tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70456424178813563042024-03-05T21:30:23.149-08:00The Sound of SugarSugar House Review AudioSugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-5740006204789562342024-03-03T17:04:00.000-08:002024-03-03T17:04:10.107-08:00SHARI ZOLLINGER—"KILL YOUR DALRINGS: A ZODIAC*" (Issue 27) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1764331146&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-kill-your-darlings-a-zodiac" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Kill Your Darlings, a Zodiac"">Shari Zollinger's, "Kill Your Darlings, a Zodiac"</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">KILL YOUR DALRINGS: A ZODIAC* </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ARIES</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>March 21 to April 19 </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you stay a minute longer, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">turn toward hieroglyphic heat; translate </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the slow theater of fuel, oxygen, gas? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Quiet elongation of ember.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">TAURUS</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>April 20 to May 20</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you stay too long? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Clay sculpture readying for foundry, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">threshold of the very long pose. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Might you enact a risky yawn? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">GEMINI</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>May 21 to June 21</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you say nothing, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">even when rumor gathers in your throat, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">or when the tornado under your tongue </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">seeks ground? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">CANCER</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>June 22 to July 22</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you stop looking in the mirror? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Nanao Sakaki says, "to stay young, to save the world, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">break the mirror.” </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Wetland-scattered water calls up a new image. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The place where blue herons nest. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">LEO</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>July 23 to August 22</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you walk through the city, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">not as yourself? Invisible, cloaked—disguised. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Moustached and platinum-mohawked, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">how will you survive the day? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">VIRGO</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>August 23 to September 23</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you let the dust settle? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Skiff of very find powder accumulates </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in the gutters of rare books. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Resist the temptation to scatter. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">LIBRA</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><i>September 24 to October 22 </i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">What if you risk asymmetry? </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">This will mean a new set of plans. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Let the pond to ripple. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Look for chaos. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">SCORPIO </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><i>October 23 to November 21</i> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">What if you let go of her hand? </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Kite-like, she’ll fly up, </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">tiny bowties on string. Tether release. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Emptiness palms a beginning. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">SAGITTARUIS </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><i>November 22 to December 21</i> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">What if you came down </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">from your fire outlook, from smoke </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">and elevation? It’s time to walk </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;">off the mountain.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">CAPRICORN</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>December 22 to January 19 </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you let Time, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">fall from a cliff face? How will you </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">measure your minutes going </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">forward? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">AQUARIUS</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>January 20 to February 18</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you consider </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">coming in from the stars, just for a peek </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">at what the humans are doing? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This will be research. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">PISCES </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>February 19 to March 20 </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What if you lay a little longer, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">if only to consider the astonishing </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">dream motif conjured night </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">after night? </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A native of Utah, Shari Zollinger divides her time between her work as a </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">professional astrologer and independent bookseller. She has been known to write </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">a poetic verse or two with published work in <i>Sugar House Review</i> and <i>Redactions</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">She recently published <i>Carrying Her Stone</i>, a collection of poems based on the </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">work of Auguste Rodin.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-87466833381678956882024-02-25T15:20:00.000-08:002024-02-25T15:20:51.951-08:00JUAN J. MORALES—"LOOKING FOR DUENDE" (Issue 27) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1717621359&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/juan-j-morales-looking-for-duende" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Juan J. Morales' "Looking for Duende"">Juan J. Morales' "Looking for Duende"</a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">LOOKING FOR DUENDE</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My parents had a sprinkler </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that sputtered water whenever </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the tap was off, and mom surprised me </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">when she casually said </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">duende was watering the backyard again. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I heard duende as Lorca’s captured inspiration </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in college. I asked how to translate it </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">into English, and my parents couldn’t, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">settling on “the mischief of a goblin.” </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mom added that it’s like </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the movie with small green Gremlins terrorizing </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the Pennsylvania town </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">during Christmas. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I left home, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">sent out to find duende, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the muse gifted deep wells of dream, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">podcasts about skinwalkers and tricksters </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">orchestrating mischief, winds singing </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">through deep woods </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to echo like ocean waves. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I didn’t know I first encountered duende </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">in the <i>Looney Tunes</i> cartoon </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">where Bugs Bunny saves </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the B-52 bomber from the small saboteur </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and William Shatner's <i>Twilight Zone</i> plane ride, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">watching monster dismantle </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the engine before flying into the lightning </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and leaving him in lunacy. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Duende coaxed me to pedal faster </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on my childhood's rickety bike, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to follow shadows mistaken </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">for witches, to welcome deja vu </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on mountain trails I’ve never hiked before. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I still search beyond Lorca’s execution </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and mass grave </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">whenever I study full moon's grief. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I accept the medium’s summertime warning </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that my dead father has become duende, </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">promising to meddle </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">until we safely make it </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">into the chilly months of </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">November and December.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">Juan J. Morales
is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. <br /></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">He is the author of
three poetry collections, including </span><a href="https://email.email.submittable.com/c/eJwczkGOriAMAODTwE4DpQJdsHgbk3eMFqr-GQ1_RO8_ydzga6WltpDV4iMlpMXHxR5l2zYQbgIcN8WGHilgTeh9FVEh-yngIHjnIwBEt8wapIVIGVuLrvpo0OnFn3Mer1yf52E5da79smc5nuc7TPhnYDWwSu8_4-jfud-7gZUNrOAoooGVUnYZYliIcraXjsG7_m-FJGZMjqbMlCd0UidmyBNsoh4QksvV3mW8O99Hf4feyk1vg27_I9V-_QYAAP__LCZIkg" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "EB Garamond";">The Handyman’s Guide <br /></span></em></a><a href="https://email.email.submittable.com/c/eJwczkGOriAMAODTwE4DpQJdsHgbk3eMFqr-GQ1_RO8_ydzga6WltpDV4iMlpMXHxR5l2zYQbgIcN8WGHilgTeh9FVEh-yngIHjnIwBEt8wapIVIGVuLrvpo0OnFn3Mer1yf52E5da79smc5nuc7TPhnYDWwSu8_4-jfud-7gZUNrOAoooGVUnYZYliIcraXjsG7_m-FJGZMjqbMlCd0UidmyBNsoh4QksvV3mW8O99Hf4feyk1vg27_I9V-_QYAAP__LCZIkg" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #1155cc; mso-fareast-font-family: "EB Garamond";">to End Times</span></em></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">, and his fourth collection, <i>Dream of
the Bird Tattoo</i>, is forthcoming <br /></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">from University of New Mexico Press.
