Seems #40, “The Return of the Limerick Kid,” edited and published by Karl Elder with the assistance of student interns Ross Fale, Zak Ford, Lea Holz, Wendi Kulas, and Jodie Liedke, was recently released, boasting a collaborative cover design conceived by Elder, assembled by Liedke and Kulas, and enhanced by Eric Binversie of GT Graphics.
This latest number of the magazine features an over-the-top, “pulp” short story by a young writer from Ohio, Ryan Ireland—his first publication. Completing the issue are poems from well-seasoned and prolific writers like Philip Dacey and Michael Cadnum as well as several with Wisconsin connections, including a new young poet, Austin Smith, who graduated from U.W.-Madison in June, spent four months living in a tent in Alaska, and now works on his family’s dairy farm near Freeport, Illinois.