Just over a month after Brian Foley posted here about a call for submissions for the first issue, SoandSo Magazine already has an archive (brimming over with Luke Bloomfield, Lily Brown, Michael Ford, Jim Goar, Jennifer Militello, and more, like a video, “Poem for Johannes Göransson,” by Joshua Marie Wilkinson.)

The second issue is–somehow–even more So. (More poems too, 2 to 3 per poet, many long–and good–enough to stretch the bounds of what this reader can take in on a screen. Moreover, the issue strikes me as being just the right size for an online journal.)

Ana Bozicevic, author of the sterling Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky), leads off with “About A Fish”: “the kind of poem / in which you hold, in the garden / a red umbrella out against the heat-storm of cicadas.” Joe Fletcher, whose Sleigh Ride (Factory Hollow), is well worth taking, follows: “During meals we like / to discuss prior meals.” I find much to admire in just about every poem in the issue, but the ones I keep returning to are the final poem, Franz Wright‘s faintly Walserian, “With Bacovia,” Amy King’s alliterative “Tiny Tacos” (“I’m going to get a tin book, / lose ground and fake the world.”) and “Dali Dolly” (are there 24 more?) and three by Douglas Piccinnini, whose “Tiller,” “Soft Highway” (after the break), and “Bodkin,” comprise my favorite group of poems online since Jane Gregory’s in notnostrums 3:

In sum, another online poetry journal–alongside (the also relatively new?) Fou, Glitterpony, Octopus, notnostrums, Shampoo, Sir!, Typo, and fellow upstart/juggernaut Wolf in a Field–to grow on.

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