I’ve been rereading some classic horror including Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Stoker’s Lair of the White Worm. Le Fanu is the better writer and sets up a lot for Stoker’s Dracula almost three decades later. These and M. R. James’s ghost stories have filled up my October reading. Kyua (Cure, 1997) is part of … Continue reading Marginalia #9
Here’s a video version of a poem originally published in the Slash Pine Press 2014 Festival Anthology. You can read it and a few other poems inspired by our old mutt Lucy here. Continue reading The Essential If
We talk about her book, Known by Salt, over at The Drunken Odyssey. (Photo courtesy of Bang Images.) Continue reading An Interview with Poet Tina Mozelle Braziel
Known by Salt: Tina Mozelle BrazielA fantastic debut by an Alabama writer. I won’t say much here as I’m in the process of getting my thoughts in order for an interview with the author. She’s really busy these days. If you like poetry of place, then I think you’ll like this book. It’s about growing up, … Continue reading A Kiss Risks a Prince: Recent Reading
This was originally a Thirteen Days of Halloween that I made with artist Reed Randolph. You can read the whole thing here. Continue reading The Coven of Lonely Gourds
Electric barns.Xenophobic, queer barns.Petrified Barns.Gravestone barns. Continue reading Little Billboards #80
News was serious.He read the Ladies and Gentlemen bulletin.The mask was warm, luminous. Continue reading Little Billboards #86
Shel Silverstein wrote the first poems I remember reading and they were frequently silly, but it was a silliness that kept me reading all of his work, some of which, is not so silly. Between Silverstein and MAD Magazine, I cane to enjoy language that had a sense of humor, even if it came with … Continue reading My Earliest Poetry Experiences + An Exercise + A Poem
Originally published in 2014 at Eunoia Solstice. Since then he has co-authored Day Kink and According to Discretion, and a new poetry collection, Out of Speech. He gave me permission to publish “Mayflies” with this interview. When I think about “nature poets,” I often unfairly stereotype the idea into two camps: the contemporary Cassandras and … Continue reading From the Eunoia Archives: An Interview with Writer Adam Vines
Stephen McClurg 