Get thee over to The Nerds of Color to check out an exceptional blog by Gary Jackson: "Why I Write (Well, At Least One Reason Why)", about a pivotal point in his life as a reader and a writer (Also, check Gary's book Missing You, Metropolis, a Cave Canem Poetry Prize winner, and chock full of comic book references!). Who says poets can't be nerdy and brilliant all at once? -rs
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Guest editor Collin Kelley has assembled the Fall issue of Hobble Creek Review with a pop culture theme!
Here's a sample poem from that issue by Adam Hart that's wonderfully Hitchcockian: Disappearing Feathers X stared at the camera lens and Hitch was behind, framing the shot. X stared as lenses focused, dilating as eye exposed to daylight. She was Tippi, or Melanie, or the woman before him on the bench. But Hitch just saw X. Here, this is your spot. The bench her position and behind starlings were wrangled, though their handler had names for each one. Now, lean a bit to the left–you’re blocking the shot. The rhymes of schoolchildren did nothing to soothe the grate of the director’s voice. Now, now, now… Wings fluttered behind her and she began to think along the lines of X. The axis of her character, her solid yet disappearing before the lens. She could feel the magnified eye position her, frame her blonde hair and Edith Head style just so perfectly within the viewfinder. X on the bench, cue the birds behind X, not too much light. Now, he says to X, let out a startled scream. X tries, and the birds begin to rise behind her, the children’s voices chiming in Now, now, now… Scream louder, he says. Scream as if you mean it. And X does, imagining the lens shattering once and for all, operatic, as black feathers wing their way into the air. Congratulations to Poetry Editor JASON BAYANI, whose poem "Story" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Write Bloody Publishing! You can grab a copy of Jason's full-length collection Amulet HERE or whereever books are sold! Jason, you rock us like a slow R&B jam mixtape! -rs |
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