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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: Santorum Phones In Your Faith
I see into your heart. Not really. I wouldn’t presume, not while Rick Santorum’s on the case. He’s like Santa, knowing whether your theology is naughty or nice. Or phony. If your “worldview” is…
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Obscure poetry in the age of Google [by Jordan Davis]
For “obscure poetry” read “dignity.” Read “personal information.” Say exactly what you mean, tell it exactly as it happened. You don’t have to hedge on specifics out of fear the reader won’t know what…
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Anthology of the Drive [by Jordan Davis]
Eighty is a mild road. There are a few scraped hills that verge on picturesque, there are cooling towers, there are valleys strewn with silage and barns. The speed traps all telegraph themselves a…
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More Mountain Talk [by Ian Brown]
More Mountain Talk I. Waking upone morning, Sunrisesaid, ‘Mountain,must you always bethere sitting alone?Oh how I amtired of wastingaway my light onyour familiar anglesand dirt inclination.Do you not have anywhereelse to bebut here? Forlornmy…
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Jordan Davis, Guest Blogger February 19-25
photo (c) Brian Johansen This week we welcome Jordan Davis as our guest blogger. Jordan is poetry editor of The Nation. His chapbook, POD | Poems on Demand, was published this fall by Greying…
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Goodbye WS; Hello to you in this dark evening season [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I’m sure lots of people reading this blog know we lost a staggeringly great poet, Wisława Szymborska, a few weeks ago. It was Feb 1; she was 88. I can’t help giving…
