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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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