Archive for May, 2011
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
“Finished Symphony” by Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston FINISHED SYMPHONY My first twenty years I’d never heard an honest-to-God live symphony, and then I started at the top: Koussevitsky and his Boston combo, Carnegie, Wolfgang’s G minor. When those first notes hit, they lifted me out of my seat, floated me somewhere above the proscenium, where I stayed for the next [...]
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
OVERTIME by Joseph Millar
Review by Michael Meyerhofer OVERTIME by Joseph Millar Eastern Washington University Press Spokane, Washington ISBN 0-910055-74-2 2001, 61 pp., $29.99 http://ewupress.ewu.edu I have always had the deepest admiration for poets who know what to say and what not to say: wordsmiths who sense when it’s time to just shut up and let a scene describe [...]
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
“Igloo” by R.G. Cantalupo
R.G. Cantalupo IGLOO Perhaps merely the idea of whiteness draws us, the way the white lines, the fissures of ice, the made structure itself disappears inside the silent depths. Or perhaps the way the wind dies down to a muffled growl as we slip inside the white skin of bear, the belly of the moon. [...]
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
“So You Want an Opera Singer…” by Siobhan Brannigan
Siobhan Brannigan SO YOU WANT AN OPERA SINGER FOR A FRIEND, FOR A LOVER, FOR KEEPS My opera singer’s name is Leah, I recommend her. Men fall in love with her when she goes to get the mail, and not just mailmen, men from across the street, men who have been following her for four [...]
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Saturday, May 7th, 2011
“Coast Road” by E.G. Burrows
E.G. Burrows COAST ROAD North by coast road we drove through stands of redwood tagged for the lumberman’s axe, past alpine villages and herds of humped cattle in a kind of gorse, to stop by the postcard bridge arched over silted wetlands, the sand creating nests beasts might crawl to fill. So little left unmarred [...]
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
“Beyond the Headlines” by Peggy Aylsworth
Peggy Aylsworth BEYOND THE HEADLINES If I ride the bus to the end of the line I might discover the existence of God. In the Sudan, a girl of 15, shamed by the stab of rape, sits with her new-born, confronts me on page one. It’s Rosh Hashanah. Not everywhere is today, but the New [...]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
THE BOOK OF MEN by Dorianne Laux
Review by J. Scott Brownlee THE BOOK OF MEN by Dorianne Laux W. W. Norton & Company 500 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10110 ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5 2011, 91 pp., $24.95 www.wwnorton.com After driving two thousand miles from Texas to North Carolina in the summer of 2009, I showed up on the porch of poet Dorianne [...]
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
“Minor Gods” by Walter Bargen
Walter Bargen MINOR GODS Another roadside bomb, another suicide bomber, another dozen blind-folded, hands-tiedbehind- the-back bodies found half buried at the town dump—it’s how a Saturday explodes until I turn off the radio and look out the east window at a tabby crouched in explosive morning light and acting strangely. I hurry outside to rescue [...]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
“The Screenplay I May Never Write” by Rane Arroyo
Rane Arroyo THE SCREENPLAY I MAY NEVER WRITE I was happy and also addicted to happenstance. One job: writing early computer games for soldiers to teach them how to read tank manuals. My man marries but it’s not me in my cowboy gear. Lost nights in which I didn’t lose myself. Jack Mormons for maps. [...]
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
“Dog Descending a Staircase” by Heather Abner
Heather Abner DOG DESCENDING A STAIRCASE After his bath and haircut at the groomer each month, Deez sports a kerchief that would look good at MOMA. Today it’s a triangle of Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie tied around his collar, but he shimmies his way out of it on the drive home. He’s a modern art [...]
