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The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP website between February 1, 2022 and January 31, 2023. See a complete list of poetry, art, essays, and reviews below. It also features exquisite color art created by living artists who are at the top of the fine arts field today.
You may obtain a copy of Journal XI here.
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Journal Editors:
Evan Mantyk
C.B. Anderson
Dusty Grein
Daniel Magdalen
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JOURNAL XI CONTENTS
Ode to Winter by Susan Jarvis Bryant
The Wind by Martin Rizley
In Winter Some Find Beauty by Carl Kinsky
Yet by James A. Tweedie
The Spring by Charles d’Orléans (1394–1465) / translated by Margaret Coats
ART: Proserpine by Nicolàs Fasolino, 2022, oil on linen, 29 1/2 x 17 1/2 in., Art Renewal Center Collection. (Instagram.com/nico_fasolino)
May Day by Cheryl Corey
The Canterbury Tales—General Prologue Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) / translated by Evan Mantyk
The Recollected Dream by David Watt
ART: Spirit-bird by Herman Smorenburg, 2008, oil on panel, 23.6 x 19.6 in. (Hermansmorenburg.com)
Elysium by Adam Sedia
Ever Flowing by Dusty Grein
For Love of the Sea by Catherine Lee
ART: Jason and the Argo by Eric Armusik, 2019, oil on birch, 20 x 16 in. (Ericarmusik.com)
Valiant Men by Angel L. Villanueva
Deschutes River Reverie by James A. Tweedie
The Stars by Théodore de Banville (1823-1891) / translated by Margaret Coats
Dark Sky by Joseph Stuart
The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window by Charles Southerland
ART: Landscape at Dawn (霧曉圖) by Xiaoping Chen, 1990, watercolor on rice paper, 16×30 in.
Haiku by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Ezeifedi Chibueze, Hannah Lee, Srini, John Sheills, Benjamin Bläsi,, Urszula Marciniak
What Geese May Teach by Sally Cook
The Cricket by Jeffrey Essmann
ART: Looking Them Over by Tim Cox, 2020, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in., cropped image. (Timcox.com)
Toward Yehuling, 1211 by Talbot Hook
The Agony and The Ecstasy by Gail Kaye Naegele
From the Tower by Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)
/ translated by Elwin Wirkala
Sumo’s Winning Ways by Margaret Coats
The Tartini Tones by Joseph S. Salemi
A Glass for My Father by Joseph S. Salemi
Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (1820-1893) / translated by Joshua C. Frank
Byron Swims the Hellespont by Joseph S. Salemi
1914 Sierra Honeymoon by James A. Tweedie
Rendering Ruins by Leland James
ART: Time… by Victor Mordasov, oil on canvas, 25 x 22 in. (Victormordasov.com)
Media by Norma Pain
Ottawa Ho! by Jack DesBois
La Bandera: A Poem Commemorating January 6th and Ashli Babbitt by Monika Cooper
Playing with Matches by Aiden Casey
For My Queen by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Yet Another Exhibition Opening by Shaun C. Duncan
After Observing the Working Methods of a Very Important Artist by Shaun C. Duncan
No Extra Lives by Joshua C. Frank
The Tech Addict’s Lament by Joshua C. Frank
An American Tragedy by Phil S. Rogers
Your Agony Is Mine -What Jesus Might Say to a Teenager Who
Maliciously Cuts Herself by Jeff Kemper
Alone Together by Joshua C. Frank
Groomers by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Pick Your Pronoun by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Genderosity by Margaret Coats
A Villanelle for Robert Hoogland by Joshua C. Frank
I’m Not Too Keen on China Nowadays by Cheryl Corey
Amends to the Innocent by Brian Yapko
ART: Brightness of Night by Xiaoping Chen, 2011, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. Description: On this dark night, a Falun Gong mother and her child post flyers exposing the communist regime’s persecution. (Shenyunshop.com)
A Villanelle for Falun Gong by Bethany Mootsey