Morales is a CantoMundo Fellow, a <br /></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">Macondo Fellow, the editor/publisher of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://email.email.submittable.com/c/eJwczk2KgCAUAODT6K54vvxduJhNMMdQ38uCpNCi6w_MDT6K5MgEyVHZ4HQwyhq5R-8XUs5tWIwCv5UtZwNkXPbF2KKyPCICLgqURUQLZuYl02KD10QWirJCA7d0nPN4czueJ-WT53I1ecb9ee4hlh-Bq8D1-775Ps7aj5Yq353HmK9eBa6y8Rip8i_FkK3XDsLkU_CThlymlNBPuGVWqNGBL7LH8dbU9-sd3DkRd6Gh_iPK1f4CAAD__9jaRvg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Pilgrimage Press</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">, and the associate </span><span style="color: #333333;">dean <br /></span><span style="color: #333333;">of the
College of Humanities Arts & Social Sciences at Colorado State
University <br /></span><span style="color: #333333;">Pueblo.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-14494977985217507642024-02-11T15:49:00.000-08:002024-02-11T15:49:06.313-08:00MIRANDE BISSELL—"AIR POEM " (Issue 27) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1705340847&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/mirande-bissells-air-poem" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Mirande Bissell's, "Air Poem"">Mirande Bissell's, "Air Poem"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">AIR POEM</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Loft Mountain after a day of midges </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and sweat. I sleep long enough to start over. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Night wind lifts the tent’s fabric like a tongue </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">plays on a tongue, has waited for us </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to want something more than rest. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The air has the calcium sweetness </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of well-water. It’s bone-building air. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have a collarbone to cool, blushed-apple </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">shoulders to round. All these years, we </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">should have comforted each other. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mirande Bissell
is a teacher in Baltimore, MD. Her first book of poems </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><i>Stalin at </i></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><i>the Opera</i>
was selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2020 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Ghost Peach </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Press prize.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></span></div></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-81628127888999085392024-01-28T17:43:00.000-08:002024-01-28T17:43:24.118-08:00JOHN GALLAHER—"THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY " (Issue 27) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1695532989&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/john-gallahers-the-idea-of-community" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="John Gallaher's, "The Idea of Community"">John Gallaher's, "The Idea of Community"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">In the cartoon version, the protagonist is left in charge of a baby </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">who is in some fashion courting disaster. It’s accident prone. It’s a maniac. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">And the little creature’s delivered, last second, back safe </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">like nothing’s happened. Perhaps the protagonist, by this time, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">is heavily bandaged or smoldering, Tom & Jerry version, Daffy Duck </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">version. In the Chick Avenue version, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">I put the dogs out to run, and hear a parent bird going crazy </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">before I see what’s going on. A little bird, not yet able to fly, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">is in Daisy’s mouth. I do the “make angry face </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">and shout DROP IT” routine, and Daisy drops it, flopping </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">and spinning in the grass. I shoo the dogs into the house, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">and go to see to the bird. I hate days like this. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">I’m trying to be positive about life cycles. My father’s in his 90s, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">declining. It’s God’s machinery, but what exactly </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">am I supposed to do with some flopping, mostly dead thing? </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">It turns out though, that the bird isn’t dead. A bit of a limp, but otherwise, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">looking steady-ish. Except it can’t stay in the yard. This </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">is the dog yard. The parent bird is still going nuts above us. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">It’s a standoff. And I’m not convinced that evolution has done a good job </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">with birds. My father called the other night. Actually, I called him, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">but halfway through the conversation, he said </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>the reason he called me </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">was to find out how things are going, and I didn’t correct him. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">That’s how things are going. The nest is twenty feet up. That’s also </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">how things are going. So the best I can do is usher the bird </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">to the other side of our fence. I’m helping things along. Here you go, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">little bird, on your way. And the thing about cartoons </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">is that even in cartoons </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>death intrudes, with bigger and bigger fish, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">in sequence, emergent phenomena swallowing each other. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">Baby birds don’t know these things. Parent birds aren’t equipped, so </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">before I’m even into the house, the little bird is into the road. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">Busy road. And then it’s a car, just like that. 35mph. And </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">the parent bird is no longer carrying on and the day grows quiet.</div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><div>ABOUT THE POET </div><div><br /></div></span><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">John Gallaher's f</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">orthcoming collection is <i>My Life in Brutalist Architecture</i> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">(Four Way Books 2024). </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">He lives in northwest Missouri and co-edits<i> Laurel </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><i>Review</i>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-89089364804472733662024-01-14T16:10:00.000-08:002024-01-14T16:10:14.619-08:00TODD ROBINSON—"10PM, AND SHE SAYS THE MOON IS BEAUTIFUL" (Issue 27) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1695531507&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/todd-robinsons-10-pm-and-she-says-the-moon-is-beautiful" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Todd Robinson's, "10 PM, and She Says the Moon is Beautiful"">Todd Robinson's, "10 PM, and She Says the Moon is Beautiful"</a></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;">10PM, AND SHE SAYS THE MOON IS BEAUTIFUL</span></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">And it is, though skylight glass blurs the ball rolling in its practiced groove </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">and she hasn’t left the house in a month, vomits mercury-poisoned fish, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">sleeps alone in the lumpy king bed you shared. You have learned so much </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">about neurology, psychology, immune response, but still manage to pretend </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">you live with a healthy person instead of a silhouette. <i>Who’s Frankenstein </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>and who’s the monster</i>, your analyst asked in a flourish of rhetoric. Hours ago </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">you ate a loaf of bread the size of a faun like that actor ate an entire pie </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">in <i>A Ghost Story</i> and later you might dance to Joy Division, thinking of Ian </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">swaying from his rope, but the 12-step friend said <i>you are thriving</i> in spite of </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">tinnitus yowling in your ruined ears and twenty drugs she takes to function </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">and the ghetto bird just now flaying Spring’s first night and even the hyper </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">acute imagery on the new smart TV is just more <i>dukkha</i>. Better slur the </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">serenity prayer, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">get grateful for yellow </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">grass and cracked birdbath.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; text-wrap: wrap;"><div>ABOUT THE POET </div><div><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background: white;">Todd Robinson’s
work has lately appeared (or soon will appear) in <i>Notre Dame </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background: white;"><i>Review, </i></span><span style="background: white;"><i>The
