WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE (October 19, 2022): NEW OHIO REVIEW

Did you ever get an issue of a literary magazine that you find yourself returning to again and again? For me, that is New Ohio Review, Issue 31 published this summer. When first getting NOR in the mail, I scanned the TOC and immediately went to Jeffrey Harrison’s poem “A Message from Tony Hoagland.”

https://newohioreview.org/2022/08/26/a-message-from-tony-hoagland/#more-27207

Tony passed away four years ago now, on October 23, 2018. This same volume of NOR also contains two of Tony’s poems as well as two by Kathleen Lee, Tony’s beloved widow.

https://newohioreview.org/2022/08/18/sad-as-is/#more-27265

https://newohioreview.org/2022/08/19/late-dark-and-windy/#more-27243

The issue ends with Dean Young’s poem “O Youthfulness.” Dean passed on August 23, 2022, shortly after this NOR issue was published.  He and Tony were friends and wrote poems in which each other appeared as characters.  Tony’s and Dean’s poems do not appear on the NOR online site, but the print issue is more than worth the price!

Here are earlier poems Tony and Dean wrote to each other…

https://whatnarcissismmeanstome.tumblr.com/post/3623714914/when-dean-young-talks-about-wine-tony-hoagland

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=48665

Comments

[David Lehman]

Thanks for this post, Denise, in honor of Tony and Dean.