Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue #4

Book excerpt: The dictionary is an excellent resource, but sometimes the very proper words in the dictionary aren't the ones you need to precisely describe a person, place, thing, or emotion. Edward Gorey and Lewis Carroll never needed to explain their nonsense words-either they were understood or not, but a sense of them tickled the surrounding lines and gave their writing a new color and flavor. Readers may not understand every undictionary entry in this issue, but they may quite like the poems' textures as you chew. Poets in this issue: David Allen, Lois Baer Barr, James Bowden, Jonathan Bracker, James Bradley, Jerry Bradley, Michael Brockley, Michael H. Brownstein, Dan Carpenter, Lucas Carpenter, Alys Caviness-Gober, Jan Chronister, Kathryn Dohrmann, Bruce Ducker, Katey Funderburgh, Daniel Godward, James Green, John D. Groppe, Gary D. Grossman, Helmut Haberkamm, Cynthia T. Hahn, Danielle Hanson, Karen Head, Tim Heerdink, John R. Hinton, Peter Huggins, Joseph Hutchison, Colin James, David James, Marc Janssen, Michael Lee Johnson, Arnold Johnston, Patrick Kalahar, Chuck Kellum, Norbert Krapf, Lylanne Musselman, Noble Poets, Levi Noe, Noreen Oesterlein, Deborah Ann Percy, Teresa Pruitt, Carlos Reyes, Warren Sidwell, M. E. Silverman, Robert Simon, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, Kim Stafford, Michael E. Strosahl, David Vancil, Rp Verlaine, Nagueyalti Warren, James Eric Watkins, Bill Yarrow, Hiromi Yoshida.Illustrations are by Christina Hollering.