Pinch, North American Review, </i>and <i>South Dakota Review</i>. He is an </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background: white;">assistant </span><span style="background: white;">professor in the Writer's Workshop at the University of </span><span style="background-color: white;">Nebraska-Omaha </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white;">and </span><span style="background-color: white;">caregiver to his partner, a disabled physician.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-27564418665572215582024-01-01T11:36:00.000-08:002024-01-01T11:36:29.982-08:00DOMINIQUE AHKONG—"GHAZAL FOR FAMILIAR WOMEN" (Issue 27) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1695529155&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/dominique-ahkongs-ghazal-for-familiar-women" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Dominique Ahkong's, "Ghazal For Familiar Women"">Dominique Ahkong's, "Ghazal For Familiar Women"</a></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">GHAZAL FOR FAMILIAR WOMEN</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the way we can spot kinfolk from the back </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">by their gait, these women unknown to me, backs </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">facing me, feel related. More than the long sleeves </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">and bucket hats, it’s the eroded downstroke of their backs </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">that’s vernacular, it’s what they do not do, even while </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">their eyes are watching God disrobe and back </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">away. They hold out their veins, unblinking, while black </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">bags are hung from their necks like ropes. Back-</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">aches persist but do not fracture their language in this way. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Comfort is a drained infusion pump, three days a foe. Back </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">at home, as night falls, a husband holds his wife’s hand. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">His daughters will rub their mother’s unrobed back </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">and cover it after her body’s churning. Her </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">requested balm: atonal invocations back to back. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Will you embody your name, Dominique? See your mother </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">plunge into the cold ocean, then turn to float on her back.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">ABOUT THE POET </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>Dominique Ahkong is an Arizona-based writer of Chinese-Mauritian descent. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from </span><i style="background-color: white;">RHINO</i><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><i style="background-color: white;">Fugue</i><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><i style="background-color: white;">The Ocean </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: white;">State Review</i><span style="background-color: white;">, and</span><i style="background-color: white;"> The Southern Review</i><span style="background-color: white;">. She co-edits the newly-revived </span><i style="background-color: white;">Shō </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: white;">Poetry Journal.</i><span style="background-color: white;"> More: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://dominiqueahkong.com&source=gmail&ust=1702948146554000&usg=AOvVaw1gxjvkRQVy88nFG8HWVCUJ" href="http://dominiqueahkong.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #dca10d;">dominiqueahkong.com</span></a></span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-11516591404778448032023-12-10T15:33:00.000-08:002023-12-17T17:47:05.384-08:00SEAN HILL—"POSTCARD FROM COMPASS ROSE" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1686759981&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/sean-hills-postcard-from-compass-rose" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sean Hill's "Postcard From Compass Rose"">Sean Hill's "Postcard From Compass Rose"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">POSTCARD FROM COMPASS ROSE </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’ve been traveling lately </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">without you. Remember that </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">time you said I was the flower </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">drawn in the corners of maps </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">by careful cartographers to give </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">you guidance? A lodestar leading </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">you so you may not be alone— </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">may find your way back home. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I got word you miss me, but it </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">doesn’t show in your ways. Now </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">you leave home with just your </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">smartphone and trust in GPS— </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">a guiding hand, a trying-to-be-</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">charming </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">voice—and you’re made </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">to feel comfortably lost never </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">knowing where you are except </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">on the way, as far as I can tell. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Is that like falling in love? You </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">know, my face was first traced </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">by the winds I kissed the mouths </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">of, as have many men—explorers </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">and those w</span>ho came after— </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">looking to see the world. Best </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">of luck along your way </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to where you want to be.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sean Hill is the author of two poetry collections, <i>Dangerous Goods</i> (Milkweed </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Editions, </span><span style="font-family: times;">2014), awarded the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and </span><i style="font-family: times;">Blood Ties & </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: times;">Brown Liquor</i><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">(UGA Press, 2008), named one of the Ten Books All Georgians </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Should
Read in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book. Hill has received </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">numerous awards,
including fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bush Foundation,
Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hill’s poems and
essays have appeared in <i>Callaloo, Harvard Review, New England </i></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Review, Orion,
Oxford American, Poetry, Tin House</i>, and numerous other journals, </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and in over two
dozen anthologies including <i>Black Nature, Villanelles, and Cascadia </i></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Field Guide</i>. A
volume of poems selected from <i>Blood Ties & Brown Liquor</i> and </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dangerous Goods</i> has
been translated and published in Korean. Hill lives in </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">southw</span><span style="font-family: times;">estern Montana with his
family and is a professor of creative writing at the </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">University of Montana. </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></span></p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></span></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-25850685408139789852023-12-09T16:29:00.000-08:002023-12-09T16:29:19.310-08:00TROY OSAKI—"REVERSE LIGHTNING RALLY AT THE U.S. EMBASSY" (Issue 27)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1686759402&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/troy-osakis-reverse" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Troy Osaki's "Reverse"">Troy Osaki's "Reverse"</a></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">REVERSE LIGHTNING RALLY AT THE U.S. EMBASSY</span></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><i>after Matt Rasmussen </i></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">The president’s face on fire becomes a face </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">again, unburnt. Smoke rolling skyward </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">now caves in. Kara unclicks her lighter </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">& every flame is inhaled into it. We lower </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">the effigy. Take it apart. Guards uncircle us </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">running backward into the gates. Their escrima </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">sticks falling to their sides. We crumple protest </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">signs & tuck them under our T-shirts. We cross </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">the highway. Our backs charging into traffic. </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">Our lifted fists sinking. In the air, our chant </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">flings back at us.<i> Imperialismo!</i> <i>Ibagsak! </i></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">Manila Bay spits out sunlight, flattens. </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">In the news, the Pentagon. Plans to airstrike </div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;">Mindanao leap into an official’s mouth.</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div>The grandson of Filipino immigrants and the great-grandson of Japanese </div><div>immigrants, Troy Osaki is a poet, organizer, and attorney. Osaki is a three-</div><div>time grand slam poetry champion and has earned fellowships from </div><div>Kundiman, Hugo
House, and Jack Straw Cultural Center. He was awarded </div><div>a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy
Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship from the </div><div>Poetry Foundation in 2022. A 2022–2023 critic-at-large for <i>Poetry </i></div><div><i>Northwest</i>, his poetry has appeared in <i>Crazyhorse</i>, <i>The
Margins, Muzzle </i></div><div><i>Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal</i>, and elsewhere. He holds a
Juris </div><div>Doctor degree from the Seattle University School of Law where he interned </div><div>at
Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in </div><div>King County.
