Archive for December, 2011
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
BEFORE I CAME HOME NAKED by Christina Olson
Review by Karen J. Weyant BEFORE I CAME HOME NAKED by Christina Olson Spire Press ISBN 978-1-934828-09-0 2010, 80 pp., $14.00 www.amazon.com In a world where writers complain that people just don’t read poetry, the title of Christina Olson’s first full length collection of poetry, Before I Came Home Naked will certainly catch a reader’s [...]
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
“Sumter” by Jenn Blair
Jenn Blair SUMTER Are you joking, are you joking? she hissed. It’s not unromantic; it just means our eyes are open, he replied. She was furious. He could not understand why. Most of the visible brickwork was original. They got on the ferry, her not saying anything, huddled by a closed up stroller. He blamed [...]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
“Lingers Tear Gas” by Gregory Betts
Gregory Betts LINGERS TEAR GAS Lingers tear gas the heart. Tear the gas heart. Gas the heart. Tears linger. The gas lingers. Tear. spring flowers wither salty spray fogs a coast line [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Audio,Poems,Tributes by Timothy Green
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
“Love Letter to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill” by Heather Bell
Heather Bell LOVE LETTER TO THE GULF COAST OIL SPILL The photos taken from helicopters are really quite beautiful: the weird orange waves, the way it bends back like a spinal cord. It isn’t that I am not sympathetic to the ocean, but it touches the tips of birds, taking them from naked to casket. [...]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
“First Responders” by Francesca Bell
Francesca Bell FIRST RESPONDERS The day I finally rose staggering from our bed of kryptonite, gnawed free from the anchor that dragged its own boat down with it, and walked out, you stopped me in the drive to set one thing straight: were I to sleep, even once, with anyone else, you would never, ever, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Poems by Timothy Green
Monday, December 5th, 2011
A WITNESS IN EXILE by Brian Spears
Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey A WITNESS IN EXILE by Brian Spears Louisiana Literature Press SLU Box 10792 Hammond, LA 70402 ISBN 978-0945083290 2011, 72 pp., $14.95 louisianaliterature.org Brian Spears introduces the subject matter of the book right in the title: A Witness in Exile refers to his disenchantment and estrangement from the religion of [...]
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
“For Kristen 3″ by derek beauilieu
2 Comments » - Posted in Poems,Tributes by Timothy Green
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
“Three Photos of Jayne Mansfield” by John Wall Barger
John Wall Barger THREE PHOTOS OF JAYNE MANSFIELD The first: Mansfield laid out beside the car wreck, top part of her head missing. A journalist found her blonde wig at the scene, thought she’d been decapitated. At 2:25 a.m., they hit a curve in the road, when an insecticide truck came the other way in [...]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
“The Pink Chanel Suit” by Amanda Auchter
Amanda Auchter THE PINK CHANEL SUIT Dallas, 1963 She said don’t wash it, when asked if she wanted [...]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
“Sad Robots” by James Arthur
James Arthur SAD ROBOTS clean steel: inflexible, but where they’re strong is where they’re weak. ginsu knives, not flesh, they cut themselves, and fall apart. what do they want? to be [...]
