Archive for December, 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
“Think of the Children!” by Michael Ferris
Michael Ferris THINK OF THE CHILDREN! for the Reverend Mrs. Lovejoy We hear the woe and wailing almost every day: the entrails of a plane wreck, a twister’s hop-scotch prey “included several children” the breathless news crews say. As if that were the kernel of the catastrophe. No pledge a [...]
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
FROM THE FEVER-WORLD by Jehanne Dubrow
Review by Kristin Berkey-Abbott FROM THE FEVER-WORLD by Jehanne Dubrow Washington Writers’ Publishing House P.O. Box 15271 Washington, D.C. 20003) ISBN 0-931846-91-9 2009, 68 pp., $15.00 www.washingtonwriters.org We are living in a golden age of persona poems. Poets have always experimented with this form, which allows them to explore other characters, but rarely have we [...]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
from A Conversation with B.H. Fairchild
from A CONVERSATION WITH B.H. FAIRCHILD [...] FOX: What would you say is the difference between poetry and prose? Many of your poems look like prose… FAIRCHILD: Well, I hope they don’t sound like prose. It is true that I have written prose poems. I wouldn’t like to think that my poem poems are prose, [...]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
“Afghanistan Confessions” by Victor Enns
Victor Enns AFGHANISTAN CONFESSION 49 the chaplain pulls all the lousy shifts safe beside the dead the brass choir in his head *** AFGHANISTAN CONFESSION 50 I have been to no funerals. Too young to bury grandma back in Canada and here the dead are not my job. Turn away; hey, hey that’s what I [...]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
“How to Drown Kittens in 1958″ by Meaghan Elliott
Meaghan Elliott HOW TO DROWN KITTENS IN 1958 They’ll starve anyway; or will you give them your share? Drowning’s best. Find a burlap sack. Potato will do. If it’s not big enough, take them one at a time. Place them inside. Hold your hand tight around the opening and twist. Their claws poke easily through [...]
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Monday, December 26th, 2011
“What I Mean by Ruin Is…” by Stevie Edwards
Stevie Edwards WHAT I MEAN BY RUIN IS… When there’s only condiments left in the fridge and you join a free online dating service so men will buy you dinner. When you’ve shucked the night with the dull blade of indecision and gulped down everything, even the pearls. When some old, left-handed love has left [...]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
“Waiting for Charon in the ER” by Kelly Cressio-Moeller
Kelly Cressio-Moeller WAITING FOR CHARON IN THE ER Bad news is always arriving. —Adrienne Rich Make a fist. The ambulance ride begins with a deep poke into a surprised vein. Open. Close. Time-lapse photography. A lotus unfurling petals in my palm. I see sunlight breaking through crowns of eucalyptus. I breathe oxygen through a tube. [...]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
“So Gay” by Christopher Crawford
Christopher Crawford SO GAY How gay is it for two men to stroke the same dog at the same time. What if they’re both sitting on a sofa watching When Harry Met Sally. How about two men watching the same gorgeous sunset [...]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
“So God Will Know You” by Brendan Constantine
Brendan Constantine “SO GOD WILL KNOW YOU” after Miroslav Valek Go out, get us some money and kill a dog. Take this coat, this book of matches, a knife from the wall to kill a dog on the way. You need medicine; if not now, you will—aspirin, quinine, a packet of God. These things are [...]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
“Dramaturgy” by Sam Cheuk
Sam Cheuk DRAMATURGY Let me tell you a lie I tell myself. Suppose two men sit by one another in a bar, empties fill the table. The old man asks, “Do you hate me?” The young man looks away, “No.” The old man insists, “Did you?” Suppose the young man answers “Yes” and orders another [...]
