So pleased to be associated with this fine collaboration between two of Jamestown, Rhode Island's principal cultural institutions. Saturday, April 13th, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, FREE 26 North Road (JPL) and 18 Valley St (JAC) The Jamestown Arts Center & the Friends of the Jamestown Philomenian Library celebrate National Poetry Month! The program starts... Continue Reading →
I Have to Quit Commuting (originally published in The Burlesque Press Variety Show)
The entropy effect: sometimes I dream that my car changes from a thing I can drive to a thing that cannot be driven: a typewriter, a toothbrush, a ham bone. This happens while I am driving and sends me into a screaming red panic.
Poets Covino, Kell, and Marciano read in Celebration of National Poetry Month
"Oblivion Letter" is all dark corners and boys named Night and is a little scary, to be honest..."
The Ocean State Review at the Jamestown Public Library
The Friends of the Jamestown Philomenian Library will present an Evening with the University of Rhode island's innovative literary journal, The Ocean State Review on Wednesday evening, March 10, at 6 PM. The program will feature a brief panel discussion about the journal's past, present and future, followed by readings from this year's outstanding issue. Date... Continue Reading →
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When the Other Davis Lifts His Pipe (originally published in the Journal of Microliterature)
by Wayne Cresser I try to remember that when Davis approached me the previous spring, he wore a halo vest and brace. He looked awful, paler than the flesh of a potato, and scraped about the mouth and eyes. I had not seen him for some time but had thought of him occasionally, wondering why... Continue Reading →
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?
Grommets! (originally published in the Journal of Microliterature)
Justin seemed to know one of the crew because when they met, they performed a complicated handshake that made them smile. I thought that was kind of cute. Soon after, they started digging post holes and blasting their Green Day and Blink with the numbers, which I know from our own kids.
Dear Marina
A wondrous article, weather reports, a travelogue. Fiery leaves and a snippet of verse...
