Vol. 28 — 2019
THE “BE HERE POW” ISSUE
The 28th anthology has been doubly dedicated to the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 and to the remembrance of spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, Baba Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert).
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+ AWARD-WINNING WRITING ADVICE
Vol. 27 — 2018
“IT’S A RAD, RAD WORLD” ISSUE
Radical Inclusion, Radical Self-Reliance, and Radical Self-Expression are just three of the “10 Principles of Burning Man,” written by Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey in 2004 “as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture.” Larry passed away in 2018, at the age of 70. The 27th anthology has been dedicated to him and his legacy.
NEW MILLENNIUM AWARD WINNERS
Doldrums Near the End of Empire
Mary Makofske | Warwick, New York
Poetry Award
Shorn
Katie Bickham | Shreveport, Louisiana
Poetry Award
Nothing Kinky
Evan McMurry | Brooklyn, New York
Fiction Award
Mapping Hana
Cassady Black | Denver, CO
Fiction Award
Papa’s Parrot
Adam Sifre | Wayne, NJ
Flash Fiction Award
Growl
Miah Jeffra | San Francisco, CA
Flash Fiction Award
Dendrites
Anne Gudger | Portland, Oregon
Nonfiction Award
Hidden in a Suitcase
Michele Leavitt | Gainesville, FL
Nonfiction Award
FEATURED POETRY
And Clay Georganne Harmon
Applesauce James R. Stack
Conclusion Vernon Waring
Dialogue and Chorus Rachel Berghash
Dog Barking at 4 a.m. … Jacob Paul Patchen
Elegy for a Gambler Jen Karetnick
Elevator Ride with Famous Poet Lisa Dordal
Exhausted, Renegade Elephant Derek Mong
Fig Tree Berwyn Moore
First Prayer Nicole Johnson
Fly Trap Anna Bernstein
For Judi Ken Stahl
Gingerbread Katharyn Machan
Having Booked a Vasectomy Ryan Hibbett
Hero’s Return Ruth Thompson
Home is about the light Akesha Baron
Hylophobia Jerico Lenk
In Favor of Emotional Eating Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Kodak Moments Desiree Hellegers
Medea in Middle-Age Sarah Wetzel
Most Memorable Insult Ryan Lawrence
Nocturne, in Red and Black Sandy Longley
Not One Sparrow Cathleen Stewart
Packing Bill Garten
Painted Ladies James K. Zimmerman
Perennial Selection Harlan Bjornstad
RIPE or PRO-LIFE or THE DEFINITION OF LIVING Shay Alexi
Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird with Pinktoe Tarantula Cynthia Snow
Spoor Jim Glenn Thatcher
Taken Sarah Van Arsdale
The Dinghy Speaks of Sinking Trish Lindsey Jaggers
The Makura-kazari Megan Gieske
The Whens of Now Lisa St. John
Timepiece Roberta Senechal de la Roche
Undertow Sarah Van Arsdale
Verity Nan Becker
When a Gibbous Moon Must Do Laura Rand
PLUS, AWARD-WINNING WRITING ADVICE:
Reading Breeds Writing • The Reading to Writing Ratio • The Greatest Stories All Have This in Common
Embrace Revision • Following the Logic • You Want to Write? • Share, Rest, Revise
Vol. 26 — 2017
THE “LOVE” ISSUE
Paperback = 1 Tree Planted Hardcover = 5 Trees Planted
THE NMW EXCERPT (NEW)
The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde
Cover Art by Ocean Clark
NEW MILLENNIUM AWARD WINNERS
Love Poem for Carl Sagan
Robin Myers, Mexico City, Mexico
Poetry Award
Bougainvillea
Kerry Tepperman Campbell, San Anselmo, CA
Poetry Award
Move
Cady Vishniac, Columbus, Ohio
Fiction Award
Hair of the Dog
Elizabeth Amon, Seattle, WA
Fiction Award
The Envelope Trick
Adrianne Aron, Berkeley, CA
Flash Fiction Award
Highway 61
Fred Polsgrove, Frederick, MD
Flash Fiction Award
Pictures in Leaves
Carol D. Marsh, Washington, D.C.
