Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
“Triptych” by John Amen
John Amen TRIPTYCH In ’96 I used to take Levine to the Mental Health Center for his monthly psych appointments. I’d drive while he told me of IRS men who were appropriating his garage, homosexuals who had it out for his dead uncle. It’s tragic, how someone’s pain can become chronic noise, a shtick you [...]
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Review by Stephen Fellner FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh Marsh Hawk Press P.O. Box 206 East Rockaway, NY 11518-0206 ISBN 978-0-9792416-1-1 2007, 86 pp., $15.00 www.marshhawkpress.org Unlike a lot of comic poets who rely on easy punchlines and hermetic in-jokes, Sandy McIntosh balances verbal inventiveness with significant personal inquiries in his [...]
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
“Can Slam Poetry Matter?” by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
Susan B.A. Somers-Willett CAN SLAM POETRY MATTER? It wasn’t too long ago that poetry critics were decrying the decline of American poetry’s public audience. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Joseph Epstein and Dana Gioia declared poetry dead to the average reader (the former in his essay “Who Killed Poetry?” and the latter in [...]
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
“Castrati” by Sally Albiso
Sally Albiso CASTRATI North Carolina castration suspects given lawyers —Waynesville, North Carolina The third sex, once prized for their singing, their transcendent voices, neither male nor female, their pre-pubescent beardless bodies turning to fat, the obedient favored by some southern sadists charged with castrating their submissive victims, who seek release in such domination, in [...]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
“The Perishable” by Jane Zwart
Jane Zwart THE PERISHABLE Today I saw a robin hit by a car. Its pink bib spooled upward between asymmetrical wings. That was the worst of it. It did not suffer after or fan itself on the ground. Everyone knows about birds: their bones mobiles of toothpicks and driftwood, every ligament an elastic pinker and [...]
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
“Creatures” by Marvin Bell
Marvin Bell CREATURES Am I to save the spider in the bathtub, who lives in the drain and can scramble up porcelain as if its feet are suction, or shall I be done with it, as I have been done with ants and snails, with armed yellowjackets and the mice and the bats? You tell [...]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
WRONG by Laurie Blauner
Review by Christian Ward WRONG by Laurie Blauner Cherry Grove Collections P.O. Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN 9781934999264 2008, 84 pp., $18.00 www.cherry-grove.com Seattle based writer Laurie Blauner’s Wrong is a collection of lyrical poems well worth reading. Blauner has a refreshingly original voice and is unflinchingly honest in her writing, two qualities which [...]
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
“Built by Angels” by Krista Franklin
KRISTA FRANKLIN: “At the heart of my collages is a deep concern for creating complex and interrogative images, dream worlds and psychic landscapes. Deeply inspired by American popular culture and histories, as well as by the frenetic glamour of music videos and magazines, I create my collages in much the same way a hiphop producer [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
“The Louvres” by Matt Zambito
Matt Zambito THE LOUVRES Cows stare with “Mona Lisa” eyes— mysterious, brown, famous with a genius behind the creation. Stick a cow in a museum, and you should be there with your boots on; you should tromp right through her mess if you must. The patrons who’d carry $12 cocktails constantly if they could would [...]
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
“You Might” by John Yohe
John Yohe YOU MIGHT Some women let you feed them chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream spoonful by spoonful Some women let you brush their hair before going to bed Some women seem so terrified of contact you feel sad Some women wonder why you are so scared of [...]
