Flavor Town USA: Excerpts from ROSE MASK, service conversations by Jared Joseph

Rose Mask is a series of transcriptions of conversations between myself and the customers I served at a cocktail lounge … More

Two Poems for Flavor Town USA by Avery Gregurich

I Keep Guzzling Bug Juice, Thirsty As I Am I can never leave the Casey’s convenience store without myBug Juice. … More

I am reminded of birth by JELL-O®. My mom kept the couponed color, no matter near or far, each cake … More

for Wallace Ferguson Driving through Geneva is not a peaceful practice, holds nopractical mayhem beyond a Cracker Barrel, all lit … More

today i madeboxed mac and cheese on the stovenot the oven but it was still edibleand the best that i … More

1. I WAS IN MY TWENTIES and living in the sort of apartment one lives in in one’s twenties, ramshackle … More

they was sittin round the fireplace sippin tea & eatin fruitcake on crushed velvet divans with bronze claw feet on … More

on the island of if,the shrimpboat captain dreams of geckosclimbing up cave walls,catching them & setting them free. when he wakes … More

we was sittin along the bywater drinkin white wine spritzers,when a dead whale washed up on the shore all … More

follow the bagpipes into the animal garden,where the poet sharpens his pencils& scratches flea dog with a fire poker,where … More

down on the banks of the Ocmulgee River,we ride that coal train to the steps of the cemetery,where the … More

when i carried my fiddle down to the river of silver,i paddled upstream through currents of molassestill i heard the … More