Archive for September, 2011
Friday, September 30th, 2011
BLUE POODLE by Georgia Jones-Davis
Kathi Stafford BLUE POODLE by Georgia Jones-Davis Finishing Line Press P.O. Box 1626 Georgetown, Kentucky 40324 ISBN 1-59924-772-0 29 pp., $14.00 www.finishinglinepress.com Blue Poodle, a recently released chapbook of poems by Georgia Jones-Davis, provides the reader with a rich variety of images, woven together in surprising and provocative rhythms. Some of these poems focus on [...]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
“Against Order” by Lynne Knight
Lynne Knight AGAINST ORDER Tear the line into pieces. Open it out: [...]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
“Let’s Meet Yesterday” by David Jordan
David Jordan LET’S MEET YESTERDAY Puzzling over his date book, our chairman says: The next meeting will be—hmmmm. Yesterday. That must be wrong, don’t you think? Not at all. I’d love to meet yesterday. I’d ride in on my red Schwinn, the one with white rubber mud flaps, battery-powered horn hidden in the crossbar, dented [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
“I Can’t Sleep So I’ll Tell You a Story” by Tom C. Hunley
Tom C. Hunley I CAN’T SLEEP SO I’LL TELL YOU A STORY Every cricket chirping sounds, to me, like my son’s garage band must sound to the neighbor who calls, twice a week, and threatens to call the cops, but never does. You can’t call the cops on crickets. You can’t even call their parents. [...]
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
“Those Who Cannot Act” by Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield THOSE WHO CANNOT ACT “Those who act will suffer, suffer into truth”— What Aeschylus omitted: those who cannot act will suffer too. The sister banished into exile. The unnamed dog soon killed. Even the bystanders vanish, one by one, peripheral, in pain unnoticed while –from Rattle #26, 2006
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Sunday, September 25th, 2011
SAINT SINATRA by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Review by Catherine Wisniewski SAINT SINATRA by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell WordTech Communications P.O. Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN 978-1936370337 2011, 100pp., $19.00 www.word-press.com Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s latest book of poetry, Saint Sinatra and Other Poems, is at once both meditative and challenging. Throughout the collection, the poet-scholar imaginatively invokes the personalities of recognized and [...]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011
“The Lesson” by Michael Hettich
Michael Hettich THE LESSON In that second grade classroom, Mrs. Circle said each of us carries an ocean inside bigger than we are, like happiness, and full of fish that live nowhere else in the world and tides that are pulled by our heartbeats, and low tide sand bars to wade far out in the [...]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
“When Our Parents Fight” by Jared Harel
Jared Harel WHEN OUR PARENTS FIGHT— for my brothers Never before had it wronged into silence, had the screaming and tears given way to a stillness, this government hush even the house could feel. Generally, when our [...]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
“Where Poems Go” by Chris Green
Chris Green WHERE POEMS GO In Tampa, Florida, Irene Ledbetter sits at her desk to write to me. She holds the magazine with my poem about my brother and his dead dog. She has two dogs herself and admits she has the habit of rescuing baby rabbits, baby birds…even unhatched eggs. She writes to me [...]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
“Poison” by Terry Godbey
Terry Godbey POISON My grandmother, a wisecracker, burned brightly at the head of the table on our summer visits. My parents blistered and turned away, missing her winks as she wagged her tongue at my mother and called my father by his last name. I indulged her with endless games of cards, sneaking sips of [...]
