Poetry,
Essays
Books of Poetry
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Haiku St. Lou, a book of haikus about St. Louis Missouri published by Timberline Press in 2004 by Mary Ladd and Julie Wiskirchen. Click here for more information.
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Why Photographers Commit Suicide was just recently printed in small chapbook form by Steve Sneyd of Hilltop Press, 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD5 8PB, England.
Friends -
Palace of Ashes, a book of poems by Sherry Fairchok published by CavanKerry Press.
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Sugaring, a chapbook by Ann Cefola published by Dancing Girl Press.
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Hence This Cradle, written by Hélène Sanguinetti, translated by Ann Cefola, published by Seismicity Editions.
Poetry
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At 5th and Pacific
appeared in June 2007 in The Wisconsin Review.
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Orgasmic Orange
appear in the prose poem issue of Switched-on Gutenberg
Read this poem online at
http://faculty.washington.edu/jnh/vol5no2/v5i2p17.htm
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Taco Bell® Love Triangle
is the proud 2nd place winner of the Literal Latté "Rosemary & Rhyme Poetry Contest" Read this poem in a winter 1999 issue of Literal Latté. For a copy, contact the magazine online or write: Literal Latté, 61 East 8th Street, New York, NY 10003 or call: 1.800.8.LIT.LAT. Read the poem on their web site:
http://www.literal-latte.com/cgi/cginews.pl?record=80
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Why Photographers Commit Suicide
Read this poem in the May 1999 premier issue of Natural Bridge
For a copy, contact the editor, Steve Schreiner or write: Natural Bridge, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121
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All of a Sudden
See this poem as it appeared in 1998 in the St. Louis online journal Tintern Abbey
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The Helga Trilogy; Things My Astronaut is Afraid Of;
Things My Inner-Astronaut is Afraid Of appear in the 2nd 1999 issue of Eye Dialect.
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Captain Hook appeared in Ape Culture.
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Why Do You Watch Monster Vision, Mary, Why? appeared in Ape Culture
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Celebrity Love Haikus in Ape Culture
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Battle of the Bills Haikus in Ape Culture
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Skymall Haikus in Ape Culture
Essays
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The essay Onward Christian Tourists, written by Mary Ladd and Julie Wiskirchen, appeared in the 15th issue of Hermenaut, The Journal of Heady Philosophy. Read an online version at
http://www.hermenaut.com/a6.shtml
Book Reviews
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Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist: review of the heady film theory of Andrew Britton and his book on the feminist relevance of Katharine Hepburn. (Ape Culture)
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Generation X (Tales For An Accelerated Culture), the groundbreaking novel by Douglas Coupland that started the whole Gen X mess. (Ape Culture)
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Life The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, the book by Neal Gabler that deconstructs society's mass obsession with fame and getting attention. (Ape Culture)
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Why We Watch: Killing the Gilligan Within, psudo-psychology about old TV characters by Dr. Will Miller. (Ape Culture)
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, a book of comical essays by David Foster Wallace. (Ape Culture)
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Mystery Train a book of dead rock star poems by David Wojahn
Ape Culture
Other things to check out
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Check out: www.anncefola.com for essays and poetry by my friend and fellow Sarah Lawrence alum, Ann Cefola. Make sure to visit the section Poet Portraits for biographical essays on Walt Whitman and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
And while you're at it:
Support your local poet!
We have a beautiful
mother
Her green lap
immense
Her brown embrace
eternal
Her blue body
everything
we know.-- Alice Walker
"No one has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold."
-- Zelda Fitzgerald
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