Right Hand Pointing now celebrates release of its 12th issue, not counting our three web-chapbooks.  Twelve's a good number.  It's the kind of number I would think a lot of people with OCD would stop on when they're turning light switches off and on.  There are twelve gates to the city.  There's a 12 eggs in a...dozen.  There are twelve sides to a rhombic dodecahedron.  There are probably 12 sides to most of your dodecahedrons. (While a freshman in college I briefly dated a girl named Dodeca Hedron.  Her dad was a veterinary endodontist from South Carolina.  Later, she was married, briefly, to one of the guys in The Flaming Lips.) 

A 12-sided rhombic dodecahedron

So, we're celebrating with this late summer jumbo issue.  25% more product for the same price.  Thanks to all of the fine authors who submitted, including those whose work we passed on this round.

A couple of news items.  F. John Sharp is nearly done selecting stories for our all-fiction issue.  I'm re-assigning interns from Chiff & Fipple to work on it, and we hope to have it out as early as October.  The next regular issue of RHP won't be all that regular:  It's to be the Very Short Poetry issue.  In order to qualify, a poem must be no more than 50 words.  That's right:  No line-limit.  Word count.  (Alternately, we'll take a longer poem if it's about a very short person who is not Tom Cruise.) 

Twelve Danny Devitos

I have a new project status & timeline page up at:

http://www.righthandpointing.com/projects.html

You can check there to see RHP projects in progress and where they are in the reading/editing/publication process.  I got this idea from Unpleasant Event Schedule.  They were kind enough to accept a visual art piece of mine, Kitty Carlisle Studies, in one of their recent releases. They were sensible enough not to take a companion piece:

Tonight the Part of Peter Brady Will Be Played By Kitty Carlisle. The Part of Mike Brady Will Be Played By a Flange

But enough about me. We want to thank The Hiss Quarterly for thinking Right Hand Pointing is bodacious enough to recognize us with their THQ Award. 

Special thanks to Gary J. Whitehead who has poems in this issue.  He allowed us to put one of them, "The Salt Marsh," up on the front page of the website for a few weeks as a tribute to the great Stanley Kunitz. 

Enjoy the issue and thanks again for your support!