Front Porch Review
A literary magazine for the young at heart and mind

Donal Mahoney, the son of Irish immigrants, spent nineteen consecutive years in Roman Catholic schools in and around Chicago. Not once in those years was he tempted to be a priest, a calling far above his pay grade. Because he was useless with tools and only middling in math, he has earned his living moving words, sentences and paragraphs around as an editor of one thing or another. He lives in exile now in St. Louis, Missouri, and writes poems for the same reason others carve wood. He writes them for himself and then sends them out to editors who don't know him to see if they find something they want to publish. His poems have appeared in The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Revival (Ireland), The Shit Creek Review (Australia) and other publications. An obsessive-compulsive, he probably will keep doing this until he dies. His e-mail address: Donal Mahoney