Here is an anthology of different works associated with 42 Mile Press and W280.
I attempted to create a similar theme or image in this collection. I personally enjoy poetry that have natural images, and evoke a sense of ambiguity that leaves the reader begging for more.
Monday, April 29, 2013
The Non-Classical Penguin Press
Emperor Anthology Issue I
-Anne Marie Lindgren
Jelly
Bucket for Reading:
Rachel Rinehart
For Laika /
1
Ocean Vuong
A Kind of Kindness
/ 2
Michael Schmeltzer
Insect, Inflict
/ 3
Olga Rukovets
Permanence
/ 4
Anothai Kaewkaen
Poems in Praise of Savory Foods and
Sweets (Translations of King Rama II’s Food Poems) / 5, 6
Abrupt
Rural:
David Dodd Lee
Her Body
/ 7
Watermark:
Clayton Michaels
Melancholia is a collective noun
/ 8
Fiddler’s hearth – summer, 2009
/ 9
Eleemosynary /
10, 11
Fragile
Acts:
Allan Peterson
Innocence of Proof
/ 12
Ghost Writer
/ 13
Moon Missing /
14
The
Other Life:
Herbert Scott
Closing Up
/ 15
The Lost Aisles
/ 16, 17
Wolf /
18
Shade
2004:
Elizabeth Skurnick
Mt. Desert Island
/ 19, 20
Mary Ruefle
Grief
/ 21
Statement
/ 22
The Feather
/ 23
Tina Chang
Part of the Forest
/ 24
Lydia Melvin
Suit Me
/ 25
Bob Hicok
Limited resources
/ 26, 27
Suggested modifications
/ 28, 29
Cleaning House
/ 30,31,32,33
Pablo Medina
The Pillars of Community
/ 34
Tectonics of the Imperceptible
/ 35
Purpose and Extravagance /
36
Donna Munro
There’s Nothing So Bad Living Can’t
Fix It / 37
Trepidar
/ 38, 39
Filterless Pleasure
/ 40
Chad Faries
Cadenza for the Works of Nick Cave
and Euridice / 41, 42, 43
Karen Whalley
Under the Sign of Fire
/ 44
Family of Hard Workers
/ 45
When He Prunes the Roses
/ 46
Brian Henry
American Incident /
47, 48, 49
Kevin Clark
Hands Off /
50, 51
The Crossing /
52, 53
Ron Rash
Something Rich and Strange
/ 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
Paula Cisewski
Birds of Appetite
/ 61
To A Margin
/ 62, 63
William Olsen
Success
/ 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
Jaimee Kuperman
I Think Words Louder
/ 72
Hadrianus
/ 73
Somebody Else’s Funeral
/ 74
Gretchen Mattox
The Moon Is No Mother
/ 75
Shampoo
Issue 40:
Jim Behrle
I move the clocks ahead every
weekend / 76
Thank you for your concern
/ 77
Tim Yu
Chinese Silence No. 17
/ 78, 79
Chinese Silence No. 18
/ 80, 81
Chinese Silence No. 19
/ 82, 83
Alison Strub
Address to Gregor Mendel
/ 84
Address to Dr. John Clarke, 1959
/ 85
Address to Hipocrates
/ 86
Julien Poirier
The Poem: Fact and Fiction /
87
Caterpillar at the Acropolis
/ 88
Octopus
Magazine 15:
Alice Bolin
Yearbook /
89
Kevin Simmonds
Mishima /
90
Crystal
/ 91
Honey
/ 92
Joanna Novak
On a Bolus /
93
Soft Spot
/ 94
On Appointment
/ 95, 96
Donald Dunbar
Eyelid lick
/ 97, 98
Jason Koo
Giant Steps
/ 99, 100
GQ Correspondence
/ 101
Sixth
Finch Spring 2013:
Luke Bloomfield
Have Some Cake
/ 102
Jay Deshpande
Nocturne. /
103
Anne Cecelia Holmes
At Last an Effigy Shaped Like
Oklahoma / 104
In Home Movies We Are Always Waving
/ 105
Poem for What I’m not Allowed
/ 106
John James
It Loops Back Over the Pacific
/ 107
Anne Marie Rooney
Bright path
/ 108
Quarterly
West Issue 77:
Lucien Darjeun Meadows
Cocoon
/ 109
Kimberly Grey
We are Mostly Alright
/ 110
Gina R. Evers
Learning to Read Tarot
/ 111
Kerry Banazek
Is It Sex to Say Seeing?
