Tag Archives: How We Read

Paying for the The Abortion (the Richard Brautigan book)

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August 5, 2015 by author

by David Macpherson

In the fall of 1994 I didn’t have a TV, so I bought used paperbacks and read them for the evening’s entertainment. It was Amherst, Massachusetts, and downtown had 6 or 7 bookstores, most of them with … Continue reading→

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At the Slush Pile Saloon

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February 1, 2013 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Dave Macpherson

A prose poem walked into a flash fiction bar and ordered a Vodka Gimlet. The bartender, a Faulkner-esque run-on sentence, didn’t even twitch a comma; he just got out the booze and started making the magic. The … Continue reading→

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Notes in the Margin: Poetry in the Information Age

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January 24, 2013 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Lenore Weiss

Working as a writer in the computer industry suited me fine. First I contracted at engineering companies. I moved on to other positions. My role required me to interview software engineers, marketing and business analysts, and to … Continue reading→

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They Got the Guns, But we Got the Numbers: Why Radius Will Continue to Submit to the Pushcart Prize

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June 21, 2012 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Victor D. Infante

There is a manner in which you chew too long on irrelevant questions, the way you feel obliged to answer them, but find instead a stuttering nothing lodged in your throat, a stammer as you begin … Continue reading→

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Oh, the High-Tech Life or OOO (Out of Office)

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April 18, 2012 by author

Victor D. Infante

OOO can mean any variety of things: I’m not in the office occupying my usual cubicle space and sitting in a chair with my feet raised on a two-drawer file cabinet, or I’m at home in my jammies, sitting on … Continue reading→

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