From the OWC Community
For All These Wretched, Beautiful, & Insignificant Things So Uselessly & Carelessly Destroyed…By Hosho McCreesh
Copyright 2008, Sunnyoutside Press
Hosho McCreesh is mad at us. Because we’re dummies. Because we’re big, dumb animals. And we’re missing out on the simple things. The good things. The beautiful things. Because we’re living our lives poorly. We’re being selfish...
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Ken Wohlrob’s The Love Book explores, appropriately for the title, individuals seeking connection, each equally as maligned and stressed as the relationships they attempt to form. In “The Fetish,” racial fetishism is transposed when a man with self-diagnosed Yellow Fever dates an Asian obsessed with New Jersey guidos. In “No Matter How Small You...
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John Yamrus – The Doomsday Minimalist
By Todd Moore
Doomsday, for John Yamrus, really isn’t about doomsday and yet, it is. Yamrus’ doomsday isn’t the big one with all the fires and the quakes and the tsunamis and the wind. Instead, his doomsday is all about the little apocalypses of life. The day to day failures...
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They may Try To Kill Me For This
by Mathias Nelson
36 pages, $6.00
self-published by the author
Review by Josh Olsen
The title of Matthias Nelson’s first chapbook of poetry, They May Try To Kill Me For This, reads like a paranoid disclaimer warning potential readers that their sensibilities are about to be uprooted. Through his poetry, Nelson wrestles...
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Cynthia Reeser’s new book of poetry, Light and Trials of Light(Finishing Line Press, 2010), is not to be taken lightly. It’s not to be taken heavily either. But don’t let that freak you out. No no no. Because Light and Trials of Light doesn’t want to freak you out. It does, however, want to...
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