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 from its chamber. How shallow the breaths that fluttered against your rib cage. I thought you would collapse like a … [Read more...]
Dear Facebook by Shawn Misener
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 it out to other guilty writers Oh poor Facebook: you’re an old used-up lover My wife glares at me when I ignore … [Read more...]
Susan O’Donnell Mahan
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 (Patti Wojcik Wahlberg and Tekla Dennison Miller) responded to my call for submissions. And now Susan and I keep up on Facebook, where I noticed she has published some poems. … [Read more...]
Cory Fosco
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 1992. His previous work has been published in Hippocampus Review, Superstition Review, Is Greater Than, CellStories, Chiron Review, and other small press publications. His … [Read more...]
The Fall by D. J. Lachance
D. J. Lachance D. J. Lachance (Dave) has read at two events for Solace in So Many Words. He always gives credit to his wife Lucille for urging him to write when he returned home from the Gulf War. “Nagasaki Shadows” and “The Fall” are part of a stage play called Voices from the Café, which is going to be produced in Iran. In his Author’s Notes, Dave writes: “Voices From The Cafe was created by weaving together short stories and poetry with stage directions and the … [Read more...]
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