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 […]
Issue 69
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 […]
Leigh Anne: The Finale of Be
-to Wallace Stevens I. would be the end of endings and beginnings when the heart is a trout pushing upstream pre-life (life) post-life (life) pre-life (life) an eternity granted to be alright the walls holding in the olympic-sized blue of my self would crack-crumble and out go the memorable memories as a child I thought […]
Shafer Hall: Mina Loy
Here lies my Renee Lenore breathing All over my pillow; woman poets make her pink. I blush when I think about how we educated each Other in: friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or untonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through close approach of the organs of articulation, […]
Jen Knox: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Apparently, all those margaritas and cocaine Have saddled me with a profound bout of diarrhea. Two days on, and the illness shows no sign of waning. Each whale-like moo that emanates from my black, Empty abdomen fertilizes the seeds of my disconcertment. Vicodin would temporarily assuage the situation, But for how long, and what of […]