Angela Sucich – The Phoenix Ignores Our Expiration Date
The Phoenix Ignores Our Expiration Date Somewhere up high the solar bird builds her nest with twigs of cinnamon, kindling to burn the past—all five-hundred years of it. Myths say she has outlived nine ravens, though like other storied things is remembered most for her perishing: the blazing finale and the smoke-clearing encore of her […]
Catherine Klatzker – Tectonic Shift
Tectonic Shift Downy, soft, fragile newborn skull, a dandelion waving on its slender stem. No support, poor support. Hold her head, they caution, cradle her neck they command. Her heartbeat is visible through her fontanel, the top of her head— should that be so pronounced? Her cranial sutures stand out when she cries, red faced, […]
Ann Weil – Guernica II
Guernica II We met in Paris, 1957, long after the wars. He was a wiry man with jet black eyes and a bombastic magnetism that gave me shivers. He asked to paint me, and back then I would do anything for a few francs. I knew the dangers— all confirmed on a hundred canvases scattered […]
Emily Stoddard’s Divination with Human Heart Attached, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Divination with Human Heart Attached Emily Stoddard Game Over Books Reviewer: Lee Rossi Drawing on the arcana of early Christianity (but also the Brothers Grimm, Teresa of Avila, C.G. Jung, and other explorers of the human depths), poet Emily Stoddard offers her readers not the story of her life, but the myths that underlie that […]
Beat Not Beat, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Beat Not Beat: An Anthology of California Poets Screwing on the Beat and Post-Beat Generation Edited by Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Kim Shuck Moon Tide Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Beat Not Beat, edited by Rich Ferguson, S.A. Griffin, Alexis Rhone Fancher, and Kim Shuck, may be an anthology inspired by the Beat […]
