The "I" in poetry.
What is memoir in poetry? We read prose memoirs and see how lives are stretched taut around themes: a chronology of water, a debilitating illness,
Month: November 2011
Breakfast
Breakfast by Nicholas Wright spilt out of cardboard boxes which contain no prize, i left the oven on overnight, and now my kitchen smells like
Turkeys
Turkeys by Mary Mackey One November a week before Thanksgiving the Ohio river froze and my great uncles put on their coats and drove the
Intersection
Intersection by Salma Maref -Descending- Though the luster of pale truism, gull’s echoes piercing the haze, Hung, by mercurial promises clustered on a tide of
Review of Lydia Loveless
Lydia Loveless – Indestructible Machine (2011) Blessed with a commanding, blast-it-to-the-back-of-the-room voice, the 21-year-old Lydia Loveless was raised on a family farm in Coshocton, Ohio,
Butcher Luck
Butcher Luck by Luke Crane A hobbled man stood under the awning. He carried a baby Tamworth pig in a shopping bag and claimed to
Conference of Evening
Conference of Evening by Kristian Meikop From upon the stairs of the modern colosseum In the sober conference of evening The noise of cities sinks
A Dark Blue Coat
A Dark Blue Coat by Hanz Olson Mine is a dark blue coat taught to keep what clatters up the street n o w h
Frank Stanford poem.
Frank Stanford (August 1, 1948 – June 3, 1978) was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The
The Sad Sad Cows
The Sad Sad Cows by Shawn Misener I’ve decided that the perfect post-apocalyptic food is cereal slathered in creamy, slow-motion milk, rice and sugars and