
ICEBOX 1. To The Gladiator in the Rogue Arena Gladiator, whose steely prowess is in service To a rogue arena, A sullying Caesar, With-us-or-against-us strongman, Confess: are they daunting beasts…
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“Corner Cafe”
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“Walking in Los Angeles”
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“Walking in Los Angeles”
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“Destinies”
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“Dead Poem”
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“For the Time Being”
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“Ransom”
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“A Man and A Woman”
“Blessèd Are the Normal”
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“A Man and A Woman”
“Blessèd Are the Normal”
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“Written for Others”
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“Written for Others”
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“Getting Tested”
ICEBOX 1. To The Gladiator in the Rogue Arena Gladiator, whose steely prowess is in service To a rogue arena, A sullying Caesar, With-us-or-against-us strongman, Confess: are they daunting beasts…
A review of Rachel Galvin’s Elevated Threat Level. Green Lantern Press, 2018. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rachel Galvin argues, “Poetry, like journalism, is…
It is 3:30 in the morning here, and the email chime on my phone rings. In Syria, it’s 10:30 a.m. Saleh Razzouk writes, “I am happy you are not on…
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora Copper Canyon Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781556595110 $11 Reviewed by J.G. McClure The opening poem of Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied, “To Abuelita Neli,” lays out the difficult, high-stakes emotional…
Letters from Ukraine This week, Russian troops invaded Crimea. Putin claims this invasion is an effort to protect the Russian-language population of the peninsula from Ukrainian nationalists. I was born…
[Mary]: by J. Hope Stein Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012 In her chapbook [Mary]:, J. Hope Stein embraces the challenge of writing about Thomas Edison, a man who—much like poets—is so…
I take great pleasure in misusing terminologies or deploying what might be called counter-terminologies, or ur-terminologies, formulations that have been abandoned, forbidden or that never made it and there’s certainly room for humour here.
The Water Books by Judith Vollmer Autumn House Press: 2012 Judith Vollmer teaches at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and…
A Poet’s Baker’s Dozen: An Interview with Margo Berdeshevsky Born in New York City, MARGO BERDESHEVSKY often writes and walks in Paris. Her poetry collections are “Between Soul and Stone” and “But a Passage…
Our language is born in communication with other people. With those we love and have confidence in we talk in a more personal way. As our voices get influenced by the person we talk to, we also become more personal. It’s the same with literary influences. Voices that mean a lot to us are stimulating our own. We develop into originals in communication with people who have something important to teach us about ourselves.