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“Watching Fireworks Alone” by Emma Törzs 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Download audio file (TorzFireworks.mp3) Emma Törzs WATCHING FIREWORKS ALONE In this country, we are sent home with lice—we trade it back and forth and learn to catch the bodies in our nails, sch...
“Another Things That Amazes Me” by Sarah Pemberton Strong 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Sarah Pemberton Strong ANOTHER THING THAT AMAZES ME Is how, on the rush hour subway, everyone harbors beneath their dripping coats a set of genitals. No one can look anyone else in the eye, so ob...
LILLIE WAS A GODDESS, LILLIE WAS A WHORE by Penelope Scambly Schott 25 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Review by Lesley Wheeler LILLIE WAS A GODDESS, LILLIE WAS A WHORE by Penelope Scambly Schott Mayapple Press 362 Chestnut Hill Rd. Woodstock, NY 12498 ISBN: 978-1936419258 2013, 90 pgs., $15.95 w...
A Conversation with Timothy Steele 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
A CONVERSATION WITH TIMOTHY STEELE Studio City, California, March 3rd, 2012 Timothy Steele is the author of four collections of poems: Uncertainties and Rest (1979),Sapphics against Anger and Other ...
“Elise as Android at the Japan! Culture + Hyperculture Festival” by Rebecca Hazelton 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Download audio file (HazeltonElise.mp3) Rebecca Hazelton ELISE AS ANDROID AT THE JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPERCULTURE FESTIVAL It takes three men to hoist me to the platform, a fourth to hide th...
“Eye in the Sky” by Laurence Snydal 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Download audio file (SnydalEye.mp3) Laurence Snydal EYE IN THE SKY The eye appeared in the sky one early Afternoon. At first many people blamed Atmospherics, roiled air in the surly September he...
“Self-Portrait as a Raccoon” by Noel Sloboda 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Noel Sloboda SELF-PORTRAIT AS A RACCOON It would be the same without this mask: nobody would be glad to see me naked, slicing open bulging bags of garbage, shoving my snout into rotten tree tru...
THE PLACE I CALL HOME by Maria Mazziotti Gillan 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Review by Gail Fishman Gerwin THE PLACE I CALL HOME by Maria Mazziotti Gillan NYQ Books PO Box 2015 Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113 ISBN: 978-1-935520-67-2 2012, 81 pp., 14.95 www.nyq...
“Some Degree of Shameful Relief” by M. Jeanne Skvarla 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
M. Jeanne Skvarla SOME DEGREE OF SHAMEFUL RELIEF It should not have been as hilarious as it was when the pallbearers almost dropped you; I just kept thinking thank God the unbearable bellyache is...
“La Gioconda” by Martha Silano 18 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Download audio file (SilanoGioconda.mp3) Martha Silano LA GIOCONDA I’m deaf, I’m in mourning; I’ve just had a 2nd child. I’m toothless, palsied, pregnant, paralyzed. Clearly, I’m a reflection of ...
