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    Door Is A Jar Fall 2016 Issue 3
    Door Is A Jar Fall 2016 Issue 3
    Door Is A Jar Fall 2016 Issue 3
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    Door Is A Jar Fall 2016 Issue 3

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    Door is a Jar Magazine is an emerging bi-annual online publication of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork. Our publication steers away from mere academic writing, and focuses on writing that is accessible for all readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoor Is A Jar, LLC
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781540136268
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      Door Is A Jar Fall 2016 Issue 3 - Door Is A Jar, LLC

      Editors

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      Ahrend Torrey, Editor-in-Chief

      Maxwell Bauman, Managing Editor

      Azeez Alli, Art Director

      Nina Long, Fiction Editor

      Leah Vernon, Nonfiction Editor

      Clemonce Heard, Poetry Editor

      Corinne Nulton, Drama Editor

      Jonathan Dacula, Copy and Design Editor

      Jack Fabian, Editorial Intern

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      Cover image by José Galant

      Introduction

      This time a year ago our first issue was published, and since then, so much has changed.

      One thing that I value and appreciate most about being Editor-in-Chief of this great magazine is witnessing how each new issue is a marker of where we are. For editors at other publications, new issues might symbolize where they are headed, but for me, it’s all about this moment— right now!

      A few days ago my partner and I walked through the French Quarter here in New Orleans where we live, and as we walked, after watching people gathered in a circle, propped on buildings, listening to a jazz band in the street, I said, We’ll never have this moment again. He looked over, Well, of course we’ll be back.

      I said, No, just think of this: We’ll never be the age we are now and in this same place. Time keeps changing. We keep changing. The city keeps changing. He looked at me with a smile and quick laugh, and said, Ahh! You’re so poetic! and we kept walking.

      When I think of this, I’m reminded of Whitman’s Miracles and Herrick’s To the Virgins, to make much of Time. You know the lines: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/ Old Time is still a-flying:/ And this same flower that smiles to-day/ To-morrow will be dying.

      For me, and hopefully for you, our magazine is also something to be gathered— to cherish the miracle of. Now as you prepare to turn the page and read this issue, I encourage you to sit back, grab a cup of coffee or tea, and enjoy where you are, where we are—this unique miracle never to be had in this same way, again.

      -Ahrend Torrey, Door Is A Jar Editor-in-Chief

      The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

      — Walt Whitman

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      Lower Mississippi RIVERKEEPER® Award

      Each year, at the release of the Spring issue, Ahrend Torrey and Maxwell Bauman, along with the input from a local organization, introduce two contributors whom they feel best represent Door

      is a Jar Magazine as recipients of the year’s award. This year’s winners are featured on the first few pages of this issue, showcasing their bios and unpublished work. Anyone who submits work to Door is a Jar Magazine has a chance at winning this award.

      As a way for Door is a Jar Magazine to give back to the local community, we partner with local organizations to help them reach their ethical objectives. As of Februar y 2016 we partnered with Lower Mississippi RIVERKEEPER® in an attempt to bring awareness about their organization, thus to bring awareness about the water quality concerns along the Mississippi River. We hope that by partnering

      with Lower Mississippi RIVERKEEPER®, we can help them reach their objectives, which are:

      •  Educating the public and community leaders about water quality concerns along the Mississippi River

      •  Strengthen the environmental community in Louisiana and recruit new activists to insist on improved river conditions.

      •  Monitor and investigate reported incidents.

      •  Target polluters and compel compliance with the Clean Water Act to reduce pollution into the Mississippi River.

      The 2016 winners of the Lower Mississippi RIVERKEEPER® award are

      Valerie Westmark, chosen by Ahrend Torrey, and Drew Pisarra, chosen by Maxwell Bauman . These writers were chosen for several reasons. Both writers wrote with exceptional craft, and the work they submitted exerted a kind of power that moves and intrigues our reader. Just as importantly, these writers wrote with language that is very accessible. The standard of accessibility that we look for when judging this award, goes hand in hand with one of our core values— the value of making our publication open and available to everyone.

      2016 Award Winners

      DREW PISARRA

      Drew has been writing poems inspired by the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder since 2011. He’s also somewhat obsessed with Korean movies, Gertrude Stein, and Mad Men. His book of short stories, Publick Spanking, came out so long ago, he’s begun to suspect that someone else wrote it.

      VALERIE

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