Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
“On the Past” by Marvin Glasser
Marvin Glasser ON THE PAST It wasn’t a bad day as days go. I awoke in the morning. I was still around at the end. Another gauntlet run. The problem was all the other days that washed up against it bringing the wrack of memory, neutered hope, mute regret. They certainly cast a pall. What [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
“Even the Nails in the Sheetrock Missed Her” by Cheryl Gatling
Cheryl Gatling EVEN THE NAILS IN THE SHEET ROCK MISSED HER When she entered a room, the room paid attention. When she entered his house, the leather couches plumped up and shone, the hardwood floors were giddy with tapping against the soles of her small black shoes, the books on the shelves jostled each other [...]
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
LICKING THE SPOON by Joanie Dimartino
Review by Linda Benninghoff LICKING THE SPOON by Joanie DiMartino Finishing Line Press PO Box 1626 Georgetown, KY 40324 ISBN 978-1-59924-160-9 2007, 30 pp., $12.00 www.finishinglinepress.com The poems in Licking the Spoon are about women—women having children, women involved with men, and women–in some cases, generations of women–cooking. The motif of cooking runs through most [...]
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
“Death, Again” by Mark Gibbons
Mark Gibbons DEATH, AGAIN for Howard “Bud” Meyers (1932-2003) And why not? Isn’t it what we know best and least, that fear, the bottom of it all, where each year we seem to burn more bones than we bury? Why does it really matter to us how others dispose of our remains, the stiff lifeless [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
“Narrow Openings” by Francesca Bell
Francesca Bell NARROW OPENINGS A constant dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious woman are alike. —Proverbs 27:15 It’s hot. The clouds’ soft faces are closed, a billowing refusal, and I want to quarrel with my lover who just sits risen dull from a bed we left damp as horses that have [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
SCHOLARSHIP GIRL by Lesley Wheeler
Review by Wendy Vardaman SCHOLARSHIP GIRL by Lesley Wheeler Finishing Line Press P.O. Box 1626 Georgetown, KY 40324 ISBN: 978-1-59924-226-2 25 pp., $12.00 www.finishinglinepress.com Scholarship Girl is Lesley Wheeler’s first poetry collection, although Wheeler, Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, is the author of two scholarly books, and the co-editor of Letters to [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
“Miss Memory” by Jake Willard-Crist
Jake Willard-Crist MISS MEMORY A woman on the radio can recall every day of her life for the last thirty years. The weather, headlines, whether it was Monday. Ten years old on a rainy Tuesday she bought loafers with her mother. A Labrador wrung itself out like a rag. She compares autumns. Ranks Easters by [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
“My Neighbor Gives Me Meat Bones” by Hilda Weiss
Hilda Weiss MY NEIGHBOR GIVES ME MEAT BONES I bring her persimmons from the Farmer’s Market at midday. Last of the season. Do you like to cook? Yes, I say, I like to cook. Do you eat meat? Yes, I say, I eat meat. I have meat for you. It’s frozen. Bright red. Big chunks [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
“Morning at the Elizabeth Arch” by Joe Weil
Joe Weil MORNING AT THE ELIZABETH ARCH The winos rise as beautiful as deer. Look how they stagger from their sleep as if the morning were a river against which they contend. This is not a sentiment filled with the disdain of human pity. They turn in the mind, they turn beyond the human order. [...]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
THE FRATERNITY OF OBLIVION by Larry D. Thomas
Review By Robert Neely THE FRATERNITY OF OBLIVION by Larry D. Thomas Timberline Press. 6281 Red Bud, Fulton Missouri, 65251 ISBN#: 978-0-944048-44-3 48 pp., $15.00 www.timberlinepress.com One of the hardest traits for a poet to find in his work is originality. Most must begin with not only something to compel the reader to continue, but [...]
