Monthly Archives: July 2012

Mr. Frost (an excerpt from the novella Life After Sleep)

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

Mr. Frost (an excerpt from Life After Sleep) by Mark R. Brand “This frigging thing.” Frost knew without looking that Mary had gotten blood on the hemocrit analyzer lens again. She started pulling out drawers at the nurse’s station looking … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOHN REPP

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

Photo by Katherine Knupp THE LETTER By John Repp In the letter,              she says she doesn’t want to end              the letter so I’ll never stop reading              this scrap light as ash in the pit              where I’ve sworn for thirty years … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

Rolling Stone by Steve Davenport Takes a flood to turn a bottom, make hell of the houses on stilts and the ones squat as toads hugging shore dirt. Tree-float and sop’s the least of it. Takes more than a boat … Continue reading →

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Review of Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Review of Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer by Letitia Trent I had a professor during my undergraduate years (one those old-fashioned liberal arts professors who believed that intimately knowing Milton’s Satan or Shakespeare’s Lear was a prerequisite for being … Continue reading →

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Agnosticism and Atheism: Five Misconceptions, Five Quotes, and One Video

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Agnosticism and Atheism: Five Misconceptions, Five Quotes, and One Video by Okla Elliott [The following clarifications of popular misconceptions do not by any means exhaust the number of spurious claims made on the subject, but I hope they will help … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: TERRI KIRBY ERICKSON

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

DEPRESSION By Terri Kirby Erickson Her knees nearly buckle with the weight of a new star, but oh the sweet relief when one of them falls or when the sun pulls up its rays like rope ladders because light, even … Continue reading →

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My mind is a piece of slate in the desert

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

By Hannah Phinney We are driving driving driving through a simplified landscape. The color & texture of ground morphs subtly every fifty miles but always in the distance great swathes of mountainous rock. I am breathing deep-sea breaths and not … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOHN PAUL DAVIS

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

MYSELF, WITH THE NIGHT ON MY FACE By John Paul Davis For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made … Continue reading →

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Basket

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

Basket by Angie DeCola Once held a pile of biscuits. Since then sits still in the corner, a tabby watching marbles roll and sound across the floor. Next to the table now not on it, basket’s useless as ripped pages … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: WILLIAM REICHARD

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

PALIMPSEST By William Reichard The dead call to say they’re not dead, or they are, but in any case, would I please stop writing about them? All of my old lovers call to say they prefer their privacy, so maybe … Continue reading →

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