Dear Word Salad Faithful --
It is with great humility that I take this opportunity to welcome you to the Fall/Winter edition (Volume XVII, No. III) of Word Salad Poetry Magazine. This edition not only is the send-off issue celebrating the highest quality of work for the last quarter of 2011, and with that being said, the proverbial kick-off to a fruitful new year, but it is also the first issue in which I have collaborated with Bruce Whealton and Jean Arthur Jones as an editorial staff member and online publisher, which as you may have guessed was a rather eventful experience.
Since my discovery of Word Salad back in 2009, I’ve come to really notice its thriving community of writers, and in its maturity, I’ve noticed that a bulk of current projects have been collaborated by the staple poets. The degrees of loyalty from Word Salad contributors are similar to the attributes of loyalties common in family members, and so the Word Salad community is like the uprooting of a family tree: with each fruitful branch a contribution.
This is more than just your run of the mill publication. Having been a loyal contributor for the past three years, it was this genealogical model that has kept me a follower.
Through Word Salad I discovered other online journals, and coincidentally share publications with the likes of Scott Urban, Jean Jones, John M. Marshall and Alexis Child (just to name a few) on different platforms. In spite of several other publications, it’s hard to withdraw from the connectivity I have felt with Word Salad staff members and its contributors. My energy circumnavigates back to the place where my career took off.