Book Reviews

Wine for a Shotgun

By Kelly Davio

0 Comments 14 June 2013

Wine for a Shotgun
Marty McConnell
EM Press, 2012
$15.00, 70pp.
Reviewed by Kelly Davio

 

Wine for a Shotgun and the Poetics of Raucous Restraint

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From the Attic

Feeding the Birds

By Dan Cafaro

1 Comment 12 June 2013

“Each time we run away from ourselves we are driven home again with greater force. Every effort to break out only pushes us further back into ourselves.” – Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

MADISON, NJ — When we moved into our new place, I decided the bird feeders had to go. It’s not that I mind birds. I mostly enjoy them, their colorful chirping. Continue Reading

Inside the Nest

Birds

By Joseph Gross

2 Comments 11 June 2013

I once took a poetry workshop led by Bill Olsen during which I felt alternately terrified and inspired, and for some reason a moment from that semester that has stayed with me was Bill looking out a window, pausing the discussion of a poem for a surprisingly long time, and saying in his almost-whisper, “Poets love birds.”

This, even outside the spell of Bill’s class, still seems true. Continue Reading

Flash Fiction

Appendages

By Gay Degani

3 Comments 11 June 2013

A man born with no arms and no legs, all torso and head, and one two-toed foot, jumped into a swimming pool and used his body to undulate to the surface. On a swath of country club grass, he sunk a putt and later, spun a hula-hoop around his neck. At age ten, he tried to drown himself in the bathtub. He slipped under the water and turned face down. He said his body was willing, but his mind wasn’t. Continue Reading

Short Fiction

Rose, 1937

By Jodi Paloni

4 Comments 11 June 2013

I wait for Wiley on the bridge over the dam where two beavers swim figure eights in the quiet water before gravity pulls it down to the brook we call Sugar Run, our place since that first night. We ignored the Keep Away signs, the way a cigarette dropped through the grey-worn slats that buckled like Grandma Mimi’s cancerous teeth. I tasted that wood with my tongue more than once when he held down my face Continue Reading

Poetry

Speculating on the meaning of birdsong

By Kate Lutzner

0 Comments 11 June 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a space inside me dedicated to your needs.

I am thick, like the grass above a grave. There is nothing

glamorous about recollection. This morning, a sparrow Continue Reading

Meet James Tadd Adcox: June’s Featured Fiction Writer

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"The power of a novel is that you have the illusion of everything fitting together, but just underneath that, there’s a ton of contradictions. The tension between those forces is what makes novels interesting."
-JTA in an interview with AR Fiction Editor Jamie Iredell

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James Tadd Adcox at AWP 2013

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