Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
“The Jerry Lewis Telethon” by Bruce Cohen
Bruce Cohen
THE JERRY LEWIS TELETHON
In those existential black & white days
It was indulgent luxury when television
Succumbed to its own insomnia.
My family adopted the Labor Day Telethon,
The day off, children with no bed times
Huddled around the talking box till 3 a.m.
Surrounded by our personal repartee
Of salty snacks. Members of the rat pack
Would radiate on stage, comedians [...]
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
SWEETWATER, SALTWATER by Rosie King
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
“Someone Else’s Wet Styrofoam” by Tanya Chernov
Tanya Chernov
SOMEONE ELSE’S WET STYROFOAM
I practiced flirting on an Italian train
leaving Switzerland, with a European boy
camped out across from me.
I liked him when he sat down,
liked his messy hair, his loose sweater
his weathered pants that hung on him
the way pants ought to hang on a boy.
I pretended not to notice him,
tried to look my prettiest [...]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
“Shame Is the Dress I Wear” by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan
SHAME IS THE DRESS I WEAR
On the first day of school, my mother slips a dark blue
dress over my head, ties the starched sash. Zia Louisa and
Zio Guillermo have come down the back steps to our
apartment to see me setting off. They don’t have children
of their own [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
“Self-Portrait with Purple Erogenous Zones” by David Hage and Dan Waber
DAVID HAGE and DAN WABER: “When David and I met, he was a visual artist with a desire to incorporate more text into his work and I was a poet and visual poet with a desire to explore further into the visual arts. Collaboration seemed a natural next step. David and I started sharing existing [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
from A Conversation with Marvin Bell
from A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MARVIN BELL and ALAN FOX IN PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON AUGUST 11TH, 2007
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[...]
FOX: How does getting older affect your writing or your philosophy on life?
BELL: Well, I think I’m a guy who matured pretty late—well, I don’t want to say that; I got older, I didn’t [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
THE CLOCK MADE OF CONFETTI by Michael Salcman
Review by Siobhan Watson
THE CLOCK MADE OF CONFETTI
by Michael Salcman
Orchises Press
P.O. Box 320533
Alexandria, VA
22320-4533
ISBN-13: 978-1-932535-11-2
104 pp., $14.95
http://mason.gmu.edu
Michael Salcman’s book of poetry, The Clock Made of Confetti, is an ambitious first collection and an admirable work. Much of his work has previously appeared in a number of national publications, and it is clear that Salcman [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
“Inside this Next Vase, Likely” by Jennifer Boyden
Jennifer Boyden
INSIDE THIS NEXT VASE, LIKELY
The doorknob’s crystal transmits in radio filament:
come in, come in, the voices thin as a bargain.
The voices were tuned to the door’s position
and disappeared only when the people left the houses,
which was how the people understood
the houses were never empty, though they searched
but could not find.
What the voices asked for [...]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
“Class Politics” by Kevin Clark
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Kevin Clark
CLASS POLITICS
1.
It was clear Maurice had been messed with plenty—
and that he’d messed right back. At the second class,
I asked him a question about a Faulkner story,
and he sized me up with a look that said
you may be my age and my teacher, but
if you ever screw with [...]
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
“The Periodic Table of the Elements” by Louis Phillips
LOUIS PHILLIPS: “‘The Periodic Table of Elements’ represents great scientific achievements and its visual presentation is concise, imaginative, and useful. We have looked at the periodic table so many times in schools and in books that we have lost the ability to see it. I looked at it and asked the wonderful ‘what if ’ [...]
