 Arlington Literary Journal an ejournal also known as ArLiJo, is located in Arlington, Virginia and is sponsored by Gival Press. The intent of ArLiJo is to feature a variety of authors/poets/artists from around the globe whose work provokes readers to contemplate issues, etc. The work chosen promotes understanding and sensitivity across borders, even if initially the work may cause one to take a double-take. Staff Editor-in-Chief, Robert L. Giron Special 2020 Black Women Poets, edited by Teri Ellen Cross Davis Special 2020 Poetry Month Bilingual (Spanish/English) Edition, edited by Luis Alberto Ambroggio Special 2019 Women in Translation Month, edited by Katherine E. Young Access each issue by clicking on the Issue No. to the left of this homepage (scroll downward). Please note that publication in ArLiJo will be by invitation only, starting August 1, 2019. Any work published shall remain the property of the author/poet/artist and for any previously published work to appear the author/poet/artist must still retain the copyright of the work. Please note that ArLiJo is an ejournal. Payment for publication is a book from a selection of books listed below which have been published by Gival Press. Books Available to ArLiJo Contributors NONFICTION: Sexy Liberal! Of Me I Sing by Stephanie Miller FICTION: Dream of Another America by Tyler McMahon Ghost Horse by Thomas H. McNeely Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman by Elizabeth Harris Show Up, Look Good by Mark Wisniewski That Demon Life by Lowell Mick White Twelve Rivers of the Body by Elizabeth Oness The Cannibal of Guadalajara by David Winner The Best of Gival Press Short Stories ed. by Robert L. Giron The Second Act by Tim Brown Barrow’s Point by Robert Schirmer POETRY: Poetic Voices Without Borders ed by Robert L. Giron On the Altar of Greece by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 ed by Robert L. Giron Songs for the Spirit by Robert L. Giron On the Tongue by Jeff Mann Bones Washed With Wine by Jeff Mann The Great Canopy by Paula Goldman Sweet to Burn by Beverly Burch Protection by Gregg Shapiro Honey by Richard Carr 12 Sonnets for the Zodiac by John Gosslee Adamah: Poème by Celine Zins |
Featured on ArLiJo Easter Suits Each Easter I received a Sears suit: The shoulders fit smug; the arms reached the base of my thumb, revealing an half inch of shirt cuff — as a gentlemen’s should, but the jacket waist ballooned. The bow tie clip-on bit into my neck. Excess pant waist was tucked under double-looped belt; and cuffed hems piled around ankles. But if I puffed out my stomach and distributed my weight on both feet, the suit would fit right, causing big-boned church women to wrench my cheeks. Seeing them coming, I’d hide between dad’s legs, peeking out. Copyright © 2010 by James Bland. Porch After a swelling Sunday dinner, relatives would wade out onto the porch. Some sitting on foldout chairs, charitied to us by the Baptist church. Others squatting on porch steps after a brusque hand-sweep. Bossy uncle Edward and big-boned aunt Betty always swayed in the hammocks that draped the porch corners. No one talked much, but watched the neighbor-kids peddle their Big Wheels up and down black tops; or run in and out automatic sprinklers, timed to go off at nightfall. Always plaited girls sprung up and down, playing double-dutch, their sing-song, somehow more clarion during the descent of dark. Copyright © 2010 by James Bland. Clothesline After washing clothes in the Maytag, dad would haul them to the backyard in a green laundry basket, cooked on one side because I once left it too close to the heater. He’d lurch forward like a robot, the knitted sack that contained the wooden clothespins baby-birded in the nook between chin and clavicle. Unable to do it herself, grandma would eyeball him from her bedroom window: “Clothespin them at the seams. If you spread them out, they’ll dry faster …” Glimpses — in his frustration, when she corrected him; in his pride, when she was content — of the boy he once was. Copyright © 2010 by James Bland. Biography: James Bland earned an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and a PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University. He has received a collegiate Academy of American Poet 's Prize, a Bread Loaf Writer's Workshop Scholarship, a Saratoga Springs Writer's Fellowship, a Key West Writer's Fellowship, and has been awarded two MacDowell Colony residencies. His work has or will appear in Callaloo, Agni Magazine, Columbia Magazine, Key West Review, Muleteeth, The Windless Orchard, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares Literary Journal, Standing on the Verge, South Carolina Review, Blue Moon Review, Antioch Review, and Potomac Review. |
|||||