Archive for December, 2010
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
“A Golden Retirement” by Lesley Jenike
Lesley Jenike A GOLDEN RETIREMENT My dad’s hurt his back, sits with spy novels in stacks by the pool and listens to nautical radio: Come in Wexford Harbor, this is Deficit Spending— wishing he could be out on the water too and not in this crummy lawn chair with those crummy grandchildren splashing his feet, [...]
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
True North by Jody Aliesan
Review by Tom Kappel TRUE NORTH: NORD VRAI by Jody Aliesan Blue Begonia Press 225 South 15th Avenue Yakima, WA 98902 ISBN: 10: 0-911287-58-2 186 pp, 2007 $18.00 www.bluebegoniapress.com The President of Blue Begonia Press, Inc, Jim Bodeen, in a letter included with the review copy of True North: Nord Vrai, by Jody Aliesan, opened [...]
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Sunday, December 19th, 2010
“Sweet and Golden Soup” by Bethany Schultz Hurst
Bethany Schultz Hurst SWEET AND GOLDEN SOUP Fifty-six people have jumped from the same lamppost on the Golden Gate Bridge. It must be secretly marked safehouse or tell hard luck story here as if the bay could be cajoled to offer up some scrap it’s been withholding all this time. I crossed that expanse in [...]
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
“A Poem By Andy Rooney” by Richard Garcia
Richard Garcia A POEM BY ANDY ROONEY How about these paperclips? Consider the humble paperclip. Paperclips do not like to remain in their containers. Paperclips can be found at the bottom of the sea. The first paperclip was made of mastodon ivory. Some paperclips are covered in plastic. Some paperclips are plastic. Metal paperclips are [...]
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
“A Must-Have for the Holidays” by Elizabeth Harmon
Elizabeth Harmon A MUST-HAVE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Because I am 23 and not married, do not have at least one child, cannot fit my old jeans over my hips, eat the dessert that’s meant for decoration, never had the ability to wear red lipstick with anonymity, and do not have anyone to share the season’s [...]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
“Goodnight, Moon” by John Harris
John Harris GOODNIGHT, MOON Floppy-eared, I look through the skylight: the moon! Like Mommy, I’ll be pushing up daisies soon. Like Daddy, too, If you really want to know… My mush…my comb…my spoon… All in a row. I think about the toys with which I’ve played…. Mostly boys. The things I’d do to get laid! [...]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
RADIANCE by Barbara Crooker
Review by Marjorie Maddox RADIANCE By Barbara Crooker Word Press P.O. Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN# 1-932339-91-4 2005, 84pp., $17.00 www.word-press.com Seventeen-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, recipient of numerous national awards, and author of ten chapbooks, Barbara Crooker was long overdue for a first-book award. With the publication of Radiance (2005 Word Press [...]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
“Dear FSG” by Charlene Fix
Charlene Fix DEAR FSG I fixed on the irrational notion that you would publish my collection when I read somewhere that old Giroux liked to curse, or was it Straus? I knew then yours was a real House with its fabulous writers and glorious poets—I’m recalling Cocteau’s Orpheus’ joke before the Tribunal that these differ. [...]
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
“Nursing Home” by Ed Galing
Ed Galing NURSING HOME this morning when i got up they had to change the bed sheets again because i had wet myself during the night like a baby who can’t control his bowels, my helper, miss jones, a nice young black girl didn’t mind doing it, i just sat in a chair when she [...]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
“I Forgot to Tell You the Most Important Part” by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THE MOST IMPORTANT PART… Without this knowledge, you’ll never make it: it’s one part fashion advice and two parts survivalist. Learn to talk to people so they think you’re honest but never be honest. Cooking eggs may save your life, so crack them, neat and firm, pour [...]
