NEWS RELEASE: Raven Chronicles Journal, Vol. 24, HOME, Edited by Kathleen Alcalá, Anna Bálint, Phoebe Bosché, Paul Hunter & Stephanie Lawyer
Raven Chronicles Journal, Vol. 24, HOME, Edited by Kathleen Alcalá, Anna Bálint, Phoebe Bosché, Paul Hunter & Stephanie Lawyer
Raven Chronicles Journal, Vol. 24, HOME, features the work of 14 artists /and 68 writers from 21 states and 3 countries (Canada, India, Nigeria).
The place where I truly feel at home is in a book. This is where the real panoramas are. The landscapes of the human imagination. Oceans, raging rivers, philosophies, forests. Language is a wilderness and books are their reserves. —John Olson
What is there in history but a shape of being? A language structure that is place with its multiple meanings of places within place. —Diane Glancy
The world is in the midst of the largest migration of people since World War II. Due to war and political oppression, many of them will never return to their homelands. Others, like Native Americans in the Americas, have watched as wave after wave of newcomers have come on their land and claimed it as their own. The United States attracts people from all over the world to use as labor, but then denies many of them a legal opportunity to establish homes and raise families. Is home a place or a dream of sanctuary? A tarp, bedroll or car parked on the side of the freeway? A ranch you inherited? People you love? A state of mind? An elusive definition of space or location that only the privileged can afford to claim? In Aleppo, “Abu Hussein, a man in his 50s, was remarkably cheerful as he stood with his wife Umm Hussein and looked down from their balcony on to the rubble that makes his street impassable for any vehicle. ‘Nothing is better or more beautiful than our home,’ he said. ‘It’s the place to be in good times or in bad.’ ”
Raven Chronicles Press
To Order: www.ravenchronicles.org; Amazon.com (books)
Press Contact: Phoebe Bosche: editors@ravenchronicles.org
Published June 7, 201
6 x 0.7 x 9, 306 pp., paper, $11.99
Words From the Café by Megan McInnis, Johnnie Powell, Cathy Scott, Jay Scott, and Susan Tekola.
Fiction by Jennifer Clark, Cheryce (Chy) Clayton, Clare Johnson, Gina LaLonde, Don Noel, Sue Gale Pace, Michael Philips, J.R. Robinson, & Terry Sanville.
Essays/nonfiction by Michael Dylan Welch, Inye Wokoma, Maria de Los Angeles, Diane Glancy, Thomas Hubbard, John Olson, Susan Noyes Platt, Maiah Merino, and Rebecca F. Reuter.
Poetry by Anna Bálint, Anita Endrezze, T. Clear, Larry Eickstaedt, Paul Hunter, Mark Trechock, Jim Cantú, Soonest Nathaniel, Luther Allen, Dianne Aprile, Virginia Barrett, Michele Bombardier, Elizabeth Burnam, Minnie Collins, Mary Eliza Crane, Larry Crist, Jenny Davis, Risa Denenberg, Patrick Dixon, Penny Harter, Tanya McDonald, Michael Dylan Welch, Sharon Hashimoto, Tom Hunley, Sarah Jones, J.I. Kleinberg, Charles Leggett, Joan McBride, Marjorie Maddox, Kate Miller, Kevin Miller, Shankar Narayan, Linda Packard, David J.S. Pickering, Robert Ronnow, Frank Rossini, Judith Skillman, Joannie Stangeland, Alison Stone, Angie Trudell Vasquez, Diana Woodcock, and Carolyne Wright.
Art/Illustrations by David Anderson, Nyri A. Bakkalian, Anna Bálint, Maria de Los, Angeles, Gabe Hales, Clare Johnson (featured artist), Srilatha Malladi, Michael C. Paul, Jenn Powers, Rebecca Pyle (cover artist), Robert Ransom, Inye Wokoma, Saint James Harris Wood, Bill Yake.
The place where I truly feel at home is in a book. This is where the real panoramas are. The landscapes of the human imagination. Oceans, raging rivers, philosophies, forests. Language is a wilderness and books are their reserves. —John Olson
What is there in history but a shape of being? A language structure that is place with its multiple meanings of places within place. —Diane Glancy