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Poetry & prose from the road! HCR is a quiet, tucked-away lit journal where any poet, artist, or storyteller can rest their feet and share their work over a crackling fire. Since 2009! https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com

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HCR: Ten Year Anniversary Anthology Now available at Amazon!Β  This anthology celebrates ten years of poetry and prose from the road, all previously featured in Hobo Camp ...

We still occasionally sell copies of our 10-year anniversary print edition that came out 6 years ago, and 100% of all sales go to local food pantries, so if you're ever interested, here is the link:

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A Review of Bud Smith’s β€œTollbooth,” by James H Duncan There’s nothing I hate more than a flowery book review/blurb that blows smoke up a reader’s skirt, so I’ll go ahead and give you my no-bulls...

A throwback to our review of Tollbooth by Bud Smith

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I believe we have responded to all submissions at this point, so if you did not get a reply please let us know. We have had instances of emails going astray in the past. Thanks!

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https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html?m=1

Submissions are open to the end of the month, no fees ever. All subs get a response by November 30. If you don't get one, let us know! Now and then one gets lost and we want to make sure you get a response within the submission period. Thanks!

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James H Duncan Reviews "Blood Music" by Frank Reardon Right out of the gate, Frank Reardon’s poem β€œHeavy in the Dirt” tells you everything you need to know about his most recent collection, Blo...

A throwback to our review of Frank Reardon's Blood Music.

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Thank you for all of the great submissions so far! And just to clarify, our David Lynch issue came out last summer and the issue we're reading for has no theme. We've been getting a ton of new David Lynch poetry, which suggest someone could run a strictly David Lynch poetry magazine and do fine πŸ˜‚

02.11.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html?m=1

We are currently open for submissions with guidelines at our website!

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A Review of How to Monetize Despair by Lisa Mottolo Reviewed by James H Duncan A beautiful collection of poetry haunted by wildlife and wild traumas, ghosts of pain and guilt intermingling w...

Our review of How to Monetize Despair by Lisa Mottolo

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29.10.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of Frankie Metro’s 'A.P.C.' Review by James H Duncan When I agreed to take a look at Frankie Metro’s recent poetry collection, A.P.C. , I didn’t realize that agr...

A throwback review of Frankie Metro's A.P.C.

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Our submission window opens in 4 days! Guidelines at our site...

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Submissions will open November 1 and close at the end of November, 2025, for an issue that will go live in early 2026. No theme, no fee.

If you don't hear back within that window, reach out to us. Now and then a sub slips into our junk folder. We want to make sure you get a response ASAP!

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A Review of Ron Kolm's Duke & Jill by James H Duncan When I first met Ron Kolm and began listening to him read his Duke & Jill stories at various venues around NYC, it st...

A throwback to our review of Ron Kolm's Duke & Jill

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Homage to What's-His-Name

Ah, description, of all the arts the least appreciated.
Well, it's just this and it's just that,
someone will point out.
Exactly. It's just this and it's just that and nothing other.
From landscape to unsuppressed conjunction, it's only itself.
No missteps, no misreading.
And what's more metaphysical than that,
The world in its proper posture, on all fours, drinking the sweet water:

Homage to What's-His-Name Ah, description, of all the arts the least appreciated. Well, it's just this and it's just that, someone will point out. Exactly. It's just this and it's just that and nothing other. From landscape to unsuppressed conjunction, it's only itself. No missteps, no misreading. And what's more metaphysical than that, The world in its proper posture, on all fours, drinking the sweet water:

Ah, description, of all the arts the least appreciated.
Well, it's just this and it's just that,
someone will point out.

[…]

And what's more metaphysical than that,
The world in its proper posture, on all fours, drinking the sweet water?

Charles Wright, in a poem for Mark Strand

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A Review of John Dorsey's Imaginary Foxholes by James H Duncan Most of the work I’ve read from John Dorsey focuses on characters he’s run across in his lifetime, and Imaginary Foxh...

A throwback to our review of Imaginary Foxholes by John Dorsey

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Subs open November 1 

https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html?m=1

Subs open November 1 https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html?m=1

Submissions open November 1 and close at the end of the month for an issue that will go live in early 2026. No fee, no theme.

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A Review of The Blood of a Tourist by William Taylor Jr. Review by James H Duncan William Taylor Jr. is writing from the place I want to be. In The Blood of a Tourist , Mr. Taylor is constructin...

A throwback to our review of The Blood of a Tourist by William Taylor Jr.

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06.10.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's very likely we will open to submissions one more time before the end of 2025. Details will be coming soon but the issue will have no theme, with no fee as always.

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An ad for a poetry reading at the fish market in Troy, New York on October 11th. Hosted by the Hudson Valley writers Guild

An ad for a poetry reading at the fish market in Troy, New York on October 11th. Hosted by the Hudson Valley writers Guild

Coming to Troy, NY in a couple weeks!

28.09.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poetry for David Lynch by Gabriel Ricard

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Poetry for David Lynch by Gabriel Ricard https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/gabriel-ricard.html?m=1

Poetry for David Lynch by Gabriel Ricard

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Remembering Linda Pastan

β€œin the pure blue
of insight”

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A David Lynch poem by Jay Orlando 

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A David Lynch poem by Jay Orlando http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/jay-orlando.html

A David Lynch poem by Jay Orlando

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After the Slum Clearances - Stone Circle Review by Hannah Linden - We watched ourselves, snow-clocked tidal floes in a melting landscape. We were crystals held together by the cold, our home ...

Stone Circle Replay Wednesday poem: "After the Slum Clearances" by Hannah Linden (@hannahl1n.bsky.social‬)

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A Review of Wolfgang Carstens’ books 'Enjoy Oblivion' & 'Only The Dead' By James H Duncan Enjoy Oblivion (Epic Rites Press) starts off on the same idea that haunts my own private thoughts and motivations,...

Throwback to our review of Enjoy Oblivion by Wolfgang Carstens

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Peter Devonald (click image to enlarge poem) Peter Devonald is a multi-award-winning writer based in Manchester, UK. Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024, Walth...

A new David Lynch inspired poem by Peter Devonald

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08.08.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two David Lynch poems by Jane Salmons in our new issue!

http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/jane-salmons.html

Two David Lynch poems by Jane Salmons in our new issue! http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/jane-salmons.html

Two David Lynch poems by Jane Salmons in our new issue!

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Ryan Walraven (click image to enlarge poem) Ryan Walraven is a writer and physicist who is originally from Baltimore and who now lives in Oakland with h...

A David Lynch inspired donut poem from Ryan Walraven!

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29.07.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super stoked to have a poem featured in this awesome David Lynch themed anthology! I'm missing David every day -- especially his kind thoughtful energy and optimism for the world.

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Pitching NPR (thrillers, nonfiction, literary fiction, work in translation, etc) and always looking for stuff for my CrimeReads column (crime, noir, mystery, suspense, true crime, etc). If you have anything that fits coming out between August and December, let me know! Thank you.

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Michael N. Thompson gives David Lynch a curtain call in this new poem. 

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Michael N. Thompson gives David Lynch a curtain call in this new poem. http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/michael-n-thompson.html

Michael N. Thompson gives David Lynch a curtain call in this new poem.

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Catherine Fletcher gives us "Ballad of the Locksmith" in our David Lynch issue.

http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/catherine-fletcher.html

Catherine Fletcher gives us "Ballad of the Locksmith" in our David Lynch issue. http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2025/07/catherine-fletcher.html

Catherine Fletcher gives us "Ballad of the Locksmith" in our David Lynch issue.

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