Poem
God, Vodka, Suicide
Michael Lindgren
God hurt her in
a place that doesn’t show so
she drank until there was no more God
and they told her but you will die and
she sd of course
I will die. every body dies
and she didn’t believe it
until the sky cracke...
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Poem
Survivors
Amy Barone
Cahows re-emerged on Bermuda’s Nonsuch Island
after a three-hundred-year absence. They thrive amid
native flora, wildlife, and limited access to man.
Tangier Island in the middle of Chesapeake Bay
supplies the world...
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Poem
STEAMROLLED
Thaddeus Rutkowski
I come to where I usually take a detour—
a stretch where the pavement has been roughed up
in preparation for new pavement.
Now, I see machines laying new blacktop,
so I ride on the new surface.
The material is sticky,...
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Poem
Printer’s Delight
John J. Trause
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Poem
Something Good is Going to Happen Today
Jennifer Juneau
A red-bellied bird said, as
it flew up on a windowsill in this big red city,
red as a red room or read as a postcard
on a rainy day
Something good is going to happen today
and this symbolized hope
Something good is g...
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Poem
Frankie
Marc Olmsted
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Podcasts
Episode 10 – Max Blagg
Bernard Meisler
Poet, writer and performer Max Blagg in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Max Blagg is an English poet, writer and performer, who has lived in the United States since 1971. We start out talking about the retail apoca...
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Review
Birds of Passage – Review
Franklin Mount
The indigenous people of the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, the Wayuu, are the stars of Birds of Passage. Their resilience and pride (they were never conquered by the Spanish) is evident in everything they do. The Wayuu hold...
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Podcasts
Episode 9 – Tony DuShane
Bernard Meisler
Tony DuShane in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Tony DuShane is the godfather of the indie lit podcast. His show was on terrestrial radio for many years, and featured guests from Wim Wenders to Irvine Welsh to Nick...
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Podcasts
Episode 8 – Stewart Home
Bernard Meisler
Stewart Home in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Stewart Home is one of my favorite writers, because he manages to pull off something that seems easy but is extraordinarily difficult - he writes intellectual pulp fi...
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Story
Warren Oates Possessed It
Philip Quinn
It was more important than importance itself to get it right, to shoot the damn movie and make sure the actor actually a friend who wanted to be an actor got it right, namely that expression on his face that made him seem li...
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Podcasts
Episode 7 – James Reich
Bernard Meisler
James Reich in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
James Reich is the author of the novels Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness, Bombshell, I, Judas and, most recently, the astonishing The Song ...
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Podcasts
Episode 6 – Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins is a fine poet. Her most excellent collection of poems, King of the Fireflies, was recently published by Sensitive Skin Books. Ad...
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Story
The Locked Door
Joel Allegretti
The door to the room next to my bedroom when I was growing up was always locked. It was the only door in the house that locked from the outside. Not once did I see Mom or Dad—or anyone else—open it. I must have been six ...
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