by Free State Review | Sep 14, 2014 | Bubbler, Features
We published a translation of his poem “Death & Stuff”—some of it no doubt lifted from Whitman—in an issue of Telescope. It was 1983 and we thought we were clear of him. We’d done our part. His cahiers had been recovered from his trunk in the Parima mountains, and... 
by adamin | Jun 17, 2014 | Features
There’s the Apocalypse, and then there’s Drucilla Wall. The whole world is a tree beside the house. Critters climb and live in it. Things with wings fly through it. Time is measured by it. Someone she loves stands beside it for a photograph. There he is, standing... by adamin | May 15, 2014 | Features
The lines have all been pulled in and we found a few with some really juicy claws–er, we mean poetry. We’re happy to share that our wonderful friend Sue Ellen Thompson has chosen Jennifer Keith as winner for the John Elsberg Poetry Contest first place... 
by adamin | May 11, 2014 | Features
The neon strobes its metallic blue: Sister Fay. The palm reader picks out love and money at the lunch pail intersection of Reisterstown and Liberty Roads. Northward, Julianna Spallholz reads her own palm. She plays a few numbers, and once spent an hour lightly... 
by adamin | Apr 29, 2014 | Features
New for 2014: Clarity. We’ve been hearing some reports about editors looking for simple, smart conversational styles in poetry. Plain spoken, but without dumbing it down. Here’s some music those editors might snap. Sure, it’s not influenced by punk,...
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