Archive for February, 2010
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
“Dreamboys” by L. Lamar Wilson
L. Lamar Wilson DREAMBOYS My nephew waltzes beside his father, The man who was the boy who made Faggot! A reason not to flinch. His neck a merry- Go-round, our boy rears back, waves His pointer in my face, jabs his other fist Into his hip & wails: Watch yo’ mouth! Watch yo’ mouth, Miss [...]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
“Self Dialogue Reading Etheridge Knight” by Marcus Wicker
Marcus Wicker SELF DIALOGUE READING ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Where’s your voice at, Marcus? Really. When you die, will they find a notebook filled with one long poem Tucked beneath a fluffy little pillow? Will it start: Eh yo, fuck the sonnet. Fuck everything you’ve ever written that don’t sound like a chain gang Clanking shackles against [...]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
“Homeschool Fieldtrip, 2nd Grade” by Prairie L. Markussen
Prairie L. Markussen HOMESCHOOL FIELDTRIP, 2ND GRADE I knew it was pulp when all the other kids thought it was a pile of shit. (Of course they didn’t say as much because we were homeschoolers, and only the worst of the bunch said swears, and even those ones only said damn and hell. So, instead [...]
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
UNTHINKABLE: SELECTED POEMS 1976-2004 by Irene McKinney
Review by Karen Weyant UNTHINKABLE: SELECTED POEMS 1976 – 2004 by Irene McKinney Red Hen Press PO Box 3537 Granada Hills, CA 91394 ISBN 978-1-59709-069-8 2009, 192 pp., $21.95 www.redhen.org What does one want when reading a collected works by a poet? The obvious answer would be that a reader would expect to see a [...]
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
“An Ordinary Orderly” by Laurie B. Ludmer
Laurie B. Ludmer AN ORDINARY ORDERLY I’m sixty-two now been working in a nursing home. It’s not really a home, and I’m not a nurse. I’ve worked here for almost thirty years. I’ve seen lots of people come, and you know, there’s only one way they go. Most of the folks here are white. Wrinkled, [...]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
“Hero” by Ian Williams
Ian Williams HERO The hero wins because that’s what heroes do when you spend the money to buy the DVD of a movie you already know the [...]
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
“Lips” by Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin LIPS Yours, honey, were so perfect, a little rosebud mouth, not those puffed up blubbery things, my mother says when I pointed out the models’ collagen petals. “Roses,” my mother always says, “that’s what yours were, a nice tiny nose. That’s from your father. One good thing. Not a big ugly one like [...]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
“The Redwood Plague” by Phyllis M. Teplitz
Phyllis M. Teplitz THE REDWOOD PLAGUE My son came home from camping in the Humboldt Redwoods fresh green sprouts springing from his head. Before the end of day I felt my own saplings push up prickly stems. In spite of attempts to uproot them my fast-growing sprouts stayed firmly planted. One after another the experts passed on me doctor [...]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
SHARP STARS by Sharon Bryan
Review by Mary Harwell Sayler SHARP STARS by Sharon Bryan BOA Editions 250 North Goodman Street Suite 306 Rochester, New York 14607 ISBN 978-1-934414-28-6 2009, 102 pp., $16.00 www.boaeditions.org Sharp wit, infinite energy, delightful word plays, and luminous insights shine in Sharp Stars by Sharon Bryan. Not surprisingly, the book opens with a big bang [...]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
“Off Duty At Bare Exposures Gentlemen Club” by Eric Lee
Eric Lee OFF DUTY AT BARE EXPOSURES GENTLEMEN CLUB Atlantic City, NJ Three cops and a poet enter a strip club with a cooler full of beer: This isn’t the beginning to a bad joke unless you consider four grown men paying to see spray-tanned naked dancers funny, [...]
