Red River Review
Established 1999
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Welcome to Issue 72…our final issue (for now)
The August issue here! We have so much to be thankful for. Our featured poet for August is Cullen Whisenhunt
It pains me to announce that this will probably be the last issue of Red River Review for some time. I started this review in 1999 and ran it for many years alone until 2007. I took a break from editing and publishing until Michelle Hartman came along and breathed new life into the journal. She ran Red River from 2010 until 2018 when she stepped aside. This site deserves much more love and support than I can give it. I would be happy to pass it on to a qualified editor or institution if arrangements could be made. Reach out to me if you wish.
Any submission that is still unpublished at this time, including your video blogs, are released for publication elsewhere. It’s been a great ride but for now, I need to let this rest.
Peace!
Bob McCranie
Editor & Publisher
Bob@BobMcCranie.com
Photos on this page by Terry McCranie
Noah’s Cottage by Marie-Andree Auclair
I soft-paddle the canoe on the new lake where the lawn used to grow. I see the river flow grey and patient then the cottage moving away our cottage adrift with our family memories attached to its walls, tucked on shelves nestled in the…
Resilience by Marie-Andree Auclair
My grandfather’s fierce hands he wiggles fingers tendons and veins glide across the back of his hands return to their place. I press a vein by his wrist trace path to knuckle empty blue vein of blood which finds its way back after I…
Steadfast by Marie-Andree Auclair
She tells of bones that walk us, unseen, obvious, skull under scalp shin bone, fibula, femur so many bones shape, articulate us. She stares in mirror — candle glow — spies her face tells of twin caverns quiet ponds eye pebbles afloat, tenderly examines…
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