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A Poem In Honor of Veterans Day
Alan Seeger was an American poet who was killed in France in 1916 at the age of 28, one of that lost generation of young men who left us searing poetic evidence of the…
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Scarface lives! [by Ken Tucker]
Today a book of mine is published: Scarface Nation, which my publisher has subtitled "The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America." You can buy it here. Yes, it’s primarily about the 1983…
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Richard Brautigan and Catfish Poetics [by Laura Orem]
Richard Brautigan is well-known in hippie circles as the author of the 1967 novel, Trout Fishing in America, a kind of bible for the counter-culture. He was also a poet of considerable talent, although…
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“Manipulating the Husband” [by Stephanie Brown]
Manipulating the Husband The husband behaved badly. I am the bringer of shame, I am cross.Yes, he will toss in the sheets while I sleep, and snore, soundly.Oh yes.I will not forgive easily, but…
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Two More from CPR [Kathleen Ossip]
These will show you the range of this stellar issue. First, from Kate Greenstreet, a poem I think of as an American haiku. With typical American excess, it expands the haiku’s first and third…
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The Fool’s Name for Fate [Kathleen Ossip]
The Fool’s Name for Fate [Kathleen Ossip] What is your relationship with literary journals? Mine can be one of guilt, as in “I have a pile of them on the living room table, adding…
