Michele McDannold

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Name: Michele McDannold
Date registered: June 28, 2011
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Latest posts

Poems & Art by Bree — February 13, 2025
2 poems by Ainne “Ayn” Frances dela Cruz — February 12, 2025
The Polish Hammer Strikes Again — February 11, 2025
3 poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan — February 10, 2025
Under Tenement Skies by Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik reviewed by Richard Modiano — February 9, 2025

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Feb 13

Poems & Art by Bree

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In Conversation

by Michele McDannold

And They March people are hurting. they are lured or hurled from their blond carpeted living rooms into dark cellars made to eat cold slop from a wet bucket with their dirty hands, and our govt’s solution is to take back half of that cold slop to use as compost in their fourth houses’ second …

Feb 12

2 poems by Ainne “Ayn” Frances dela Cruz

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In Conversation

by Michele McDannold

Mice The poet of beauty sees mice at the table so white, and frail, red-eyed, glowing how frequently through opium eyes, I see only what is on the other side of me. That wall, so dark and dank and locked with moats, only mice can get through. What wall, what mice What eyes gets through …

Feb 11

The Polish Hammer Strikes Again

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In Conversation, The Polish Hammer Poetry Corner

by Michele McDannold

I’ve been doing this for a long time. Writing, that is, with the intention of allowing any number of unknown people to judge me by the bullshit I put down on paper. I started getting my poetry and stories published in the early nineties, right around the time Bukowski looked at his last cat’s ass. …

Feb 10

3 poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

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In Conversation

by Michele McDannold

The Menace The menace is 26 oz. of smoke at birth. The menace is caged hatreds boiling. The menace is the tips of rattlesnake warnings. The menace is fallen comets dipped in paint. The menace is ugly sex faces in scream. The menace is voodoo bones for dice. The menace is comradery losing the kiddie …

Feb 09

Under Tenement Skies by Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik reviewed by Richard Modiano

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In Conversation

by Michele McDannold

Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik’s Under Tenement Skies is a masterstroke of raw emotion, storytelling, and sonic atmosphere. This spoken word blues album captures the gritty soul of urban life, blending Perl’s evocative poetry with Sztabnik’s hauntingly resonant musical compositions. Together, they create a vivid tapestry of love, loss, rebellion, and survival, set against the …

Feb 08

WITHOUT A DRUM by George Wallace

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In Conversation

by Michele McDannold

I am half a man, a ruined garden, a man without a drum, embroglio of time and failed intent, cross-stitched by wing of predator and treetop, cursed human companion; half a man, half wilderness, introducing myself to a land that has forgotten me, a prodigal, cruel and neglectful, father to none, and alien, mocked by …

Feb 07

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In Conversation

by Michele McDannold

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