Tag: Grant Kittrell

Three Prose Poems by Grant Kittrell

There’s a Man with a Hemingway Inside His chair is shrinking beneath him on the coffee shop patio. I should grow a mustache, a full-blown beard. This brisk November means nothing and everything to his smoky sail of hair. He runs his fingers through it like a god. His wife hasn’t said a word since…
Paper Champion, a new book by Shane Jones, reviewed by Grant Kittrell

Paper Champion, by Shane Jones, is like one hundred eighteen right hooks to your pillow. Like all the things you almost thought you said. It’s a volcano with a false start, plus a thousand. It’s a book you wish you’d read when you were three, and forty-three. If this book were an igloo, it would float. If this book were a sign, it would say “Yes,” would never say, “Wait a second” or compare itself to an igloo. Like, you are taking prisoners. Like, come on. This book is a charred thumb at the hands of a BIC lighter.…