Welcome to the Winter Solstice 2011 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer!
First up, EHS is proud to introduce our newest section: Art! Each issue, a new artist will be highlighted on the EHS homepage. This issue’s featured artist is Sara Richard, whose Paleo-Femmes and bird women bring to mind the Bird Goddesses of Old Europe, Egypt and many other cultures.
In Poetry, Walt Garner turns an everyday incident into a meditation on Cretan myth in “Cows Out.” Michael Routery sings the praises of “Hippolytus,” while Laura LeHew sighs at the fickle Fates in “It’s Just Your Luck.” Norse myth meets Oz in WC Roberts’ “Jormungand,” while Chinese myth takes center stage in the same author’s “Penglai Shan.” Steven Klepetar makes his EHS debut with the earthy, humorous “Loki and the Fisherman,” as does AC Hardy with his melancholic “Merope and Orion.” Alexandra Seidel wonders what was going through a fellow poet’s mind in “Orpheus, Turning,” and pulls an ancient Egyptian Goddess into the modern world in “The Words of Seshat.” Clinton Inman makes his EHS debut with “Piper Pan,” while Joyce Frohn laments the demonization of an Aztec Goddess in “snaky spirals.” Finally, Eileen Dawson Peterson makes her first appearance in EHS with a “Solstice” prayer, while Jennifer Lawrence returns with the lyrical “Sun-God’s Crown.”
In Fiction, Maggie Koger (re)imagines the interweaving of an ancient myth in the life of a modern couple in “Daphne’s Errand.” Laura Woollett makes her EHS debut in a sensuous retelling of the life of Ariadne in “Labyrinth for Lovers.” In “Maiden in Love in the Underworld,” JD Revezzo offers a Roman version of that ancient story of love and loss. Finally, Sara Cleto also makes her EHS debut with the Celtic-inspired “Owain’s Wife.”
In Essays, EHS editor Rebecca Buchanan offers “The Beautiful One: A Brief Meditation on Aphrodite,” while Amanda Sioux Blake looks at the God of Liberation in “Dionysus in The Bacchae.”
In Interview, we talk to first-time author Anne Welch. Her forth-coming The Cavern’s Wise Woman examines the history and spirituality of the Bear Goddess.
In Reviews, Margaret O’Connell looks at Gemma Files’ weird Western A Book of Tongues, while VE Duncan critiques Candlemas: Feast of Flames by Amber K and Azrael Arynn K. Belle DiMonte examines Carrollanne Crichton’s Earth Medicine and Healing Stones, while EHS editor Rebecca Buchanan checks out the new Treasury of Greek Mythology. Phillip A Bernhardt-House looks at two new graphic novels: Stolen Hearts and Wrath of the Titans, while Melia Suez dives into witches&pagans #23.
Enjoy the new issue and if you have any questions, comments or songs of praise (or complaint), please email us at lyradora@yahoo.com!
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