Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
“Halfway House for the Incoherent” by Jennifer Gresham
Jennifer Gresham HALFWAY HOUSE FOR THE INCOHERENT She gathered them from the edges of cities like wildflowers, gave them each a glass of water. When she tried drawing a map, it turned into a tangle of roots. In their hands, compass needles flew in circles like a flock of frightened birds. So they stayed— wandered [...]
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
VOICES by Lucille Clifton
Review by Cameron Conaway VOICES by Lucille Clifton BOA Editions, LTD 250 N. Goodman Street, Suite 306 Rochester, NY 14607 ISBN: 978-1-934414-12-5 2008, 64 pp., $16.00 www.boaeditions.org Lucille ordered broccoli for her side. “My doctor says it’ll keep me going,” she whispered to me. Vivace Restaurant is considered by many to be the best we [...]
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
“Fire Flowers” by Jonathan Greenhause
Jonathan Greenhause FIRE FLOWERS In Japanese, the word for “office” is a character composing two smaller characters meaning “enclosed space” and “slumping corpse.” Outside, a soft rain’s falling on what was once the corner deli but is now an immense pile of pipes and bricks, chips of cement, and crumpled menus. I used to eat [...]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
“Elevated Findings” by Kip Deeds
KIP DEEDS: “‘Walden, Sprawl, and All’ began with a drawing of a cabin, inspired in part by my own experience of cabin-living in Michigan. Although this drawing went unresolved for two years, I began doing watercolor tests on the paper in the summer of 2007. By autumn I was developing a sprawling urban landscape around [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
“Western Michigan University, 1989″ by Pamela Garvey
Pamela Garvey WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, 1989 In only the thin fog of moonlight, only the dull yellow bulbs lining the park’s path, two students—unnamed, spared from photographs—perched on coolers and flung their cane poles into the pond, a perfect oval with nowhere to go, little to offer: just some overgrown goldfish and darters, small trophies [...]
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
“Wheat State Salvation” by Paul Dickey
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Paul Dickey WHEAT STATE SALVATION And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. —Matthew [...]
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
TALL IF by Mark Irwin
Review by Andrew Allport
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
“The Town Drunk’s Last Stand” by Peter Funk
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Peter Funk THE TOWN DRUNK’S LAST STAND On Saturday I attend the wake for the town drunk. He died quickly, though it took years and years and years of effort. The wake is held at the bar where he drank. He had many friends who also like to [...]
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
“Coupling” by Alan Fox
Alan Fox COUPLING I am sitting in my stateroom on a ship in the Caribbean Sea watching old movies courtesy of satellite TV. From time to time I hear the voices a few seconds after the lips have moved—Nicole Kidman speaks through the mouth of Tom Cruise. Yesterday our ship passed through the Panama Canal [...]
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
“The Driving Range” by Alejandro Escude
Alejandro Escudé THE DRIVING RANGE Now minutes scale the walls of the house like rodents. The squeaks grow louder, and lights go out like the faces of disappointed women. I heard it all before: nothing will be the same, your life is going to change, each phrase uttered like an apology for not paying for [...]
