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Wendy Cannella: This Fierce Life:      An Interview with Laura McCullough

October 26, 2016 by PBQ

WC: In his article “Ode to Joisey” (New York Times: April 27, 2003), Robert Strauss talks about the great many accomplished poets to emerge from the Garden State. I wonder what it is about New Jersey that breeds poetry, or maybe even embodies it. Much of your work seems to try to get at the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Prose, Prose 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Laura McCullough, Prose, Prose 94, Wendy Cannella

Wendy Cannella: Finding the Body:      on Laura McCullough’s Jersey Mercy

October 26, 2016 by PBQ

Part empathy, part ferocity in subject and voice, a living, breathing language bobs along like an electric jellyfish —fearless, vital, often urban in the poems in McCullough’s new collection Jersey Mercy. Immersed in various tensions—the sort that McCullough has been teasing out for a decade— these poems seem to be uttered aloud as they unfold. […]

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Prose, Prose 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Laura McCullough, Prose, Prose 94, Wendy Cannella

Pat Willard: Swans

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

Clare turns seventeen, three months before me, and when she said all she wanted was an adventure, I thought of the creek that runs through the woods behind my house. Swimming the length of it is the one thing I’ve done that she hasn’t. I couldn’t think of anything more adventurous to give her. We’ll […]

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Prose, Prose 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Pat Willard, Prose, Prose 94

Anastacia Renee: The City

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

(1) the city sits on itself like a tired woman after a long day of being black. it never excuses itself for crushing us with her weight and we don’t complain…after all, we are alive, we are drinking, we are beautiful in the rain because rain makes us blurry and we don’t have to talk […]

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Prose, Prose 94 Tagged With: Anastacia Renee, Contributors 94, Prose, Prose 94

Zaccaria Fulton: Dramaticule

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

[ Mother lies in bed, center stage, under a spotlight.]   Director [to twelve-year-old son]: Remember, you’ve been brought in here by your elementary school Guidance Counselor. This woman is also a friend of your mother’s, and she wants you to tell your mother that it’s okay to let go. Your mother’s body is wracked […]

Filed Under: Contributors 92, Issue 92, Prose, Prose 92, Uncategorized Tagged With: Contributors 92, Prose, Prose 92, Zaccaria Fulton

Caitlin Jackson: Swell

November 17, 2015 by PBQ

I know it is broken as soon as I fall. I know because when I stand there is a lump right away. It is round and heavy like a new laid egg. I remember reading somewhere that that is what happens when you break a bone. The pain is clear. Not complicated like the pain […]

Filed Under: Contributors 92, Issue 92, Prose, Prose 92 Tagged With: Caitlin Jackson, Contributers 92, Prose, Prose 92

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