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In 2024, I lost my grandmother after three long years of her battling an unnamed illness. Unfortunately, in the same year, my partner lost his grandmother as well. As we faced death together, at times in different stages, I witnessed how losing the people that raised our parents, and us, affected every bridge within and between our families. This book honors all of the heaviness, distance, intimacy, devastation, questioning and humanness that we found and faced through the love required to experience perpetual grief.
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Michaela Godding is a loud and proud queer George Mason University Poetry MFA candidate. She has released a chapbook, dwelling, (Bottlecap Press) and full collection, The Year Our Grandmothers Died (AOS Publishing). More of her work can be found in Rabble Review, Azarão Lit Journal, Same Faces Collective, the Connecticut Bards Poetry Review Book of 2022 (Local Gems Press), and The Nutmeg Anthology (Grayson Books). You can follow her current projects, interviews, podcast appearances and upcoming publications on her instagram, @michaelagodding.
The Year Our Grandmothers Died
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With her latest collection of travel poetry, Orinoco Plains, Lorraine Caputo invites you on a journey through the Llanos of Venezuela. This region, traversed by the mighty Orinoco River, teems with wildlife. Roseate spoonbills and black ibis, caimans and iguanas, anteaters and capybara are just some of the fauna we shall see. And we will witness the lives of the people of these plains, celebrating feast days, dancing, playing music, going to school, traveling – and those displaced from their ancestral homes. Come and enjoy the adventure!
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Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including Orinoco Plains (dancing girl press, 2025) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honoree (2011) and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
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Orinoco Plains
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Edward L. Canavan's newest poetry collection, Skeleton Flowers, is now available to purchase. After you have purchased and read his lastest, head on over and read some of his work we have published in our past issues of RABBLE REVIEW!
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Edward L. Canavan is a Los Angeles based poet whose work has appeared in various periodicals and journals including New Croton Review, The Opiate, Literary Underground, Rabble Review, Poetry Quarterly, and the anti-fascism anthology "Silence is Consent". Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Edward currently resides in North Hollywood, California, where he practices Buddhism and listens to Motörhead at full volume.
Skeleton Flowers
From, Benjamin Eric, RABBLE REVIEW, No.5 Contributor
A fascist fighter pilot and his talking dog receive unwanted visitors. A man goes to a doctor's office, not understanding the concept of generational trauma. With the help of famed drummer Antonio Sánchez and some apparitions, an alcoholic gets help. One unusual black bear causes issues for a struggling real estate agent. A Peculiar Day in the Douro Valley is a collection of these short stories, along with others, that features a variety of characters as they react to their surreal world.
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Benjamin Eric is a writer born and raised in Washington, DC. In 2012, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College. He was previously a member of the Washington DC Comedy Writers Group where he first began writing with local comics. His fiction has been featured in New Plains Review, On The Run, Querencia Press, and others. His creative writing consists of mostly historical fiction and surrealism, but he often enjoys merging the two. He is currently in the editing stage of a novel.
A Peculiar Day in the Douro Valley and other stories
Mirror of Emotions is a collection of poems miscellaneously depicting what a peculiar journey life is. A melange of tales laden with unfathomed hues of sentiments that shall make your inquisitive heart delve in disentangling the intricacies fate encounters you with.
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Ali Ashhar is a poet, short story writer and columnist from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was named as one of the “30 Most Talented” personalities of 2022 by Hindustan Metro. He is the author of the poetry collection, Mirror of Emotions (Notion Press, 2021) and Across the Shore (Zorba Books, 2024). Following the release of his book, Mirror of Emotions, he was chosen as the Best Debut Author for the year 2021 by The Indian Awaz and was the recipient of a Foxclues India Prime 100 Authors Award. His works have been published extensively in the Europe and the United States of America. His works appear in Wild Court International Poetry Journal (King’s College London), Brio Journal (New York University), White Noise Zine (Illinois State University), The Sandy River Review (University of Maine), Live Wire, and The Bosphorus Review of Books, among others.
Mirror of Emotions
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