Posts Tagged ‘ outsider ’

BlankVerseDead, poetry from Pablo D’Stair

October 17, 2011
BlankVerseDead, poetry from Pablo D’Stair

Hey Pablo D’Stair, stop being so damn productive.

Pablo’s at it again, this time in verse form. I figured it was only a matter of time, as much of Pablo’s fiction tends to the slant of rhythm and sound. Here’s the official word on the man’s newest endeavor.

The Choice of Dogs is a collection of selected poems I wrote during the last eight years.

This site contains the full texts of each poem, as well as audio of each piece being read by me.

The collection is available as a FREE EBOOK for most e-reader formats via Smashwords and there is a print version of the collection for those interested available for $3.95 (plus shipping)–links can be found by clicking the Print/Ebook tab.

I welcome any and all comments, reactions, harsh critiques, etc. of the pieces, individually or the collection as a whole, and would love to be able to include dialogue with readers on the site.  I will respond to any and all correspondence personally and promptly

unburiedcomments@gmail.com

Be sure to check back here next week, as I’m sure Pablo will have something else amazing that you should read. Until then, check out the official The Choice of Dogs site at http://blankversedead.wordpress.com/…

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Review of Tom Cheshire’s Just a Little Piece of Heartburn

August 6, 2011
Review of Tom Cheshire’s Just a Little Piece of Heartburn

Just a Little Piece of Heartburn by Tom Cheshire
Forthcoming from Safety Third Enterprises & Purge ATL, August 18th, 2011
ARC review by Mel Bosworth

Tom Cheshire’s Just a Little Piece of Heartburn, the latest offering from Safety Third Enterprises, is a collection of sometimes funny, though often sad, broken heart and world weary poems that swim in the last gulps of a whiskey bottle, dream sweaty dreams, and stumble, bleeding, either toward an end or an aftermath.

From Ceilings And Floors:

“There was noise in the street
and kids wrapped in plastic
The sound of a garbage truck
rings at 7 am
And the deaf girl next door
screams her mother’s name
I poked in the windows
and saw an empty room
She was built for me
but I know I don’t belong”…

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rinse and repeat by Rob D.

May 24, 2010
rinse and repeat by Rob D.

rinse and repeat

hope is not for the weak of heart
the flight delays can kill you

so we write and disperse the little things,
as thank you notes disappear behind pay stubs and beauty secrets
never used, laugh at the lines of your life now
etched in stone residues
that only one more time, can ever erase
even though
you apply and reapply,
rinse and repeat and always
discard properly,
but somehow recycling day passes, leaving blue
bins full of meaningful information
Generation hexed will fail to absorb
into their ectoplasmatic shrines, built
to the God of I told You So and
See Now what happens
when timid steps carry you up to a point
where steel toed boots could have brought you
yet your arrival would not be greeted with
half the fanfare
you would expect
for someone who has no one
but themselves
to blame


Rob has been writing for the last 9 years and brings a unique and singular view of life. Most of his pieces are direct reflections of a life filled with as many blessings, as curses. Raised in New Orleans and his home until Hurricane Katrina, he has been gifted with a perspective that encompasses compassion, hope and determination. His life evolved and revolves around water, both in his career and his passions. …

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OWC Poetry Chap, 2010

May 22, 2010
OWC Poetry Chap, 2010

This year, as part of our annual poetry projects for National Poetry Month (April), I included a group chapbook project. This involved the development of a booklet of poems from participants who signed on to do it in response to the bulletins I posted here and at the community site. As many might recall, we did a chap swap last year as well and this idea came as an extension of that.

All were welcome to get involved and the result is a collection of work by ten diverse writers which is now available. Participants should have their copies any day now, they are on their way.

The cover art (photography) was done by Kristin Fouquet. Poets include: Seth Michelson, Jim Wittenberg, Linda Wastila, Chris Bodor, Paul Corman-Roberts, Sarah Page, Jessica LJ Smith, Casey Quinn,  and Nicole Cartwright Denison.

Poems: the night season , Charade, wage war on myself, my young son teaches me how we love, Beheaded, for the recessitude of light, Graduating April, Exhale, Couch Musings Of An Agitated Empress, The Bowels, Earth, Bursts, Voice Collage #1a425x, Waxing Gibbous, American Cliche’, remember the Alamo, when there are no signs of danger, Recovering the Body.

For information about the chap, please feel free to email me anytime. -Lynn Alexander

Download the OWC | Poetry 2010 chapbook, here

Please note that this is not the physically printed version. The physical copy version is meant to be printed as those pages are in a landscape orientation. This PDf is formatted to be read online like an e-book or in ISSUU.

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Target Audience Magazine–Call for Submissions

May 8, 2010

Target Audience Magazine is an online, quarterly publication which promotes independent artists of all genres ranging from musicians to writers and illustrators.

With the idea of community in mind, we actively seek a return of information so artists can connect with each other and cross-inspire one another. The driving force behind this mission is to inspire a poet with a painting or fuel the motivation for a song from a poem. The circular nature of art stays alive when the independent artists recognize each other and work together to stay inspired. Knowing how to self-promote and market is the second part. Once you find your voice as a passionate, creative soul, express yourself through art and find your target audience.
Target Audience Magazine: Find yourself. Hit your target.

Deadline would be May 15 for summer issue, but we can sort through submissions for fall and even winter 2011.

Ideally, I would like to gather poems for artists to get inspired by:

http://www.targetaudiencemagazine.com/art.php5

The art submissions that need poems written are here:

http://www.targetaudiencemagazine.com/poetry.php5…

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The Everyday by Austin James

April 20, 2010
The Everyday by Austin James

Headlights bleed through
the night, black as
mechanic-shop coffee.

Headed south on Highway 93
towards the Nevada boarder.
Cigarette butt out the window

explodes like a firecracker
fizzling on the asphalt.

With the corporate
entourage and their
prostituted morals.

The “ifuckedsomeoneelse”s

and whiskey dick whiplash.
63 miles an hour behind,
dying the rearview mirror.

Austin has been a part of multiple workshops and writing classes; most notably Chuck Palahniuk’s workshop, the Cult. Teachers and mentors include Dan Moreau, a Pushcart nominee; and Brandon Tietz, author of “Out of Touch” and workshop moderator at the Cult. Austin studied poetry and creative fiction at the College of Southern Idaho, where he graduated in 2009.…

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Annual OW Chap Swap

March 24, 2010
Annual OW Chap Swap

Some of you will remember that we did this last year, an organized trade of poetry chapbooks. The idea is pretty simple, it involves the exchange of chapbooks of any format or style with other participants primarily so poets can get to know the creative work of others and develop relationships based on the connections. ALL POETS WELCOME! ALL FORMATS WELCOME!

There are a few changes this year based on feedback and suggestions so if you are interested please note the details below. …

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Recent releases from OW Press


By the Nails of the Warpriest
by Nik Korpon


i am here And You Are Gone
by Shome Dasgupta


One Damn Thing After Another
by Tim Hall


Charactered Pieces
by Caleb J Ross


Antisocial
by David Blaine