Paperback/Publication Date: December 2014/Publisher: Antonin Artaud Publications/80 Pages ISBN 13:978-1-934851-61-6 /USD: $15 Cal Freeman’s debut poetry collection, Brother of Leaving, is a lyrical allegory set in contemporary Detroit. Combining surrealistic sensibilities with Midwestern grit, Freeman’s family drama, involving an academic father and a chronically ill mother, mirrors the slide of this rust belt city into economic […]
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Poetry of all sorts.
Date: December 11, 2014 – 07:00 pm Thursday December 11th a poetry and fiction reading featuring Mariela Griffor, Glen Armstrong, Brian Smith, Michael Lauchlan, John Freeman, and Kelly Fordon
A Northern Habitat Collected Poems 1960–2010 Robin Fulton Macpherson ELEMENTS OF CHRISTMAS The elements are always there: water and straw, beasts with warm noses and ignorant eyes, shepherds satisfied that they have found another myth, wise men who trace to its source whatever bright notion falls from their Babylonian sky; at the centre rests […]
It’s Right Under the Skin There’s a story I’m telling myself and in this story you call me are calling me are calling with a touch tone phone at your fingertips I am at your fingertips and I hit you with the phone book to leave the perfect bruise. I have a purple flower of […]
from Leafmold: The mantis turns on you here. Live like a sheep, die like a sheep. Dogs fail to understand the past tense and the wealthy quail hunters are coming out of the mountain. You have a pink thread stuck to your left arm. Let that be a sign to lay your threadbare burden down […]
Gait The ballad lays down such facts as we need, each stress struck on downbeat like the tired steps of a brick mason who never wrote a single line, but emitted this tale with a slow whistling breath, his whiskeyed sweat gleaming as he glared at a skinny singer, until the kid just had […]
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