ERICA BERNHEIM The Oversized World There is always time to choose new curtains. What to keep: a lightbulb the size of the city, a tank bent on reconstruction, pilots and bubbles, sixty-one ways to evacuate a twin with a twin with more twins in it.. Imaginary babies ask for organic juice and whole milk. IContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
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Announcing the Winner and Runners-Up of the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest
Erica Bernheim, of Lakeland, Florida, has won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize for her manuscript, The Mimic Sea. The award includes a $1,000 prize and publication by 42 Miles Press, as well as a future reading at Indiana University South Bend upon publication. Her work has appeared in such places as The Canary, BostonContinue reading “Announcing the Winner and Runners-Up of the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest”
Finalists for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest
Here is the list of semi-finalists and finalists for the 2011 Contest: Finalists Laurel Bastian – Rapacity Erica Bernheim – The Mimic Sea Christopher Bursk – Happiness Anonymous Joshua Corey – The Nature Theater of Oklahoma: A Singspiel Todd Fredson – The Crucifix-Blocks Stuart Friebert – Floating Heart Henrietta Goodman – Hungry Moon Erin MaloneContinue reading “Finalists for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest”
Poems of the Week
FOUR POEMS, FOUR POETS SIMEON BERRY The Doppelgänger in the Museum of Subtitles Here we all have small voices. We trail our slight hands over the polished bones of diacritical marks couched in their reliquaries. Umlauts freeze in mid-leap behind glass. The high, vaulted ceilings are help up by exclamation points with the emphasis just!Continue reading “Poems of the Week”
Announcing Finalists for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest
Here is the list of both finalists and semi-finalists for this year’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest. Keep in touch here for further updates. This list will be updated to distinguish between finalists and semi-finalists on July 1. We also expect to announce the winner of the Contest before July 4. 2011 Finalists: Rebecca AronsonContinue reading “Announcing Finalists for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Contest”
Poems of the Week
FOUR POEMS, FOUR POETS CHRIS FORHAN Aspirin and Shadow Moon I swallow at dawn to unsludge the blood, haul it along: clump of dust dissolving that I might not dissolve too soon into this dust I trudge across, moonlight fashioning a blackness I drag behind me, long blank flag of myself. VICTORIA CHANG Elegy asContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
Reading at Fiddler’s Hearth
On the third Sunday of this month, June 19th, 42 Miles Press’s Managing Editor, McKenzie Tozan, will be reading at Fiddler’s Hearth in the Hearthside Readers and Writers Series. The featured writer for this month at Fiddler’s Hearth is Jennifer Stockdale. The Hearthside Readers and Writers Series takes place at Fiddler’s Hearth on the thirdContinue reading “Reading at Fiddler’s Hearth”
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TWO POEMS, TWO POETS ED ROBERSON White-Out Their wings are being flapped like loose canvas sail by the wind, not them always at the ropes of muscle flying not in control against the white blizzard off the lake. * Snow thunder has the sharp profanity to it that cuts through. Its scrap of blanched silenceContinue reading “Poems of the Week”
The Constant Critic: Jordan Davis’s review on Michael Palmer and Dorothy Barresi
In a more recent addition to The Constant Critic, Jordan Davis reviews Michael Palmer’s and Dorothy Barresi’s newer works, while additionally discussing larger issues of what is being done through poetry and how poetry is changing. One particular passage that discusses this is as follows: “There’s a tendency in poetry of the last forty years,Continue reading “The Constant Critic: Jordan Davis’s review on Michael Palmer and Dorothy Barresi”
Poems of the Week
THREE POEMS, THREE POETS BOB HICOK Watching My Father Watch (Seriously) “Joy in a Can” He pointed the remote at the screen and said, he’s dead, she’s dead, though they were singing in bright colors. This went on so long I thought the entire choir had passed, to treat death as an hour or car.Continue reading “Poems of the Week”
