Carolyn Ostrander

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Poet. Editor, The Comstock Review. Rhet/Comp & Historiography. Rural Studies. Linguistics. Multimodal/ Multilingual Acquisition. Disability/Deaf Studies. Educational Equity & Access. Best endorsement to date: my GP reports "Patient is a good historian"

One uncut apple pie with golden brown crust pierced in a pattern of radiating lines and browned syrupy filling peeping through the holes and around the lower right part of the rim. The pie is in a yellow ceramic pie plate on a cutting board, sitting on a light and medium brown woven bamboo place mat with a gray cloth binding.
Black and white Winter country scene. Caption on the right reads "Here are the changes for a white Christmas in south-central Pennsylvania"
1 large and 4 small gravestones stand between a small footpath and a dense stand of trees with fern undergrowth in an abandoned cemetery. Leetonia, PA (ghost town and former lumbering camp 1880s-1920s) photo 2006
Meme image: white-haired woman wearing beige sweater white pants, black and beige scarf and glasses stands in front of clippings arranged on a wall as a brown-haired women in a matching blue top and sweater gestures. Caption: "That's not how this works" above and "That's not how any of this works" below.
Two bright red amaryllis blooms on a tall green stem with green leaves. One faces front; the second is in profile. In the background a window framed by orange/brown sill and kitchen items: dishcloth, soap dispense, pitcher, coffeemaker, thermometer
D. J. Trump in a left-facing silhouette against a black background, wearing a black suit, white-collared shirt and blue tie. Only the collar and tie, Trump's head, and the upraised black-gloved hand on the left (in front from Trump's perspective) are visible. The gloved hand is facing the camera and uplifted at a 45 degree angle so that it seems to float in front of him. The glove reflects narrow lines of light on the four fingers and thumb, giving it a skeletal appearance. Screenshot from a photo taken on Feb 19, 2025 and credited to Reuters. The photo accompanied an article in The Hindu on Feb 20, 2025. In the full photo Trump's black suit merges into the night-black background, creating the floating images described. Crediting photo source in the QT article
Text: Don't let Halloween excitement TRICK you into missing out on submitting your Chapbook to the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest! TREAT your best poetry to a chance at publication - Submissions end on October 31st, so don't delay! https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit #poetrycontest #chapbook Image: cover art by artist Yolanda Tooley from The Comstock Review Fall/Winter 2009. collection of masks in grayscale on a black background