And here is one of MY Cover Letters and the Attached Document wth All 3 Poems in ONE DOC Jill

[jill stockinger]

Jill Stockinger

2524 Moretti Way                                                                                                              916.662.4610

Sacramento, CA 95821                                                                                                 jills...@gmail.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 (FYI: Bethanie told us the best way to email poems you are submitting is in ONE DOCUMENT and to "INSERT PAGE BREAKS" after EACH POEM, inside the document, to help them

keep their formatting. This is the VERY FIRST TIME I have inserted Page Breaks!  Jil)

 

 

December 12, 2024

 

Dear Editors:

 

 

My name is Jill Stockinger, and I am drawn to your publication, The Heron Clan, because of the high literary quality, your inclusion of poets from many different

cultures and nations, and your willingness to include poets who are not well known. I particularly look forward to reading the poems in your issues where writers 

have taken poetic forms such as sonnets, ghazals and haibun and have refashioned them to heighten the impact of their words.   

 

My bio:

             

      Jill Stockinger received her MLS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was

      a librarian 42 years in New York, Chicago and Sacramento. Her work has appeared in

      Tule Review, World Poetry Day, The Ina Coolbrith Circle Poetry Anthology and others.

      She led open poetry writing groups for 14 years in libraries. Besides the U.S., she has

      enjoyed living in Greece, Mexico and Turkey. She writes daily; as a teen, she wished to

      marry T.S. Eliot.

I have included the following poems in one document as an attachment to this email. I am submitting them to be considered for your next issue:

 

1)    Gathering Stones

2)    As Up We Grew

3)    I Dream of Love and Land: A Ghazal

 

Thank you for your time and your consideration of my work.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jill Stockinger