Category Archives: Guest contributors

‘Everybody else don’t move, that’s off they ears, oh he gone get in trouble,
that’s off they memory, they don’t move, they enslaved, they enslaved
to what could possibly happen’ – Kanye West … Continue reading→

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‘So, uhm, how do you write a poem?’: The First Part of Our ‘Gauntlet’ Advice On Writing Series

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January 15, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Sam Cha, David Lehman, Ellyn Maybe, Mindy Nettifee, Amber Tamblyn, Cecilia Woloch and Robert Wynne

From The Editor: When we first announced our yearlong writing challenge, The Gauntlet, we were pleased to find interest from many fiction … Continue reading→

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Two Poems by Tony Brown

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January 1, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

The Patriarchy Apologizes
By Tony Brown

Dear Baby Baby,
I’m going to shut up now
after saying I’m sorry;
you must know I lament how
this world is all so very
violent. The sky … Continue reading→

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Three Poems by Gerard Sarnat

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November 16, 2017 by author

Victor D. Infante

Body Politic With Crumbling Bridges & Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall
— thanks to Andy Borowitz’s New Yorker, 31 August 2015 title [I substituted Body Politic for Nation.]
By Gerard Sarnat

Google Glasses looked forward to perusing … Continue reading→

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