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WHERE POETRY AND POP CULTURE COLLIDE!

Issue #13:  Year Three Begins!
POETRY
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WILLIAM EVANS
Blackest Night #6 (2010)
Abolitionist Daisy Fitzroy of Bioshock Infinite Tells Me The Cost of Things The Night Before She Dies
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   NINA ROBINS
   Smolder

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  CATHERINE WEISS
  bipolar wizards get sorted twice

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  DANIEL ROMO
  MTV Poems
​#10: Paula Abdul, "Rush Rush"
#14: Boyz II Men, "Motownphilly"
                    #15: Color Me Badd, "I Wanna Sex U Up"

  ​                  #47: Janet Jackson,"Love Will Never Do Without You"               

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  MARLIN M. JENKINS
  Pokédex Entry #4: Charmander
  Pokédex Entry #133: Eevee --> Entry #197: Umbreon

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​OLATUNDE OSINAIKE
broken ghazal for auto-tune
OutKast Speaks of Ways to Move
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JOHN BUCKLEY and MARTIN OTT
Galactus Feels His Age
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MOLLY BESS RECTOR
Season 4, Episode 16: Who Are You?
Five Ways To Protect Your Skin on the Go 
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SAMANTHA DUNCAN
How to kick-box my way out of an archetype
The quiet distance the world has put
Loving Patti Mayonnaise
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VIVIAN WAGNER
The Six Million Dollar Man Speaks to His Fans
Princess Leia Tells Off the Worl​d

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DAVID FAIRBANKS
The Murder of George Reeves
    June 16, 1959
The Talk
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BERNARD FERGUSON
while standing in the kitchen, my roommate says Luke Cage ain’t shit
    after Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
in which i mistake ruby from blackish as a family member
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AMBER FLAME
Lemonade, as Sestina
Ghazal for the Abandoned Child
    Or Prince Sings Funk for Seven and a Half Minutes

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     SEAN WEST
     The Iron Giant Expands His Vocabulary​

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ALAN CHARAZO
​Oscar De La Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad, 1999
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MARIEL FECHIK
the mice sing a different tune (maybe some deep house)
ACME, Inc.
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   KATHRYN HARGETT
   Nightcrawler
      After Jake Gyllenhall

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MICK POWELL
this is about snapchat but also about you & also about me & also about drowning

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STEFFAN TRIPLETT
Dear Mr. Officer
     (using the lyrics of “Look Alive” by Rae Sremmurd)
Wiz Boy
To Kevin, Or Maybe You’re Reading the Movie Wrong
     (after Moonlight)
Back at One (an erasure)
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JENNA DANOY
Over There, or the Day My Grandmother Dies, I Find Carrie Fisher
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CRISTIN O’KEEFE APTOWICZ
Every Jerk In Jerkville
What Our Nephews Asked Us To Draw
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BRONTË WIELAND
All of It Will Happen Again 
Two Conversations
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CHRIS PETRUCCELLI
Ode to English 111x as Foghorn Leghorn Featuring: An Introduction from an Anonymous Student  
Or, Don’t Worry, I Failed My First College English Paper Too—A Sestina  
      After Paul Guest

FICTION
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RYK MCINTYRE
The Last Human on Earth
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JORDAN MOFFATT
Tom Hanks Can Read Minds
My Big Tiny Alligator Problem
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  KELSEY STYLES
  Unsilence


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We've added new pop culture related poetry videos to the Matinee!  Click on the logo above to see these and other poems of nerdy, poppy brilliance!  Just added to the queue:

Elisa Chavez - #gamergate
Sarah Lawson - Anne Frank offers Justin Beiber a Lesson in Humility
Danez Smith - Self Portrait as a 90s R&B Video
Cassidy Foust - Ghostbusters (is so gay)
Mikkel Snyder - A Question of Authority
Mason Granger - Alexander Squarepants
Sean Alino - #OscarsSoWhite
Nora Meiners - Finding Emo
Patrick Roche - Retcon
Brenna Twohy - Conversations About Top Chef
Christopher Michael - Dear Miss Cyrus (Black Feels Like)
Noel Quiñones - Abuela Disciplines Dominican Drake
Justin Lamb - Yes New Friends (A Letter to Drake) @WANPOETRY

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​Click on the pic to the right to check out some sweet pop art pieces by HELEN HOFLING, JASON MURPHY and CAROLINE MANLEY!  

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BONUS E-ZINE: HAWK AND ANIMAL #2!

Five years after Issue #1,  the pro wrestling poem experiment H&A is back and
ohhhhh what a rush!

Click on the cover and enjoy Hawk and Animal #2, poems about the broken ballet that is professional wrestling brought to you by the booking team of:

AJ Moyer,
Alan Charazo,

and Billy Tuggle!

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