by anniebellequattlebaum | Jun 16, 2020 | Bubbler
Body Surfing In a glass dish on my desk, a candle flame heaves its way toward nothing. This life is a thick swim. Invisible water, with the grainy cling of earth. Its spherical touch sealed around my skin. The naked trees know, awash in poured fog that sinks through...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 28, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Anne Waldman, Sanctuary, Reviewed by Matt Hohner Anne Waldman, Sanctuary, Spuyten Duyvil, 2020, 142 pages, $18.00, ISBN 978-1-949966-65-7. Reviewed by Matt Hohner Sanctuary, Anne Waldman’s exquisite new collection of images and new writing, as well as writing lifted...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 23, 2020 | Bubbler
by Sarah Dickenson Snyder On the cusp of summerthe snow looks weary, reluctant. We have goneover a cliff’s edge like the dream I had last night,my car veering off the road, almost too frighteningto write down. My mind swerves awayas I wish the car had, wish...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 12, 2020 | Bubbler
Joan Miro was famous for once saying he’d spent 80 years trying to learn how to paint like a child—uninhibited, free of self-conscious thinking, without any sense of pose. And it is in that same spirit that we lean into the idea / mood of “Totally Limited...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 2, 2020 | Bubbler
Happy Book Birthday to Free State poet S. B. Merrow. Her Everyone a Bell was just published by Kelsay Books. The notorious critic Barrett Warner has written—It’s a fine collection with at least a dozen poems anyone on the planet would have wished to write. There was...
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