Archive for February, 2009
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
“The Dream of Trees” by Dianne Carroll Burdick & Linda Nemec Foster
DIANNE CARROLL BURDICK: “I photographed all the images with black & white film and printed all images on fiber-base black & white paper. When the print is dry, I treat the paper with an oil-base solvent and color the image with colored pencils. ‘Dream of Trees’ was photographed at Moose Lake, Maine, around 7 a.m. [...]
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
“Hay Elote” by Michael Jon Khandelwai
Michael Jon Khandelwal HAY ELOTE Hay elote, he shouts outside my window; I have wondered for years what message he was bringing. Today, I learned: there is corn. I remember growing up, seeing rows of cornstalks, sampling the first of the harvest, smothered in butter and salt. Hay elote, the man sings out; corn, it [...]
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
“Goats” by Allan Johnston
Allan Johnston GOATS Near Northport, Washington A goat full of Camel Cigarette butts is a wormed goat, people said. They carried stumped out cigarettes in their pockets and fed them to goats like kids giving sugar to horses. The goats would eat them the way they seemed to eat anything they could [...]
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
THE QUESTION OF RAPTURE by Claire Keyes
Review by Carole Borges THE QUESTION OF RAPTURE by Claire Keyes Mayapple Press 408 N. Lincoln Street Bay City, MI 48708 ISBN: 978-0932412-690 2008, 72 pp., $14.95 www.mayapplepress.com In her first volume of poetry, Claire Keyes steps onto the literary stage with a maturity and mastery of craft that reflects an educated passion for words [...]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
“Silences” by Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson SILENCES The world is made of water. —Parmenides I can barely remember, now, that unwritten poem in which you suddenly appeared, and which disappeared the way your Mohawk fathers disappeared from the valley I lived in once. I have only these words that seem as if they climbed up from the bottom of [...]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
“Red Fence” by Ellen Peckham
ELLEN PECKHAM: “An adolescent, chafing against my provincial environment, I saw Breughel’s winter landscapes and suddenly my geography (snowy fields, stubble, crows) had aesthetic value. Ah, the shock of knowing farms out of season to be so beautiful! Many years later, driving on Long Island, a landscape of rutted earth, frosted surfaces, rusted foliage, crows [...]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
“Show and Tell” by Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok SHOW AND TELL Sky the color of warning. Well not red but pink, now salmon, it innovates faster than I have words to shape into clouds on their way to their new life in the midst of their old. There’s no stopping, no point at which a cloud kicks back and smokes a [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Received for Review in January
Once again, here’s how our review process works: If you’d like to review any of these books or literary journals (or any from the full list), let us know, and we’ll mail it to you. Write a review of at least 600 words, and if we publish it, we’ll also send you the forthcoming copy [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
“Letter to Hugo from Union Street” by Michael Jemal
Michael Jemal LETTER TO HUGO FROM UNION STREET Dick: thanks for your letters and bold thoughts on expectation. I agree with you, every day we struggle with the words eternity, happiness, stone, and the word neighbor. I’ve decided it might be best if we change the words we resist and become something other than who [...]
