Michele McDannold
Author's posts
Nov 30
Dexter by Tony Gloeggler
Dexter You’re streaming that show everyone was talking about ten, twelve years ago, the one with the detached unemotional guy working as a forensic, Los Angeles PD, blood splatter expert who spends his free time hunting down rapists, murderers. You find it easy to root for Dexter as he straps tonight’s serial killer to the …
Nov 29
FARMS R.I.P. by John Grey
FARMS R.I.P. drizzle drifts along the hilltops dogs growl fearlessly behind rusted gates in each rotting farmhouse are the seeds of its own dissolution the forest looks green and new but humanity is old in these parts a doleful face stares out of a cracked upstairs window not with accusation just the knowledge of what …
Nov 28
Montpelier Song by Damon Hubbs
Montpelier Song I used to go to The Black Door every Friday to see Nicole. She was tall and slightly nordic or nordic once removed, a nose like a golden shovel of all the best lines, eyes in a dream state cor cordium, fearful symmetry. One night when the streets were dead and the moon …
Nov 27
Stuffing: A Thanksgiving Play In One Act by Tim Murray
Stuffing: A Thanksgiving Play In One Act (True Story 2009) Players: Son: A loutish bearded hack in his early 30s. Mom: Early 50s. A million miles a minute. Setting: Mom and Son are perched on a power line like two strange black birds. They sit high above their Indiana neighborhood. The sound of a ringing …
Nov 27
What Kind Of A Bird Is This? by Guy Roads
What Kind Of A Bird Is This? I have this idea for a poem I hope it’s a poem it wants to be a poem it’s gonna try to be a poem but maybe it won’t be a poem maybe it’ll just be a hybrid with a handicap an aspirational prose— a bastard mixed breed …
Nov 26
Pella Felton Reviews Streetlamp Nautilus by Catharine Batsios
Pella Felton Reviews Streetlamp Nautilus by Catharine Batsios Batsios, Catharine (2025). Streetlamp Nautilus (Poetry Collection) Luchador Press 98p. $13.00 (Paperback) By the time the I made my way through the first page of Streetlamp Nautilus, I’d witnessed an aneurysm at a local diner, a bullet hole in the glass, and a long line of Buicks. …
Nov 25
THE POLISH HAMMER POETRY CORNER: Holy Toledo (pt 3 of 3) by Karl Koweski
Holy Toledo (pt 3 of 3) My wife would like me to mention straight away that I got lost several times on the way to Culture Clash Records the morning of the Lit Fest. That is simply not true. I turned down the wrong streets several times. I wasn’t lost, I just jumped the gun, …
Nov 24
The Long Road to Self: Kathleen Florence’s Prayers With a Side of Cash by Richard Modiano
The Long Road to Self: Kathleen Florence’s Prayers With a Side of Cash In Prayers With a Side of Cash: Poems While Driving Across America (MoonTide Press, 2025), Kathleen Florence reinvents the road poem for a restless new century. The journey begins in New York and ends in Los Angeles, but the true destination is …
Nov 24
Echoes of Survival: The Music and Memory of Rich Ferguson’s Somewhere, a Playground by Richard Modiano
Echoes of Survival: The Music and Memory of Rich Ferguson’s Somewhere, a Playground Rich Ferguson’s Somewhere, a Playground (Moontide Press, 2025) announces itself with a street-level hum. From its opening pages, the collection pulses with the noise and nerve of lived experience — the friction between beauty and brutality that defines much of contemporary urban …
Nov 23
Being Human Is Easy Breezy by Sarah Sarai
Being Human Is Easy Breezy Someone turns on the lights And the factory keeps buzzing Then foreclosure and Whatever was done is done. This thing can be done In a Jello-mold kind of way, The way of marshmallows Claustrophobic in lime green Aquaria and yearning For women whose bodies Mean something, Broad-hipped women with Heavy …
