Month: June 2013
VISUAL POEMS
by Nance Van Winckel
Part I: ALTERED ADS
[Artist’s Statement: I’m having a dialogue with these old ads, mostly from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. I want to marry a bit of poetry with the dogs of commerce. After I alter the text, I sense the ads need a place to be, a place to live in their next incarnation, so I often put them on (my photo of) a wall. Then I add other graphic bits and refine to my own purposes all that had been in the vast before.][Click on the picture to view it in full size.]
FLOORED IN YOUR FUTURE
Nance Van Winckel’s digital collage work has appeared in Handsome Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Em, Dark Sky, Western Humanities Review, and other journals. Excerpts from a collage novel are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review. She has also had collage work in various galleries, juried and solo shows, and museums. Her sixth collection of poems is PACIFIC WALKERS (U. of Washington Press, 2013); a fourth book of linked stories will be out in July. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. To see more of her visual poems, visit: http://photoemsbynancevanwinckel.zenfolio.com/.
The Academy of Hay
by Julia Shipley
The farmer squats in the dirt road beside the tractor. Using a twig he draws a way to enter the field. (more…)
VISUAL POEMS
by Nance Van Winckel
Part I: ALTERED ADS
[Artist’s Statement: I’m having a dialogue with these old ads, mostly from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. I want to marry a bit of poetry with the dogs of commerce. After I alter the text, I sense the ads need a place to be, a place to live in their next incarnation, so I often put them on (my photo of) a wall. Then I add other graphic bits and refine to my own purposes all that had been in the vast before.][Click on the picture to view it in full size.]
CREAM OF WILD
Nance Van Winckel’s digital collage work has appeared in Handsome Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Em, Dark Sky, Western Humanities Review, and other journals. Excerpts from a collage novel are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review. She has also had collage work in various galleries, juried and solo shows, and museums. Her sixth collection of poems is PACIFIC WALKERS (U. of Washington Press, 2013); a fourth book of linked stories will be out in July. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. To see more of her visual poems, visit: http://photoemsbynancevanwinckel.zenfolio.com/.
Sabbath
by Jared Joseph
you are really not supposed to brush your teeth (more…)
Why Did The
by Katie Jean Moulton
The only problems—not counting her mother, who was a fact of life—were Pop and the chicken suit. Kendra was nineteen, living in her first apartment with her first real boyfriend, working the only job she’d ever had. She even made appearances on local TV. Of course, no one could tell it was her. (more…)
Official Report on Posture
by Bill Neumire
Listen, some nights you have to slough
regret & laugh at how facts can’t cling
to us, how a copper chuckle erupts
from the news. Consider the engineers
of your credit score. You are doomed
to be paraphrased; in a kiosk
someone who can’t pronounce your name
will sell you. The old should remember
estrus & the way it twists, the way ministers
of law bind your life to words
in books you can’t afford, a hive
of lineated isolation. The engine of the end
runs well. The old should kiss
& tell.
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Upcoming
09/09 • Rae Gourmand
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