Honor’s Song by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Shanghai’s Robo Dogs by Maura H. Harrison
Shhh… by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Science or “The Science”? by Mike Bryant
Parallel Man by Roy E. Peterson
Swimming with Dreams and Memory by Pippa Kay
Writing a Poem by Sally Cook
ART: Shakespeare by Gary Lee Price, sculpture, 2003, bronze, 53 in. high x 74 in. wide x 42 in. deep. (Garyleeprice.com)
Serious Poetry by James A. Tweedie
Ode to Poets of the Past by Joe Kidd
While Pondering Alexander Pope’s ‘Ode to Solitude’
Tomorrow’s Poets by Enrique González Martínez (1871-1952) / translated by Cheryl Corey
Erasing Me by Sally Cook
Two Poems by Stephen M. Dickey
The Linguist by Maxim D. Shrayer
Gloucester in July by Patricia Rogers Cozier
Lullaby of New Mexico by Brian Yapko
What I Learned from Tolkien by Brian Yapko
Apollo in Retirement by Margaret Coats
Inviting Some Friends to a Birthday Dinner by Jeremiah Johnson
ART: A Cup of Tea by Susan Paterson, 2022, oil on board, 30 x 18 in. (Susanpaterson.ca)
Meditation by Rachel A. Lott
The Drive to Reconcile by C.B. Anderson
Continuation by C.B. Anderson
Worth Disguised by Christiana Thomas, High School Poet
Freedom in Forgiveness by Daniel Tuton
There Is No God? by Michael Charles Maibach
ART: Reflection by Steven J. Levin, 2021, oil on canvas, 12 x 9 in. (stevenjlevin.com)
“In God We Trust” by James A. Tweedie
The Problem of Good by Jeffrey Essmann
El Pescado by Monika Cooper
So Close By by Warren Bonham
Justification by Russel Winick
Uncontrolled by Russel Winick
Wisdom by Russel Winick
Tone of Voice by Russel Winick
Do Not Return by Martin Rizley
For Then by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (Mexico, 1859-1895) / translated by Cheryl Corey
This Side of Eternity by Anna J. Arredondo
Tongues as of Fire by Phillip Whidden
ART: My Version of Hope by Esther Huser, 2022, oil on dibond, 39 x 59 in. (Estherhuser.com)
“Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time” by Cynthia Erlandson
Hanging Harps by Cynthia Erlandson
ART: Taking Flight by Anna Rose Bain, 2022, oil on linen, 30 x 24 in. (Artworkbyannarose.com)
A Holy Picnic by Sally Cook
A Broadside by Peter Lillios
The Bard of Babel by Anthony Watts
The Way of the World by Jeffrey Essmann
“I met Death today. We are playing chess.” by Royal Rhodes
The Departing Year by Satyananda Sarangi
Autumnal Wind by Daniel Howard
—To My Beloved Husband by Isabel Scheltens
Lines on the Autumnal Eclipse by K.S. Anthony
ART: Back to the Tang Dynasty by Fei Meng, colored pencils on paper, 11.7 x 16.5 in. (Feimengart.com)
Revelation by Russel Winick
I’m Here by Mike Bryant
Little to Regret by David Watt
In the Market Square by Morrison Handley-Schachler
Unrequited by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Bergerette by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549),
/ translated by Margaret Coats
ART: Shepherdess by David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), circa 1651-1660, oil on canvas, 22.8 x 20.4 in., The Hermitage.
Stasis by Adrian Fillion
ART: In A Bind by Jacob A. Pfeiffer, 2011, oil on panel, 14 x 11 in. (Jacobapfeiffer.com)
Sonnet to a Friend by Johanna Donovan
The Errant Knight by Cara Valle
Crimes Against My Sanity by Anna J. Arredondo
ART: Portrait of a Girl by Gustavo Ramos, oil on panel, 12 x 15 in. (Gustavoramos.art)
Time Machine by Anna J. Arredondo
The Education of Wisdom by Mary Jane Myers
Clerihews by Geoffrey Smagacz, Paul A. Freeman, Paul Buchheit, Lucia Haase, Talbot Hook
Snow in Buffalo by Phil S. Rogers
Nil Carborundum Illegitimi by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Food for Thought by Anna J. Arredondo
Don’t Laugh at a Christian by Roy E. Peterson
Mother Nature Is Bipolar by Roy E. Peterson
By George! by Paul A. Freeman
ART: Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West (1738-1820), c. 1816, oil on slate, 13 3/8 × 10 1/16 in.
