Monthly Archives: February 2015

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LI-YOUNG LEE

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

By Li-Young Lee: from ALWAYS A ROSE Not for the golden pears, rotten on the ground— their sweetness their secret—not for the scent of their dying did I go back to my father’s house. Not for the grass grown wild … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: KAREN ALKALAY-GUT

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

By Karen Alkalay-Gut: HER STORY I have never been able to tell her story Sometimes it escapes me, sometimes I am not sure It could really have happened, sometimes I read Different accounts of her demise, or a paragraph From … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HANNAH BESSINGER

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

FUGUE By Hannah Bessinger I remember the sunset pooling into the hollows of your collarbones. Your sweater was plum-colored and torn near the neck. I could hear the beat of flywings after you left me alone on our green porch … Continue reading →

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A Review of Len Joy’s American Past Time

Posted on February 11, 2015 by aiotb

A Review of Len Joy’s American Past Time by Jody Hobbs Hesler Len Joy’s debut novel, American Past Time, is part time capsule and part baseball love affair. The title itself promises this (baseball is considered an America’s pastime, and this … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MARCI CALABRETTA

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

By Marci Calabretta: CATERPILLAR SEASON Wild strawberries were blooming as we ambled toward the cottonwood shade. You were examining the prophecy of snowfall in the measurements of woolly caterpillars and I asked your opinion on the nature of happiness, perhaps … Continue reading →

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Let Me Die, But Not Die Out: A Review of The Complete Poems of James Dickey

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Okla Elliott

Let Me Die, But Not Die Out: A Review of The Complete Poems of James Dickey by Okla Elliott [This piece initially appeared in The Southeast Review.] James Dickey ranks among the titanic figures of twentieth-century American literature. He and … Continue reading →

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