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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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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Michael J. Solender on the new collection of poems by OWC member and Opium Poetry 2.0 editor Ross Vassilev.
While legions of writers and poets struggle with punching up colorful words in just the right shade to elicit emotion or punctuate their meanings, Ross Vassilev manages to connect his work with the reader in black...
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The Logic of Clouds
by Marc Pietrzykowski
Published 2009 by Blaze Vox
http://www.blazevox.org
ISBN 9781935402480
76 pp, Paperback, $16
Reviewed by David Blaine
I’m going to start right off saying that Marc Pietrzykowski is too smart for me. He’s grandly educated, enormously well read and if a belly full of molten lead is a good impetus to write from, he’s...
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