Archive for June, 2010
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
THE HOUSE OF MAE RIM / LA CASE DE MAE RIM by Mariano Zaro
Review by Mariana Dietl THE HOUSE OF MAE RIM / LA CASE DE MAE RIM by Mariano Zaro Carayan Press P.O. Box 31816 San Francisco, CA 94131-0816 ISBN 978-0-9712066-6-3 2009, 67 pp., $15.00 www.carayanpress.com Mariano Zaro is like a master calligrapher. Everything his pen touches breathes, twirls and soars, becoming little glow-worms of words that [...]
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
“Back Story” by Chris Bullard
Chris Bullard BACK STORY The mate in spandex straps us, front and back, to flapping canvas sail and walks us backwards to the speedboat’s slippery stern, back to where the blue-green sea roils in the backwash. You shout, “This is great,” but I shout back, “Let’s ask the captain for our money back.” And then [...]
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
“One of Those Topics I Shouldn’t Talk About” by Tammy F. Brewer
Tammy F. Brewer ONE OF THOSE TOPICS I SHOULDN’T TALK ABOUT To be honest, there are times when I say to myself God I hope I’m not pregnant. My faith is not 100% in condoms. Why I never had sex until I was 19. And then I married him several years later. We have a [...]
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
“The Disintegrated Man” by Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett THE DISINTEGRATED MAN for Marvin Bell The disintegrated man was, at one time, integrated. He was as solid as a river stone, as the white pages of a manuscript stacked like a brick on the table. His edges were crisp. Now the disintegrated man crumbles like softened wood, like the toppled oak melting [...]
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
“With a Little Education” by Francesca Bell
Francesca Bell WITH A LITTLE EDUCATION This is what became of that homely high school boy with the fine hands and big brain. He ended up sliding his fingers all day into the vaginas of other men’s wives. Expensive women who book six months in advance to take off their clothes for him. He keeps [...]
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
WOMAN ON A SHAKY BRIDGE by Millicent Borges Accardi
Review by Robert Manaster WOMAN ON A SHAKY BRIDGE by Millicent Borges Accardi Finishing Line Press P.O. Box 1626 Georgetown, KY 40324 ISBN 1-59924-552-3 2010, 23 pp., $14.00 www.finishinglinepress.com In “On a Theme by William Stafford,” the first poem from Millicent Borges Accardi’s chapbook, Woman on a Shaky Bridge, the speaker begins, If I could [...]
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
“The Recrudescence of the Muse: One Poet’s Journey” by T.S. Davis
T. S. Davis THE RECRUDESCENCE OF THE MUSE: ONE POET’S JOURNEY Freedom is only truly freedom when it appears against the background of an artificial limitation. —T. S. Eliot Rhythm and rhyme. Rhythm and rhyme. Rhythm and muthafucking rhyme. —George Clinton I went through graduate school in poetry under the workshop paradigm that came to [...]
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
“Mammary” by Michelle Bitting
Michelle Bitting MAMMARY Hawks circle fields near the highway homing in to catch the scent of animals deep in the high dry grass. So many wildflowers in bloom, watery purples and acid yellows, I’m dizzy in my car blazing up the California coast: Santa Barbara, Pismo, Salinas, nicknamed The salad bowl of the world with [...]
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
“Bad Usage” by Tony Barnstone
Tony Barnstone BAD USAGE When in the mist of a phone call you loose yourself in thought and all seams an allusion, when I take you for granite like statues of limitation, and the one solution seams to excape like hoarses from a coral fenced with Bob wire, than thoughts go wild, gallumping off, and [...]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
“At the Office Holiday Party” by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz AT THE OFFICE HOLIDAY PARTY I can now confirm that I am not just fatter than everyone I work with, but I’m also fatter than all their spouses. Even the heavily bearded bear in accounting has a lithe otter-like boyfriend. When my co-workers brightly introduce me as “the funny one in the [...]
