Hanging Loose Magazine 113

Celebrating our 57th year of continuous publication, with covers and an art portfolio by Harley Elliot, a long-time contributor, who also has poems in this issue. Additional special features:

• a supplement of poems curated by former Philadelphia poet laureate and Hanging Loose author Yolanda Wisher, including work by Pia Deas, Quincy Scott Joens, and Trapeta B. Mayson; and
• a remembrance of poet, friend, and longtime Hanging Loose author Gary Lenhart, as well as four of his last poems.

Others included in this issue are some of our regulars—Sherman Alexie, Indran Amirthanayagam, Jack Anderson, Rosalind Brackenbury, Jiwon Choi, Bill Christophersen, Pablo Medina, Charles North, Martin Skoble, and Tom Wayman; as well as many poets new to HL: Keith Althaus, Peter Bakowski, John Wall Barger, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Debra Cash, John Corley, Matthew Feeney, Dan Grote, Hunt Hawkins, Robert Hirschfield, Walt Hunter, Jennifer Martelli, Victoria Kohn Michels, Juan Mobili, Thomas Moody, David Shaddock, Marc Vincenz, Moira Walsh, and Brother Yao (Hoke S. Glover III). 

And—as always in each issue—we’re proud of our special section of high school poetry and prose. Issue #113 writers include Meryn Banks, Evelyn deVos, Maira Faisal, Claire Fox, Jeannie Kim, Maya Miller, Phoebe Price, and Jayna Yoon.