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September 11, 2014
A Weapon of a Girl, poem by Roxanna Bennett (Celebrity Free Verse Poetry Series)
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
A WEAPON OF A GIRL by Roxanna Bennett Could I be crazy, amazing? My twisted confessional is not slander if followed by a question mark. I’m sick of saying it’s crazy that I’m crazy, I’m a girl. If I could just find someone who looked at me like I’m…
A WEAPON OF A GIRL by Roxanna Bennett Could I be crazy, amazing? My twisted confessional is not slander if followed by a question mark. I’m sick of saying it’s crazy that I’m crazy, I’m a girl. If I could just find someone who looked at me like I’m…

Published on September 11, 2014 15:58
September 5, 2014
The First Copies …
Originally posted on Rolli Stuff:
… of my new book of flash fiction, I Am Currently Working On a Novel, have landed (Even Corwin and Jenny approve). Want a copy? ? ?
… of my new book of flash fiction, I Am Currently Working On a Novel, have landed (Even Corwin and Jenny approve). Want a copy? ? ?

Published on September 05, 2014 16:40
Call for Submissions: Celebrity Free Verse Poems
Originally posted on Silver Birch Press:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Found poems based on lines from celebrity interviews. This could be a celebrity you admire or one you’d like to poke fun at in a lighthearted way. WHAT: Find a celebrity interview on-line and grab phrases from it to create a “found” poem, or create an…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Found poems based on lines from celebrity interviews. This could be a celebrity you admire or one you’d like to poke fun at in a lighthearted way. WHAT: Find a celebrity interview on-line and grab phrases from it to create a “found” poem, or create an…

Published on September 05, 2014 11:37
“I saw the best minds of my generation waste their best lines on Twitter.”
You’re
arrogant enough to regard yourself
as ‘avant-garde.’
arrogant enough to regard yourself
as ‘avant-garde.’

Published on September 05, 2014 10:46
August 30, 2014
Unfuckable is the new thirty.
Originally posted on NewPoetry:
David McGimpsey ? Coneflowers like a dirty taffeta, purple daisies like dirt, dirty knobs of phlox, dirtfuck hollyhocks, scarred-up and dead-sauced, stuck in an apartment in a heat wave. What, dear flower, was poetry good for besides putting the capitalist force of college diplomas into the phrase “If you don’t love…
David McGimpsey ? Coneflowers like a dirty taffeta, purple daisies like dirt, dirty knobs of phlox, dirtfuck hollyhocks, scarred-up and dead-sauced, stuck in an apartment in a heat wave. What, dear flower, was poetry good for besides putting the capitalist force of college diplomas into the phrase “If you don’t love…

Published on August 30, 2014 12:33
August 22, 2014
One Easy Secret to Becoming A Best-Selling Author
Build a time machine I can’t stress the value of this one weird tip enough. You will never be a successful writer and have your novel made into a movie or even better, a serialized HBO show, or sweeter yet, a Netflix series without a time machine. Let’s face facts, your life choices up until […]

Published on August 22, 2014 13:01
August 13, 2014
REVIEW: The Uncertainty Principle
Originally posted on Matrix Magazine Online Supplement:
The Uncertainty Principle by Roxanna Bennett Tightrope Books (2014) Read by Julie Mannell Roxanna Bennett’s debut poetry collection The Uncertainty Principle is a solitary basket of trinkets and memory souvenirs exposed through solemn confession—inviting you to participate in its unrealized possibilities, the magnetic imagining of a mystical mind.…
The Uncertainty Principle by Roxanna Bennett Tightrope Books (2014) Read by Julie Mannell Roxanna Bennett’s debut poetry collection The Uncertainty Principle is a solitary basket of trinkets and memory souvenirs exposed through solemn confession—inviting you to participate in its unrealized possibilities, the magnetic imagining of a mystical mind.…

Published on August 13, 2014 08:45
July 21, 2014
Fleets of Nouns 2-3
Originally posted on NewPoetry:
Sina Queyras 2. White with my son flushed, white with my son in emerald; white with a streak …..of melancholy my son, White with horsetails, hoary, white with my daughter in crimson, white …..thinking of azure, flight of stork White expanse, white, white, with other white lines, fainter, a linen room…
Sina Queyras 2. White with my son flushed, white with my son in emerald; white with a streak …..of melancholy my son, White with horsetails, hoary, white with my daughter in crimson, white …..thinking of azure, flight of stork White expanse, white, white, with other white lines, fainter, a linen room…

Published on July 21, 2014 06:53
July 19, 2014
(Untitled)
Originally posted on A-Minor:
by Bong Jung Kim ? ? ? ? ? ? ? “For a long time I have been living with my instinct confined… I repressed my heart’s desires. Rather than relieving the desires, I hide them. Living against the flow of my desires. 90% of the black that covers my work…
by Bong Jung Kim ? ? ? ? ? ? ? “For a long time I have been living with my instinct confined… I repressed my heart’s desires. Rather than relieving the desires, I hide them. Living against the flow of my desires. 90% of the black that covers my work…

Published on July 19, 2014 08:43
July 4, 2014
Hugging the Narwhal: How to Writing a Best-selling Book
10. Build a Time Machine that Also Travels Around the World. Kind of like a T.A.R.D.I.S. I cannot express the importance of this step enough (see point number 7 in Chasing the Unicorn) and next week I promise to post a handy ‘How to Build a Time Machine’ guide. Without a time machine it is next to […]

Published on July 04, 2014 13:43
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