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Issue 65

Bob Holman: On Changing the Past

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

for Abdel Aziz al-Maqaleh Through the mandhara of your eyes, dear Poet I see each second of eternity pass, frame- by-frame, over Sana’a A Shadow constantly seeking its Object Through the mandhara of your eyes, dear Poet I see the slow making of a City, the slow making of a life Here in the dust […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Bob Holman, Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65

Bob Holman: How Kora Was Born

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

as sung by Papa Susso to Bob Holman This story begins long long long long ago So long ago that it was a place not a time There was a man He was so alone The only person he could talk to was Africa Luckily there was a tree nearby Even more luckily behind that […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Bob Holman, Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65

Bob Holman with Christopher Connelly:     Griots Gestural Poems, and Giving Off Sparks:    Bob Holman Teaches PBQ    How to Put the English on the Word

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

If you have paid attention to poetry at all during the last 20 years, you have probably heard of Bob Holman, who has long been the neglected art’s most tireless advocate. He is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of two anthologies, including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, winner […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Issue 65 Tagged With: Bob Holman, Christopher Connelly, Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65

Christopher Connelly: Introduction to    International Poetry Supplement

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

Don’t mistake the Painted Bride Quarterly’s “International Poetry Supplement” for another friendly exhibition of the exotic species of poetry that flourish in other countries. Instead, think of it as a kick aimed at contemporary American poetry’s corpulent ass. Years of inbreeding have produced a surfeit of lazy poems that are either too hermetic to be […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65, Introductions, Issue 65 Tagged With: Christopher Connelly, Contributors 65, Fiction, Fiction 65

Brian Teare: Dangerous Kitchen

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

Divorce proceedings : getting mother on the cross-town bus. Two hours early to make sure—”Don’t rush me, cherubs. They can’t start without the wife.”—bath, hat, shoes, good wool suit, matching calfskin gloves. To the curb to wait. After she left, we changed what we could : we cleaned. After an afternoon’s eternity of lye, bleach […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Issue 65, Poetry, Poetry 65 Tagged With: Brian Teare, Contributors 65, Poetry, Poetry 65

Sean Singer: Loss

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

There is loss in the world. I don’t feel awful because lost people Took part of me. But because I can no longer give to them. He is in a coffin in a church in Chicago, or she is dating someone new And singing Schumann. Great Tumblers of the Universe have done things: make me […]

Filed Under: Contributors 65, Issue 65, Poetry, Poetry 65 Tagged With: Contributors 65, Poetry, Poetry 65, Sean Singer

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