NUMBER 8

CONTRIBUTORS: Jenny Drai, Max Winter, Tim Ross, Sheilah Coleman, W. B. Keckler, John Colburn, Jared Hayley, Nathan Parker, Christopher Salerno, John Kistner, Soyoung Jung, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Flora Fair, Matthew McCaw, Jeff Hoffman, Paula Koneazny, Eric Abbott, Amanda Schaffer, Matt Hart, Matthew Lippman, Christian Peet, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, David Allen, Daniel Brenner, David Chirico, Wayne Hogan, Cody Walker, Nathan Hoks, Cameron K. Gearen, Lisa Fink, Sarah Wolfson, Michael Morse, Rae Gouirand, Lauren Ireland, Amir Kenan, Carl Tillona

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This issue of Spinning Jenny is thick with poems that regularly make syntax irregular. ... A lack of contributor’s notes also gives Black Dress Press’s journal a black sheep feel, among a flock of literary journals. ... [W]hat I found most alluring in these 86 pages is the quirky transitions between poems. ... Spinning Jenny 8 features multiple poems by the same poet, a trend among journals, though not so much a trend as to have grown tired. Like every approach, this one comes with risks. The upside: getting a better grasp on a certain poet’s work. The downside: enjoying one poem by X poet but not another. I applaud Spinning Jenny for its whimsy and risk, for once again giving a variety of voices an arena in which to makke loud their voices.
—Erin M. Bertram, New Pages, January 22, 2006