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Persuading the Public

Feedback on the work that appeared in The Moon (and its printing format).

• Was that The Moon or a map? Oh, it was a map to The Moon. (Vol 4 Issue 8, August 2006)
• I really liked the printing format with the folded half sheets better than the booklets. (Vol 4 Issue 8, August 2006)
• While I didn't like Charles P. Ries' "My Youth" as a poem, I did find it a rather brilliant portrait of adolescence. (Vol 4 Issue 8, August 2006)
• "Poor Joe" by Dave Church (Vol 4 Issue 2, February 2006) Plain spoken, tight.
• "Night Cat," "Diaphragm," and "Condom" by George Held (Vol 4 Issue 2, February 2006) Amusing, witty.
• "Fin" by Raymond Mason (Vol 4 Issue 2, February 2006) Pithy, effective.
• "Original Sin" by Nathan Whiting (Vol 4 Issue 2, February 2006) Pithy, effective.
• "3 a.m.," "Surrealist," "All Winter," "A Chekhov Moment," "By Exeter Street," and "Outcry" by B.Z. Niditch (Vol 4 Issue 2, February 2006) Varied excellence.
• From the United Kingdom's Purple Patch Magazine's Best of 2005 Poetry List--Best Overseas Magazines of 2005 6. The Moon volume 2 issue 11 & volume 3 issue 10
• "Endless Highway" by Nicholas Campanella (Vol 3 Issue 9, September 2005) I liked the Endless Highway poem by Nicholas Campanella. It had a unity of imagery and mood. It had a simplicity that so many other poems don't have. So many poems seem to sprawl all over the place with clunky imagery and no unity of theme or style to hold things together. This poem is compact and simple. There is a strong mood of mystery that pervades it. The blending of the real and surreal was very effective. At the end the characters seemed to have found a kind of heaven. It is a comforting story yet it is tinged with an eerie timelessness. It reminds me of the old magic realist writers of South America. I've always liked that style.
• "Offroad" by Ray Greenblatt (Vol 3 Issue 1, January 2005) I liked the vivid and original phrasing of the opening six lines and the overall celebration of poets' individualism.
• "Where We Left Off" by Christy White (Vol 3 Issue 1, January 2005) What particularly caught me in Christy White's poem was the sweeping exuberence and intensity of it; yet she never let the rhetoric go wildly too far. Then came the quiet turn in the last line.
• "Jazz Angel" by A.D. Winans (Vol 2 Issue 11, November 2004) I like the stripped down, compact, minimalistic and stark words and imagery. Much is conveyed by very few words. While reading the poem I can picture the whole scene: the hotel, the Jazz Angel, her apartment, the bar, everything. I like poems that take on that downside of life.
• "Spittle, spittle" by damedged Aesthetician (Vol 1 Issue 9, September 2003) damedged Aesthetician is consistly exceptional in creativity and cutting edge poetics.
• "I Will not Write about this again" and "When Anxiety Doesn't Return Your Phone Call" by Hillary Lyon (Vol 1 Issue 7, July 2003) Hilary Lyon's word choice was a cut above the rest, especially the two mentioned pieces.
• "Trouble at the Library" by Ali Noel Vyain (Vol 1 Issue 6, June 2003) I liked the content, format, and style of this piece.
• "Barbie is Evil" by Lizette Cassandra Mueller (Vol 1 Issue 5, May 2003) I liked the content, format, and style of this piece.
• "My Heritage" by scientist in training gone mad (Vol 1 Issue 5, May 2003) I like the content, format, and style of this piece.