Author: wcresser

Wayne Cresser lives on an island in Narragansett Bay with his wife and dog. His work has appeared in six print anthologies, most recently The Four Seasons (Kind of a Hurricane Press), online at Gravel, Shark Reef Literary Magazine, Jerry Jazz Musician and Story and in such print journals as The Ocean State Review and SLAB. He was co-creator and managing editor of shaking like a mountain (later Shaking) from 2007-2011 and a contributing editor at the Ocean State Review from 2014-2017.

Publishing News and the Recording of a Loss

I have a new short story called, "The Faces of Macbeth," in the Spring issue of Review Americana: http://www.americanpopularculture.com/review_americana/spring_2018/cresser.htm. In the story I mention a photograph featuring three men: the professor protagonist, Warren Charles, his colleague Jeffrey Blackstone and a poet named Don Miller, who is visiting the college where Charles and Blackstone teach. Miller is based on the wonderful Donald Hall, poet and friend to the real life facsimilies of the teachers in the story.

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The First Ten Minutes (or so) of Creation

Then a common sense notion occurred to him. If you had ten things to do and some of them were difficult, let’s say like creating a land snail tasty enough to serve in a fancy pants restaurant, or easy, like making rain, wouldn’t you do the easy stuff first, so that at the end of the day, you could say you accomplished something?

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Poetry in Jamestown

  As part of our National Poetry Month Celebration, The Friends of the Jamestown Philomenian Library present readings by poets Peter Covino and Charles Kell on Thursday, April 19th in the Meeting Room of the JPL from 6 to 8 pm. The library is located at 25 North Road in Jamestown. Peter Covino is an associate professor of English... Continue Reading →

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Cover Letter

by Wayne Cresser (Originally published by The Journal of Microliterature) Norman White 22 Sparrow Lane Providence, RI 02903 May 1, 2014 Sally Amen Director of Advancement Handel University 84 Erie Avenue Passaic, New Jersey 07055 Dear Selection Committee, I know it’s an unconventional opening gambit, but I’d like to start by asking you a question.... Continue Reading →

Now You Know

From "Grommets," forthcoming on the Mischief Time Blog:
...I started playing with the Fool. When I showed him the prototype, Alan loved him and said he looked like Jerry Lewis.
“I was thinking of you,” I said.
“You fascinate me,” he said.

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