Nonfiction Award
A Brief and Necessary Madness
Kirk Wilson, Austin, TX
Nonfiction Award
FEATURED AUTHORS
Michael Rowe
Oscar Wilde
Alison Luterman
Marilyn Kallet
Barbara Mossberg
George Keenen
Carol Smith
Juli Anna J. Herndon
Lisa Zimmitti
Armin Tolentino
Ed McManis
Nancy Allen
Bernadette McComish
C. Ann Kodra
Aly Wright Fields
Jonathan Greenhause
Julie Rochlin
James Kirkpatrick
William Ellis
Lisa Gundry
David Cooke
Victoria Smith
Ed Ruzicka
Chrisina Lovin
Barbara Ungar
Danny Kossow
Marilyn E. Johnson
JLSchneider
Ted Davis
Carolyn E. Campbell
Barbara Zimmermann
Laura Still
Martha Hollander
Linda Nemec Foser
K. T. Landon
Joyce Kessel
Chrisina Frei
Robert Evory
Lynne Martin Bowman
Teresa Gilman and more.
plus, AWARD-WINNING WRITING ADVICE, and
SPECIAL “LOVE WINS” ESSAY COMPETITION
Sponsored by: New Millennium Writings
Nonproft Partners: FREE2LUV® and Lambda Literary
Celebrity/Guest Judge: Thea Gill, Actress/Singer
(best known for her portrayal of Lindsay Peterson on the landmark Showtime series Queer as Folk)
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 25 — 2016
THE “EVOLVE” ISSUE
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FEATURED AUTHORS: Alexander Weinstein • Karen Hunt • Nina Varela
Tim Mayo • Claire Bateman • Jackie Davis Martin • Shanna Yetman
Noah Stetzer • Susan Nathiel • James Heffernan • Doris Ivie
Alysia Harris • Laura Still • C. Ann Kodra • Barbara Mossberg
Linda Nemec Foster • Berwyn Moore • Mary Cole • Anca Hariton
Georganne Harmon • Jim Glenn Thatcher • Marilyn Kallet • and many more.
THE NMW INTERVIEW
20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF NEW MILLENNIUM WRITINGS
Natural Reflection: An Interview with Don Williams, NMW Founder and Editor Emeritus by Brent A. Carr
Olsen and the Gull by Eric St. Clair
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… TROMP!, Bowing to the Miniscule, Walrus Kings, Fog Made of Iron, Buddhist Cosmetology, and the Milky Way in L.A. This issue features the award-winning work of Noah Stetzer, Claire Bateman, Alexander Weinstein, Shanna Yetman, Karen Hunt, Nina Varela, Susan Nathiel, and Jackie Davis Martin. Also, the NMW Interview with founder Don Williams, writing advice, and much more.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 24 — 2015
THE “INFATUATION” ISSUE
Cover Art by Kate Spinks Dean
FEATURED AUTHORS: Rosa Lane • Joan McLean • George Choundas
John Mauk • Roz Spafford • Marcia Peck • Lucy Ricciardi
Michael Caligaris • Daisy Pitkin • Deborah DeNicola
Jendi Reiter • Brittney Scott • Molly Middleton Meyer
David Lloyd • Doris Ivie • Julie Harvey • Marilyn Kallet
Lisa Dordal • Laura Still • Jim Glenn Thatcher • and many more.
THE NMW INTERVIEW
An Interview with celebrated poet Maureen McLane… Turning Inward, Mattering Latter, and Militant Naivetè
by Brent A. Carr
Shades of Infatuation by Alexis Williams Carr
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Quantum Entanglements, Snake Librarians, First Guitars, Transitional Light, and The Night as Meditation. Also, the NMW Interview with Acclaimed Poet Maureen McLane, NMW Award Winners, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 23 — 2014
THE “JOAN OF ARC” ISSUE
Cover Art by Brenda Stumpf
FEATURED AUTHORS
Susan Maeder • Stephen Coyne • H. Boris Timberg
Dan Gemmer • Rafealla Del Bourgo • Milla van der Have
Alexis Paige • J. L. Cooper • Timothy Walsh • Doris Ivie
Barbara Mossberg • Laura Still • C. Ann Kodra
Eileen Malone • Bart Rawlinson • Liza Porter • Anne Weiss
Jonathan Greenhause • Benjamin Goldberg • and many more.
