January 2011 • Volume 5 • Issue 1

January 17, 2012

Click here or on the image below to download the January 2012 isue of Four and Twenty (PDF 4.6 MB). The journal is best viewed in full screen mode on Adobe Reader.


This issue of the journal features poetry by S.M. Abeles, Jack Brown, Helen Buckingham, Joel Chua Hiang Yang, Darren Crawford, Sarah Crossland, D.W. Cunningham, Tracy Davidson, Ed Higgins, Julie Israel, Bharati Jagannathan, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Peter Massiah, Catherine Owen, Kushal Poddar, Kristin Roedell, Steve Shultz, and Karen Stromberg.

A new issue of the journal is released the third Tuesday of each month. The next issue of the journal will be released on Tuesday, February 21.


Four and Twenty of the Week, Januray 24

January 24, 2012

the azalea
outside my window
died in summer
dull spring coming

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

David C. Kopaska-Merkel’s poetry has appeared in scores of venues, including Asimov’s, Strange Horizions,and Star*line. He edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine and is president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.| dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com

Four and Twenty of the Week, Januray 17

January 17, 2012

He fancies himself a craftsman

Painter of abstractions:
Visceral and sincere,
Might it be that I find
My face within the lines.

Darren Crawford

Darren Crawford is a freelance writer, a full-time nurse, and a student. His work has been featured in several editions of The Anthology, Winthrop University’s literary magazine, and in the curriculum of his community college in South Carolina.

Four and Twenty of the Week, Januray 10

January 10, 2012

Forgetful

I’m flying on a bike,
Spinning and spinning and spinning
With the wind in my hair—
“Wait, where’s my helmet?”

Alan Johnston

Alan Johnston, a senior at Clackamas High School in Clackamas, Oregon, is a running fool. He runs fifty miles a week. When he’s not running, he’s trying to be funny.

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