Monthly Archives: November 2016

Thousandfurs for R. and C. Unstitching, tacking, fastening, losing the needle, the red thread; snapped the blue long ago. I find oddments of old clothes, memory carriers, witnesses of suffering, happiness too— cut to size, measure up, adjust to fit, … Continue reading →

Jon Chopan: The first thing I am thinking to ask is about essays. What I mean is, you said this was a collection of short stories and I see that, but I read some of these pieces as essays. Do … Continue reading →

World History by Erika Burkart In time, history crumbles into stories, each ending so tragically that the reader, though he be no statistician, turns the page, pausing at length, before he closes the book on secular misunderstandings. Elbows propped upon … Continue reading →

Keep Loving. Keep Fighting. Meditations on what has been happening on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus after the Trump election win was declared by Brett Ashley Kaplan I’d wager that for all of you November 9, 2016 was … Continue reading →

Marc Vincenz is AIOTB’s November featured author. Here is a list of positive reviews of his 2015 poetry collection, Becoming the Sound of Bees. * New Pages: http://www.newpages.com/book-reviews/becoming-sound-of-bees Washington Independent (at bottom): http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/november-exemplars-poetry-reviews-by-grace-cavalieri2 * Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene: … Continue reading →

Ivan Sinks into the Honeycomb After all his yowls and cajoles, Ivan has lost his chords and sinks into the shallows, into the impressions of mollusks and seasnails, hangs his head in his hands as if he wants to hold … Continue reading →