THE NMW INTERVIEW
A Conversation Worth Having with David Madden, by Jeffrey J. Folks
On Salvation by Alexis Williams Carr
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS [HERE]
The Writers, Poets, and Artists Who Made This Issue Possible
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Joan of Arc, Gifts to Wet Ankles, Spider Silk Weaving, Butterfly Burial, Blowing the Third Eye, and The Inescapable Levity of Gravity. Also, the NMW Interview with Acclaimed Writer David Madden, NMW Award Winners, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 22 — 2013
THE “REBIRTH” ISSUE
Cover Art by Mark Maxwell
FEATURED AUTHORS: Lisa Heiserman Perkins • Cherie Ann Parker
Doug Margeson • S. J. Powers • J. L. Schneider • Elizabeth Heineman
Jennifer Andrews • Don Williams • Ellen LaFlèche • Marilyn E. Johnston
Laura Hilton • Devreaux Baker • Jendi Reiter • Jim Glenn Thatcher and
many more.
THE NMW INTERVIEW
An Interview with celebrated poet William Pitt Root – A Russian Blonde, Going Native, Deaths of Strangers, His Dashing Father, Social Justice, the Power of Poetry, Doors of Perception, Becoming a Man, and more…
by Don Williams
JANUS FILE TRIBUTE
Lament for Federico García Lorca by Charles Fishman
On Rebirth and Passing the Torch by Don Williams
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Buds, and Bells, and Stars Without a Name, Death of a Newspaper, 13 Rules to Love By, Love Intangible, Still-Life With Baby, Sidewalk Salvation, Prayer to My Contradictions, A Sleeping Russian Blonde, Frank Sinatra in the Early Evening, The Subtle Art of Possession, Devil in the White City, and Sanding Blue Doors. Also, the NMW Interview with Acclaimed Poet William Pitt Root, NMW Award Winners, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 20 — 2011
THE “GOD” ISSUE
Cover Art by Will Rickenbach
FEATURED AUTHORS
A. Molotkov • B.K. Loren • Vic Sizemore • Deirdra McAfee
Norma Shainin • Travis Ladonuel • Carol J. Arnold
M.M. De Voe • Amy Andrews • Josh MacIvor-Anderson
Ellen Graf • Jann Banales • Nikki Giovanni • Barbara Knott
Pamela Uschuk • d. c. Dulik • Lucy Sieger • David Ray
Nan Becker • Jim Glenn Thatcher • and many more.
American Book Award Winner Pamela Uschuk
Nikki Giovanni’s Appalachian Roots
JANUS FILE TRIBUTE
William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch at 50 by R. B. Morris
The God Issue by Don Williams
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… The Resiliency Gene, A Time Capsule Surprise, God and Cosmos, Wrestling with Demons, Black Holes, Time and Consciousness, a 21st Century Hound of Hades, and The Most Wonderful White Stockings. Also, NMW Award Winners, American Book Award Winner Pamela Uschuk on Shostakovich and Theremins, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 19 — 2010
THE “OBAMA” ISSUE
Cover Art by David Joyner
FEATURED AUTHORS
Barack Obama • Frances Payne Adler • Allison Alsup
Barbara Zimmermann • Rusty Dolleman • Sarah Miller
Katharine Goodridge Ingram • Melanie M. Hoffert
Lucy Sieger • Naomi Ruth Lowinsky • Suellen Wedmore
Tim Johnson • Ed Frankel • Trish Lindsey Jaggers
R.B. Morris • Deborah DeNicola • and many more.
America the Beautiful by Tim Johnson
NEW! Guide to NMW for Writers and Teachers
JANUS FILE TRIBUTE
The Late John Updike, on God, Rabbits, Sex & Writing by Don Williams
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Fake Cakes and Orgasms, The Ghost of Obama’s Grandma, Southern Discomfort, Upstate Bedtime Stories, The Boy With A Camera, Grass Shrimp, Cops’ Wives and Lovers, On Leaving North Dakota, String Theory, Sun Songs, and Swimming Under Salvador. Also, Our Best Poems Yet (one by Obama), NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 18 — 2009
THE “DREAMTIME” ISSUE
Cover Art by Mark Sieger
FEATURED AUTHORS
Susan Chiavelli • David Hunter • Louise Aronson
Jacob Appel • Sarah Coury • Jenny Gumpertz
Barbara Zimmermann • Stephen Irwin • Asha Vose
Don Mitchell • Cathy Kodra • Ralph Ryan • Ellen Sullins
M. Garrett Bauman • Britton Gildersleeve
Harry Bauld • Mil Norman-Risch • and many more.
