Author Archive
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
“Salome” by Jesse Weiner
Jesse Weiner SALOME do you remember that cartoon, was it popeye, with louis armstrong singing I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you. he was a cloud, turned into a head, following bluto and singing. bluto learned fear. I love those cartoons because anything could happen, like popeye’s arm turning into an anvil or [...]
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
“A Bad Way to Go” by Charles Harper Webb
Charles Harper Webb A BAD WAY TO GO “Goodbye everybody.” —Hart Crane, jumping off the SS Orizaba The suicide-by-gun takes a deep breath, jerks one finger, and it’s done. The suicide-by-pills pretends that Mommy’s tucked him in. The suicide-by-razor kicks back in a red, relaxing bath. The suicide-by-car screams like a rock star all the [...]
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Monday, September 12th, 2011
“Relic” by Kathleen A. Wakefield
Kathleen A. Wakefield RELIC Only a severed finger was returned from each of the bodies —from an NPR hourly news report, March 2008 The one bruised by hammer and rock knew also the coolness of stone rolled in the pocket, traced a name in dust, hollow of a lover’s throat. Steered lever, joystick, shovel, wheel, [...]
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011
“Loaves and Fishes” by Elizabeth Volpe
Elizabeth Volpe LOAVES AND FISHES Santa Catalina Retirement Villas, April 2008 Rebuttering the roll I’ve torn into pieces, I smile across the table at Gladys and Walt, recruited to make Mom and Dad feel welcome. When the popcorn shrimp appear, they could be anything, tiny balls of deep fried anything. [...]
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING by Lisa Fay Coutley
Review by Ash Bowen IN THE CARNIVAL OF BREATHING by Lisa Fay Coutley Black Lawrence Press P.O. Box 327 Theresa, NY 13691 ISBN 978-0-9828766-3-3 2011, 25 pp., $9.00 www.blacklawrencepress.com The latest chapbook from Lisa Fay Coutley, In the Carnival of Breathing, is an emotionally complex series of poems that spends the bulk of its real [...]
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
“A Poem for Parking Lots” by Mark Terrill
Mark Terrill A POEM FOR PARKING LOTS We’re pulling into the mostly empty parking lot in back of the pet store in Itzehoe on a gray north-German Wednesday afternoon & over in the corner of the lot is a young man sitting on a curb with a rucksack at his feet drinking a bottle of [...]
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
“Graduation” by Tim Suermondt
Tim Suermondt GRADUATION All the things the young will do and see that I never will. All the things I’ve seen and done that they never will—the trade-off seems fair. I walk down the block, the elms lined up like they are on inspection— “Those shoes need more shine, Suermondt,” the sun hanging over my [...]
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
“Cold Tea” by Sarah Pemberton Strong
Sarah Pemberton Strong COLD TEA Come upon later, like a dream recalled at lunchtime. Dark as deep water, bone cold. Where is she now, the woman who poured into a white cup? She was standing on the lip of the whole river with her plan when the current called her and she had to go: [...]
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
“Lunch with My Parents” by Jill Stein
Jill Stein LUNCH WITH MY PARENTS So my mother is rolling up her skirt because she spilled cold water on it and maybe she’s not wearing anything underneath and my husband is gesturing frantically because the people at the next table can look up her dress and my father is talking about the strings the [...]
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
SERIOUSLY DANGEROUS by Helen Losse
Review by Maria Garcia Rouphail SERIOUSLY DANGEROUS by Helen Losse Main Street Rag PO Box 690100 Charlotte, NC 28227 ISBN 978-1-59948-289-7 2011, 62 pp., $14.00 www.mainstreetrag.com Poetry lovers will surely delight in Seriously Dangerous, Helen Losse’s latest collection of deftly sculpted lyric poems. Throughout this volume of 47 mostly short works, Losse reveals a sensibility [...]
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011
“Defiantly” by John L. Stanizzi
John L. Stanizzi DEFIANTLY It begins with a mistake while they are rushing through what they call “busy work,” some assignment you find a drag as well, having concocted it so that you can tell parents you wouldn’t permit a lack of rigor to seep into the classes you teach. A moment before they sleep, [...]
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
“The Art of Waiting” by Maryhelen Snyder
Maryhelen Snyder THE ART OFWAITING: THE PARALLELS OF POETRY AND THERAPY O you and me at last, and us two only! —Walt Whitman There are only the two of us. The poet and the page. The therapist and the client. These are the central creative activities of my life. And each is an intimate experience [...]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes
Review by Jessica Varin DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes BOA Editions, Ltd. 250 North Goodman Street, Suite 306 Rochester, NY 14607 ISBN 978-1934414378 2010, 88 pp., $16.00 www.boaeditions.org Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to speak my mother’s first language. Would I seem more Chinese and less white? Would I feel less fractionated? [...]
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
“This Time We’ll Go to Kentucky Fried Chicken” by Laura Read
Laura Read THIS TIME WE’LL GO TO KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN for Tom You were the one with the body that could balance on a skateboard, dive into a pool, the water closing behind you. And you could hold your breath at the bottom, watch the sunlight shatter on the tile. [...]
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
ARDOR by Karen An-hwei Lee
Review by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum ARDOR by Karen An-hwei Lee Tupelo Press PO Box 1767 North Adams, MA 01247 ISBN 978-1-932195-69-9 2008, 72 pp., $16.95 www.tupelopress.org Karen An-hwei Lee’s second collection of poems, Ardor (Tupelo Press, 2008), is a book length sequence of fragments connected ellipses and interwoven with brief, surreal blocks of prose in sections [...]
