Archive for February, 2011
Friday, February 18th, 2011
“Autumn” by Aram Saroyan
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
“The Freshman Essay (In a New Verse Translation)” by Mike White
Mike White THE FRESHMAN ESSAY (IN A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION) The question one will argue in this essay is what is a cannibal. You are so wrong if you said “a kind of animal.” Fact: they are not like a dark stranger. Fact: they are much endanger. Maybe you think just because you are you [...]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
“In Early Drafts, Robert Frost Relied Heavily on the Thesaurus” by Jeff Vande Zande
Jeff Vande Zande IN EARLY DRAFTS, ROBERT FROST RELIED HEAVILY ON THE THESAURUS Discontinuing By Timberland on a Fleecy Eventide —Robert Frost Whose copse this is I speculate I get. His domicile is in the township, yet; He won’t monitor me refraining here To observe his pines congesting with wet. My petite steed must reckon [...]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
WORKS AND DAYS by Dean Rader
Review by Catherine Staples WORKS & DAYS by Dean Rader Truman State University Press 100 East Normal Avenue Kirksville, MO 63501-4221 ISBN 978-1-935503-08-8 2010, 81 pp., $15.95 http://tsup.truman.edu It’s hard to say what I love most in this glorious debut volume; is it the glorious Frog & Toad poems, the love poems, or the one-on [...]
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Monday, February 14th, 2011
“A Fading Memory” by Carol A. Taylor
Carol A. Taylor A FADING MEMORY Two elderly farmers rocked on the front porch, talking and scratching an old hound dog’s head. “I swanny, I’m getting so gol-derned forgetful I can’t remember your dog’s name,” said Red. Sam pondered a moment, then turned to his friend and grinned, “What’s the name of that flower that [...]
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
“Water-Based Lubricant” by Matthew J. Spireng
Matthew J. Spireng WATER-BASED LUBRICANT It was only after I’d left the chain pharmacy and was walking across the parking lot that I sensed something was wrong. County highway department workmen in an orange dump truck looked at me strangely, and I realized, as a cool wind of an early October day whipped past me, [...]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2011
“Cumberland Gap” by Steve Westbrook
Steve Westbrook CUMBERLAND GAP At a rest stop where Kentucky almost bleeds into two other states, a man is wearing overalls and sunlight. He says the river here reversed directions, dried up, then turned into a trail full of saltlicks and axmen who were always carrying canteens, hurrying to someplace else, telling their tales of [...]
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
“What the Grad Students Said” by Martha Silano
Martha Silano WHAT THE GRAD STUDENTS SAID This is a terrific title, all your titles should be this good—like a playground with twirly and tunnel slides, and a bathroom nearby to boot! And all your poems should be as good as this first one, which not only stood out like a tilt-a-whirl on a flat [...]
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
GOOD LONELY DAY by John Clarke
Review by Donna M. Marbach GOOD LONELY DAY by John Clarke The Backwaters Press 3502 N. 52nd Street Omaha, NE 68104-3506 ISBN 978-1-935218-06-7 2009, 106 pp., $16.00 http://thebackwaterspress.com/ As a person who reads quite a lot of contemporary poetry, I enjoy discovering new (to me at least) voices. Thus, I chose to read Good Lonely [...]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
“Czechs Mix” by Jan Seabaugh
Jan Seabaugh CZECHS MIX A beauty in Prague got a letter From a grand master, seeking his better; When she came to play chess, She slipped out of her dress, So Czech and Czech mated—he wed her! ____ In Prague a man’s debt was so deep That he climbed up a high rise to leap. [...]
