Mar
28
Talking To My Heart Cool, isn’t it? says the technician smiling as if she had painted your image on the monitor. Who can account for her taste, dear heart? You are a tangled package bound with rivers of string, your tricuspid valve a slit in torn wrapping, your thump-thump a secret trying to escape …
Jan
26
Dear Facebook: at this point you seem futile I feel guilty when I forgo breakfast to read your wall I feel guilty when I clean house and delete people I thought I once knew in high school I feel guilty when I write a poem and use you just to get …
Nov
07
I first met Susan O’Donnell Mahan in Minneapolis when we both attended the launch of Kiss Me Goodnight. The poem she wrote for that book is titled “World View” and is about her mother Florence ‘Sis’ O’Donnell who died when Susan was 14. Susan and a couple other poets who appeared in Kiss Me Goodnight …
Sep
20
As I mentioned in my blog, I first read this essay on the blog Is Greater Than. I think you will understand why I wanted to reprint it here. Cory Fosco received his MA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University in June 2008. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Loyola University Chicago in …
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