Author Archive
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
“Twister” by Kathryn Mockler
Kathryn Mockler TWISTER The Evangelical Christian was so busy tying up his shoelace that he failed to notice the twister fast approaching. When he finally stood up and saw dark clouds surrounded by a funnel-shaped force, he said to himself, “My Lord, is that Armageddon?” “No,” said the postman who had just put a large [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
“Grass in My Hair” by Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae GRASS IN MY HAIR I was arguing with the scarecrow. His voice was like a wall of sand coming closer and closer. He had corn on his breath but no mouth to speak of. His mind was a straw stalk in the wind, all the colours of a golden rainbow, there, but not [...]
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
“Charity” by Susan McMaster
Susan McMaster CHARITY The light morning slivers and glitters through crab apples frozen and sweet as clumps of pin cherries to a flock of chickadees— But I don’t chase the sun outside except to meet the big white truck that pulls up to our door to deliver our new dryer, two lank smiling guys with [...]
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
“Juggler” by Gail Martin
Gail Martin JUGGLER I can’t stop thinking about that man alone on the spot-lit stage, juggling knives of different heft and blade length, cleaver, butcher knife, stiletto. It seemed dangerous, but he’d scoffed, like a dog wanting more than walks and water, bored with the predictability of what came next. He asked the audience to [...]
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
BLINKING EPHEMERAL VALENTINE by Joni Wallace
Review by Ellen Miller-Mack BLINKING EPHEMERAL VALENTINE by Joni Wallace Four Way Books POB 535, Village Station New York, NY 10014 ISBN 978-1-935536-09-3 2009, 68 pp., $15.95 www.fourwaybooks.com This volume of poems does not require a glossary, but a few definitions could only deepen the enjoyment of Blinking Ephemeral Valentine, starting with its fantastic title. [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
“Poetry and Scale” by Alice Major
Alice Major POETRY AND SCALE Flying changes the scale of things. From up here at 40,000 feet, the immense boreal forest of northern Canada looks like lichen on rock, as though the huge landscape below had been reduced to a boulder. An hour or two from now, when we begin the descent to my northern [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
“Say Yes to the Dress” by Alison Luterman
Alison Luterman SAY YES TO THE DRESS a reality television show, viewed while flying across country And in this episode, a woman of forty-five whose face says This cake is stale, whose face says Just tell me how much it costs, whose face if you knew how to feel would make you ashamed not to [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
“When We Move Away From Here…” by Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood WHEN WE MOVE AWAY FROM HERE, YOU’LL SEE A CLEAN SQUARE OF PAPER WHERE HIS PICTURE HUNG The oldest living cartoon character is the word “popeye.” A cartoon character works this way: it is written so many times, with minor variations, that it appears to walk, to cast a shadow, to eat green [...]
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
“Muslim Soldier, Faisal Shahzad” by Dan Leaman
Dan Leamen MUSLIM SOLDIER, FAISAL SHAHZAD Let me get this out of the way: we are to blame for your raging pit. Of course, so are you. Let me tell you this: in 5,000,000,000 years our sun will balloon and die. Before its death, our planet will orbit in its flare, circling through fire the [...]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
SPACE, IN CHAINS by Laura Kasischke
Review by Nick DePascal SPACE, IN CHAINS by Laura Kasischke Copper Canyon Press PO Box 271 Port Townsend WA 98368 IBSN 978-1-55659-333-8 2011, 110 pp., $16.00 www.coppercanyonpress.org Space, in Chains, Laura Kasischke’s eighth book of poetry, is a powerful and stripped collection that presents a picture of grief, less through proclamations and statements than through [...]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
“Coda” by Michael Lavers
Michael Lavers CODA From the garden rose the sound of bees that lurched and wobbled through the peonies. We ate eggs, French toast, drank milk that warmed in minutes in the sun while fat drones swarmed and looped like drunkards in the purple field. On the porch we heard their bodies yield to wills their [...]
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
“She Rings Like a Bell in the Night” by Jan LaPerle
Jan LaPerle SHE RINGS LIKE A BELL THROUGH THE NIGHT Yesterday my husband bought a Lincoln Town Car. As we were driving to pick it up he said how it was once the longest car in America. Sometimes I don’t have to imagine what he’ll be like when he’s old. I can see, clearly, tonight, [...]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
“How to Speak to the Dead” by T.J. Jarrett
T.J. Jarrett HOW TO SPEAK TO THE DEAD This is how it works: They talk. You listen. Let them go on at length about the harp lessons and the cataloging of their regrets. Then, let them begin their questions; most often they ask about the minutia of the earth. They will ask you to detail [...]
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
“Alphabet Fingerprints” by Sativa January
Sativa January ALPHABET FINGERPRINTS Bone isn’t hard to cut through if you go fast. Don’t be afraid. She had two kids, and it was an accident. We made sure we covered ourselves, worked so her body couldn’t be discovered. But try having a loss on your watch. Suddenly you’re swaddling a body in blankets, dancing [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
BLUE RUST by Joseph Millar
Review by J. Scott Brownlee BLUE RUST by Joseph Millar Carnegie Mellon University Press 5032 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15289-1021 ISBN: 0887485499 2012, 88pp., $15.95 www.cmu.edu/universitypress What have I lost in the sea’s wide pastures watching for whales headed south? -from “Leaving Coos County” You may have never heard about Joseph Millar’s poetry, but after [...]
