The Cow, Ariana Reines, Fence Books, 2006 A Metaphorical God, Kimberly Johnson, Persea 2009 As the books pile up I realize that the long reviews are not going to happen;…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
Fixing a Real Phantom Limb with a special glove fits real life to a private message the abominable pixels that help people with snow. a lifetime watch battery for allowance…
NO ONE CARES MUCH WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU when Serbs get mad, they talk about a small town like Grace Stop laughing; I’m serious Grace is all I can afford…
Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to…
As I mentioned earlier, Margaret Christakos was in Montreal to read at the Coach House/Snare book launch last weekend. She closed the show with aplomb, but it was the longer…
Some said they heard the pegs squeaking in the holes Of the lyre as if the god were setting a text To the music of wooden wheels On a stridulous…
How Poems Work: “Subjecthood and the Light Verb” by Donato Manciniby a. rawlings It is Tuesday afternoon in August. Like the past few Tuesdays, I visit with Holden F. Levack,…
from The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Wershler-Henry House of Anansi, 2000 —————– andor gather all the equestrian statues from the parks and squares of the world and then place these…
Dawn’s Athlete: Washed Talent? Satan Held Wet Death, Lent Saw, Hated Lawn Set, Stew, And Lathe (Lead the Wants/The Waste Land) Thanks to Elizabeth Bachinsky for her generous and thoughtful…
The Nose To, the Tens No, the Not Ens, the Sent On, the S o n n e t “…she is very capricious; one cannot summon or foresee her; she…
Okay, so, I’m chuffed…and well, chuffed. The Constant Critic gives the Hound some love…thanks Jordan. AND wow to tonight’s triple-play. Laynie Brown, Marjorie Welish, and Rae Armantrout rocked Dixon Place…
Insightful essays by Joshua Clover, Jen Scappettone, and others; new work; an interview! Well worth tracking down.