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Here's issue
number 9 and if you count web
chapbooks by
Allan Peterson and Susan
Case, which you certainly should count, that's eleven issues of Little
Orange. This issue includes contributions by veteran poets Jordan
Smith, R T Castleberry, Ed Pavlic, Lynn Strongin, and Charles P. Ries.
No fiction this time, although we continue to read for a future
flash fiction issue. My thanks to all the creative people who
contributed.
We're delighted to announce the
news that
Allan Peterson has won the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper
Prize for Poetry. His winning collection, All the Lavish in Common,
will be published in 2006.
Some philistine wrote and suggested I abandon
orange for 2006. It's not going to happen. We're
staying the course. Our enemies hate our orange.
I don't know about you guys, but I'll be glad
to see 2005
go. And, if we get through December 31 without a
plague
of crazed, bird-flu infected, radioactive, fanged toads
falling out of the skies and biting us on our necks, I'm thinking we'll
be lucky. What a
year. And now this whole
War on Christmas thing. Yo, I can't
even sleep up in here. But, listen, I will settle for nothing less
than a completely victorious Christmas. What is Christmas after all?
To crush your enemies, to see them
driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
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I do hope you enjoy the reading the issue as
much as I enjoyed slapping it together. See you in 2006. If the
toad thing doesn't happen.
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