Amos stood on the spot between Arminius and Calvin designated on a scrap piece of paper he held in his calloused hand, enough room for one more plot. A single white cloud hung above the cemetery in an otherwise clean, blue sky. He scuffed out a hunk of grass with his boot toe and signaled … Continue reading GRAVEDIGGER by Dennis Gillenwater
This is poetry (on a warm summer night Morgantown, West Virginia) When I heard the learn’d poet (author of many books, much acclaimed by the literary world) when I heard him with melodrama and eloquence project his poetry out over the auditorium over the heads of the fawning MFA students along with real live poets … Continue reading THIS IS POETRY by Dennis Gillenwater
Timothy Dodd is the kind of writer we need now. An author with a clear vision and the talent to see it through. And we benefit from that effort with collections such as his newest, Fissures. Grab that book HERE. I’d hoped to talk with Tim for a long time and, now that I have, … Continue reading In Conversation with Timothy Dodd
“Yeah, this Looneyville to Spencer was my second route for Hy-Grade,” Dad says, turning up the holler they call Long Ridge. He’s done ninety percent of the talking since we got in the car this morning, all of it since we left the cemetery where his grandfather is buried. “Hot dogs, cold cut—s, Buzz Buttered … Continue reading MEAT ROUTES by Timothy Dodd
Breece D’J Pancake’s original outline from Thomas Douglass’s book A Room Forever: “Of Time and Virgins” – A stream of consciousness narrative as a young man tries to make a decision whether he should propose to a virgin he just met. He reviews the four great loves of his life, see how each falls prey to … Continue reading To Collaborate with Greatness, Part 3: “Of Time and Virgins” by Steve Lambert
