An Interview With Rich Murphy by David F. Hoenigman Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and has taught writing and literature for 23 years at Bradford College, Emmanuel College and now at Virginia Commonwealth Universit...
06/09
An Interview With Robert Lort by David F. Hoenigman Robert Lort is an Australian writer who has worked across theoretical, fictional and poetic realms inspired by everything from Surrealism to post-modernism to avant-garde musi...
06/09
An Interview With John Reed by Robert Lopez John Reed is author of the novels, A STILL SMALL VOICE (Delacorte), THE WHOLE (MTV Books), the 2004 bestseller, SNOWBALL'S CHANCE (Roof), the recently released ALL THE WORLD'S...
06/09
An Interview With Noah Cicero by David Hoenigman Noah Cicero lives in Youngstown, Ohio. Has walked to the bottom of The Grand Canyon and to the top of a Lawn Lake Mountain. He has four books published The Human War, Burnin...
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An Interview With Ashim Shanker by David Hoenigman Ashim Shanker is an American-born novelist of Indian descent and author of "Don't Forget to Breathe," the first in a series of surreal fiction novels following the exploits of...
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God Bless the Small Press by Charles P. Ries This interview first appeared in Free Verse.When I heard that Linda Aschbrenner, The God Mother of All Wisconsin Poets was stepping down from her beloved Free Verse, I felt li...
Working Late by Eric Beeny Mortimer rolled himself out from underneath a Toyota Tundra, wiped his hands and his face with the same grease-caked white rag. He pulled a Parliament ...
06/09
How to Put a Condom on Your John by Terrell Isselhard He's a thirty-year-old man that's dressed like a fourteen-year-old girl, baby t-shirt, tight jeans, and sparkling lip gloss. Now that we're coming to the end of the most comp...
06/09
A First Time for Everything by Michelle Reale My mother puts on her Pennsylvania Polka record which means game is on. Our old turntable, with the penny taped to its arm for balance, is housed in a stereo cabinet that loo...
06/09
This Time, With Feeling. by Yaara Sumeruk Listen to Yaara Sumeruk read 'This Time, With Feeling.'He placed his thumb and index finger in the corners of his eyes. He did this when he was tired, or when he wished he c...
06/09
Stimulus Package by Sanford Tweedie Every few months a young woman knocks on my apartment door. She holds before her a bag filled with bars of white soap. These are neither trick nor treat. They come from a very...
Rejection by Simon Barker Listen to Simon Barker read 'Rejection'"If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water, convinced you have a chance to swim t...
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In My Office—Now! by D. E. Fredd I enjoy a nap after lunch. Nothing very long, fifteen minutes clears my brain, and I'm ready for a productive afternoon. I have my own cubicle. It's at the far end of the a...
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Fishbowl by Melanie Haney We're talking about boats. About how they float and what happens when they sink, what if they could fit down the drain and disappear. Like what happened to Slippy, our son say...
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Expecting by Claire Merle Two couples have nabbed the sofas. The women perch at awkward angles, like trees bent by hillside winds. Their partners look equally uncomfortable. But it is their faces, not ...
06/09
We Are All Animals by Amanda Montei Jay liked to say that the day he found Sophia on the beach she looked like a waif, like something that had washed ashore. Jay liked to say this, but Sophia didn't like to hea...
Four Poems by Kevin Conder Three Musicianswe're blindfolded by light we're denied the crowds we sweat when the music's loudest we're serious as hell when we play we sleep with girls who drag hot ashtray...
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Know Thyself by Elizabeth Crocket When I workedat the rehaban older womanwho liked to flash her breaststold me to be carefulthat when she was my ageshe began to like Chardonnaya little too muchbut inwardlymy s...
06/09
If Only by Claire Crowley Ripples in the pool under the full moon sky, tonight. Consumed with the thought that I just might want to stay here forever, and you, you take my hand to tell me the best thi...
06/09
Two Poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal THE MOOD IN THE ROOMEach day when the drapes are drawnthe bright light of the sunsuddenly changes the mood in the room.The orange in the fruit bowllooks promising in the light...
Three Poems by Niaz Khadem the statues on South 9thyou know, they say there used to be a house there. just there, behind them.that's the front porch where they're standing.they say that they were lovers...
