What’s that faint lute-ing?
By clicking the glorious cover image above, you are led to the Spring 2014 Modern Minstrel edition of Minetta Review. You will find within it a variety show, jam-packed package with some words and art that will be soothing as they walk you to greener pastures, simultaneously as you find stories so powerful that we could barely bend the covers around their chiseled biceps and triceps.
This issue is dedicated to the sculptor of emotions himself, The Modern Minstrel, who puts his work on display in the spirit of sharing despite any vulnerability. Thank you to everyone who has involved themselves with us in any way: our contributors, readers, submitters, staff, editorial board, and enablers. Between our walls, may the Modern Minstrel always have a place to play her heart out.
Katherine Holotko
Claudia Sbuttoni
Editors-in-Chief
Spring 2014
This issue’s selections include:
| Poetry | |
| Savuti | Barbara Ryder-Levinson |
| Painted Leather Jacket | Scott Brennan |
| In A Crooked Mirror: 1:38 am Feeding: A Birthday Poem | David-Glen Smith |
| The Art of Chrysanthemums | Robert Karaszi |
| Les cendres/Ashes | Ivan de Monbrison |
| Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle. | Joseph Mills |
| Talk Nerdy to Me | Matthew Pawlak |
| Blessed | Carrie L. Krucinski |
| House of Figs | Kevin Kiely |
| If I Ended the Sun, And Thus the Earth, Am I > or = to God? | Leah Silverman |
| Planting the Heart | James Valvis |
| Fogo Island, Newfoundland | Claire Farley |
| Ai, Ai | Kristin Distel |
| El Sueno | Kenneth Pobo |
| Nocturnal Garden with Buildings | Kenneth Pobo |
| The Art of Deception | Gabrielle Freeman |
| Huesca, 2013 | Francesc M. Franch |
| Saint Brendan and the Whale | David-Glen Smith |
| Book of Fire | Kristin Distel |
| Salt | Claire Farley |
| Up All Night | Henry Hsiao |
| All Mothers | Leah Silverman |
| The Organ Grinder | Joan L. Cannon |
| Prose | |
| Eye Tea | Melissa Pheterson |
| Sundays | Sophie Mindes |
| Bones and Rice | Mariel Victoria Mok |
| Order In The World | Marty Carlock |
| Lighthouse | Ivy McCall |
| A Growing, A Longing, A Passing | Spencer Sapienza |
| If You Get Far Enough Away, You’ll be on Your Way Back Home | Laura E. Britton |
| The Florida Visit | Nancy Davidoff Kelton |
| The Fall of a Hundred Things | Néha Hirve |
| The Silk Scarf | Kim Farleigh |
| Artwork | |
| just a passing bird | Néha Hirve |
| untitled | Néha Hirve |
| mecánicos | Néha Hirve |
| Âllo Claude | Néha Hirve |
| The Hand’s Card | Leana King |
| Black Horse | Leana King |
| untitled series | Mariel Victoria Mok |
| Division of Chromosomes / Secret Visions Shared in Catacombs | Ramon Gutierrez |
| Sacrifice Your Lesser Self | Ramon Gutierrez |
| Ancient Mathematics | Ramon Gutierrez |
| Anima / Animus | Ramon Gutierrez |
| Leaving Station | Jesse Wheaton |
| untitled | Stefanie Chan |
| float | Stefanie Chan |
| untitled | Stefanie Chan |
| 35mm film photographs of Greece and Italy | Patricia Sullivan |
| Just Kids | Nikki Tabibian |
| Taylor’s Constellation | Jesse Wheaton |
| Invade Your Imagination | Jesse Wheaton |
| Bathroom Documentary | Lucy Beni |
| Heavy Wishes | Kia Delgado |
| Echo | Kia Delgado |
| One Thousand Suns | Kia Delgado |
| London Bridge by Night | Virginia Mastrostefano |
| Saint Pancras Piano Player | Virginia Mastrostefano |
| Two | Virginia Mastrostefano |
| Not the One | Kati Blackshear |
| Waves | Kati Blackshear |
| Cover Art | |
| but as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us, 15×19 oil on board 2010 | Jeff Felker |
| “i too saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water”, 20×24 oil on canvas 2010 | Jeff Felker |
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