No Longer Strangers by Adrienne Pond
Losing Africa by Eve Brown
JANUS FILE TRIBUTE
Kurt Vonnegut on the Banks of the Big Tennessee by Don Williams
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… The Most Interesting Thing in the World, Mother Night, Winter Oranges, Losing Africa, Peeling Onions, A Haunting Down Under, Vietnam Pays a Visit, A Principled Self-Immolation, Snake Dreaming, Wildfire-Hellfire, Alaska, Cat Consciousness, The Taste of War, Doves Sleeping in Sand. Also, Our Best Poems Yet (one by Obama), NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 17 — 2008
THE “TREATISE OF LIFE” ISSUE
Cover Art by Walt Fieldsa
FEATURED AUTHORS
Patricia Brieschke • Victor Lister • Anwar Accawi
Gary P. Victor • Mira Dusho • Jacob Appel
Hal Ackerman • Mark Holden • Cynthia Reeves
Philip T. Carter • George Bandy • Ruth Thompson
Vivian Shipley • Susan Cohen • Tom Lombardo
Marybeth Boyanton • Laurel Still • and many more.
JANUS FILE TRIBUTE
J. D. Salinger’s Lost Love Letters by Neil Cohen
These Things Sell Themselves by George Bandy
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Disposable Brides and Sugar Daddies, the Romance of Military Speak Management, Hazardous Cargoes, What If Osama Didn’t Do It, A Comeuppance on Columbus Day, This I Pray, and Lone Wolf in January. Also, NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 16 — 2006-07
THE “SHIFTING” ISSUE
Cover Painting by Ouida Welch Williams
FEATURED AUTHORS
Robert Anderson • B. Barnett • Craig Rothstein
Jessie Keyt • Robert S. Carr • Jillian Weise
Jacob Appel • Ronald Lands • Margaret Hermes
Elaine Winer • Sean Aden Lovelace • Randi Glatzer
Donna Miscolta • Bree Coven • Rochelle Ratner
Hilda Rax • Marc Levy • and many more.
THE NMW INTERVIEW
An Interview with Khaled Hosseini… Kite-Runner Memories by Sherry Ellis
Meeting Uncle Shelby: How Shel Silverstein Made My Day and Changed My Life by Bree Coven
A Comparative Seismology by Jacob Appel
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Bonnie Parker’s Final Getaway, A Psychedelic Dying Time, Working up the Big Idea, Seismic Con Jobs, Shel Silverstein’s Gifts of Whimsy, Love and Sacrifice Atop an Olmec Pyramid, Desperados on the Lam, Two Marias, Organic Escape Unto Death, and Communal Love Florida Style. Also, NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 15 — 2005-06
THE “RED” ISSUE
Cover Painting by Cynthia Markert
FEATURED AUTHORS
Allen Wier • Charlotte Warren • Peter Selgin
Steve Taylor • Robert Vivian • Michael Phillipps
Noel Kalenian • Sarah Flygare • Noëlle Wall
Joshua Leavitt • Jacob M. Appel • Tanio McCallum
Renèe Ruderman • Justin Vicari • Ted Kooser
Robert von Stein Redick • and many more.
Poetry by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
THE NMW INTERVIEW
An Interview with Julia Glass… A Palette of Words by Sherry Ellis
Gideon Jones – An Excerpt from Allen Wier’s long-awaited novel, TEHANO
Enoch Arden’s One Night Stands by Jacob M. Appel
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… The Burden of Molecules, Enoch Arden’s One Night Stands, River Phoenix and the Uncrossed River, New Kid’s Revenge, The Scrupulous Man, and Voluptuous Woman on a Porch. Also, Allen Wier’s Long-Awaited Novel, Julia Glass interviewed, poetry by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 14 — 2004-05
THE “WAR” ISSUE
Cover Painting by Will Rickenbach
FEATURED AUTHORS
Naomi Benaron • Jack Neely • Tom Larson
David Morse • Thomas O’Malley • Jacqueline Berger
David O. Stewart • Marc Levy • Judy Copeland
Ann Pancake • Eliezer Sobel • CB Anderson
Dan Sullivan • Donn Irving • Charlotte Pence
Kathleen Driskell • Alice Friman • and many more.