Lightning Ben by Andrew Benson Brown
The Modern Cardinal’s Song by Adam Sedia
Pope-Lion by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) / translated by Joseph S. Salemi
Time Is of the Essence by Norma Pain
Dr. Quack by Norma Pain
Cat Versus Christmas Tree by Roy E. Peterson
Christmas Rules and Promises by Roy E. Peterson
The Spoonerisms Man, or The Moonerisms Span by Jeff Eardley
Quatrains by Russel Winick
A Tribune to Mrs. Malaprop by Brian Yapko
An Oldie’s Valentine Love Poem by Jeff Eardley
Abiding Senescence by C.B. Anderson
Back in My Day by David Whippman
ART: Icon of the Bridger Mountains by Robert Schlenker. (Robertschlenker.com)
Pets and People by Julian Woodruff
On Sighting a Marsupial by C.B. Anderson
CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!! by Mike Bryant
The Simplest Way to Save the Earth by James A. Tweedie
In a Soviet Gulag by Evan Mantyk
Redbeards by Damian Robin
Asinine by Damian Robin
An Anti-Evolution Song by Evan Mantyk
Think (Ideo)logically by Daniel Magdalen
Hell Rising by C.B. Anderson
Identity Crisis by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Song of the Wokester by C.B. Anderson
Drunk on Compassion by Brian Yapko
“Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing” by S.A. Todd
Classical Camouflaged by James Ph. Kotsybar
Shaving Directions by Joseph S. Salemi
A Complaint by K.S. Anthony
Mistress by Michael Pietrack
Free Verse by Clive Boddy
Poetry 101 Lecture by Mary Gardner
The Poetaster’s Plight by Kenneth L. Horne
Decolonizing the Curriculum – Dual Scenario by Paul A. Freeman
Iambic Barktameter by Mark F. Stone
Clowns Teach Writing Classes by Janice Canerdy
Judge Not by C.B. Anderson
ART: David by Michelangelo, metallic replica of the original sculpture, 2005, Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence.
Last Letter from Florence by Lionel Willis
Elegy for an Unremarkable Man by Shaun C. Duncan
Moments from Dante’s Inferno by Paul Buchheit
ART: Canto 7: The Wrathful on the Shores of the River Styx by Eric Armusik, 2020, oil on AlumaComp, 60 x 48 in. (Ericarmusik.com)
Canto 8: Covid-Priest by James Sale
Letter from a DC Prison by Adam Wasem
Give and Take by Norma Pain
ART: Lilies After a Storm by Jeffrey Vaughn, 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 in. Gallery representation: George Billis Gallery, 1700 Post Road, Fairfield, CT. (Jeffreyvaughn.com)
ESSAY: What Makes a Good Haiku? by Margaret Coats
ART: Daedalus and Icarus by Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), circa 1615-1625, oil on canvas, 45.4 x 34 in.
ESSAY: Creativity, Originality, and Eccentricity by Joseph S. Salemi
ESSAY: Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown
ART: More Are with Us by Mark Keathley, oil on canvas, 2020, 60 x 48 in. (“the Art of Mark Keathley” on Facebook; Mark Keathley on Instagram)
ART: Fortitude by Neilson Carlin, 2010, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. (Neilsoncarlin.com)
ESSAY: A Call for Secession by Adam Sedia
Fabulous news – great to see such an impressive list of poets – can’t wait to buy a copy. Thanks Evan et al for a great job in doing this.
Ditto to what James says.
Many thanks to the crew and you, Evan
And well done all those who sweated or perfumed the air with beauty to crack out the poems and art
I really love the artwork on this cover that encases all the wonderful poetry that I can easily read as much as I wish! I look forward to receiving my copy.
Exciting news! Will there be a paperback again this year?
Good question, Monika. No, no paperback this year, but if people want one, please let me know. Post your thoughts here or email submissions@.
Evan, SCP Editor
Thanks, Evan! I would prefer a paperback to match my copy of last year’s but I have no problem with renewing my membership in hardback either 🙂
I would like a paperback if that’s a possibility, Evan.
Many thanks to you and the remaining Editors for the work in assembling the latest journal. I know it will be an excellent read no matter what the form.
Congratulations to all poets listed! ~ you carry on the torch for classical poetry. Thanks to all who contributed to this latest version, you make a difference in the universe. And..in my part of it.
Patricia Allred
I realise that I am several months late to the party, but well done to everyone involved in putting this together and many thanks for including one of mine.