Archive for April, 2011
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
THE CASANOVA CHRONICLES by Myrna Stone
Review by David Lee Garrison THE CASANOVA CHRONICLES by Myrna Stone Etruscan Press Wilkes University 84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 ISBN-13 978-0-9819687-3-5 2010, 72 pp., $17.95 www.etruscanpress.org This is the third book by Myrna Stone, from Greenville, Ohio, who is emerging as a powerful new voice in contemporary poetry. She reveals a vast, [...]
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
“End of Season” by Julie Goldman
Julie Goldman END OF SEASON Washed and dried, my laundry smells “Spring Fresh,” but to touch, it’s cooling, like autumn. I fold tank tops, T-shirts, shorts. And last, the yellow sleeveless button-down I wore over my bathing suit (like the tan, form- fit model in the mail-order catalogue, who sat on the sand while the [...]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
“Dinner” by Pablo Garcia Casado
Pablo Garcia Casado —translated from the Spanish by Chris Michalski DINNER They stuff their mouths with food when they talk about the house. When they talk about money and what it takes to earn it. She walks through the rooms like a queen. Points out the tablecloths, the plates, the fabric on the kitchen furniture. [...]
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
“1969″ by Tony Gloeggler
Tony Gloeggler 1969 My brother enlisted in the winter. I pitched for the sixth-grade Indians and coach said I was almost as good as Johnny. My mother fingered rosary beads, watched Cronkite say and that’s the way it is. I smoked my first and last cigarette. My father kept his promise, washed Johnny’s Mustang every [...]
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
“We Just Want It To Be Healthy” by Cullen Bailey Burns
Cullen Bailey Burns WE JUST WANT IT TO BE HEALTHY Here is the little bomb. We call it baby, all mouth and potential. We do not speak of disappointments—no one to strap it on yet and cross the border, the demilitarized zone of our foyer. The neighbors coo at it, rub the tops of its [...]
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
THE ALCHEMIST’S KITCHEN by Susan Rich
Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey THE ALCHEMIST’S KITCHEN by Susan Rich White Pine Press P.O. Box 236 Buffalo, NY 14201 ISBN 978-1-935210-14-6 2010, 06 pp., $16.00 www.whitepine.org Susan Rich’s third book, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, contains, as you might expect given the title, some lovely sensual poems about the kitchen and food as metaphor; it also [...]
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
“The Atheist’s Tunnel” by Lisa Glatt
Lisa Glatt THE ATHEIST’S TUNNEL A woman in a bright yellow coat wraps the cuff around my arm and asks me first about headaches, and then about cramps, and then about my mother, dead early from breast cancer, which makes me just a tad more interesting than the young women here whose mothers are still [...]
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
“See How Free We Are!” by Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger SEE HOW FREE WE ARE! from “On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art” —Frank O’Hara Reading War and Peace led Larry Rivers to, as he put it, “get into the ring with Tolstoy” and paint “Washington Crossing the Delaware” which, in turn, led Frank O’Hara who, [...]
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
“My Grandmother Told Us Jokes” by Richard Beban
Richard Beban MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD US JOKES like the one about the man who walked down the street & turned into a drugstore. There was some secret in the moment of that turning—when he was one thing, became another— that I return to again & again. The day she stopped being grandma & turned into [...]
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
“Nutritional Value” by Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey NUTRITIONAL VALUE Routinely, I order the reduced balsamic vinaigrette, but what exactly is it? Is it similar to extra-extra virgin olive oil, consistency measured in degrees of pure? All past regret redacted? Someone is laid to rest today, the body incapable of holding out against so many abuses. You make your bed, you [...]
