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Spy Reprints “Now That I’m a Grandpa” by Michael Brosnan

December 27, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Authors Note: This poem came to me while I was literally watching large slabs of ice flow down a Vermont river during a week in April when the ice broke up and the river began flowing again. Some ... [Continue Story]

Grandpa

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Talbot Spy Reprints “Impulse Control” by Patrick J. Murphy

December 6, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s note:  The Florida Keys are a place unlike any other and wishful thinking, I suppose, led me to recall the wide expanses of water, the individual islands arrowing through it, and then I remembered the Big Pine Key Road prison and the marinas and roadside bars nearby, where anything could happen. A romance happened, […]

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Impulse Control

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Talbot Spy Reprints “Eyes of the Crab” by Ann LoLordo

December 5, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note:  I learned of the discovery of this exoplanet in the newspaper. What intrigued me was the discussion of the parent star lodged in the constellation Cancer and the "subtle tugs" on that ... [Continue Story]

Eyes of the Crab

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Talbot Spy Reprints “Thanksgiving” by Meredith Davies Hadaway

November 29, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note:  It’s pretty quiet right now on the Chester River. We’ve pulled our boats and turned our gardens under. Now gray skies and bare trees come alive with the migratory birds that are my favorite Fall visitors. This poem is just to say, even with the disruption […]

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thanksgiving

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Talbot Spy and Others Reprint “Famous People” by Mark Jacobs

November 10, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: My stories fall into modes. Some are set in rural Virginia, others in countries overseas where I lived and worked. Some seek their setting in Western New York, where I grew up. Some, ... [Continue Story]

Famous People

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Talbot Spy and Others Reprint “I Donate My Aunt’s Clothes to the Unfinished Business Thrift Shop” by Irene Fick

November 2, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Comment: This poem was triggered by the difficulty of witnessing the dying and ultimate death of my dear aunt, listening to her regrets and feeling a sense of guilt for gathering her ... [Continue Story]

Thrift

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Talbot Spy Reprints “El Salvador” by Marvin Jonathan Flores

November 1, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note:  The poem draws largely from my first visit to El Salvador in 1986.  While much has changed in the ensuing years, much remains the same, and today everywhere you look evidence abounds ... [Continue Story]

Flores

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Talbot Spy and Others Reprint “A Rose by Any Other Name” by Alison Thompson

October 31, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s note: This story arose from a period in my life when I was thinking about relationships between women within families, especially intergenerational relationships⎯between mothers, daughter, ... [Continue Story]

Rose

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Volume 13

October 25, 2020 By The Editorial Team

Published November 2020

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Welcome to the thirteenth annual Delmarva Review, an independent, nonprofit literary journal. Our editors have selected the new work of 64 authors that stood out from thousands of submissions during the year. In this edition, we are publishing 79 poems, 10 short stories, 11 creative nonfiction essays, and seven book reviews. In all, the writers come from twenty-one states, the District of Columbia, and five foreign countries. Forty-two percent are from the Delmarva and Chesapeake region, though the review welcomes the best new writing in English from all writers, regardless of borders.

The cover photograph, “Cedar Island Watch House,” by contributing photographer Jay P. Fleming, captures the feeling of nature’s power and suggests the increasing concern of climate change.

A number of human themes are represented in this issue. One, in particular, gives life to the others—change. We strive to deal with change in our daily lives. While change can be uncomfortable, often confronting personal denial, it finds its natural place in all forms of writing. After all, it is the change in a character’s life that creates the action of a good story…or in the narrative description that adheres to our strongest beliefs and emotions. As our lives change, we are forced to discover the truth to guide us on our journeys, or perhaps to make sense of where we have been. The search for meaning is the basis for the best of enduring literature.

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Volume 12

November 19, 2019 By The Editorial Team

Published November 2019

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Welcome to the twelfth annual edition of the Delmarva Review, our current contribution to discovering the best of new literary work. Our editors selected the original prose and poetry of fifty-three authors from thousands of submissions. Individually and collectively, the writing in this volume touches us as human beings. We can also enjoy the authors’ craft and unique voice in the telling of stories and poetry.

Our editors selected 72 poems, 10 short stories, and nine nonfiction essays. We also reviewed six recent books of special interest, by regional writers. In all, the authors come from 17 states, the District of Columbia, and four other countries.

The cover photograph, “Rough Water,” by contributing photographer Jay P. Fleming, perfectly embodies the themes from this year’s selections. Jay’s photograph captures the feeling of nature’s power and passion, which is expressed throughout this year’s writing.

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