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April 9, 2020
April 8, 2020
Fiction – Molecule Zero
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A collection of short stories previously published in The Wapsipinicon Almanac, Delmarva Review, Tower Journal and other magazines and publications.
March 29, 2020
March 16, 2020
March 15, 2020
Two Poems from Rustin Larson
.Slap.It was confusing. It’s
like getting on the wrong
bus and arriving at the
wrong school. It will take
a morning of frantic phone
calls for your mom to find
you. And then you still
might get a slap.
.
Well, it’s October now and I
still don’t care about baseball.
.
I feel maybe someone will give
me cartoonist trouble, holding
my life together with aspirin
and duct tape. The fish
of words will swim through all
the paper. Thanksgiving
is exactly the same up there,
except in October, and they
are still loyal to the Queen.
It’s like getting on the wrong
bus and arriving at the wrong
school.
.
Now, I have a handful of
believers. The globe shakes
its oceans off onto the table,
and it is a wonder we
construct mail boxes out of
milk cartons; we send each
other Halloween greetings…
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From the Poetry Editor
From North of Oxford, this windy March issue blows us in two directions: backward into childhood, i.e., the past and upward into a distorted heavenly sky.
Rustin Larson’s poem, “Slap” conjures up Stanley Kunitz’s slapped check in “The Portrait,” but Larson’s metaphor literally moves us into confusion with his opening lines: “It was confusing. It’s / like getting on the wrong / bus and arriving at / the wrong school.” It’s as if childhood were a treacherous journey for the speaker, which leads the reader to his second poem, “Bats and Spiders,” where the end lines of his first stanza are “Your / mother would never have / aborted you’ says my aunt. / Things like that get me / thinking.” There is a mastery and magical craft to this poem that you will want to read and re-read, complete with…”The witch’s hand / felt in her shaggy…
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February 4, 2020
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Telepoem Booth
Our newest Telepoem Booth is going to Council Bluffs Iowa!! Sponsored by Humanities Iowa, this one will be placed at PACE- Pottawattamie Arts, Culture & Entertainment.
And we’re so proud to have prolific Iowa poet Rustin Larson and Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart jurying for it.
Iowa poets, submit now!
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