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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Friday, November 27th, 2009
“How to Make Amends” by David James
David James HOW TO MAKE AMENDS He was hungry, so he ate the couch, the one with the pull-out bed. Of course, when the wife came home, she was disgusted. “Now what will we sit on, asshole? Last week it was the coffee table; the week before, two kitchen chairs and a lamp. What [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
“Advice to a Writer Imagining Conception and Birth” by Colette Inez
Colette Inez ADVICE TO A WRITER IMAGINING CONCEPTION AND BIRTH Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love, examine the particulars, how your mother mounted your father on Labor Day in a bungalow, Liberty, New York. Describe a snowfall before your parents met. Take your time. Leave out myth and literature. [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
“An Act of Procreation” by Frank Hughes
Frank Hughes AN ACT OF PROCREATION what beatings we have taken— gave what we have endures: poverty, hunger, sickness, spinal taps, seizures, stripped of privacy, independence, dignity my rage your vengeance our dissembling the gods against us the void’s wide swallow beneath us the weight we lost to it the nerves, stomach, and teeth we [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
“Halfway Down the Block, Your Father” by Lola Haskins
Lola Haskins HALFWAY DOWN THE BLOCK, YOUR FATHER Stops. It’s just congestion, he says. I have congestion, not naming it— his lungs as gauzy as a party dress— explaining instead how the medic at the VA had told him his heart was as strong as any fullback’s. We wait while he musters the air for [...]
