Publisher's Synopsis
Editor's Note
Welcome to the first issue of Linked Verse. This is a new Laughing Ronin Press quarterly journal project, replacing Seppuku. Issue one is not unlike beginning a conversation, or presenting a container for dialogues, from scratch. At Laughing Ronin Press, we go for the pulse and let the blood flow. Our motto is that poetry is a lot like the truth and can be challenging, constructive, and messy. We are all about intensity.
among people, then let this be prearranged now,
between us, while we are still peoples..." Mary Ruefle, Kiss of the Sun We are prearranged on Earth and in time-space. Of all things, language is perhaps our greatest collaboration and of this thing between us all, we call poetry, it must as all things sacred come from the same place as play, the same place as prayer, and is the improvisation to end all improvisations. We do so ever hope that you enjoy Linked Verse, Issue One: At the Heart of the Earth is a Molten Heartbeat. Chelsea Rector