Our Sacred Ditty by Jack Neely
Straight Life by Tom Larsen
THE NMW PROFILE
Cormac McCarthy Writes His Way Home by Don Williams
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… The Path to Divine Joy, The Girl Who Didn’t Believe in Love, Cormac McCarthy, Inside the Nuclear Test Zone, War and Dismembrance, The Straight Life, A Digital Moon, Our Sacred Ditty, Vanishing Acts, Second Chances, Growing Up Tough, and Shedding Skin. Also, NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing Advice, and Much More.”
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 13 — 2003-04
THE “WHY IS THIS MAN GRINNING?” ISSUE
Cover Design by Rhonda Swicegood
FEATURED AUTHORS
Juliet Wittman • Steven Simoncic • Florence Larson
Morgan McDermott • Carole Evans • Tom Larsen
Flora Bray • Laura Hoffer • Greg Stras • Kelly Shire
R. A. Lopata • Dorene O’Brien • Maria Webber
Larry Bradley • Carolyn Moore • Maria Caruso
Shadab Zeest Hashmi • and many more.
THE NMW INTERVIEW
A Question and Answer Interview with George Garrett… In His Own Words
by Laura Hoffer
The Essence of George Garrett (and Faulkner’s Tweed) by Brian Griffin
Writing 101: Conducting the Interview by Don Williams
FIRST VERSE: Phil Lowe, Darius Antwan Stewart, and Lauren McCullum
“Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… A Meditation on Light, Santa in Rehab, Corresponding with Fairies, A Brief Funny History of Philosophy, Communing with Dead Poets, The Ballerina and the Butcher, Reluctant Vacationers, Red River Rising, Surviving the Serial Killer, Life in the Primitive, A Robin Hood for Our Times, and Ode for a Golfer. Also, The Essence of George Garrett, NMW Award Winners, Humor, Writing 101: Conducting the Interview, and Much More.”
About this Cover: The late novelist and activist Ken Kesey and members of his family painted this image of Aquarius as part of a zodiac wheel on the floor of their Pleasant Hill, Oregon, home sometime in the 1970s. I photographed the wheel, measuring about twelve feet in diameter, while on a long trip around the country by a van in November 1979. An account of my visit with the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion, is included in my Janus File tribute in this issue. As I was leaving that November day, I asked permission to take some pictures. Kesey gestured at the floor in an off-hand way and said, “You might photograph this.” Attracted by the energy of ‘The Water Bearer,’ I focused in on that portion of the wheel. Later my sister Kathleen framed a copy and hung it on her wall. When it came time to plan this issue, shortly after Ken Kesey’s death on Nov. 11, I looked t the photograph and knew I had my cover.
–Don Williams, Founder and Editor Emeritus
New Millennium Writings
Vol. 12 — 2002
THE “KEN KESEY” ISSUE
Cover Art by Ken Kesey & Family
FEATURED AUTHORS
Kiyash Monsef • Sari Rose • Toby Heaton
Walt McDonald • Eduardo C. Corral
Trent Moorman • Laura S. Distelheim
Jeff Walt • Elizabeth Crowell • Michael Hyde
Oran Ryan • Ina Claire Gabler • Al Sim
Bernard Otterman • Sean Aden Lovelace
Michael Zukowski • Joel E. Turner • and many more.
JANUS FILE TRIBUTE
Ken Kesey… Further Along and Still Testing the Reality of It
by Don Williams
An Actual Cover Letter by Patricia Ansley
FIRST VERSE: Therese Stegman, Doug LaVerne, Everette Bach, Joe Quinn, and Nancy Callahan
“Ken Kesey Dead? Who they tryin’ to kid? A personal memoir by Don Williams.
Plus, Outstanding Stories, Poems, and Other Imaginings on… Tripping Out on America, The Golem of Auschwitz,’Nabakov and Other Strangers, Death of a Romance Novel, Three Days in a Hammock, Rerunning the Greek Marathon, and Jayne Mansfield. Also, Writing 101: How To Make Your Characters Come Alive, NMW Award Winners, Humor, and Much More.”