He lives in Seattle, WA.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-60656204485181513082023-10-22T17:49:00.005-07:002023-10-22T17:49:44.668-07:00SONJA VITOW—"(WHEN NO ONE)" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1550564440&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/sonja-vitows-when-no-one" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sonja Vitow's "(When No One)"">Sonja Vitow's "(When No One)"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">(When No One)</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">a soft thing often </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">hopes to be touched </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">(the temptation to take a soft </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">thing in your palm </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">& when no one is looking, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">check to see that it’s really </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">so soft) </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">to tender something </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">delicate (when no one is looking) </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">what great responsibility </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">(the temptation to take a soft </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">thing in your palm </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">& spend a finger over it, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">thinking just: <i>how soft, how</i> </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><i>fragile</i>) the temptation </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">to take the soft thing between </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">a finger and thumb </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">and apply some pressure </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">(just some) </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">& when it breaks, pretend </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">it was never soft </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">(the temptation to then say) </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><i>I didn’t know my own strength</i></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div style="background-color: white; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Sonja Vitow (she/they) is a queer Jewish teacher living in the Jamaica Plain </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">neighborhood of Boston, where they are the editor of a small literary magazine </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">called
<i>The Knicknackery</i> and in charge of the soap enterprise I'd Lather Not. They </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">received
their MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2013, and are </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">currently
pursuing their PhD in human sexuality from Widener University. Some </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">of their
work can be found in <i>Rattle, Harvard Review, Fugue Journal, The Rumpus</i>, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">and <i>Carve
Magazine</i>, or at SonjaVitow.com.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-91074476322863150952023-10-08T15:54:00.000-07:002023-10-08T15:54:36.609-07:00SKYE JACKSON—"SADE & STEVIE SONNET SEQUENCE" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1543033522&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/skye-jacksons-sade-stevie-sonnet-sequence" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Skye Jackson's "sade & stevie sonnet sequence"">Skye Jackson's "sade & stevie sonnet sequence"</a></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">SADE & STEVIE SONNET SEQUENCE</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i listen to sade with men i love </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">foolish & wild, i whisper <i>forever </i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">glistening like diamonds, so wet, in their beds: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">my spent heart, cold, shakes the four posts again </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">don’t mock me as i melt into my gin </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">it starts with record players and hot nights </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i find the wrong ones & fail to do right. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">the wine hugs as you call me a good girl. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">desire gussies my throat like ruined pearls. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">there are depths to the sorrow her voice holds: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><i>sometimes i think you’re just too good for me </i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i beg for a cage but you set me free </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i know i’m about to have a breakup— </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">stevie’s voice through the cvs speakers </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">the cvs dims as stevie’s voice spins: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><i>when you build your house / then please call me home</i> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i buy plan b & pads i hope to need. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">the dark blood comes as i drive into work. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">the psychic will call it a miscarriage. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">my soul will call it an answered prayer. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i look for a man who was never there. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">i call in sick as my bent body roars. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">there are certain debts only women pay. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">who did i destroy? myself, you or us? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">years later, i don’t remember his name: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">the man who stood outside as i shed you. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;">sade’s voice purrs through my studio walls: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><i>will you keep bringing out the best in me?</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Skye Jackson was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. She served as a poetry </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">editor for <i>Bayou Magazine</i> and several other publications. Her work appeared or </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">is
forthcoming in <i>Electric Literature, Green Mountains Review, Rattle</i>, and </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">elsewhere.
