH KREMPA, ALICJA KUBERSKA, BRENDA KING LANDRY, BRADLEY LEBLANC, KAUSHAL LOVESMITH, CORRINE-VALERIE MARIN, KERSTIN MARX, BOZENA MAZUR-NOWAK, STEVE MINCK, BECKY NORTHRUP, JAN POTEMKIN, CARL READER, CAMINO RELUCTANT, CARLA SHEPARD SIMS, DOUGLAS P. SMITH, STANISLAW STANIK, BEATA SZYL-TYLECKI, STELLA SZYMANIAK, ROBERT WALDNER, and BILL WISE. Also containing heartfelt musings and insights on the subjects of WINTER, and the passing of a King, NELSON MANDELA. Happy holidays to all

Florida-themed literary journal. Issue #2 features poems, photos, personal essays, photography, fine art and fiction and prose by Larry Baker, Chris Bodor, Carolee Ackerson Bertisch, Danuta Blaszak, Richard Burr, Susan Calfee, Pris Campbell, Alan Catlin, Susan Chappelear, Andrea Collins-Roe, Mary Deno-Yeck, Jim Draper, Sarah Crooks Flaire, Ann Leshy-Wood Fuller, Emma Gilger, Amy Lauer Goldin, Lynn Skapyak Harlin, George Holcomb, Inez Holger, Kyra Jade, Rick Jones, Leny Kaltenekker, LeeAnn Kendall, Beverly A. Bell Kessler, Michael Henry Lee, Loretta M. Leto, Antoinette Libro, Jason Logan, Dotty Loop, Johnny Masiulewicz, Tonn Pastore, Sam Pacetti, Becky Meyer Pourchot, Sharon Scholl, Kimmy Van Kooten, Rob Waldner, and Jim Wilson.

Florida-themed literary journal. Issue #1 features poems, photos, personal essays, photography, fine art and fiction and prose by Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Larry Baker, Carolee Ackerson Bertisch, Nancy Bevilaqua, Chris Bodor, Pris Campbel, Lance Carden, Alan Catlin, Charlie Cawley, Stevie Cenko, David Dannov, John De Herrera, Mary Deno-Yeck, Jim Draper, Brian Druggan, Daniel Florez, Tim Gilmore, Lou Graves, Marie Groves, Lynn Skapyak Harlin, Tovah Janovsky, Leny Kaltenekker, Jane Lynahan Karklin, LeeAnn Kendall, Beverly A. Bell Kessler, Mark Kirwan, Ann Kiyonaga-Razon, Rachel Layne, Michael Henry Lee, Antoinette (Toni) Libro, Dotty Loop, Susan Bennett Lopez, Gayl Angela Masson, Ann Browning Masters, Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak, Kurt McGill, Gigi Mischele Miller, Paula Moore, Tonn Pastore, Lee Patterson, Becky Meyer Pourchor, Nadia Ramoutar, Kathleen Roberts, Rebecca Rousseau, Kimmy Van Kooten, Marie Vernon, Rob Waldner, Lee Weaver, Beem Weeks, Ginna Wilkerson.

More than two dozen poets musing on the subject of Florida. Edited by Chris Bodor and featuring a foreword by Glenda Bailey-Mershon. With poems, instead of cameras, poets take snapshots of life. Writers from across America point their lyrical lens on Florida - the Sunshine State. Hand-picked, like Satsuma oranges from wind swept branches, every poet has contributed a unique snapshot. Northerners like Alan Catlin, Sean Flaherty, and Lewis Frederick Crystal weigh-in as outsiders looking in. Michael Henry Lee, Kimmy Van Kooten, Lee Patterson, and a dozen St. Johns County residents offer the local perspective. Folk singer Lonesome Bert Hodge, indie rocker David Dondero and musician Matt Butcher contribute song lyrics presented in poetry from. Jump on the tour bus at Fernandina Beach and feel free to get off at any stop. Ride all the way to the Keys, if you please. Savoring along the way, the acquired flavor of the Sunshine State.

Editor Chris Bodor, and assistant editor Michael Sanders, known for their work on Heart Pour-The Love Book (Poet Plant Press, 2011) are on board once again as the creative team for this collection. Wayne Mason sets the stage with his foreword on gaining a book reading audience behind the factory walls. Mike Watt, bassist for the legendary band the Minutemen, offers a poem about a lighthouse keeper. College student Bobby Smith writes about job expectations after graduation. Teacher David Dannov reports on the educational system. It is all here; shift changes, retirement, house work. Kimmy Van Kooten's poem and illustration about a hobo in a forest is even added as a reminder that there are some among us who do not work.