Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
“To My Hair” by Alvin Lau
Alvin Lau TO MY HAIR i. I never admired how you grew into thick, resilient strands black as India ink: I used to bleach you so frail or shave you clean under the harsh summer sun. Once in high school I didn’t wash you for ten straight weeks because I thought it would’ve been so [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
“What’s Genocide?” by Carlos Andrés Gómez
Carlos Andrés Gómez “WHAT’S GENOCIDE?” their high school principal told me I couldn’t teach poetry with profanity so I asked my students, “Raise your hand if you’ve heard of the Holocaust.” in unison, their arms rose up like poisonous gas then straightened out like an SS infantry “Okay. Please put your hands down. Now raise [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Poems,Tributes by Timothy Green
Monday, April 6th, 2009
“The Service” by Trina Burke
. Trina Burke THE SERVICE Just us. Six left. The family. And there’s the minister whose name is Jack or John or Jim or some such monosyllabic good-folks tag. We don’t know him. My nephew, he’s five, he’s sitting right next to me, almost on me, so we’ll all fit huddled together on one pew, [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Poems by Megan
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
CLEAR ALL THE REST OF THE WAY by Alexa Mergen
Review by Alexa Mergen CLEAR ALL THE REST OF THE WAY by Warren Woessner The Backwaters Press 3502 N 52nd Street Omaha, NE 68104-3506 ISBN 978-0-9793934-4-0 2008, 92 pp., $16.00 http://www.thebackwaterspress.com/ We’ve stopped waiting for big breaks, know how the little ones add up into six lives spent mostly in art, sometimes at our best. [...]
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
“Eulogy of Jimi Christ” by Regie Gibson
Regie Gibson EULOGY OF JIMI CHRIST look at the sky turn a hell fire red lawd somebodies house is burnin down down down look at the sky turn a hell fire red lawd somebodies house is burin down down down down… —Jimi Hendrix I. burn it down you burned it all the way down jimi [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Poems,Tributes by Megan
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
“Spring Melt” by Katherine Bode-Lang
Katherine Bode-Lang SPRING MELT They separate in March: the first of our friends to decide on divorce. We tiptoe around the month; we’ve been fighting, too. Our house is an over-starched shirt. The month is dark with rain, the streets all slick like sadness. We wait, rarely patient, for a thaw, for our hands to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Poems by Megan
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
“Two Bits” by Katie F-S
Katie F-S TWO BITS I got a haircut. I got them all cut. I cut it all off, my absent big-cat mane, my main missing link to my femininity, and I think my mother is pissed. I am shorn like a ewe, and you cannot imagine how I haven’t missed my lioness’s tresses. Her dead-end [...]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
“Peculiar Crimes” by Laurie Blauner
Laurie Blauner PECULIAR CRIMES In some countries the bodies vanish. Not here, little girls are unearthed from their pink, overstuffed bedrooms to kiss their plastic dolls, practicing for you. Each family is marvelous with its mistakes, an aunt kidnapped by an old lover who dropped her decorously off at her parents’ house screaming an hour [...]
