Of Caliban and the Sixes, Upon the Cuttlefish

by Barbara Lightner | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article

The world resembles a cuttlefish changing colors And shimmering. —Arthur Sze Cuttlefish on display perplex. Shimmy shine shenanigans. One message right, one left, to vex thine enemy. Be thou a cuttlefish upon a Caliban to shimmy shine the bigger light; and thereby hex...

MMXII, i

by Barbara Lightner | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article

        Sense is a poem with 22 ilkes ruins a carp     of bothersome hand    bells or sanded    to round stitch           a whole        fundy sometimes that old mustard feeling under jive turkeys    out on godless      high thanks          giving orations          ...

The Poet as Job Creator

by Jason Smith | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article

At first glance the title of my editorial in this issue might seem to be satirical. After all, the term job creators has been bandied about for the last twenty years as a way of characterizing what some see as the primary animating force of the American economy. Poets...

The Stray Dogs of Mexico

by Marilyn Annucci | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article

One crosses the street, ribs like ladder rungs leaning inside him. I want to climb to God, ask and ask. The streets are full of crushed plastic bottles. The mountain air has left us winded. On the coast we sit in open huts, wear flip flops to the shore, each grain of...

A Gathering of Words at the Gathering of the Waters

by Jim Stevens, Kimberly M. Blaeser | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article

For years Jim Stevens and Kimberly Blaeser have promoted the exploration of poetry and creative writing among Native American peoples, fostering expression and examination of Native culture through the written word in formal and informal courses here in Wisconsin and...