Way Up in the Ionosphere

 

Hello everybody, a poem of mine was in Ionosphere. Get it here.

New Stanzas in Last Stanza

 

Not that kind of stanza

My work is in the latest edition of Last Stanza Review, edited by Jenny Kalahar. It's available here.

Good Day to You

 Locust Review has a poem of mine in its pages called "Good Day to You."

The review

the poem

Thanks to Lothlorien Poetry Journal and cc&d magazine for putting my work in anthologies as well

Follow the Flight of the Dragonfly

 

Two poems of mine are at Flight of the Dragonfly. They've got a Classical theme of sorts. 

Also, I'm in the inaugural issue of Whimsical Poet, edited by Sara Altman, for sale on Amazon.

An Aberrant Blogpost

Jason Peters and his Aberrant Literature Press have recently published an anthology of short fiction, and a story of mine "The Sick-Alike" is included. You can get a copy of it here at Amazon.

Finds and Observations 6/24 to 6/26

I hope by making it small enough, it isn't obscene.

Room in Rome is a terrible fucking movie. Literally. I looked it up on Wikipedia and surprise, surprise, a movie about Lesbians that fails to stimulate, educate, or even titillate was made by a man. Not only that, the same man, wrote, produced, directed, and EDITED the film. So there was no one reining him in. He was probably the caterer too. It wasn't even filmed in Rome!

I found a few interesting things in the city yesterday. The first was a twenty year old syllabus for a film studies class at NYU. I came across it at a Goodwill. It was tucked inside of a tome on film criticism. It is interesting to read because it shows how just a few years ago everything was different for students. There was no internet, no DVDs, and no expectation of using a computer and printer. In one assignment, the professor, Joy Gould Boyum, tells the students to keep the carbons because they won't get their essay back until the end of the semester. Carbons! I could also tell the syllabus was originally typewritten then xeroxed. The smudges on the letters give it away. Since the class was in 1996, I imagine she got twenty papers on Pulp Fiction for the final.

Oh, so much progress we've made since then! On the other hand we still have a Clinton running for president.

I also found a ticket for Eastern Airlines tucked inside of a book the library was selling for a dollar. The book looked like a Dave Barry knockoff, a lament by one of the early baby-boomers about how Elvis was great and the Beatles ruined everything in a frothy over the top style that hides a serious bitter core. Anyway, the ticket was at least 25 years old since the airline went out of business in 1991. What I found fascinating was the lack of personal information on the ticket. There was no name, nothing. Anybody could've used it to board a plane.

Ah, the innocence that was pre-9/11 America. I'm starting to sound like the author...

And finally, the final find. A kid's book by Eugene Ionesco.

Buy My (Chap)Book

Listen to what the animatronic Jay Sherman says and go get yourself a copy of my chapbook Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained. Now it's in Kindle and Nook form. Buy it off Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Read Me on Your Kindle

I have a short story up at The Write Room. You can read it the old fashioned way online or the new and improved way on your Kindles! Me? I will be reading it on vellum.