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RUNES, A Review of Poetry, SIGNALS
Winter Solstice 2005, ISBN 0-97253874-5-3

RUNES, A Review of Poetry is an annual poetry journal, 186 page, professionally printed, perfect bound journal, digest-sized, full color cover, on high quality paper with some artwork. Each issue of RUNES has a different theme. The SIGNALS issue includes poems by Marjorie Agosin, Chris Abani, Rafael Jesús González, Brenda Hillman, Shirley Kaufman, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Donald Revell, Pattiann Rogers, David St. John, Eleanor Wilner, and J. D. Whitney.

Editors: CB Follett and Susan Terris

Email: RunesRev@aol.com


"I received my copy of RUNES, and with no time to do so, sat down in spite of myself because the magazine was so compelling. I just love it. The sequential arrangement is exquisite, and the voices all utterly individual. I wasn't bored for a minute, which is the height of my praise-o-meter for literary magazines." 
– Molly Peacock


SHIRLEY KAUFMAN

Last seat

Last seat
in a waiting room
filled with not telling

lumps of sorrow
simmering pain

once in a while
we rise to our names

still crying for angels
to rescue the future

or turn things around
with another denouement

visible signals
benevolent whispers

undamaged wings