Categoría: Poetry Bookshelf
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Featuring «Preserving the Past for the Present» by Terry Allen
Flying Squirrels Can’t Really Fly For Larry (1947-2023) Like carnival clownsthat aren’t quite human,that appear in the darkthen bounce about too quickly,first here then there, a blurof loss, of death and infection,unpredictable, hard to pin down,hard to hold in one’s mind, his brittle memories,dry as cicada shells,crumble awayin rolling sand stormsout of reachbeyond…
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«Sight Unseen» Part 2 by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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«Sight Unseen» by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga
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«Missing Persons» Part 2 by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
(revised post) Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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3 Poems from “My mind is a cherry pit withering in the sun” by Ken Tomaro
Grounded the generation gap, more like the Grand Canyonand there are peoplewho will never understandhow easy things wereGod has gone digitaleverything is a mess of wires,things to be plugged inrechargedbut we’ve forgotten how toplug ourselves in and our souls are at 3% *** Bad reception a stroke of lucka stroke or…
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«Missing Persons» by Christina Chin and Jerome Bergland
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga! Comparte esto:
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Beauty in Action, Video 2
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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“The Stars Will Remember, a Review of End of Earth by Nolcha Fox and Art by Mike Armstrong” by Peter Mladinic
Perhaps in a future that is ions away, the stars will remember life on Earth, the life of planets, animals, and humans, which is precisely what Nolcha Fox is writing about in End of Earth, a document of that life in poetic lines about people, places, and things in her…
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Beauty in Action
Thanks to Christina Chin for the video, and to Christina and Jerome Berglund for collaborating on the renga!
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Ken Anderson’s “The Ward at Twilight: Goth Poems” Is Available for Purchase!
Having a bad life? Read about one that’s worse: liebestod, deep depression, mental illness, suicide, death, and miraculous resurrection (the ultimate happy ending). Feel better? The Ward at Twilight: Goth Poems skillfully blends two distinct literary traditions (stylish contemporary poetry and the vintage Gothic in American and British literature) for the blackest witch’s…
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Featuring Sam Moe’s New Book “I Might Trust You”
SorryFor carrying the ghost around this long. Nineteen years weep into twenty. You’re still bleeding, wondering when dreaming turned into exhaustion. Someone comes to pick you up during a snowstorm and you find yourself crying in the back of the car, thinking about what you really shouldn’t be thinking about.…
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«Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Just Give Him a Good Place to Hide» by John Yamrus
Enjoy these two poems from the latest book by John Yamrus, «Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Just Give Him a Good Place to Hide:» his poems alwaystried to tacklethe “big issues”… Death,Life, Love, Good, Evil… all theusual stuffthat needs to bespelled with a capital letter. his onlyother goal in lifewas to…
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Featuring Ken Tomaro, Author of «Standing Lonely in the Alley»
Barbara Leonhard: The title of this collection inspires a strong image. Standing Lonely in the Alley. How did you come up with the title for the book? Ken Tomaro: Uh, good question. The short answer is, most of my poetry comes from a place of living with depression, and consequently, your…
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Interview with Joshua Vigil by Pete Mladinic
Just as characters in stories are in settings, do you have a particular time and place where you write, a particular setting, or does that setting vary? Like many others, I’m very particular about where/when I write. It has to be in the morning, and it has to be at my…
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Being with Others, Pete Mladnic’s review of “Bastardland” by Joshua Vigil
“Ever been to a gay bar? said the older man.” That’s the first sentence in “Bastardland,” a collection of stories that puts Joshua Vigil among the best fiction writers today. Vigil’s stories are gay. They are real, surreal, and speculative. One of the best things about them is their resistance…
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A Review of «Coming Home» by Smitha Vishwanath by Barbara Leonhard
Vishwanath’s Epigraph Poem for “Coming Home”I dare to make mistakes I dare to ask for helpI dare to changeI dare not rest on my laurels I dare not be complacentI dare not flow with the tideI dare to steer my ship in new waters I dare to walk on uncharted…
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