Her debut chapbook <i>A Faster Grave</i> won the 2019 Antenna Prize. She </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">was a finalist
for the 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize, and in 2021, she won the AWP </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Intro Journals
Award. Her work was recently selected by Billy Collins for </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">inclusion in the Library of
Congress educational programming. This past spring, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">she was crowned the winner of
the legendary KGB Open Mic Contest in New </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">York City. She currently serves as the
2022 Writer-In-Residence at the Key </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">West Literary Seminar in Florida.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-19619809029535284962023-09-17T15:14:00.000-07:002023-09-17T15:14:02.414-07:00RUTH AWAD—"MOTHER OF" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1543029994&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/ruth-awads-mother-of" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Ruth Awad's "Mother Of"">Ruth Awad's "Mother Of"</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">MOTHER OF</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">an ascending thoracic </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">aortic aneurysm, right above </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">the root. First found seven years </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">ago. The size of a walnut. She could </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">not work. We painted her red walls white. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Easier to sell. Put her artwork in storage and moved </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">her to a farmhouse on a hill. Then the symptoms abated. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The aneurysm dormant as a winter bear. We thought we’d been </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">spared. In summer it’s the size of a ruby plum. The way fruit </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">can ripen. The doctors speak in a language unlike my </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">mother. Sharp and sterile. A gloved finger draws </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">a vertical line down the sternum to explain </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">an open-chest approach. Her heart, </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">her heart, the mother of my </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">whole red world.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div>Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet, 2021 NEA Poetry Fellow, and the
author </div><div>of <i>Set to Music a Wildfire</i>, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize
and the </div><div>2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the </div><div>co-editor of <i>The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry</i>. She is the recipient of a 2020 </div><div>and
2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her work appears in </div><div><i>Poetry,
Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, </i></div><div><i>The Missouri
Review, The Rumpus</i>, and elsewhere.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </p><div style="font-family: times;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </div><div style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </div><div style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </div><div style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </div><div style="font-family: times;">hear it.</div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-29090378203273978662023-09-03T14:11:00.007-07:002023-09-05T14:40:18.428-07:00MATT MASON—"ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE IN SPRINGDALE, UTAH, 2021" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1543028269&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/matt-masons-on-the-winter-solstice" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Matt Mason's "On the Winter Solstice"">Matt Mason's "On the Winter Solstice"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE IN SPRINGDALE, UTAH, 2021</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">When you ask at the candy store </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">if they felt that, too, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">the bump
that shook your whole hotel down the street, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">it starts an excited chat </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">about what it might have been— </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">earthquake, gas blast, rock drop, truck thump—and </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">he mentions supersonic jets from the A.F. base, but </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">that’s further east, he says, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">that’s more around Flying Monkey Mesa, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">he says. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>And </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>you, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>remarkably, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>you now live </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> on a planet </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span>where Flying Monkey Mesa </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>exists. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">It’s named after animatronic dummies used to test ejector seats and, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">yes, there originally were </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">monkeys, and, he says, one—only one—bear, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">but this is not about your species </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">and its sometimes too-evident harm, this </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">is about the wonder of your kind: </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">in conjuring names that can make minds soar, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">in finding that thing you term humanity </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">which pushes you to choose to use monkey robots </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">instead of stirring more terror in actual monkeys </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">(and bears) with the hard-to-dream technology </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span>of a machine that flies, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span>of supersonic speeds, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>of ejector seats and parachutes, </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>of this world </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>where Flying Monkey Mesa </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>is just down the highway.</div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div>Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and former executive director of the </div><div>Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009–2022. Through the US State Department, </div><div>he
has run workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus. Mason is the </div><div>recipient
of a Pushcart Prize and his work can be found in <i>The New York Times</i>, </div><div>on NPR’s
<i>Morning Edition</i>, and in <i>American Life in Poetry</i>. Mason's fourth book, </div><div><i>At the Corner
of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife and Churros</i>, was </div><div>released by The Old Mill
Press in 2022. Matt is based out of Omaha with his wife, </div><div>the poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown, and daughters Sophia and Lucia.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </p><div style="font-family: times;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </div><div style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </div><div style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </div><div style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </div><div style="font-family: times;">hear it.</div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-32950938246749606932023-08-20T14:47:00.002-07:002023-08-20T14:47:51.355-07:00JUSTIN EVANS—"AFTER READING THE POEMS OF TADA CHIMAKO" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1543027609&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/justin-evans-after-reading-the-poems-of-tada-chimako" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Justin Evans' "After Reading the Poems of Tada Chimako"">Justin Evans' "After Reading the Poems of Tada Chimako"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">AFTER READING THE POEMS OF TADA CHIMAKO</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Pine trees announce their death shedding </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">all their needles— spending their reserves </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">like a child’s allowance </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">New forest growth requires decades of patience </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">waiting for rot to break away from the canopy, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">letting sunlight rest on the ground </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">and sometimes it takes fire </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In my dreams I forget my own name while </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">running a maze in the darkened dirty streets of Paris </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">until I wake in a stranger’s bed </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">These things are the same </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">nothing dividing one from the other </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">all answering to the same name</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div>Justin Evans was born and raised in Utah. He served in the Army and returned to </div><div>Utah for his education. For the past two decades, he has lived in rural Nevada with </div><div>his wife and sons where he teaches at the local high school. He is the author of ten </div><div>books of poetry. Most recently are<i> Cross Country</i> (Wordtech, 2019), written with </div><div>the poet Jeff Newberry, and <i>All The Brilliant Ideas I've Ever Had</i> (Kelsay Books, </div><div>2020). In
