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Ain’t Got Nuthin (Writer’s cramp during Covid) By Jerry Bisantz Copyright 2020 “I ain’t got nuthin!” Forget the double negative, because the truth is the truth… that scary answer to that most frightening of all questions: “whatcha working on now?”” Can’t a goddamn playwright get some peace in this world?…
Read More »Best Dog Ever By David Daniel For Bobby Harrison, 1948-1995 When I got out of the service I couldn’t find a job, so I went back to live at my parents’ house. I still had a little Army money, so I started hanging around with my friend Bobby. He had…
Read More »In Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, the unnamed narrator introduces a second speaker, Marlow, who actually tells the intricate story of Mr. Kurtz. Marlow himself claimed that “the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as…
Read More »The Best of Tom Sexton’s Lowell Poems Tom Sexton (photo by Kevin Harkins); cover photo (detail) by Jack Delano; book design by Dennis Ludvino CUMMISKEY ALLEY: NEW AND SELECTED LOWELL POEMS is Tom Sexton’s second book with Loom Press. The book is available now for pre-order at www.loompress.com The author…
Read More »July 19, 1969 By Steve O’Connor Saturday night. Jack Lee stopped at the corner of Westford and Coral and leaned against the street sign. “Out of shape,” he muttered. He should never have taken the desk job at the Post Office. Up until five years ago, and for the…
Read More »If 2020 is the year for armchair travel, Maeve O’Sullivan’s Elsewhere provides readers with an epic trip. Now in its fourth edition, it features haiku, haibun (a mix of prose and haiku), and long-form poetry. The writing captures a solo, around-the-world journey that took place in the fall of 2016…
Read More »Chath pierSath is a contributor to this blog who lives and works on a family farm in Bolton, Mass. His new book On Earth Beneath Sky, a collection of poems and prose sketches, will be published by Loom Press. The book is available now for pre-ordering at www.loompress.com — The…
Read More »Car Wash Dreams By David Daniel It was in August before my senior year in high school when the new car wash came to our small town. A fresh concept in automobile care is how it was advertised, and it opened with a lot of fanfare. Robo-Kleen’s promise was to…
Read More »Tom Sexton has two poetry books due in the next several months, Snowy Egret Rising (Chester Creek Press) and Cummiskey Alley: New and Selected Lowell Poems (Loom Press). He’s in Alaska this season, but he and his wife, Sharyn, also keep a home in Eastport, Maine, where they often stay…
Read More »A Dream of Food by Frank Wagner . I will feel what I believe, I will believe what I know, I will know after I have discovered after I have observed, I have tested, I have touched and become certain. This was the message from the dream I had when…
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