Our featured photographer this issue is Amryn Soldier, a photography student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Amryn...
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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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreGrey 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...
Read moreOur 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...
Read moreInterview 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...
Read moreOur featured photographer this issue is Amryn Soldier, a photography student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Amryn...
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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...
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The Changing Path- A Story of my Brother the Wolf We Indians think of the wolf as a brother,...
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My people believe there was a time we walked side by side our four footed brothers and sisters. We...
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Wolves are an emotionally-charged topic that has been argued for decades and, to some, it seems as simple as...
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“We have doomed the Wolf not for what it is, but for what we have deliberately and mistakenly perceived...
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The gray wolf, reduced in size in North America, Eurasia and North Africa is the sole ancestor of the...
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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…
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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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...
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...
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Twowolvz Press Presents 2nd Annual Cover Contest for The River Muse Anthology (print) ...