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Buzz about James Cummins’ “Still Some Cake”
James Cummins’ Still Some Cake is filled with brilliant poems—“This Night of All Nights,” “My Father’s Hair,” “The Greatest Generation,” “The War of All Against All,” and “Moses”—to name just some of the longer…
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Feeling Comes Through [by Jordan Davis]
“She read my mind and slapped my face…” — Bill Cox and Cliff Hobbs Here’s the thing: whatever you feel when you’re writing comes through for the reader, whether you or…
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From the Archive (February 16, 2010): Happy Fasnacht Day (by Laura Orem)
It's Shrove Tuesday, and while New Orleans may have Mardi Gras, we here in Pennsylvania Dutch Country have Fasnacht Day. What is a fasnacht, you ask? It is a kind of super-doughnut, made with…
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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…
