Featuring interviews, art and poems by today's contemporary poets, galleries and artists.

Featuring poems, interviews and a short story.

Poetry about love and liberty, sorrow and solitude written in the voice of Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Written by poet Grace Cavalieri. The Italian edition "Cosa Farei Amore" was translated by Sabine Pascarelli. Cavalieri founded and still produces "The Poet and the Poem" for public radio, now from the Library of Congress.She holds the Allen Ginsberg Award for Poetry, Bordighera Poetry Award, Pen-Fiction Award, Paterson Excellence Award, CPB Silver Medal, plus others.

A novella in verse... A retirement community in FLORIDA where there are more women than men and rivalry, greed, and scandal rule the day. A riotous literate look at our pretensions and her foibles and always our sweet humanity

OCHO #31 is a publication of MiPOesias Magazine/GOSS183 www.mipoesias.com.

Featuring South Florida poets and artists.

My Emerald Green Dress is the riveting account of a woman's thorny yet oddly rewarding life. You will become a part of her emotional journey from the abuse she suffers as an adolescent through her maturation as a self-assured compassionate landowner. The novel is based on a true story.

This anthology contains poems, essays, and visual works from writers and poets who have been published by Didi Menendez in MiPOesias magazine, OCHO, Poets and Artists (O&S), or books. Each piece is about or dedicated to Didi in celebration of her long-standing commitment to advancing print and web standards for independent publishing of poetry and art. Full-color interior. Contributors: Barbra Nightingale, Diego Quiros, Suzanne Frischkorn, Ivy Alvarez, Ron Androla, Nick Piombino, Holly Picano, Michael Parker, Meghan Punschke, Amy King, John Korn, Grady Harp, Jose Parra, David Lehman, Matthew Hittinger, Cheryl Townsend, Andrew Demcak, Bruce Covey, Luc Simonic, Diana Adams, Charles Jensen, Reb Livingston, Karen Hollingsworth, Melissa McEwen, Wiliam Stobb, Nick Carbo, Pris Campbell, Denise Duhamel, Edward Nudelman, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Geoffrey Gatza, Emma Trelles, Miguel Murphy, Jeremy Baum, Kirk Curnutt, Michelle M. Buchanan, Evie Shockley, Dan Murano, LD Grant, April Carter Grant, Tony Trigilio

Edited by Didi Menendez and featuring poetry and short fiction. A publication of MiPOesias Magazine (GOSS183).

Poems by Grace Cavalieri. These are poems of relationships. They cover a view of the past with deep feeling and philosophical wisdom. The poems are lyrical, narrative, experimental and storied. Written by the two-times winner of the national Allen Ginsberg Award for Poetry, Cavalieri explores the depths of our connections.

From the publisher of MiPOesias Magazine, a new collection of poems by Grace Cavalieri. Front cover art by Holly Picano-Rogers.

Il mio vestito verde smeraldo is the Italian translation of the story of an extraordinary woman, Clara, living in the Colombian Andes during the 20th century. It is a story that not only portrays her suffering, the protagonist, but also reflects the long, and arduous physical and metaphoric journey of immigrant women to unknown lands. About the Author Alister Ramirez Marquez is a United States citizen who was born in Colombia. He has a Ph.D in Hispanic Literature from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Previously published works are: Reportaje a once escritores norteamericanos (Planeta Editorial, 1996), Quien se robo los colores? (Wayside, Massachusetts 1999, 2010), Mi vestido verde esmeralda (Ala de Mosca, 2003, 2006), winner of the 2005 Best International Literary Prize by the Art Critics Circle of Chile, Andres Bello: critico (Ala de Mosca, 2005), and his latest novel: Los suenos de los hombres se los fuman las mujeres (Planeta Editorial, 2009). Ramirez Marquez is a professor of Spanish language and Hispanic American literature at The City University of New York, BMCC. He is a contributor for one of the major newspapers in Latin America, El Tiempo of Colombia.