early 2022, Justin was awarded an artist fellowship from The Nevada </div><div>Arts Council.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </p><div style="font-family: times;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </div><div style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </div><div style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </div><div style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </div><div style="font-family: times;">hear it.</div></div></span></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-68467696925235966772023-08-06T15:17:00.005-07:002023-08-20T14:48:00.575-07:00SEAN CHO A.—A CUBE WHO IS GROWING. AND GROWING UNSURE OF HIMSELF. #8" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1543025629&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/sean-ayres-a-cube-who-is-growing-and-growing-unsure-of-himself-8" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sean Cho A's "A Cube Who Is Growing. And Growing Unsure of Himself. #8"">Sean Cho A's "A Cube Who Is Growing. And Growing Unsure of Himself. #8"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A CUBE WHO IS GROWING. AND GROWING UNSURE OF HIMSELF. #8</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;">mid april: thirty five degrees. in the absence of clouds:</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the sun is showing even it has limits. two young lovers</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hold bare hands beside the lake: ignoring the logic of </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">pockets. we've already shown our appreciation for pockets. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">holding everything we hold so dear that we must bring it </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">along. didn't know what to give them for a gift: yesterday's </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">dinner mints stink-y-ing in the heat: a case study the limitations</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">of objections/the space between object and the representative thank </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">you. it's a thankless job. not unlike the jobs of all the other </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">object-things. the screams of the june grass/the farm cat </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">who wished to never go inside. on the day that a mouth emerges</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">from the vased-daylily we will have a new language to learn. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">i imagine <i>i'm sorry </i>& <i>thank you </i>will get all tangled up on our tongues. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div>Sean Cho A. is the author of <i>American Home</i> (Autumn House 2021) winner of </div><div>the Autumn House Press chapbook contest. His work can be future found or </div><div>ignored in <i>Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Nashville </i></div><div><i>Review</i>, among others. Sean is a graduate of the MFA program at The University </div><div>of California
Irvine and a PhD Student at the University of Cincinnati. He is the </div><div>editor in chief of
<i>The Account</i>. </div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="font-family: times;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </div><div style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </div><div style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </div><div style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </div><div style="font-family: times;">hear it.</div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-77597938513626136922023-07-23T15:53:00.001-07:002023-07-23T15:53:31.603-07:00LYNNE ELLIS—"BLOOD DRAW" (Issue 26)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1543024327&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/lynne-ellis-blood-draw" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Lynne Ellis' "Blood Draw"">Lynne Ellis' "Blood Draw"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">BLOOD DRAW</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">My phlebotomist's earrings are upcycled IUDs. I want this kind of joy</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span> for all the gear we use to manage our bodies. </span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Fifth grade, after school, I felt warm wet, and so undressed.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span> I found a mud slick on my Wednesdays. </span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><span>I found my name scratched in red pen on the school's Kotex machin</span></span></span><span style="font-family: times;">e. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> I found a kettle drum behind my sternum. </span><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span>I'm taking that shame out of my body and checking it into a Quality Inn</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> with a <i>Welcome Conference Attendees </i>marquee. <br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;">Shame will stay cuffed to the bed until it learns how to be good. </div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span> I'm taking the shame out of my body</span><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span>and tossing it in a lockbox with countless other useless objects:</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span><span> ballet slippers, tiaras, bathroom scales. Mirrors too. Clothes one size too small.</span><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span><span>All my self-doubt. </span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> All the things that no longer fit. Out with the force of my heartbeat.<br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div>Lynne Ellis (she/they) writes in pen. Her words appear or are forthcoming in </div><div><i>Poetry </i><i>Northwest, The Missouri Review, The Shore, Pontoon Poetry</i>, and </div><div>elsewhere. She was awarded the 2021 Perkoff Prize in Poetry and the 2018 Red </div><div>Wheelbarrow poetry prize. Lynne's chapbook, <i>In these failing times I can forget</i>, </div><div>confronts the human cost of rapid growth in a prosperous American city. Ellis is </div><div>co-editor at Papeachu Press, supporting the voices of women and nonbinary </div><div>creators.</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-wrap: wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; text-wrap: wrap;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="font-family: times;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </div><div style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </div><div style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </div><div style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </div><div style="font-family: times;">hear it.</div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-1454283904664393782023-07-09T12:59:00.002-07:002023-07-09T14:49:20.041-07:00SHARI ZOLLINGER—A CINQUAIN ZODIAC (Issue 26)A CINQUAIN ZODIAC - SUGAR ASTROLOGY <div><br /></div>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544942179&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-aries" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Aries"">Shari Zollinger's, "Aries"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ARIES</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>March 21 to April 19 </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">require a
season all to yourself, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">might I suggest you opt for spring? </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Begin. </span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544941798&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · Shari Zollinger's, "Taurus"</div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">TAURUS</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>April 20 to May 20</i> </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Don’t go, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">until we’ve sown </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">our final seed. Our knees </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">together upon this marl of </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">kindness.</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544941222&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-gemini" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Gemini"">Shari Zollinger's, "Gemini"</a></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">GEMINI</span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>May 21 to June 21</i> </span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And, like </span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">school friends we locked </span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">arms and we twirled and twirled, </span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">until the world we imagined </span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">surfaced.</span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544940556&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-cancer" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Cancer"">Shari Zollinger's, "Cancer"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">CANCER</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>June 22 to July 22</i> </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Just once, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I will whisper, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">and you will feel me as </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">a devotion of wind on skin. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Again?</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544939884&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-leo" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Leo"">Shari Zollinger's, "Leo"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">LEO </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><i style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">July 23 to August 22 </i></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">You’ll tell </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">us what you’ll need, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">and we will begin our </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">search right away. Stars upon the </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">footpath.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> </div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544939065&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-virgo" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Virgo"">Shari Zollinger's, "Virgo"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">VIRGO </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>August 23 to September 23 </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What else </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">have you been up </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">to since I saw you last? </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I heard you found a small house and </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">two cats.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> </div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544938384&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-libra" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Libra"">Shari Zollinger's, "Libra"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">LIBRA</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>September 23 to October 22 </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Picture, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the time we left </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">our shoes in the sand, when </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">water and light resoled </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the night.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> </div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544937928&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-scorpio" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Scorpio"">Shari Zollinger's, "Scorpio"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">SCORPIO</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">October 23 to November 21 </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Bravely, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I’ll lead you through </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">layers of sediment, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">the geology that is my </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">body. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544937391&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-sagittarius" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Sagittarius"">Shari Zollinger's, "Sagittarius"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">SAGITTARIUS</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>November 22 to December 21</i> </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Two wings </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hinged at the </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">base of your boots. Where </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">will you go this time traveler? </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And when?