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A journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, stories and essays published by Ricardo and Isabel Nirenberg since 1998.
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Welcome to Offcourse.org, new home of Offcourse Literary Journal.

After 27 years of publishing on the University at Albany's website, Offcourse is moving.
Our upcoming Issue #101 will appear here on June 20th, 2025.
All previous issues of the journal have been moved here: just click on "See older issues". Please let us know when you find any missing pages or other errors.

Please contact us as usual at inirenberg@albany.edu for submissions, queries, and questions.

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Issue #100, March 2025

• "Consider the Knee" and "Cast Out", poems by Devon Balwit
• "Just Imagine" and "The Sound of Death", poems by Rose Mary Boehm
• Poems by Astrid Cabral with translations by Alexis Levitin
• "The Understudy", a story by Marco Etheridge
• "Scrabble or Death" and "Oh Susann", poems by Vern Fein
• "Diversity!", an essay by Joachim Frank
• "It's About Time", a dialogue between Joachim Frank and Ricardo Nirenberg
• "Minor", "Zen Koan", and "La Dolce Vita", poems by Lou Gallo
• An Excerpt from the Novella The Death of Rob’s Aunt Morgan, by Eugene Garber
• "Cover Ups", a vignette by Lois Greene Stone
• "Overheard at the Cleaners" and other poems by Mark Jackley
• "Confession" and "Suite in Old Age", poems by Miriam Kotzin
• "January 20, 2025. -Riverside, California", a poem by Judy Kronenfeld
• "Accident Report" and "Lycanthropy", poems by Gerry LaFemina
• "Watching Tarzan's Secret Treasure" and other poems by Peggy Landsman
• "A Quiet Yes" and "Proper Noun", poems by Sheila E. Murphy
• “Three Salvos for Cultural Appropriation” by Ricardo Nirenberg
• "For my Paroles Officer" and "No Doubt the Same Can Be Said", poems by Louis Phillips
• "Climax" and "Ode to the Ampersand", poems by Charles Rammelkamp
• "Fragments after Emile Chartier ("Alain"), 1922", by Terry Savoie
• "Space Junk" and other poems by Claire Scott
• "Driving Stanley Kunitz" and other poems by J.R. Solonche
• " Sunday in Seconds", a poem by Tim Suermondt
• "The Poet's Chair" and two other poems by David Tovy
• "The Rabelais Foundation", a story by Robert Wexelblatt
• "An Old Testament Prophet Views Inauguration Day" and other poems by Sarah White
• Peter Mladinic reviews John Grey's Subject Matters.

Congratulations to:

• Judy Kronenfeld on her recently published APARTNESS: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS AND POEMS (Inlandia Books, 2025.)
• J.R. Solonche on: Night Visit (Dos Madres Press), available now, Collected Short Poems (Shanti Publishing) and Barren Road (Serving House Books),both forthcoming this spring, The Consolations (Kelsay Books) and Everything (Deerbrook Editions), both forthcoming this fall.

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