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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Five Poems by Simon Perchick
Five Untitled Poems By Simon Perchik They’re eggs nobody wants :snow all day falling from their nest and these waves broken in half — it’s so long since I sang — I forgot how a word, one then another, another … Continue reading
The Fifth Wall: Strategies of the Self in Ginsberg, Plath, Neruda & Rilke
By Lea C. Deschenes Introduction Most people are familiar with the theatrical convention of “The Fourth Wall,” an invisible barrier between a play’s audience and actors. As with any convention, the strictness with which artists and works of art adhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Lea C. Deschenes, Pablo Neruda, Poetry and craft, Ranier Maria Rilke, Sylvia Plath
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Three Poems by Davy Knittle
Children’s Hospital: Memory By Davy Knittle (double dutch) the bust of the fuses in a shootout a shirt for the boy in the squad car selective concessions to ruin, delays, amplifications on whose houses you burn down whose body exempt … Continue reading
Posted in Guest contributors
Tagged Davy Knittle, Elizabeth Willis, Harryette Mullen, political poems
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Invented Form: The Pseudotaph
The Pseudotaph By Chris Bays A pseudotaph, or false burial, is an invented word and poetic form that is similar to the epitaph when it comes to tone, which can range from the melancholic to the humorous, and verse, which … Continue reading
The Male Slam Experience vs The Female Slam Experience
By Rachel McKibbens It has taken me two years to get around to writing this, but after coming home from the Women of the World poetry slam on Sunday, and being asked repeatedly what I meant by something I said … Continue reading
Radius: Marty McConnell, Ben Clark, Colin Winnette
The Editors write: We’re fascinated with Ben Clark’s poetry, and have been ever since we read his first collection, Reasons to Leave the Slaughter, on Write Bloody Publishing. Clark has a gift for using structure, disjointed diction and offbeat metaphors … Continue reading
Why Queer is the New Straight White Male
by Jade Sylvan When I originally conceived of this post, I was going to call it “What’s Good About Straight White Men.” I was planning to write about how, as frustratingly homogenous as the “Western Canon” of literature is, the … Continue reading
A Note on Nasty Comments
Recently, there has been some discussion as to an extremely harsh criticism posted in response to a poem published by Radius, and it’s had us thinking that, perhaps, it’s time to have a small discussion about what we deem appropriate … Continue reading