Hartford, Illinois
By Steve Davenport
Hartford, Illinois
In the one tattooed on my right forearm, your father's
father, my father, born 1930, rides a blue…
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Knowing a Woman
By Paul Ruffin
When you have really loved a woman,
you come to know how little you know that woman.
It is what you do not know about her,
this…
The Witness
By Paul Ruffin
When Miz Sarah Maye, eighty if a day,
witnessed a wild assault upon a sow,
a judge summoned her to report
on what she’d seen of…
Died in the Mills
By Gerald Stern
Then, fifty dollars for a Hungarian
say a black dress to go to the funeral
and shoes with soles for the three oldest, that leaves
…
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Sowing Seeds in the Desert
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Review by Review by John MacLean
Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating…
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by Gene Logsdon
Review by Review by John MacLean
"Sooner or later, we must learn to live in the same world as our colons" -Gene Logsdon
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Songwriter Sessions #3: Letting It Go with JJ Grey
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JJ Grey is a musician from North Florida. …
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I read a statistic nearly 30 years ago, when I was in college in California, that shocked me so…
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What I've been hearing from literary types is a lot of whining. Literary authors published by small presses piss and moan about being underpublished (and we know who they are), victims of some vast…