Archive for February, 2010
Monday, February 8th, 2010
“Driving Under the Full Wolf Moon” by Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody
Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody DRIVING UNDER THE FULL WOLF MOON The car grows colder with each no-turn-over the engine gives to your key— this—and snow scatters like rags across the parking lot kept bright all [...]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
“Ghosting” by Tom Chandler
Tom Chandler GHOSTING He spread out his life which I sliced into words, for although he had long owned the script rights outright, his tweaking needed twisting: change he would say when he meant desire; love he would say when he meant desire. Long down the languid afternoons he’d watch flies buzz in terror at [...]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
“Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City” by Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith AIN’T GONNA PLAY SUN CITY Sun City Resort, Bophuthatswana, South Africa 1994 Slash on the horizon, shameless throne of skin and gimme, the behemoth relentlessly winks and rises from Bophuthatswana’s dull copper dust. In its wake, roads burp sudden shanties, grimy boys mournfully consider the blur of traffic. Roadside vendors hawk sugarcane, sticks [...]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
THE SELECTED POEMS OF LI PO translated by David Hinton
Review by Michael Meyerhofer THE SELECTED POEMS OF LI PO translated by David Hinton Anvil Press Poetry Neptune House 70 Royal Hill London SE10 8RF UK IBSN 978-0856462917 1998, 160 pp., $16.00 http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com The elegant genius of Li Po hardly requires further mention here. As a long-time fan of Chinese and Japanese poetry in translation, [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
“History of My Body” by Katie Kingston
Katie Kingston HISTORY OF MY BODY Once this body went into treason. The flat-chested girl pushed Willie Wall into the thorn bush, and never stopped riding her pogo stick up and down the driveway until her brother broke it. The history of this body is the angel in snow working her arms and legs in [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Audio,Poems by Megan
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
“Overheard at Starbucks: A Black Hat Saying” by Lynne Thompson
Lynne Thompson OVERHEARD AT STARBUCKS: A BLACK HAT SAYING you can’t be sure, can you—am I Father Time, the ghost of North by Northwest or your sister in drag? Even though your wallet’s been blessed by the Church of Luck be a Lady, no one will tell you and your heart is in your throat [...]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
“Porn” by Christopher Kempf
Christopher Kempf PORN We sat rapt on my roommate’s futon, the four of us with nothing better to do in those days than drop our jaws and gawk. He was huge, the size I imagined a man could be only after several operations and gallons of those creams I’d seen online, cock like the kind [...]
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
“Civil Rights Cold Case #62 (Or the Yellow Dress)” by Lolita Stewart-White
Lolita Stewart-White CIVIL RIGHTS COLD CASE #62 (OR THE YELLOW DRESS) Mattie Green, a domestic worker and mother of five was killed in 1960 when a dynamite blast ripped through her home. Her murder was never solved. Your favorite yellow dress is what you wore the night before you died. The one with the hand-stitched, [...]
