The Blue Mountain Review

16/11/2024

Congratulations to Olivia Muñoz on her winning manuscript-- one of the most original and powerful I’ve come across in years!

*The utterly original structure of Muñoz’s book creates a dream-like sequence of vignettes that transfixes the reader. Through incredibly evocative images, unique tropes, and captivating syntax, she builds a world that we inhabit with all our senses.* --Richard Blanco

The Blue Mountain Review The Southern Collective Experience

06/11/2024

Neal Francis has graced the cover of the Blue

06/11/2024

Getting through these tumultuous times has the potential to bring us closer together, to see the evil for what it is, and stand against it.

Thank you Stuart Dischell, Tim Conroy, and Nick Kelsh share their ideas on how to stay calm - to live through art.

Find more about Stuart here: www.stuartdischellpoetry.com

Tim Conroy can be seen here: https://youtu.be/cAIei_K7LDE?si=ui1ate-WOOJ0sabN

Nick Kelsh shares his gift with photography here: https://www.howtophotographyourlife.com/about-nick/

Thank you for being members of The Southern Collective Experience.

05/11/2024

05/11/2024

We’d dig an interview with Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy.

03/11/2024

Check out this interview in the current issue with Len Foote Hike Inn’s Eric Graves. You get a glimpse into the life of the man behind the scenes, and a look into this unique getaway in North Georgia: https://issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewseptember2024?ff

Editor in Chief Charles Clifford Brooks III adds to this interview with an autobiographical account of his experience as one with autism. Nature truly soothes and helps to self-soothe.

To submit creative writing for the next issue, drop in on our Submittable page: https://bluemountainreview.submittable.com/submit

29/10/2024

Dip into the new Dante's Old South Radio Show with host Charles Clifford Brooks III:

Poet/professor Major Jackson
Actor/director/novelist Tim Blake Nelson
Actor/children’s book author Geoffrey Owens
Musician/producer Mobley
Rome International Film Festival organizer Seth Ingram

Follow this Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kMqjDmXo9s8UxnqDilbuB?si=MAi06XGoR3qX57MlhoaliQ

Thank you Michael Amidei for production of this show.

Thank you NPR / WUTC for airing Dante’s.

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29/10/2024

“TWAS HALLOWEEN NIGHT by Geoffrey Owens from Lucid House Publishing: https://www.lucidhousepublishing.com/twas-halloween-night

Young Jorlyn’s night of trick-or-treating reveals some shocking surprises right in her own neighborhood in this rhyming poem destined to become a holiday classic like Clement C. Moore’s poem “The Night Before Christmas.”
From Geoffrey Owens: "When my son Jordyn was young and green—and still possessing that adventuresome spirit and taste for sweets that inspire neighborhood wanderlust in late October—I couldn’t help noticing how popular Halloween had become.

It seemed as if it had begun to rival Christmas for our nation’s favorite holiday. And yet, whereas Christmas is well represented by Clement C. Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (more popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas”) and Charles Dickens’s masterpiece A Christmas Carol, there was, as far as I could see, no equivalently well-known Halloween story. This realization, along with my son’s enjoyment of the holiday’s rituals, inspired me to write “‘Twas Halloween Night.”

Once I imagined the story of young Jorlyn’s adventure, I decided to describe it in rhyming verse. Why? Because rhyme is fun. Because rhyme is magical. Because everyone likes rhyme. (Or, at least, nobody doesn’t like rhyme.) Both Robert Frost and John Lennon insisted on it. Rap depends on it. Children adore it. Rhyme enchants; rhyme soothes. Rhyme, despite its constant promise of a predictable pattern, perennially surprises and delights."

29/10/2024

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28/10/2024