ESS is printed twice a year, in January and July. It is the premier publication for quality poetry and prose whose theme is death. All issues are printed on parchment paper and bound saddle-back with ribbon.
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Issues in Print:
#5
28 pgs. With contributions by: Sasha I. Nyktos, Frank Yao, Patrick, Antoinette Hancock, Paola Sorrentino, Lara Haynes, Jason Lambert, and Laura Lypps.
#6
32 pgs. With contributions by: Sasha I. Nyktos, Azyre, David Hartman, Lara Haynes, Jason Lambert, Patrick, Laura Lypps, Paola Sorrentino, Michelle Belanger, D.F. Lewis, and John C. Hilliard.
#7
24 pgs. With contributions by: Kevin Roberts, Carmen Willcox, Jason Lambert, Paola Sorrentino, and Anthony Walters.
#8
24 pgs. With contributions by: Michael Pendragon, Lara Haynes, Karen R. Porter, Nichole Grabe, James Crockett, Anthony Walters, and Paola Sorrentino.
#9
24 pgs. With contributions by: John Sweet, Scott H. Urban, Karen R. Porter, Jamie W. Spracklen, Jim DeWitt, Simon Perchik, David Stone, and Richard Arnold.
#10
24 pgs. With contributions by: Linda Bosson, John Grey, Tracy Kay Herron-Winchel, Giovanni Malito, B.Z. Niditch, Simon Perchik, Karen Porter, Melody Sage, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Charlene Mary-Cath Smith, Paola Sorrentino, David Stone, John Sweet, Eric Tenneson, Kelley Jean White, Thomas Wiloch, and Tim Younce.
#11
48 pgs. With contributions by: Richard Arnold, Gary J. Carlson, Jamie Cavanagh, David Chandler, Bob Dorsett, Arthur Gottlieb, John Grey, Tracy Kay Herron-Winchel, David Lawrence, Giovanni Malito, Paul D. McGlynn, Robert Necker, Simon Perchik, Spiel, Mary Rudbeck Stanko, David Stone, Nathan Whiting, and Thomas Wiloch.
#12
44 pgs. With contributions by: Richard Arnold, Thomas Robert Barnes, Gary J. Carlson, Krikor N. Der Hohannesian, Tim DiVito, Bob Dorsett, Gerald England, John Grey, Joseph Hart, Chad M. Horn, June W. King, Chad Lietz, Lyn Lifshin, Giovanni Malito, Stephen Mead, Robert Necker, Lawrence D. Paxton, Karen Porter, Todd Possehl, David Spiering, David Stone, Ronald MacKinnon Thompson, Constance Timoteo, Jack Turteltaub, Kelley Jean White, Julia Wills, and Braxton Younts.
#13 and 14
These issues have not been printed yet but are upcoming. I am working on getting back on schedule with the printing, so I will be releasing issue 15 before these two, then playing catch-up with issues 13 and 14. No worries---ESS has NOT gone out of print; I just had some personal issues that kept me from finishing things on time. ----Hyacinthe (editor)
Submission Information:
We're currently not accepting submissions; printing is on hiatus.
