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Elizabethton, Tennessee, 1929 When wages sank and conditions became intolerable, women led a strike of the Glanzstoff Textile Mill. While their menfolk’s anger often erupted in violence, women used laughter and bold defiance of conventional feminine behavior as weapons against a bewildered National Guard, which was made up of their neighbors until backup was called. [...]
Poems are “instruments for thinking” (Allen Grossman). The object of a poet’s thought, however, is often unstated–especially in lyric poetry. Lyric poetry never speaks to an audience, and so–as it is when we are alone–the speaker does not feel compelled to explicitly state the object of thought but only the thoughts themselves. In this review, [...]
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JH: Congratulations on your first book diatomhero: religious poems. I treasure how this poetry holds every religion responsible for being authentic and explores exactly what kind of turmoil/freedom of movement (of creed, language, time, space) arises in such a busy atmosphere. I’m thinking specifically of Christianity’s notion of finite resting places (blazing hot or room-temperature) [...]
_______________________________________ Zayne Turner grew up in the rural High Desert of Oregon. She is the author of the chapbook Memory of My Mouth, available from dancing girl press. She has received grants and fellowships for literary & visual arts from the Arteles Creative Center in Finland, Oregon Arts Commission, Vermont Studio Center and the University [...]
wig confessional/ the bedroom Winter 1996 Bedtime (I says my name, hoping he will call it out) it is just me (touch me like that velvet zodiac woman) covered in collapsible silence (like the gal I once was) until dawn (singing in church) she clings to me (praying for honor) like moisture in the desert [...]
The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from writer Catherine Lacey. Catherine reads
Ko’ dóó łeeschch’iih [Fire and Ashes The red off the far ridge, an eating dragon, slow ______coming down the valley —my mom’s imagination over the phone, ______a quarter-mile of cars ahead. No one has stopped, on their way north or south, to capture Hotshots turning the beast to smolder. Somewhere out in the burn, under [...]
The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from poet Katharine Coles. Katharine reads . Share this: Related Posts Interview with Michael Homolka [AUDIO] Interview with Michelle Bitting [AUDIO] Interview with Woody Brown [AUDIO]March 7, 2013 Interview with Kelli Russell Agodon [AUDIO] Interview with Neil Shepard [AUDIO]
This for dg okpik ____________________________________________ Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is currently pursuing her MFA at Bard College. She resides in Tsaile, AZ on the Navajo Nation with her husband and daughter and is an adjunct faculty member at Diné College. Her first [...]
When I was 19, I read the Iliad, Robert Fitzgerald’s translation, which I enjoyed, except for the endless lists of boats. Later, I came to realize the Greeks who were listening to this were from the various tribes mentioned, so when their group of ships came up, they were probably shouting out like soccer hoodlums. [...]
____________________________________________ Alina Gregorian‘s poems have been published in Sink Review, Boston Review, GlitterPony, and other journals. She curates a video poetry reading series at the Huffington Post, co-curates Triptych Readings, and co-edits the collaboration journal Bridge. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is here.
Ode to the Beloved’s Hips Bells are they—shaped on the eighth day—silvered percussion in the morning—are the morning. Swing switch sway. Hold the day away a little longer, a little slower, a little easy. Call to me— I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock, I-I wanna rock right now—so to them I come—struck-dumb chime-blind, tolling with [...]
The Smoke that Settles The smoke that settles comes from somewhere else. Carried by breath exhaled like word of mouth. It’s the bastard offspring of old things and delivered by fate. Thick with the smell of fresh endings brought on too soon. Sneaking up on you making eyes burn, constricting airways and reminding us of [...]
brings you a reading and interview from writer Woody Brown. Woody reads Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version . You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Share this: Related Posts Interview with Michael Homolka [AUDIO] Interview with Michelle [...]
