Pond 48 - 2018
Submissions Open
The 2018 Anthology is available and based on the feedback I’d say we have a lunker in the boat. Catch your copy today.

Also, check out the Carpwork Gallery for a fun pic of some carp in action. And think about submitting some artistic images yourself. See below for details.
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- Ken
PROSE POEM
Andrea Jackson - Collating​
POEM
Suzanne Marshall - Wake​
POEM
Deborah Guzzi - Peg-Legged​
POEM
Patrick T. Reardon - What remained​
POEM
Michael T. Smith - Cycles​
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Cliff Bryant - Loving, Leaving and Loss​
SHAPE  POEM
Nancy Kay Peterson - An Xmas Poem​
SHORT  STORY
William Belle - The Genie​
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ARTISTS and SHUTTERBUGS
I’m looking for original artwork and enhanced photos featuring Carp (including Koi) for the Carpwork Gallery. See the Submissions page for details.

Authors' Row

William Quincy Belle
​A post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi thriller.
Antigravity: floating cites. Pandemic: 80% dead. Flesh-eating disease: artificial body parts. Insects as food. And murder in dystopia.
Patrick Reardon
​In “Requiem for David,” Patrick T. Reardon wrestles with the suicide of his brother and the pain they shared as the children of demanding and emotionally absent parents.  Novelist-poet Sandra Cisneros calls Reardon's book “the heart’s howl,” and poet Haki Madhubuti writes: “Reardon’s poetry reminds me of the great poet and Catholic priest, Daniel Berrigan.”
John Michael Flynn
In November, 2018 Jaffa Books of Australia will publish a trilogy of novels from John Michael Flynn writing as Basil Rosa: A Million Miles From Tehran; Tax Free Ride On A Midnight Carousel; and A Laugh At Sex. Visit  www.basilrosa.com.
John Michael Flynn’s language dazzles to a very real end: the exploration and delineation of the free-floating breakdown known as “America.” The range of tones and locales he uses is impressive but more impressive is the feeling invested in what almost inevitably slips through time’s fingers. Anyone wondering where the Whitmanesque impulse has gone need look no further.
—Baron Wormser
Susanna Lang
In her third collection, Travel Notes from the River Styx, Susanna Lang asks a haunting question:  "Have you found the room where your dead linger?" and then takes you on a journey down the River Styx.  She invites you into a world where everything is in motion….
- Cathryn Essinger, author of What I Know About Innocence and A Desk in the Elephant House
​Fred McGavran
"McGavran’s are stories of obsession and experience. They are the stories of characters who are nearing death and who are thinking about what they will leave behind. They are deeply human, and entirely serious, with a touch of humor and a little bit of magic to light the way."         - Anna Kasik, Englewood Review of Books

Hear Roberta Schultz's review on WVXU
William Swarts
​Readers praise William Swarts’ latest poetry collection, Harmonies Unheard: for example, ”Bill Swarts rewards us with poetry of an often delightful earthiness and much ironic humor,” says Black Buzzard Press publisher and poet Bradley Straham. “This is a book not to be missed.” And, University of Vermont English Professor Emeritus Richard Sweterlitsch agrees, “His verses resonate with rich images; his themes are universal.”
Ken Poyner
​A collection of fantastical mini-fictions. A man who encounters mammoth rustlers. Houses that begin to move on their own, forcing the inhabitants to finally introduce themselves to their neighbors. Giant chickens that are hunted for processing in the chicken sandwich industry. And much more.

​Humor, irony, mythical realism, surrealism, soft science fiction.
Ken Schweda
If you enjoy thought provoking, unusual science fiction, that might not even make sense the first time you read it, then this book of short stories is for you. 

A summary for them might be: first contact, pig, birds and black holes, conspiracy, more birds, lunacy (or not?), lost time. Your reaction to each story might be something like: ? ? ? , , , ? . . . !!! , , ?
Peter Dabbene
You've got spam! And so does everyone else. But what happens when you reply to those spam e-mails?

​Peter Dabbene poses as his alter ego, Dieter P. Bieny—a man who gives spammers just enough hope to keep them coming back for more abuse.
J. Alison Rosenblitt
This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings’ engagement with the classics.  In E.E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet. Oxford Univ. Press
Jacqueline Jules
​“Jules’ gift is in finding the small moments — green paisley pajamas, carrot cake, the giggle of a nine-year-old boy — and gracefully elevating them to tell the story of a life. If half of all marriages end in widowhood, Stronger Than Cleopatra is a manual for how to go on.”
Jeanne Julian
​The changing seasons provide a framework for these poems that explore the loss and rebirth in the natural world and in the spirit. "These poems challenge and resonate; the reader will be haunted by them." - David E. Poston, author of Slow of Study
Ken Poyner
Forty-two surreal, irreal, subreal fictions of master bird races, nine foot tall women, chickens and their cell phones, the collection and consumption of oxygen, a surrogate lover for a mermaid.
Brett Stuckel
Guided by Shadows: A Westward Walk on Spain's Camino de Santiago. Discover the absurdity of Europe’s most famous pilgrim path (a Kindle eShort, ~15,000 words, also available for Nook and Kobo).
Carol Roan
When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50 offers nonfiction, fiction, and poetry that range from the heart-wrenching to the hilarious. Who better to bear witness to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than writers over 50?
Carol Roan
Speak Up: The Public Speaking Primer is an inspirational guide through the thickets of stage fright, in all its forms, to the freedom of speaking up. The journey begins with a breathing exercise and wends its way through practical advice about the use of space and energy.
William Quincy Belle
​If a man suddenly had to live as a woman, how would he deal with life, love, and even sex in a male-dominated world? Is he man enough to be a woman?
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