Archive for June, 2011
Friday, June 10th, 2011
ANIMAL MAGNETISM by Kim Roberts
Review by Mike Maggio ANIMAL MAGNETISM by Kim Roberts Pearl Editions 3030 E. Second Street Long Beach, CA 90803 ISBN 978-1-888219-38-8 2011 77 pp., $14.95 www.pearlmag.com Animal Magnetism takes the reader on an unexpected and fascinating tour – a tour of the human body via an exploration of unusual museums and peculiar collections of medical [...]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
“Arguments About the World” by Craig Beaven
Craig Beaven ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE WORLD The things you said were untrue: there is not a reality that exists outside of me. No life somehow more authentic than this one. If you know so much about the world then tell me where to find it. Was it the world that I touched each time I [...]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
“Once More, with Feeling” by Michele Battiste
–from Rattle #34, Winter 2010 Rattle Poetry Prize Honorable Mention
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
“Gophers” by Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass GOPHERS I’ve tried to kill the gophers. On stained knees, up to my elbows in their earthen tunnels, setting the green toothed trap, my human scent masked with anise oil, then sweetened with leaves of the sweet potato vine my neighbor maintains they can’t resist, a rodent version of caviar and champagne. But [...]
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
“OP-ED FOR THE SAD SACK REVIEW…” by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz OP-ED FOR THE SAD SACK REVIEW, REGARDING NEWS OF ANOTHER RASH OFWRITER SUICIDES In a fit of gloom, I googled the word failure, just to see if my name would come up. Instead, Google told me I misspelled the word failure. Recounting this makes me feel like I’m starting a very weepy [...]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2011
JAZZ by Jéanpaul Ferro
Review by Rachel Lancaster JAZZ by Jéanpaul Ferro Honest Publishing ISBN 978-0-9566658-6-7 2011, 86 pp., $10.95 www.honestpublishing.com In Jéanpaul Ferro’s latest collection of poetry, aptly entitled Jazz, we find a milieu of desperate people living in fraught and distressful times. Jazz is a lush examination of our modern civilization from the vantage point of an [...]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2011
“Fluid” by Ron Anderson
Ron Anderson FLUID 1. the day went by like warm cat poop and there’s seventeen messages on my voicemail from my ex-girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend’s stalker who, on his 435th harassing phone call to me this month in between threatening my life and hers made a point of telling me it really wasn’t cool of me to [...]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
“The Junco and the Boy” by Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson THE JUNCO AND THE BOY Over the weekend I shot a bird. A deranged, obsessive junco that had been banging against our window for weeks, fluttering in and up again and again, hundreds of times a day, enraged by its own reflection. You can’t reason with a bird, and this one we couldn’t [...]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
“Delusions” by Michelle Amerson
Michelle Amerson DELUSIONS Today, a lady said: I stay with phones and bibles in my room, don’t sleep. Never leave ’cause the windows let ’em in; I see demons jumpin’ offa people, and that’s why my gas bill’s high. Even if I get rid of ’em, the shadows come every every ever every where—that’s how [...]
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
“War Story #133: Helicopter Ride with Cadaver Dog” by Paul David Adkins
Paul David Adkins WAR STORY #133: HELICOPTER RIDE WITH CADAVER DOG It was hot on the chopper. On top of that, a cadaver dog sat big as Sunday beside me. He stared out the glass. His tongue unrolled like a carpet. The handler stroked his ear. Well heeled, this dog. I laughed. What I wouldn’t [...]
