Look what arrived on my doorstep a week and a half early! Woodinville PRINT did an amazing job with this issue, and I’m grateful for their speed, though it means I’ll be rearranging my schedule this week to mail copies ASAP. If you haven’t yet ordered yours, please do so here: https://kingfisherjournal.com/shop/ When I order a print run, that’s all the copies there are of a particular issue, so when they sell out, they’re gone (or available only as pdfs). So get ’em while you can! Thanks for your support of the journal!
Here’s a list of the fine poets who appear in Kingfisher #9:
- Meredith Ackroyd
- Farah Ali
- Melissa Allen
- Jenny Ward Angyal
- Susan Antolin
- Joanna Ashwell
- Stephanie Baker
- Stewart C Baker
- Chandra Bales
- Jo Balistreri
- Francine Banwarth
- John Barlow
- Brad Bennett
- Jerome Berglund
- Jacob Blumner
- Alfred Booth
- Adrian Bouter
- Deborah Bowman
- Nancy Brady
- Karen Bressner
- Jennifer Burd
- Anne Elise Burgevin
- petro c. k.
- Terran Campbell
- Matthew Caretti
- Aidan Castle
- David Chandler
- Jim Chessing
- Glenn G. Coats
- Cherie Hunter Day
- Bill Deegan
- M. R. Defibaugh
- Rob DePaolo
- Almila Dükel
- Adele Evershed
- P. H. Fischer
- Mark Forrester
- Jenny Fraser
- Terri L. French
- Seth Friedman
- Lisa Gerlits
- Benedict Grant
- Laurie Greer
- Grant Hackett
- Carolyn Hall
- Jennifer Hambrick
- John Hawkhead
- Kerry J Heckman
- chad henry
- Jeff Hoagland
- Nick Hoffman
- Ruth Holzer
- Frank Hooven
- Angiola Inglese
- Erica Ison
- Govind Joshi
- Jim Kacian
- Ravi Kiran
- Nicholas Klacsanzky
- Kristen Lindquist
- Chen-ou Liu
- Anthony Lusardi
- paul m.
- Patricia J. Machmiller
- Annette Makino
- Scott Mason
- Marietta McGregor
- Scott Metz
- Sarah E. Metzler
- Kati Mohr
- Mircea Moldovan
- Laurie D. Morrissey
- Kelly Moyer
- Michael Nickels-Wisdom
- Polona Oblak
- Helen Ogden
- Ben Oliver
- Victor Ortiz
- Renée Owen
- Vandana Parashar
- Jacquie Pearce
- W. Jack Petersen
- Thomas Powell
- Meera Rehm
- Sam Renda
- Chad Lee Robinson
- Michele Root-Bernstein
- Nicholas H. Rossler
- Jharna Sanyal
- Agnes Eva Savich
- Michelle Schaefer
- Gail Schulte
- Dan Schwerin
- Julie Schwerin
- George Skane
- Caroline Skanne
- Laszlo Slomovits
- Robin Smith
- John Stevenson
- Mike Stinson
- Zach Street
- Eric Sundquist
- Patrick Sweeney
- Mark Teaford
- Angela Terry
- Carly Siegel Thorp
- Sara Tropper
- Charles Trumbull
- Evan Vandermeer
- Margaret Walker
- Diane Wallihan
- Lew Watts
- Marcie Wessels
- Tony Williams
- Amber Winter
- Gideon Young
- Eugeniusz Zacharski
And yes, that is a LEGO® kingfisher on the cover. It was released in the U.S. on February 1, the day that submissions opened for this issue. From the moment I saw it, I knew it would be my cover art for this year. It took me hours and hours of carefully following the instructions to build it, but I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I then took nearly 200 photos of the model in various environments and with a variety of backgrounds. At one point, it was half-submerged in a creek. Ultimately, I decided to place it in front of one of my many silk scarves. If you feel like tackling the 834-piece set, you can order yours here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/kingfisher-bird-10331 For folks in other countries, just search for “lego” and “kingfisher” and it should pop up. My thanks to Lew for the suggestion to scatter a few loose pieces in front of the model.
Cool cover, and I am proud to be a part of this issue. Can’t wait to see up close and personal!
So looking forward to receiving my first copy of your journal! Thank you, Tanya!