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  • Let the Contest Begin                            Are you ready to be challenged? The challenge is to write a poem to a prompt in four days. The prompts vary from photo to video. The fee is $5 per entry (up...

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  • The wolf is perceived by some humans as a tyrant and others as a relative. They are regarded highly by many Native American People and romanticized by Nature lovers, while they are considered an enemy by Ranchers and competition to hunters. This Issue focuses on the Grey Wolf and their relationship with humans today...

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  • Grey Wolf   Where does the Grey Wolf stand with humans? Brothers or Strangers, Mystical or Game, Friends or Foe The wolf is perceived by some humans as a tyrant and others as a relative. They are regarded highly by many Native American People and romanticized by Nature lovers, while they...

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  • Our featured photographer this issue is Amryn Soldier, a photography student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Amryn was drawn to photography as a child growing up in Duluth, Georgia. I would always ask my mom to buy me disposable cameras because I wasn’t old enough to use...

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  • Interview with Lynette Reini-Grandell Lynette Reini-Grandell is a Pushcart-nominated writer based in Minneapolis whose work has appeared in It’s Animal but Merciful, MNArtists.org, Poetry Motel, and Evergreen Chronicles.  Her poetry is part of an art installation in room 5D of the Carleton Arms Hotel in Manhattan.  In Minneapolis, she...

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Featured Photographer – Amryn Soldier

March 15, 2013

Our featured photographer this issue is Amryn Soldier, a photography student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Amryn...
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Featured Poet: Lynette Reini-Grandell

March 15, 2013

Interview with Lynette Reini-Grandell Lynette Reini-Grandell is a Pushcart-nominated writer based in Minneapolis whose work has appeared in It’s...
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Real Life Story: An Indian and a Wolf

March 15, 2013

The Changing Path- A Story of my Brother the Wolf We Indians think of the wolf as a brother,...
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Opinion: Don’t Hunt My Brother!

March 15, 2013

My people believe there was a time we walked side by side our four footed brothers and sisters. We...
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Photography by Amryn Soldier

March 15, 2013
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Behind Their Words: The Vast Middle

March 15, 2013

Wolves are an emotionally-charged topic that has been argued for decades and, to some, it seems as simple as...
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DuK: Brief history of wolf persecution

March 15, 2013

“We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived...
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DuK: The Gray Wolf: Reality and Mythology

March 15, 2013

The gray wolf, reduced in size in North America, Eurasia and North Africa is the sole ancestor of the...
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Spring Issue: Wolves- Friends or Foe?

March 15, 2013
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Kanchan Chatterjee — Three Poems

March 15, 2013

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wait

he was
sitting there
alone, by the fire

draped in a
faded woolen rug,
smoking…

I put my backpack down,
joined him

the train was late
by 2 hours

we sat
by the fire

and waited…

 

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Featured Poet: Three poems by Lynette Reini-Grandell

March 15, 2013

Ohio River

The stealthy river rolls beneath night traffic,
the movement makes light dance against its belly.

Its shining surface makes this world look beautiful,
but the river writes its own laws,

it carves landscapes I cannot hope to see around—
things live in it that I will never know.

Steel-concrete machinations try to span this water:
the water always wins.
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River Reviews

Book Review: Mysteries by Cleber Pacheco

reviewed by Michael Bernstein Pacheco’s collection “Mysteries” meshes more ancient contemplative poetic traditions with a postmodern attention to the behaviors of language. Wild nature, humans (its denizens, the monks that populate several of these poems), and the linguistic constructs that they use to explain it to themselves thrive together seamlessly and fascinatingly in a...

NEW! River Reviews- Poetry Book

We have decided to enter the world of book reviews but only on the poetic side. We accept book inquires of the upcoming and the already published. We will publish the review here, Amazon, Goodreads, and send it to various journals that publish reviews. Send your inquiry to editor@theriverjournal.org  subject: book review inquiries should include: Author...

Contests

2013 Spring Writing Challenge- Poetry Contest

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Winner of the 2nd Annual Cover Contest is………

Tom Sheldon

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Tom Sheldon winner

Calling all Artists! Cover Contest!

Twowolvz Press Presents 2nd Annual Cover Contest for The River Muse Anthology (print)  ...

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