</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544936923&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-capricorn" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Capricorn"">Shari Zollinger's, "Capricorn"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">CAPRICORN </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>December 22 to January 19 </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">They will </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">call you a root- </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">system, un-solar, come </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in from blue-black germination. </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Soil stars.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> </div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><span face="Interstate, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: 10px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544936296&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-aquarius" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Aquarius"">Shari Zollinger's, "Aquarius"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">AQUARIUS </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>January 20 to February 18 </i></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Darts and </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">a bullseye, we </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">play together until, </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">surprisingly we hit the mark </span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">at once.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"> </div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div></div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1544935846&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/shari-zollingers-pisces" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Shari Zollinger's, "Pisces"">Shari Zollinger's, "Pisces"</a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">PISCES </span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>February 19 to March 20 </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Breeching, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">you’ll burst from the </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">water unaware of </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">anything but the urgent search </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">for air. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A native of Utah, Shari Zollinger divides her time between her work as a </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">professional astrologer and independent bookseller. She has been known to write </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">a
poetic verse or two with published work in <i>Sugar House Review</i> and <i>Redactions</i>. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">She
recently published <i>Carrying Her Stone</i>, a collection of poems based on the </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">work of
Auguste Rodin.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-31670542220269361812023-07-09T12:05:00.003-07:002023-07-09T12:05:51.491-07:00FLOWER CONROY—VELVET (Issue 25)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1405427839&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/flower-conroys-velvet" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Flower Conroy's "Velvet"">Flower Conroy's "Velvet"</a></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">VELVET</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Because I’ve doused my wrists in <i>Exit the King</i> & bring them</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">supplicationwise to my face loopingly as if I could <i>closer</i>.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Because sheepsy wolvesy Beethoven’s playing on Pandora.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Because I’m performing an exorcism on the closet & what</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">was within lays bare over bed & chaise stitched with dog</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">hair. Coleworts twice sodden. Cockleshells all in a row. Art</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">is very instinctive (declares Rosten-Edwards). In the ’90s I</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">wore you feline suited. Neon-wigged <i>in cognito</i>, didn’t I think</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">myself queenly pussyfooting into those guillotine nights?</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Inspiration drawn from Peg Bundy & Hades. It’s not just</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the dust bunnies among the skeletons I’m after. Damnit I</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">cried last night watching Queer Eye. Because <i>Stocking Lady</i></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">& damnit <i>wacky fashion sense</i> & damnit <i>overdressed</i> <i>&</i></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>underclothed</i>. Because in a fantasy I’m as reflective as an idea</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">eeling behind the eyes especially <i>crushed</i>—coruscated &</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Zorcoian as March rain. Navigating dusk I turn on mid-</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">lights. Soft get-you-bys. I was intent you’d be skirt split to</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">saddlebag, tube-top over-floweth. A text or two later—your</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Shane’s second piss catheter. Him constipated from Chemo</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">meds. You can’t go back & it’s a blessing as much as a curse.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Scarf cloaking shoulder like the folded-upon-folded-upon-</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">selves cabbage (cut in-half) now are: labyrinthine. I am</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">adorned. I wear you. But you—you wear me out</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">LGBTQ+ artist, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Laureate, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Flower Conroy’s books include <i>Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder</i>, </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Sentimental </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Hairpin</i>, and <i>Greenest Grass</i> (or <i>You Can’t Keep Killing </i></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yourself </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>& Not </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Expect to Die</i>). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>American </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Poetry </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Review</i>, <i>American Literary Review</i>, <i>The Yale Review</i>, and </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">elsewhere.</span></div></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: times; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hear it.</span></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-11424855412932220342023-07-09T11:56:00.004-07:002023-07-09T11:56:31.323-07:00JUDITH FOX—ALZHEIMER'S DIDN'T (Issue 25)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396878304&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/judith-foxs-alzheimers-didnt" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Judith Fox's "Alzheimer's Didn't"">Judith Fox's "Alzheimer's Didn't"</a></div><div style="font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">ALZHEIMER'S DIDN'T</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">trumpet itself.</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">I didn’t detect</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">its high frequency sounds,</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">didn’t spot</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">its webbed wings, sharp teeth.</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">It descended,</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">a soft-pawed cloud.</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">Settled</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">in your lap. Circled its tail</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">around the two of us.</div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;">Took time.</div><div style="color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: normal;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT THE POET </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; text-wrap: wrap;">Judith Fox </span>wrote nonfiction articles for national magazines, but didn’t<br />start studying and writing poetry seriously until the spare text she wrote for her<br />award-winning photography book, I Still Do: Loving and Living with </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Alzheimer’s, rekindled a life-long love of poetry. She is a finalist for BLR’s </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">spring 2022 poetry prize and her poems appear in a number of journals and </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">reviews. Fox is also a fine art photographer; her photographs have been </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">exhibited globally and are in museum collections including LACMA, VMFA, </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">MOPA, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Fox </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">is twice-widowed, lives in Los Angeles, and is working on a chapbook currently </div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">titled: “Between Verse and Chorus.” JudithFox.com.</div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </p><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; text-wrap: wrap;">hear it.</div></div></span></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-8247440945625974972023-06-25T17:28:00.002-07:002023-06-25T17:28:42.834-07:00JULIE DEBOER—"THE DEVIL DOESN'T COME TO THE FLATLANDS" (Issue 25)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396877743&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/julie-deboers-the-devil-doesnt-come-to-the-flatlands" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Julie DeBoer's "The Devil Doesn't Come to the Flatlands"">Julie DeBoer's "The Devil Doesn't Come to the Flatlands"</a></div><div>THE DEVIL DOESN'T COME TO THE FLATLANDS</div><div><br /><div><div>Tornadoes are a Midwest delicacy. As a child, I used to think</div><div>the devil sent them here to taunt us. To whisper in our ears that</div><div>he can find us in the flatlands too. Hurricanes are not his only trick.</div><div>But we tried so hard to believe we were safe here. We land-locked</div><div>ourselves and took a rolling pin to all the dangerous lumps in the</div><div>earth, until the world was bare and vacant for miles. There is a kind of</div><div>safety in making ourselves desolate. My mother told me all girls must</div><div>remember this. Iron out all of your prominence–men won’t hurt</div><div>you if you give them nothing to want. After all, she’d say, the devil</div><div>doesn’t come to the flatlands. There is nothing to steal from</div><div>an empty house.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Julie DeBoer </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;">is a poet and psychotherapist living in Seattle, WA. Her work</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;">is forthcoming in Bracken Magazine.