Penelope Gristelfink – The Limp
The Limp I’ve always wanted a limp, to be the one who could not get away, who has to be rescued, the last-minute virgin, that 24-hour drug store Christmas gift, cheap but sweet, politely brayed over. Because vulnerability always looks so much more charming from the outside, a snowglobe in which the lawn is perpetually […]
Mark J. Mitchell – Troy Games
Troy Games Troy Games are what the war games played by Roman boys were called. They were played with wooden swords as preparation for the life of a Roman citizen/soldier. 1. Before Troy Before Troy There were no Odysseys If you were Blown off course You were just lost. Sometimes for A very long time. […]
Shannon Connor Winward – Boys and Trains
Boys and Trains That week, driving past the playground with its view of the creek, I thought of bodies but the water there is always full of things it shouldn’t be the trees are tricksters, light and shadow they’ve taken the form of dead boys before. My son was in the backseat. I was eager […]
Katherine Soniat’s Bright Stranger,
Reviewed by Lynn Levin
Katherine Soniat Bright Stranger Louisiana State University Press ISBN: 978-0-8071-6241-5 Reviewer: Lynn Levin Bright Stranger, Katherine Soniat’s new collection of dreamy, explorative, elegant poems, takes us on many trails—on a hike through the Grand Canyon, along Orpheus’s descent into Hades, through geological time, mythic time, and fragments of the speaker’s life. Many of the […]
Jordan Rice’s Constellarium,
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Jordan Rice Constellarium Orison Books, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-9906917-7-8 Reviewer: Cindy Hochman Someone tells a joke. “Where do they put a missing tranny’s photo? On cartons of half and half.” —Jordan Rice, “The Living Is Easy” The heartrending and harrowing poems in Jordan Rice’s Constellarium underscore the difference between poetry and politics, despite the fact […]
