From the staff of The Dolomite Review, we wish you a year filled with literary adventure. In this very first issue, we bring you the very best submissions to fulfill that wish. It's been a long and arduous task to get here, but we are proud and pleased with the final copy. Much more has gone into this magazine than we had expected, and it was worth every minute.

 

We have been highly focused on poetry here, bringing you dozens of works to peruse over the next several weeks. From new writers to established poets, we bring you stories of love and appreciation, of nature and relationships, all from a uniquely Midwest perspective.

 

Earlier this year, we teased you with poetry from Susan Haifleigh and John Lennon. We are happy to reintroduce you to more of their work, and several others who surprised and delighted us with their voice, perspective and philosophies.

 

We also bring you a diverse group of short stories from the various corners of the U.S. representing the many experiences of the Midwest and characters you will find both familiar and novel. 

 

Finally, we hope you will take your time with the essays we have chosen for this first issue. Each writer's experience is distinct but instantly recognizable. Taken together, they create a montage of life in the Midwest that we look forward to growing as we begin to look toward issue two.

 

Thank you to all who submitted and who helped put this issue of The Dolomite Review together. We hope you will read from "cover to cover" and pass along your favorites to family and friends. 

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- The Editors