Ace Boggess’s Misadventure, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Ace Boggess Misadventure Cyberwit Reviewer: Erica Goss In Misadventure, Ace Boggess writes about prison, old horror movies, and the absurdities of modern life. These poems create a powerful and moving narrative, following one man’s all-too-human failings as he navigates a baffling and often darkly humorous world. In language full of deft turns and surprises, Boggess […]
Jonce – On Fake Photographs Claiming That We Are the Virus
On Fake Photographs Claiming That We Are the Virus “Venice hasn’t seen clear canal water in a very long time. Dolphins showing up too. Nature just hit the reset button on us.” —Twitter User @Lukalashx There’s a part of me that finds this compelling, even though it’s fake. Even when I was in Venice, watching […]
Mary Birnbaum – And a Plague of Frogs
And a Plague of Frogs I am waiting for the drums of August, the riptides, the mad funnels, the gas-blue flame over the city’s complacent haze, people wading chest deep in turbulence, the trial and sentence of hailstones, torrents. There’s no chaste-gowned hymn for mercy. Power struts in every eyeful. No counter-arguments heard. No incantations. […]
Jen Ashburn – Paean
Paean I have survived a night of ribbons & prayer flags, confetti glitter & street music, uncurbed stupor & fireworks, paling now in the waking mind’s exaggerated light. The morning breaks hard with its insistent re-becoming. It curves long in its celestial privilege. But praise this house with sagging rafters. Praise the stone foundation, the […]
