Archive for March, 2010
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
“Into the Fog” by Mark Rich
Mark Rich INTO THE FOG Whiteness over this village and hill obscures everything from view until you are right on it—if in a car with someplace to go. Having not far to go, by foot, to a household sale, we wonder how forecasters could fail so completely to see this coming, mute folds draping over [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
MOVING HOUSE by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Review by Maryanne Hannan MOVING HOUSE by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell WordTech Communications PO Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN-10: 1934999725 2009, 98 pp., $18.00 http://www.wordtechcommunications.com/ At the 2007 West Chester Poetry Conference, I attended a panel discussion on “Catholicism and Modern American Poetry.” One of the speakers struck me as bold in defining the operational [...]
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
“Sunday Picnic on the Vltava” by Tera Vale Ragan
Tera Vale Ragan SUNDAY PICNIC ON THE VLTAVA The waves of air along the water soothe the chapped spines of young Czechs who’ve sheared their hair to hawk it up and away from sweat that pearls along their skull lines. They gather clinking Pilsner bottles, punk among the mosquito weeds and silted rock the flood [...]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
“Ohio” by Charles Rafferty
Charles Rafferty OHIO The state quarter celebrates our love of sky, minting the Kitty Hawk and the man on the moon together: the first step and the first flight growing improbably from that same Ohioan soil. If I had my own quarter, I’d stamp it with a girl who sung me to glass that glittered [...]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
“Unplotted” by Christine Poreba
Christine Poreba UNPLOTTED One woman leaned over another on the shoulder of the road. A thin black sweater fluttered backward. Whatever had happened had just happened. Trucks piled up behind us, a procession for the woman none of us knew. And in this curve of dust and sky, on Route 62-180 to El Paso, beside [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
FAIR CREATURE OF AN HOUR by Lynn Levin
Review by Rob Wright FAIR CREATURE OF AN HOUR by Lynn Levin Loonfeather Press P.O. Box 1212 Bemidji, MN 56619 ISBN 978-0-926147-28-7 2009, 74 pp., $12.95 www.loonfeatherpress.com What is a “fair creature of an hour?” The title of Lynn Levin’s new poetry collection suggests ephemerality. In the case of the sonnet from which the title [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
“(A+B+C)” by Charlotte Pence
Charlotte Pence (A+B+C) All month in Ecuador I’d been waiting for it. So, when I found myself on all fours circled by eight policeman, guns pointing at my spine, left kidney, shoulder, it was something of a relief. I’m not saying Ecuador’s that third-world gang-rape-a-girl place. I’d been there six times before, never felt nervous, [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
“Daphne” by Kenny Williams
Kenny Williams DAPHNE In the ancient world, when someone threw a dinner party they’d all lean in to hear old stories as if they were new. When everyone retired to their countless separate rooms, the eel and duck, the peacock and candied locust sweetly brewing, they’d lie awake plotting their children’s future. Would it be [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
First Book Interview with Michelle Bitting
FIRST BOOK INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE BITTING by Timothy Green Note: The following interview was conducted by email through January and February of 2009. GREEN: Let’s start with you. Was there a moment you realized that poetry was something you’d pursue seriously? That you’d actually be a poet with a book? My own first book just [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
THE WOMAN YOU WRITE POEMS ABOUT by Danielle (Dani) Montgomery
Review by Adam Houle THE WOMAN YOU WRITE POEMS ABOUT by Danielle (Dani) Montgomery Civil Defense Poetry PO Box 11812 Berkeley, CA 94712 ISBN 978-0-9786913-3-2 2009, 75 pp., $12.00 http://civildefensepoetry.com Dani Montgomery’s first collection is a strange homage to the broken, the decrepit, the still-somehow-managing amongst us. The opening poem, “December 7, 1977,” offers us [...]
