Archive for April, 2011
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
SELF-INFLICTED by Drake A. Lightle
Review by Jéanpaul Ferro SELF-INFLICTED by Drake A. Lightle Goldfish Press 500 E. Magnolia Avenue Eustis, Florida 32726 ISBN 9780982466933 2011, 184 pp., $16.95 www.Goldfishpress.com Missouri native Drake A. Lightle’s debut collection of poetry, Self-Inflicted, is one of those rare debuts where the frankness may be as raw and honest as a dying man’s last [...]
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
“Sawdust” by Judith Tate O’Brien
Judith Tate O’Brien SAWDUST There are many ways to kneel and kiss the earth – Rumi At his workbench, my Catholic husband becomes a Buddhist practicing mindfulness. As if entranced, he attends the hammer’s rhythmic up-and-down. He feeds the planer a plank of cedar. Beside a Folger’s coffee can of nails on the windowsill, the [...]
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Friday, April 8th, 2011
“Spring Salmon at Night” by Nancy Pagh
Nancy Pagh SPRING SALMON AT NIGHT I thought the west wind called me from bed the night the river ran so hard. I followed it over the moonlit lawn across the road and into the woods, climbing fallen cedars and moving beyond the skunk cabbages. I followed the west wind to the river bed and [...]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
“Primitives” by Harry Newman
Harry Newman PRIMITIVES the night we saw the mouse in our apartment you wouldn’t take your feet off the couch for an hour staring at the space beneath the dresser where it ran and when you did finally you stamped through the room stamped and made noises lifting your arms into the air as in [...]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
“Reading” by Mark Neely
Mark Neely READING Because he can’t say popsicle, the two-year-old next door says possible! possible! and I remember learning to read in a green-walled bedroom scattered with books about Buffalo Bill and the American Presidents–turning the yellow pages by the moon. This kid watches Disney and is in bed before the moon rises. I doubt [...]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
WHEELCHAIR SAMURAI by Lee Rossi
Review by Beth Browne WHEELCHAIR SAMURAI by Lee Rossi Plain View Press P.O. Box 42255 Austin, TX 78704 ISBN 978-1-935514-15-2 2011, 98pp., $14.95 http://plainviewpress.net Four years ago, I was once again resurrecting my sleepy writing career, perusing the latest issue of Pedestal, having met founder and editor John Amen at a local writing conference, when [...]
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
“The Classics Professor at 58″ by Seth Michelson
Seth Michelson THE CLASSICS PROFESSOR AT 58 The collar of your brown blazer turned up against a cutting wind, you hustle, late, to the train stop. The sky is dark. The street’s dark. The wind’s like pins in your cheeks. Goddamnit!, if only you hadn’t indulged that nitwit student after class! Without her drivel about [...]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
“You Can’t Know Because You Haven’t Been Sick” by Mario Milosevic
Mario Milosevic YOU CAN’T KNOW BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T BEEN SICK how the pain becomes your steady and people lose patience with you for not getting the surgery they would choose in your place in place of your alternative remedies they belittle with glazed eyes and tight mouths saying how ridiculous you are and your dizziness [...]
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
“Story Time at Grandpa’s” by Glenn McKee
Glenn McKee STORY TIME AT GRANDPA’S e talked on long after I’d been shooed up to bed on calamine-lotioned legs, his voice finding a hole through the hot air register over the parlor stove and, ferret-like, digging for my ears, the end of his story what I wanted him to get to before my eyes [...]
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
“A Beauty Spot” by Glenn McKee
Glenn McKee A BEAUTY SPOT “…the strange experience of beauty.” –Marianne Moore I discovered a beauty spot on my mind soon after we met. Self-diagnosed weeks later as benign love in situ, I’ve watched this spot grow, its size increasing dramatically each time it’s in your presence as if nurtured by your beauty and watered [...]
