Iodine Poetry Journal
Volume VI, No. 1
Spring/Summer 2005

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CONTENTS

Renee Ashley
Ars Poetica
Stars When I First Saw It
Proem

Therese Bartholomew
Autopsy Photos

Joseph Bathanti
Advising

Mark Bennion
Stitching

Kathy Oliver Brown
London '63

Mark C. Bruce
Photo, Dee Bruce, Age 16, 1949

W.K. Buckley
Beads

Ken Champion
Carpet

Bill Cowee
Findings By The Light Of Stars

Mary Crow
The Women Of Lijiang

Christopher Davis
A Fighter

John Davis
Fourth Quarter

M. Scott Douglass
In Camden, June 7, 2004

Thomas P. Feeny
The Dream Itself

Jack Foster
(Nothing)

Merrill Gilfillan
Landscape With Shore

Jennifer Gomoll
Box Shadow

L.B. Green
The Sea We Imagine
What Is Light Without Shadow?

Cleo Griffith
Chair

Bill Griffin
Horizon

**Amari Hamadene
Ghazel
Nights Vigil
Sorry Missiles
Sylvan Exoticism

George Held
Father Phil

Glenn Hutchinson
Cab Driving In Houston

Charles M. Israel
Requiem In Wheatland, Indiana

Ron Koertge
Found
The Fighting Poets

Bruce Lader
Fragments Of War

David T. Manning
Targets

Deborah Mead
Directions

Christoph Meyer
Retirement Community

Sally B. Miller
The Lost Button

J. Andrew Morris
No Bargains Here

Kara L. Mottershead
Volcano

Ione O'Hara
Seeing the Amish in the Ocean

Fred Ostrander
The Word

Stephen Page
Building a Beach House
The Grave Robber

Leslie M. Rupracht
Dead End

Gail Peck
Harry, Something To Blow On
At Pianicaldi

Simon Perchik
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Allan Peterson
The World Told In Full

Louis Phillips
Today I Shall Write An Evocative Poem
Sometimes Standing On An Unfamiliar Station

Lisa Hammond Rashley
Downtown

Elaine Reisman
The Transformation

Daniel Rosenberg
Vocabulary

C.C. Russell
Years

C. Pleasants York
Hieroglyph

R.T. Smith
My Funny Valentine in the Netherlands
Parade at VMI
Debits

Shelby Stephenson
Grading Tobacco: An Imposition
I Am The House I was Born In

Gilda Morina Syverson
Woman In Maroon
Gualtieri Sicamino, Messina, Sicily, August 1988

Davide Trame
After The Fireworks
Last Day Of School

Nathan Whiting
Hook Bent Or Straight
Given Stolen Energy

Fredrick Zydek
Living In Extraordinary Circumstances
Writing The Year's Last Poem

** Retraction

On May 22nd, 2004 I received an e-mail submission from Algerian poet, Amari Hamadene. I only take email submissions from Internationals simply because it is faster and cheaper to correspond. I was very interested and excited that someone in northern Africa had heard about Iodine Poetry Journal, so I read the work with great interest. I had no reason to doubt the authenticity of any of the work. I slated to publish it in the spring/summer 2005 issue, which is also the special Fifth Anniversary Issue. It is a historical issue at that, not only because of the occasion and its new format, but because it appears that Mr. Hamadene has plagiarized at least three of the four poems I published.

Right after this issue appeared, I mailed out contributor’s and subscription copies, and almost immediately began receiving e-mails regarding the poems Hamadene claimed were his. After some careful research, I’ve concluded that the poems entitled "Nights Vigil" and "Sylvan Exoticism" are actually poems originally entitled "Vigil" and "The Orientalist" respectively. They were written by Ranjit Hoskote and appeared in the online magazine, Nth Position in December 2003. The poem entitled "Sorry Missiles" was by U.K. poet, Sean Street and was originally entitled "The Sacrifice" which appeared in Nth Position in November 2002. The dates, the content, the facts don’t lie. Sincere apologies to Mr. Hoskote and Mr. Street.

I e-mailed Amari Hamadene, laying out what I knew and asked for a response, but I’ve yet to receive one. I found much of this information at http://1hundred1.20six.nl . It’s difficult to understand why someone would do this, when the remuneration for poetry is generally publication online or copies of print magazines such as Iodine Poetry Journal. I’ll leave conclusions up to the reader.