Table of Content May 2013:

The complete list of contents for the Eastlit May 2013 Issue is below. Please click on a link to go to the page. We hope you enjoy the work in the May 2013 issue of Eastlit.

Eastlit Cover. The picture is Renewal of Vows and is submitted by Tom Sheehan featuring his old friends Stanley “Ike” George Kujawski (7-20-21 to 5-3-12) and Setsuko “Dottie” Haghara Kujawski (3-3-22 to 11-15-88). They were Married in Tokyo on 11-12-47. Married for 41 years. The poem At the Lake featured in this issue of Eastlit is dedicated to Stanley Kujawski.

The Eastlit May cover design is by Graham Lawrence.

Editorial by Bryn Tennant.

Blame it on the Farmer by Stefanie Field.

At the Lake by Tom Sheehan.

The Cebuanos by Charlie Canning.

Three Poems by Anna Yin. The poems are: The Map Home, Visiting “The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army” and A Chinese Nightingale.

The Battle of Mianzi by Nichole Reber.

Life Cycle by Richard Lutman. Life Cycle is the third chapter of The Iron Buttefly.

Five Poems by James Underwood. The poems are: Absent, Currents, Mine, Semaphore and Whiter.

Gavin is a Nazi by Christopher Luppi.

Five Poems by James Austin Farrell. The poems are: The Battle of the Bulge, Five Star, Rainy Season, Sentiments and The Night Bazaar.

A Girl Named Indira by Ashutosh Ravikrishnan.

Three Poems by Dawnell Harrison. The poems are: Wounded Whisper, Quiet and Time.

Master by Nicholas Keys.

How not to Write: 1. How Not to Market Yourself by Steve Rosse. The first in a series of short advisory pieces by author and editor Steve Rosse.

Contributors. An alphabetical list of all the contributors to the May 2013 issue of Eastlit complete with biographies of all the writers and poets can be found in this section.

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