06/09
Two Poems by Savannah Louise I am crossing my legs so that they are a triangle, not a pretzelI am sitting on your floorYou are on your computerYou are typing a message to a girlYou spell everything quickY...
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Laces by Ravi Mangla I check myself into the hospital for someone to talk to, somewhere to sleep. I can't be trusted with my own shoelaces. White rooms help me to relax. They remind me of my paren...
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misanthropic Buddha by Alison Ross misanthropic Buddha eats black balloons for breakfastdrinks cocktails made of storms Misanthropic buddha gets his zen on at 3:04 amkicks the asses of the starsthat are not ali...
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Alone by Ryan Sloan Overhead, the lights flicker,White becomes orange, gray and brown,And I begin to shiverWith only myself around.The furnace sizzles and humsWith its heat pulsating out.As the f...
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Two Poems by Joshua Michael Stewart POMEI want to kiss your pomaceous everything, lay you on the teacher's desk, and love you sticky on my chin. Why when you worm your way into my head do I taste nothing but cid...
06/09
Three Poems by Zachary Whalen i found my new typewriter in a dead lady's closetwhat a stupid machine.there's an integral flaw-no exclamation mark.and i sweari looked all over for it.i found this typewriter...
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Two Poems by James Yeary FAVEhe's got a woodyshe's got a bicornealfistulakinetic potentialof his qualmsto a rolling boilautumnal tollharvested asmemory's shuffletape a quietsepulchre allraccoons' glau...
Nixon Does Jiangxi by Christian Ames They're burning garbage in the streets, the roosters are running wild, and an old Chinese woman is beating my undershirts with a stick. The shirts are hanging on a makeshift l...
06/09
Moving the Bed by Shaun El-Ters The same dream. Two or three nights a week, the same dream. I stand on the shoreline of the Mediterranean in the blackness of night, ankle deep in the lightly churning water. ...
06/09
Everything's Relative by Kate Jordan Margaret lives in Sweden, where there is socialized medicine and reindeer stroganoff, and the Northern Lights streak across the sky. She's lived there for thirty years and has...
Marlon Brando's Iguana by Daniel Van Thomas all day I have been thinking of marlon brando's iguana; this began last night, dreaming it up (jesus knows)where I'm living in a redbrick studio flat alone in a tex-mex desert...
06/09
spring summer fall winter spring by Harley Ferris Listen to Harley Ferris read 'spring summer fall winter spring'springSilver fog clings to the dirt road, stretching out in front of my father's car, glaring ...
AM/PM by Amelia Gray Reviewed by John Madera1. AM/PM is a slideshow of offstage moments.2. AM/PM is sweetly sick and madly stark.3. AM/PM is so many cells to break.4. AM/PM is a fuzzy nectared bum...
06/09
An Inventory of Lost Things by Karla Huston 32 Pages / 23 PoemsPrice: $8Centennial PressP.O. Box 170322Milwaukee, WI 53217www.centennialpress.comISBN: 0-9797994-1-4Review/Interview By: Charles P. RiesWomen have a disti...
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The Light of Fields by Michael Kriesel 31 Poems / 68 PagesPrice: $5 (includes shipping) Propaganda Press / "Pocket Protector Series"P.O. Box 398058Cambridge, MA 02149Web Site: www.alt-current.com Book Informatio...
Ruins by Achy Obejas Ruins by Achy Obejas. New York, NY: Akashic Books, 2009. $15.95. 205 pages. ISBN: 978-1-933354-69-9.
Review by Trina L. Drotar Ruins is Achy Obejas' fi...
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Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Review by Morten Hoi JensenTóibín's last novel, The Master, was an expert portrait of Henry James, but his latest novel may be his most Jamesian yet. Brooklyn, set in t...
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Waste by Eugene Marten Review by John Madera With its granitic sentences, measured, but not sluggish, pacing, and a heavy, but not burdensome, sense of foreboding, where the b...
Another Ohio by Luke Bartolomeo Listen to Luke Bartolomeo read from 'Another Ohio'SynopsisWhat starts for Turner, a mall security guard, as a serious endeavor to solve the mystery of his friend's death is qu...
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