That was the day I was run over. Actually it wasn’t just me, but it was mostly me. I was standing closer to the car when it hit us — I was the one it actually ran over. She just bounced off the bumper. And then there was all the fried chicken — but I’ll […]
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Joan Harvey: TEX(ts)
1. The White Geisha He is a man in his forties with a strong unlined face, just the faint traces of teenage acne scars, light skin and light hair. On Halloween he is allowed to wear the white silk wedding dress of a Japanese woman friend of his. She fixes him a wig of dark […]
Kim Church: Bullet
I know what a bullet can do. Everybody has an idea, everybody’s seen close-ups—gaudy wounds, geysers of blood, arms and legs flopping, life kathumping to a close. TV-bullet drama. But there are other, not-so-spectacular ways a bullet can work. My husband wore a bullet on a chain around his neck. He had blond chest hair, […]
Matt Longabucco: Interview with Matthew Rohrer & Joshua Beckman
I saw Matthew Rohrer and Joshua Beckman write poems together on stage twice—once at the beginning of the tour for their book, Nice Hat. Thanks., and once at the end. The first location was the St. George Poetry Festival on Staten Island, an event which Beckman organized. The second location was at the offices of […]
Denise Duhamel: Poet As Her Own Muse: A Review Of Eight First Books
Muse, Susan Aizenberg (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, $12.95) Year Of Morphines, Betsy Brown (Louisiana State University Press, 2002, $24.95 cloth, $16.95 paper) No One With A Past Is Safe, Page Dougherty (Word Press, 2002, $16) Open House, Beth Ann Fennelly (Zoo Press, 2002, $19.95) Fabulae, Joy Katz (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002, paper $12.95) […]
Michael Broder: My First Ten Plague Years
When I think of how it began, I enter an endless regression— before the visit to the counselor’s office, blood draw, awful flu in May, before I let Tony fuck me raw to say I was sorry. But that wasn’t the first time. The first time I got fucked was in 1984. We already knew […]