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REVIEW: THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE – AUSTIN DAVIS (WEASEL PRESS)

Posted on February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 by robinhendricks

REVIEW: THE WORLD ISN’T THE SIZE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE – AUSTIN DAVIS (WEASEL PRESS)

It’s an age of transition, somewhere between childhood and adulthood, on the blurry path to independence. 

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LENNY – S2/EP2(Ω): Silent.

Posted on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 by bradleygalimore

#LENNY S2/EP2(Ω): Silent.

“It was only a matter of time.
Our existence would only exist
In this chapter of my life.
The length was still undefined.
And with words
Lost in translation,
We exist on borrowed time.
Moments stolen from my dreams…”

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LENNY – S2/EP2(α): Silence…

Posted on February 18, 2021February 17, 2021 by bradleygalimore

LENNY – S2/EP2(α): Silence…

“But I had to accept that
We were no longer
Only fucking.
I took days of distance,
Contemplated all my exes,
Reflected & Reminisced,
Made a few decisions
On how to measure…
Explain,
The depths of this experience”

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REVIEW: LOOK LOOK LOOK – CALLISTA BUCHEN (BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS)

Posted on February 12, 2021February 11, 2021 by robinhendricks

REVIEW: LOOK LOOK LOOK – CALLISTA BUCHEN (BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS)

There’s a sense of absence in this first section as the mother’s body becomes a singular state once again, but there’s also a slip from autonomy.

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LENNY – S2/EP1: Open Book.

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 by bradleygalimore

LENNY – S2/EP1: Open Book.

“Random analogies and metaphors, Simple words and phrases,
Digestible poetry…
Combo meals,
Popular for mass consumption.
I desire none of that.”

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REVIEW: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A FRIEND – ASHLEY ELIZABETH (NIGHTINGALE & SPARROW PRESS)

Posted on February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 by robinhendricks

REVIEW: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A FRIEND – ASHLEY ELIZABETH (NIGHTINGALE & SPARROW PRESS)

…Dear John letter, ending with the words, “you are hurting me. i am letting you. i do not want to.” There it is, cut and dry: a breakup. Except it’s not.

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POWER OF POETRY #65: INK

Posted on September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 by Christopher Margolin

And sharing is hard; poetry has an awful stigma due to academia’s institutional stranglehold on the concept. Thankfully, however, poetry will always be of, by, and for the people.

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REVIEW: TEN POEMS ABOUT HORSES – SELECTED BY ALISON BRACKENURY (CANDLESTICK PRESS)

Posted on June 28, 2019June 28, 2019 by Christopher Margolin

“…the attitude and actions of horses have not changed. They live, love, falter, get dragged around, manipulated, fed, ridden, and eventually buried. Sound familiar?”

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REVIEW: WRITING YOUR NAME ON THE GLASS – JIM WHITESIDE (BULL CITY PRESS)

Posted on April 5, 2019May 9, 2019 by Christopher Margolin

Directness is difficult. It’s not easy to be bluntly-gentle. But that is exactly what Whiteside has done in his newest collection of poems from Bull City Press.

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POWER OF POETRY #35: “Dreams/Facts” – Matthew Mayfield

Posted on April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 by Christopher Margolin

POWER OF POETRY #35: “Facts/Dreams” – Matthew Mayfield: “….I strive to be that ONE person who keeps you closer to Life and
one step away from the trigger.”

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