KNOT MAGAZINE SPRING 2016

Spring ISSUE 2016

Knot

Magazine

Uniting & Celebrating Diversity Through Literature & Art

Where the West Meets the Middle and the Mid Meets the West

"He who is different from me does

not impoverish me -he enriches me.

Our unity is constituted in something higher

than ourselves - in Man...

For no man seeks to hear his own

echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In This Issue //

Fiction

John Jeffire, "FIDO"

Patty Somlo, "Missing"

"These Women'" by Dennis Estrada

Helen W. Mallon, "Waiting for Mozart"

"Sisters"by Nahid Rachlin

Poetry

Tamam Kahn "Fatima Sequence"

Cynthia Anderson "Tableau Vivant," "Roosting," "What the Hawk Said," "Questions in Spring," "White Pelican," and "Soloist"

Thomas Piekarski, "Berkeley Buzz," The Sculptor," "Doppelganger," "Dr. Jekyll Can't Hide," and "Monday Night."

Ardita Jatru,"I'm going to sleep," One day we will get on the train," The most villified woman in our neighborhood," You ran away," The nights that bed doesn't fit me in," and "People who didn't love me. Translated from Albanian into English by Laureta Petoshati

Noorulain Noor "Standstill," "Unrequitted," "No Salt and Pepper Kind of People," "Microcosm," "Plural," and "Monsoons in Lahore"

Knot's Spring Recommendations

Christos Kallis, "Beginning smells ending, and vice versa," and "Handy Book."

Tikuli Tiku, "Toy Train Poems"

Anne Britting Oleson, "Loons," and "She Gets Lost in The Tube Map"

"Lady" by A.J.Huffman

Memories by Lang Leav

The Beloved by Kahlil Gibran

Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur

The River Between Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

San Diego Poetry Annual 2015-16

Contending Visions of the Middle East Zachary Lochman

Monarch of the Square Mbarek Sryfi

The Norton Anthology of World Literature Anthology

America's War Andrew J. Bacevich

Literature News//

Lin-Manuel Miranda appears in Hamilton's opening night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, in August 2015. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

"Lin Manuel Miranda Talks 'Hamilton': Once A 'Ridiculous' Pitch, Now A Revolution - NPR

Anita Brookner rejected the role of writer-as-performance-artist Rex

Anita Brookner showed how to create literature out of loneliness

-The Independant

The judges said James Baldwin’s passage in Giovanni’s Room, which details the narrator’s early homosexual encounter, was chosen ‘almost unanimously’ as the winner. Photograph: Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images

Sexual healing: James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room voted best erotic passage

-The Guardian

‘A mountainous crossroads’ … Tbilisi. Photograph: Jane Sweeney/Getty Images

Politics upstages art as Georgia’s writers reflect on 25 years of independence by Maya Jaggi

-The Guardian

Scott Thomas Outlar, "Comes the Vision," "Stare," and "Sing Along"

Jonathan Taylor, "Lost World Liverpool, 1989," "Reduplicative Paramnesia, Shrewsbury Flower Show, 1997," "Auntie," "Knocked Over," and "My Father's Paranoia

B.Z. Niditch, "PAZZ IS PASSING BY," "R.B. KITAJ'S POETS," "VIRGINIA WOOLF'S PART," "ELIZABETH BISHOP'S WALK,"JANE FREILICHER'S ART"

Heather M. Browne, "Undone," "Whispering Moon," and "Splinters"

Elizabeth Mayfield, "Throttle Butterfly," "Mirrors," and "In the Heart of the Storm"

Lauren Camp, "A Door in the Evening," "Remembrance," "This, My Father (An Aside)," "An Uprising," and "Somewhere Behind"

"Old Friends" by Antonia Alexandra Klimenko

Kristen D. Scott, "Salt" and "Misplaced"

Reviews, Interviews, Non-Fiction, Memoir & Essays

Hane Selmani, "A Woman Is A Sack Made to Endure"

Editor In Chief Kristen D. Scott sits down with Poet

Cecelia Woloch

Editor Rachid Filali interviews Russian Poet, Slava Zaitev

from Garden Oak Press

SANTA MONICA DISPOSAL & SALVAGE

BIPOLAR DISORDER FOR BEGINNERS

WALTZING UNDER BUDDAH´S SMILE

QUOTES AND POEMS BY A NOBODY

SINATRA, THE JEEPERETTES & ME

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2014-15

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2013-14

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2012-13

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2011-12

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2010-11

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2009-10

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2008

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2007

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL 2006

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