Author: Heavy Feather
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“Why?”: A Video Poem for Side A by Justin Hamm
Why? There’s a boy who beats an invisible drum and a boy who loves nothing more than to stand in the weeds and to run his fingers over the rough wood of the neighbor’s barn and a boy who hides from his chores and a boy who wants to parlay with his own confusion and…
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Three Poems Exclusively from Jay Halsey’s Multi-Form Collection Barely Half in an Awkward Line
Barely Half in an Awkward Line weaves a twelve-year span of Jay Halsey’s photography, poems, short stories, and essays. Photos featuring desolate rural and urban landscapes, thought provoking and oftentimes bizarre portraits of masked subjects, and abandoned homes, alongside written themes involving poverty, chemical abuse, homelessness, violence, the ruling class versus the working class, and…
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Cinema, a novel by Samuel Kaye, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
Long before I started writing book reviews, I had a steady (unpaid) gig writing movie reviews (and still contribute occasional, long-form film articles to DailyGrindhouse.com and Cinedump.com, for anyone who just can’t get enough of me and my sweet, sweet opinions). I have BA’s in English and Film Studies, and have written stage plays, a…
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Refreshed Review: Pool Party Trap Loop, short stories by Ben Segal, reviewed by Carolyn DeCarlo
Pool Party Trap Loop is a palindrome and a nightmare. I have read Ben Segal’s explanation of the title, which involves a sweaty Victorian house party, a friend with a hankering for a cool slice of water to dive into, and a minor linguistic discovery, and while I appreciate his description I would have to…
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“The Posthuman Realist”: An Interview with Steve Tomasula by Marcus Pactor
Steve Tomasula is a literary pioneer of both prose and page design. Those designs transform the vast depth of his cultural and scientific research into uniquely satisfying aesthetic experiences of our historical, present-day, and future worlds. His new novel, Ascension, features research notes, drawings of real and hypothetical creatures, and a variety of online links…
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Two Bad Survivalisms by Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild
Good in a Crisis I can elevate that glassfoot above your heartapply unflinching pressure to that chain of woundsthat began with bitter cactus rind balm for the sun. I am good in a crisis a Swiss army knifeof bullshit I know / the plastic seat of a squad car feels likeit has space for cuffs…
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Fugitive Assemblage, a novel by Jennifer Calkins, reviewed by Dave Karp
Jennifer Calkins’ Fugitive Assemblage is a prose-poetic narrative of a female narrator’s quest, always “on the wrong track,” to flee from present trauma and painful memory onto the roads of California, roads she will travel to both figuratively and literally bury what she has lost. The narrator surreptitiously flees the hospital, an IV in her…
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Fox Henry Frazier: Three Mermaid Poems from The Future
Silver-Eyed Lilínabalén and Adam of the Red Soil Shared the First Pull & Fall of Earthly Promise By land, I saw his core transformedin daily toil russet-smudged ordained mortal scorch iron stains & aches,known, he said, to man alone. We soaked in evening glow, orange orb dippingpast horizon. Lowering home. Night would rinse him clean,…
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Dream of Me as Water, a poetry collection by David Ly, reviewed by Margaryta Golovchenko
There is a disorienting quality to Dream of Me as Water, David Ly’s sophomore poetry collection. The ethereality of water and blueness permeate Ly’s poems, which resist cohesive thematic groupings, although each section does have a sense of adding to what came before, as evident by their titles: “Dream,” “Dream of Me,” and “Dream of…
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