Archive for June, 2011
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
BEASTS & VIOLINS by Caleb Barber
Review by Maya Jewell Zeller BEASTS & VIOLINS by Caleb Barber Red Hen Press P.O. Box 40820 Pasadena, CA 91114 ISBN-13 978-1-59709469-6 2010, 104 pp., $19.95 www.redhen.org In the effort of full disclosure I would like to say that Caleb Barber is dating my best friend. Okay, they’re more than dating—they live together. They even [...]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
“Retail” by Michael Diebert
Michael Diebert RETAIL A pox on the mall. We got by on meager praise and preening egos. Those insidious fluorescents made dismal the cool summer blouses, dulled the gleaming chrome toasters. It was a paycheck, it was a place to get out of the heat. We were nice to the nice customers, nicer to the [...]
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
“Speaking of Tongues” by Nina Corwin
Nina Corwin SPEAKING OF TONGUES i. A man with Alzheimer’s says he left his pants on in the other room. He means the lights. They need to be turned off. His son dissects the message and after cleaning the old man up, they walk together to the day care center. ii. The finely vintaged connoisseur [...]
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
“Fishing” by Thomas Cochran
Thomas Cochran FISHING On the way to fish one afternoon the summer I turned fifteen, my father stunned me by saying: I hope you’re not fucking that little girlfriend of yours, son, because there’ll be plenty of time for that in the years to come. He stopped and I thought he was done, but it [...]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Love’s Executioner by Sharon L. Charde
Sharon L. Charde LOVE’S EXECUTIONER I come from a proud Polish poet sent to Siberia, right arm cut from his body, punishment for poems— the first daughter of a man from Naples who was a baby in a ship’s hold, women screaming and praying the rosary, afraid of God’s teeth, chocolate cake, my mother’s blood, [...]
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Saturday, June 25th, 2011
REMNANTS OF ANOTHER AGE by Nikola Madzirov
Review by Nick DePascal REMNANTS OF ANOTHER AGE by Nikola Madzirov BOA Editions Ltd. 250 N Goodman St., Ste 306 Rochester, NY 14607 ISBN 978-1-934414-50-7 2011, 103 pp., $16.00 http://www.boaeditions.org In his introduction to Vasko Popa’s, Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems, Charles Simic ascribes part of Popa’s appeal to the fact that his [...]
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
“The Barrel” by Mario Chard
Mario Chard THE BARREL What would the prison cook who made the rapist’s last meal cook finally for himself? What could it matter that from his window he looked like other men who leavened their hands in dish water? That even before he ate he filled the sink until the water burned his fingers. A [...]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
“Stella” by Elizabeth Chapman
Elizabeth Chapman STELLA for my daughter’s daughter We’re on a far shore near the manta ray’s rock where she folds and unfolds herself The stars burst forth Before the bright hotel was built the Southern Cross glowed visible April in three weeks you’ll more or less swim yourself out [...]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
“The Ordinary Man” by Trent Busch
Trent Busch THE ORDINARY MAN The ordinary man sat at a table in the darkness. Not that he didn’t like the music, not that he didn’t like the red dancers in the light. The truth is he liked them very much; he sat in his dark shoes and kept time with his fingers on his [...]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
“Living Alone” by Elizabeth Burk
Elizabeth Burk LIVING ALONE is easy, no one telling you what to do or when to do it no one questioning why you’re eating M&Ms so early in the morning or peeling a potato with your fingernails instead of a knife no one watching you forget to screw the top back on the coffee maker [...]
