Fernweh

A Pomme Journal Publication |published: 11/28/2019

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Fernweh is a German word used to describe a feeling of wanderlust, farsickness or a deep longing to be somewhere else. Pomme is looking to create a publication of fictional short stories and poems that feature characters with this sense of longing or incite farsickness in the reader.

Contributors

• DANIELLE BATALION OLA The Legend of Emi

  Twitter: @_daniola
  Writes from Brooklyn with the support of her dog, Stitch. Find her in the creative newsletter Amator.

• RUTH KESSLER Memento
  www.RuthKessler.com
  A two-time immigrant whose work explores the themes of place, displacement and memory.

• MERYL SCHWARTZ BAER Daydreamer
  sixdecadesandcounting.blogspot.com
  Former financial geek, she moved to the New Jersey shore and writes about her travels and travails, family, food.

• MARISA P. CLARK Wild Animals Running Away
  A native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and former resident of Atlanta, she is a queer writer who serves as a fiction reader for New England Review.

• GARRETT KELLY Pepperoni

• MEARA LEVEZOW Alternate Timelines
  Meara Levezow is a queer poet from Sheboygan, Wisconsin living and studying in Brooklyn. She has worked in restaurants for over twenty years.

• KEITH MOORE Happy Meal
  Keith Moore is a native New Englander with an advanced degree in literature from the University of Oklahoma.

• CLEO GRIFFITH The Shape of Longing
  A member of the Modesto CA Branch of National League of American Pen Women, she lives in Salida, CA with her husband Tom and their cat, Amber.

• BRENT E WHITE Road to Somewhere
  For twenty-three years he travelled the world in the U.S. Navy. In addition to working with special needs students, he sculpts carousel figures.

• JEFFERSON NAVICKY Portrait of Anna K.
  jeffersonnavicky.com
  Teaching English at Southern Maine Community College, he lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and puppy.

• JOSEPH S. PETE Temporal Fernweh
  Twitter & Instagram: @nwi_jsp
  Award-winning journalist, Iraq War veteran, Indiana University grad, frequent guest on Lakeshore Public Radio.

• VERONICA SCHARF GARCIA Noting, the Wind
  Grew up in South America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She continues her itinerant life now in Europe, her last home base was Calabasas CA.

• MATT DUBE Roma
  Twitter: @matthewdube
  Teaches Creative Writing and American Literature in a mid-Missouri university.

• REBECCA PYLE SUMMER (for Robert Green, long gone)
  rebeccapyleartist.com
  Both artist and writer, she lives in Utah.

• ELIZABETH J. COLEMAN City of Light
  Twitter: @ejcpoetry
  Instagram: elizabethjcoleman
  www.elizabethjcoleman.com

• ANN HOWELLS I’m Headed South Again
  Facebook: Ann Howells
  Ann Howells edited Illya’s Honey from 1999 to 2017. Named a “Distinguished Poet of Dallas” by the city in 2001.

• ERICH VON HUNGEN Unknown
  YouTube: PoetryForce
  His YouTube channel explores issues of social consciousness and matters of the human heart - its uses and misuses.

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