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Poem: Sean Brendan-Brown
At Slack Tide the River is a Slate Butternut, shadbush, crabapple, anemone, cowslip, viburnum, cypress, tulip-tree: an invocation to spring, the antiquity of life, the glossy sun and rehearsed sky where a too-blue hue bleeds into unreal green—all of it a joy, a warning your life’s itinerary is undone, stop living as if dead in … Read more
(Archive) In Place: Emily Cesta, Live at New England College
This episode is part of our In Place LIVE series. We are pleased to be able to bring you live performances from some of our favorite writers. Cesta’s reading was part of the New England College MFA program’s 10th anniversary celebration on June 23, 2012. Emily Cesta holds a BA in Political Science from Providence … Read more
Excerpt: Howard Faerstein
From Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn New Moon—Memorial for a Colleague you think the moon is yours for S.C. I’ll omit most of the contents since my subject isn’t the room with its elephant tusks & wall-eyed pike mounted above a glass case safeguarding George Washington’s collected writings & the Babylonian Talmud, but the … Read more
Story: Paul Hadella
Worms (1969) Everybody knows that if they need some worms for fishing, Rudy will sell you a clump of them—out of one of his barrels. Rudy lives in Diesel’s backyard, in a shed behind Diesel’s garage. He’s related to Diesel’s father, but Diesel isn’t sure how. He’s positive, though, that he’s not his father’s brother. … Read more
Mid-Week Feature: Brett Stout
Umbrellas for the Blood Rain metallic neon blood singed safety pinned accessories and mementos of future enthusiastic wars, black tie dinners and cheap garbage bags born solo on gargantuan waves of methadone and severely defaulted mortgages a coagulation of euphoric embittered orgasms of hands to face and face to face entral station nervous system teasing … Read more
Poem: Anita S. Pulier
Just in case you receive a text message from my phone soon after I die ignore it rest assured it will not be from me don’t hesitate to cancel the account scatter the ashes after all, I must have whispered a million loving secrets directly into your ears which you can access anywhere without a … Read more
(Archive)In Place: Joe Gouveia, Live at New England College
This episode is part of our new In Place LIVE series. We are pleased to be able to bring you live performances from some of our favorite writers. Gouveia’s reading was part of the New England College MFA program’s 10th anniversary celebration on June 23, 2012. Joe Gouveia is a poet, journalist & poetry radio … Read more
Excerpt: Nicholaus Patnaude
From First Aide Medicine Prologue – Invocation of Karen I want to burn down his house. I will. He used Karen. I can’t stomach that. He was older than piss and uglier than a worm. He lived just down the street with his lights on until late at night. He had an artic fox that … Read more
Story: John Brown Spiers
Things Are Happening I don’t know the people in our room. I don’t know who they are, or where they came from. Here they are. Some of them embrace me. And their greetings are effusive. I understand perfectly all the words they use when they speak. But I can’t make any sense of them. Because … Read more
Mid-Week Feature: Justin Bilyard
Justin Bilyard is a digital artist currently residing in Connecticut. Justin’s work is primarily video and film, although for the past year he has switched focus to working on his web based art project, Dataerase. Justin is planning on returning to film making soon, bringing with him new ideas he’s gained through his work as … Read more
