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Hubcaps in the shiny showroom, silver Eden flowers. Should I buy?
The steering wheel is like a stripper—bumps and grinds as I watch
transfixed. Mr. jelly-doughnut presses me to sign. Quickly. I can
drive it home tonight. Sold.Just to shut him up. I leave
a perfect world for one withdead deer by the road. No savior
to let me live forever among bright models.
A stop sign. A near collision.
About the author:
Kenneth Pobo’s manuscript called Trina and the Sky won Main Street Rag’s 2009 chapbook contest; they published it in December 2009. His
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#1from a rooftop downgowanus she drinks his coffee on his building
she dances to a song on japanese television
she watches the water burn the earth
#2
he thought he would begin his life alone againhe paddled through a warm tub found a towel stepped onto cementand went
she was already waiting by a railing leaning against it boredlike he’d taken hours to drown
#3
the wind came hiss the water responded and gurgled
he panicked, tugged his feetone slipped and let the other followdown the waves sprayed
he held his billfold to chest in a slip drift sink
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Tarpaulin Sky Press ISBN 978-0-9825416-3-0 Pages 131 Price $15
Review by Kevin Kane
In order to tackle a good literary work, I need to be hungry. And I can usually judge what I’m reading by how it affects that hunger. Sometimes a story collection forces me to set it down after reading a story, too full of images and emotion to continue. Other times, I lightly snack my way through the whole thing. The strength and beauty of the stories in Joanna Ruocco’s Man’s Companions pushed me to devour the entirety of the collection in a few days despite being
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Listen to a podcast of Kelli Stevens Kane’s “(63).”
(63) these dreams I will carry with melike waves in the air above heat or gasoline
awake in this flaunted houseall kinds of spirit guests walk through
and they’ll just have to watch me eat because I’m not running a restaurant for the dead.
they can do like we did in preschooland hand each other pretend food:
air biscuits, invisible hamburgers, and double scoops of nothing.
I hunger for these dreamsI draw one in, and she curls up
pondering my stomachtasting womb, deciding nothing
Listen to a podcast of Kelli Stevens
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Today you were my boyfriendyour supple fingers washed my hair lathered my backas water trickled down my nosedimples danced across your face
You poured my coffee in my take-out cupkissed me out the doorsoft on curled lips just how I likea tiny slip of tongue at the endwhispered sweet somethings in my tingling ear
Got in my car and Cat Stevens sang“Never could be mine, no matter how I try” wiped the salt-mist from my windshield passed the trucks like they were on a board gameand hung onto that almost-moment
About the author:
I have been published in
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Peter Schwartz is the author of Old Men, Girls, and Monsters.
TW: Much of the work is directed to someone or something else a disembodied “you”. When you are writing are these yous a particular character or person or is it more metaphysical than that?
PS: Ah, when I speak to that “you”, I’m speaking to the great other which takes on different forms at different times. God, the feminine spirit of poetry, my father, my past, but maybe most importantly, my self, my innermost reservoir.
TW: The voices in this collection seem to modulate from the put
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three course meals early dinner dealsnot a block downfrom the old dopehouse a slice of piecup of coffee waste money minutes daysdistances in $20 bills ice and a beating of pigeon wings
About the author:
John Kuligowski is basically uninteresting except for his wife and his weird fascination with semiotics. Other recent work can be seen in Crash, and is forthcoming in The Northville Review.
Photo courtesy Women and Children First Bookstore
Linda Bubon and her co-owner Ann Christophersen first opened the Women and Children First Bookstore in 1979. Today it is the largest feminist bookstore in the country, and has been honored with awards from Chicago Now, the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Foundation, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, and the Lesbian Community Cancer Project, among others. In 2004, the Chicago Sun Times named Bubon and Christophersen among the city’s 100 most powerful women. Bubon is also a story performer of written literature for adults and children, a book group leader, and book reviewer for both print and
» Continue reading An Interview With Linda Bubon by Daniel Duffy…
He was back in the moments when he’d create jagged sutures of kisses on her paralyzed arms and she’d murmur how she’d love him forever. But those moments blurred as another attacked—her saying she’d still love him forever though she was leaving him for someone less neurotic. Sitting in the subway, he laughed aloud and a man with a picture of a taco on his shirt didn’t seem too happy and he thought, Why can’t I laugh on the fucking subway? The one time I do a massive soft shell of guilt envelops me? So he closed his eyes and went
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Aaron Burch
Aaron Burch is the author of How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew
TW: The design of ” seems almost part of the storytelling, can you tell me about the look of the book and its relationship to the content?
AB: The design and look of the book is totally Pank’s awesomeness, though i am obviously very, very happy with it. I love books that are well-designed (and that match the look to the feel of the text inside) and it is one of my favorite aspects of doing Hobart, working on cover designs and
» Continue reading An Interview With Aaron Burch by Timmy Waldron…
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