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And Hell Followed With It →  May 23, 2011

Looking over Monday morning’s paper about the tragic events in Reading, KS and Joplin, MO, I couldn’t help but think back to that day in June 1966, when a similar fate fell upon our fair city. I still remember the sirens blaring and my mom herding me into the neighbor’s basement. Living in Little Russia [...]

what dark thing →  February 28, 2010

by Dennis Etzel, Jr. “What dark thing have you done to me?” becomes a mantra in Rachel Zucker’s poem “What Dark Thing.” As this experimental poem explores how women feel captured by both marketplace and cultural position, its disjointedness reflects this capture as damaging. In Museum of Accidents (Wave Books), Zucker writes her lyrical poems in [...]