/ 112
If Our Eyes Slip Through Our
Fingers and Leave a Residue / 113
Meghan Privitello
Elemental
/ 114
Rachel Rinehart
Murderess, Ohio
/ 115
Pool:
Jessi Lee Gaylord
I Don’t Want to Watch Deadwood with
You Anymore / 116, 117
The Slain Blue Bedroom /
118
Kristin Hatch
Pretty Poem
/ 119
Anna Maria Hong
Cassandra /
120
Molly McQuade
From A Field Guide to Verbs
/ 121
Amy Newman
When Anne Sexton Makes Enough Money
Selling Beauty
Counselor Cosmetics Door-to-Door,
She Buys James Wright’s The Green Wall? / 122
Nicholas Wong
Post –Colonial Zoology (1997, Hong
Kong, returning to China) / 123
The
Afterlife is a Dry County:
Charmi Keranen
And What of The Moss
/ 124
A New Mythology
/ 125
A Treaty of Everlasting
/ 126
The
Glimmering Room:
Cynthia Cruz
Strange Gospels
/ 127
Chronic
/ 128, 129
Strange Gospels /
130, 131
The
Baltimore Review:
Sally Rosen Kindred
At the Altar of My Fifth Year
/ 132,133
Patrick Milian
Boy,
/ 134
Helen Degen Cohen
Midnight in Paris
/ 135, 136
Reginald Harris
Self-Portrait as My Father’s Son
/ 137
Megan Grumbling
Vapors /
138
Linda Pastan
Weeping Cherry
/ 139
On the Beach
/ 140
42opus:
Bradley Paul
What Kind of Slow Creeping Death
Are You? / 141
Diagram 12.6:
Ari Banias
Solve for X
/ 142
Michael Canavan
Nasa Elegy /
143
Ted Jean
Mixed Marriage
/ 144
David M. DeLeon
Songs to Water
/ 145
Norman Lock
11 Impossible Objects
/ 146
D. E. Steward
Marzoto
/ 147
R. Williams
The Currency of Tourism
/
148
Portland Review:
Anis Shivani
December 31
/ 149
Christine
Stewart-Nunez
Abecedarian to Unbind /
150
Zachary Lundgren
287 South
/ 151
Diode Volume
6 Number 1:
Ash Bowen
We’re Always Getting
the Story Wrong / 152
To the Double Helix
/ 153
For the Man Waiting by
the Monkey Bars / 154
Anna Journey
Evacuated
/ 155
Gary Sange
Kissing Hands
/ 156
Sunday, April 21, 2013
This link will provide a video of Carol Ann Duffy reading "Premonitions" from her most current collection The Bees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrMznlN6i4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrMznlN6i4
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Catherine and Frederick
A
Grimm’s Tale
indeed
permeated
in
grains of truth.
Not
a Cinderella story
of severed toes
filed
heels
or lichen to peck from
agate ashes.
No
reels of cheese
chasing after one another
down
hills of hop flowers
and barred thicket
bushes.
Only
an over flowing
tap
of
hefeweizen Krankenwagen
beer.
Catherine
Frederick,
we’ll
Burn Em’
to the fucking ground.
In literary journal Shampoo
Issue 40, the cover art is fantastic. There are distinct contrasts between
the purple, black, and orange that shapes the face of this mysterious girl. It
holds a certain ambiguity that makes me want to open the pages of this
collection. Jim Behrle’s “I Move the Clocks Ahead Every Weekend” started this
collection out humorously. The poem has a touch of vulgar humor that appeals to
many of our senses through the images presented. However, Behrle’s second poem
“Thank You for Your Concern” was anything but appealing. I did not enjoy this
poem, because the “political” statements are one dimensional. Emily Hunt’s poem
“Symbols” states the word “light” one too many times by the third stanza. I
honestly want to send her a Thesaurus. The work as a whole seems quite juvenile.
The cover of this collection deceived me, as a reader. Guess that is how the
saying goes, right?
The
cover Octopus Magazine 15 leaves much
to be desired. However, unlike the Shampoo
Issue 40 this literary journal seems to be quite professional. I enjoyed
the layout of the journal, the white space used by the poets, and the color
scheme of the texts. Alice Bolin’s “Yearbook” appeals to me on many different
levels. The stanza: “Those whores. Our oboe reeds litter the alley. Leak saliva
on the yearbook and don't ask questions. / The painter's nest spit-burned and
choked in apple, the big suckling pig.” This is my favorite out of the poem.
There is an array of images of the “big suckling pig” and “saliva on the
yearbook.” It creates an atmosphere anyone can picture in their head, however;
it still leaves the reader with a sour taste in their mouths. The ambiguity of
what might be happening in the poem, and the mysterious feeling of the
certainty of not wanting to know creates an intriguing atmosphere. This is in
contradiction with Kevin Simmonds’ “Summer of 1982.” There are vivid images
here as well, but lacks a sense of ambiguity. The reader clearly knows what is
taking place in the poem. I would have originally guessed it would take away
from the poem, but the aesthetic beauty of arrangement of words draws the
reader back into the poem.
First draft of my new poem: "A barren well"
A barren well
In the Middle
Ages,
I once sat by a fire
quite alone
for who could
help
but produce
bad dreams?
The grandmother of the devil
took pity on
upon me
as I crept into the
folds
of her pelted
dress.
For my tree no longer
produced apples
or crisp lavender
leaves,
so I plucked
three
golden hairs
from the
head of a demon
and squashed the toad
sitting
under a stone
hidden in a barren well.
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