Archive for November, 2011
Friday, November 11th, 2011
“Almost” by Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman ALMOST Almost grasped what Grandmother Grace knew Last Sunday sitting in church, almost knew What Alexander Campbell grasped when, confronted With the desolate orphan, he told her, “You Are a child of God. Go claim your inheritance.” Almost got it. There it was in the sunlight, Squared in the clear glass windows, on [...]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
THE BLUE TOWER by Tomaž Šalamun
Review by Marc Jaffee THE BLUE TOWER by Tomaž Šalamun Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 215 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10003 ISBN 978-0-547-36476-6 2011, 96 pp., $22.00 www.hmhbooks.com Why do I love poetry? (What a loaded question.) I love it, for one, because the world is strange and surprising, and poetry illuminates the experience of [...]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
“On the Same Page” by Bonnie Jacobson
–from Rattle #25, Summer 2006
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
“War and Peace” by Harvey Goldner
Harvey Goldner WAR AND PEACE Big bombs fell out of the sky. Big bombs fell all over the countryside. Chickens died, some cows, a few lucky people from down the road. Then the war, the exhilaration, was over. A new tax collector came by— different uniform, same fishy eyes. The craters made by the bombs [...]
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
“Intimacy” by Alan Fox
Alan Fox INTIMACY I know something about gifts, especially today, the day after my 66th Christmas, most given with love, but often side-armed as a stone which skips across the water then sinks. I do know something about gifts, both given and received, which is why, though I have much to say, the first and [...]
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
“Poet and Audience” by Erik Campbell
Erik Campbell POET AND AUDIENCE I The Argument: You Wondered Why You Weren‘t Published It’s because the postman has opened All your submissions and kept them Tucked your words, as it were, under His proverbial, federal wing. And just so you know, Your love poems work. He reads them to his wife in bed Before [...]
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
IMPROBABLE MUSIC by Sandra Kohler
Review by Barbara Blatner IMPROBABLE MUSIC by Sandra Kohler Word Press P.O. Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN 9781936370368 2011, 114 pp., $20.00 www.word-press.com A few months ago, poet Sandra Kohler, a friend of a friend, published on your pages a penetrating review of my verse memoir about my mother’s death, The Still Position. When [...]
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
“Constellations” by Pat Durmon
Pat Durmon CONSTELLATIONS Two obvious facts: he had hit his target squarely and he wore the trace of a frown on his face. I turned to make certain of the rarely changing constellation for which his targets had some fame. It had been a direct hit, slightly off-center. Afterwards, I drew back to the laundry [...]
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
“Gingerbread Couple” by Steve Dimeo
Steve Dimeo GINGERBREAD COUPLE For well over a year now, I’ve left at the bottom of the cookie jar the last two gingerbread figures you molded out of sugar rather than gingerbread dough our final Christmas together. They lay there, images without faces like crime scene chalk outlines, because you were too tired to ice [...]
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
“A Man and a Flag Are One” by Paul Dickey
Paul Dickey A MAN AND A FLAG ARE ONE Look. On the roof of the Mutual Metropolitan Life Company of EveryState, a man is looking for a window to wash. Perhaps he just needs a job. Or is it a flag? Or is it a man wrapped in a flag? Or a flag dressed like [...]