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-72211008374324027312023-02-19T15:08:00.000-08:002023-02-19T15:08:22.284-08:00JOHN A. NIEVES—"NOTE FROM APPARENT MAGNITUDE TO LUMINOSITY" (Issue 25) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396876996&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/john-a-nieves-note-from-apparent-magnitude-to-luminosity" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="John A. Nieves' "Note from Apparent Magnitude to Luminosity"">John A. Nieves' "Note from Apparent Magnitude to Luminosity"</a></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">NOTE FROM APPARENT MAGNITUDE TO LUMINOSITY</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a second to disregard the yawning pupils </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">of the telescope-tethered. I know you’ve been busy </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">with energy, energy, energy—how much something </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">puts out, how to measure it. I want for a second to ask: </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">what does all that output matter if everyone else is </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">too far away to sample the shine? Look, I remember </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">that summer I woke up one day and you had </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">inexplicably dimmed 70.25%. It wasn’t just </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">observable as less shedding of charged particles, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">I could see myself through you in the mirror. When I called </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">for breakfast, you walked through the couch. The closer you </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">got to me, the clearer you became—I could again see the lines </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">of your face as ghost currents, as the worry of week-late </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">rent. But as you backed away, you were just the AC wisping </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">the sediment of the room, asking the shadows if shadow </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">were a function of brightness or the gulf between light </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">and what eats it. After a few days you brightened again. It </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">probably had to do with a series of late-night phone calls </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">or a letter you got you pressed close to your chest. Not this letter, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">not that time, like brightness couldn’t be relative, but I would have </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">recognized my own handwriting. Anyway, with your normal </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">gleam restored you drifted out the door, down the highway, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">not nearly as bright as the shadow you had just been, not nearly </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">anything I could measure without interval, without the wide </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">gap between observation and location, the intimate comparison </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">of what one throws off and what another can catch.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">John A. Nieves is a hardcore <i>Sugar House</i> fan. He has poems forthcoming or </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">recently published in journals such as: <i>North American Review</i>, <i>Copper Nickel</i>, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>32
Poems</i>, <i>Harvard Review</i>, and <i>Massachusetts Review</i>. He won the Indiana </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Review Poetry Contest and his first book, <i>Curio</i>, won the Elixir Press Annual </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry
Award Judge’s Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">University
and an editor of <i>The Shore Poetry</i>. He received his MA from </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">University of South
Florida and his PhD from the University of Missouri.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-29452824071657885552023-02-05T09:17:00.000-08:002023-02-05T09:17:00.790-08:00ACE BOGGESS—"GRATITUDE LIST #3" (Issue 25)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396876132&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/ace-boggess-gratitude-list-3" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Ace Boggess' "Gratitude List #3"">Ace Boggess' "Gratitude List #3"</a></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">GRATITUDE LIST #3</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Forgive me when I praise my wealth </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">of misadventure: </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the knife pressed against me scarred my thumb </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">& fingers, </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">never took my throat; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the knife that pierced my lower back </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">spared an artery by an inch of fat; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the knife I wielded like a child’s plastic sword </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">found an arm & thigh but nothing </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">to haunt me past this writing-down; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the knife I threw stuck only in a door; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the pistol cocked behind me somewhere in shadow </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">never discharged </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">while cash & goods were exchanged; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the larger knife held at my neck </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">turned out to be a test </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">by a desperate man who wanted my desperation; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the officer’s boot grinding my skull </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">into a blood-soaked pharmacy floor </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">raised up before a bone could fracture; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the fists of other prisoners found my face </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">just enough to land a message; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how I survived the way I lived; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how knowing I survived </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">somehow doesn’t make me a survivor; </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">how the knife tonight cut meat— </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><i>so dull</i>, I thought, <i>so simple & pleasingly dull</i>.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including<i> Escape Envy</i> (Brick
Road </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Poetry Press, 2021), <i>I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So</i>, and <i>The Prisoners</i>.
His </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">writing has appeared in <i>Michigan Quarterly Review</i>, <i>Notre Dame Review</i>, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Harvard </i><i>Review</i>, <i>Mid-American Review</i>, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Charleston, WV, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-1660380548085032112023-01-29T15:04:00.000-08:002023-01-29T15:04:12.988-08:00NORA HIKARI—"FRAGMENTS II" (Issue 25)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396875061&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/nora-hikaris-fragments-ii" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Nora Hikari's "Fragments II"">Nora Hikari's "Fragments II"</a></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">FRAGMENTS II</span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">You could bind the canon in skin, or parchment. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">But the truth was on pottery shards. The inconsequential. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>We are most honest when unprepared. Struck truthful </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>in a moment of terror, without pen or paper. Write faster. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Terror is always forthcoming. Like pressure on a specific point, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">which trickles outwards to reveal our honest faults. Splinter here. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>My people invent <i>kintsugi</i>. Less a technique and more a faith. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>Faith: that form erupts magnificent from the broken thing. Scar paint. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">We are helpless in the face of confession. In her upturned chin, </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">begging, "Admit. Admit you need me. Admit you need love." I split. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>In the way the broken vessel is helpless to pour. No matter </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>how much it tries to hold itself to a standard of function. Spill out. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Gather up your dreams. Gather up the things you have named "dreams," </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">which are just the chipped plates of your dropped stars. Don't cry. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> <span> </span> </span>Did you know tears are sieved blood? Spit, too. We are just </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span>one leaky vessel trying to keep everything in. Keep trying.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Nora Hikari is an Asian American transgender poet and artist based in </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Philadelphia. She is a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow, and her work is published </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">or forthcoming in <i>Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, Palette Poetry, </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><i>Foglifter, The Journal,</i> and others. Her chapbook, GIRL 2.0, was a Robin Becker </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Series
winner and is available at Seven Kitchens Press. She was a finalist for the </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Red
Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award, and can be found at NorahiKari.com.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-29287255240025503902023-01-15T05:37:00.000-08:002023-01-15T05:37:23.402-08:00JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ—"EL BOXEADOR" (Issue 25)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396873672&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/jose-hernandez-diazs-el-boxeador" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Jose Hernandez Diaz's "El Boxeador"">Jose Hernandez Diaz's "El Boxeador"</a></div><div><br /></div><div>EL BOXEADOR</div><div><br /></div>I’ve been a boxer since I was five years old. I grew up on the <div>southeast side of town. No one really wants to live here, except us </div><div>Mexicans. My father always wanted to be a professional fighter, </div><div>but he mostly just watched it on the weekends, with a beer. He </div><div>worked as an industrial mechanic for 35 years. That’s how he paid </div><div>for my boxing training. When he saw I didn’t care much for tools, </div><div>he taught me the right hook. He said, “we are Mexican fighters. We </div><div>rarely use the jab. We are undersized but our hearts are made of </div><div>iron. We get in on the inside, like Canelo fighting those tall light </div><div>heavyweights. We come from an Aztec warrior class. Boxing isn’t a </div><div>sport, mijo,” he’d say, “it’s a religion. The boxing Gods don’t forgive.”<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;">Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of
<i>The Fire </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Eater </i>(Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in <i>The American
Poetry </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Review, Bennington Review, Chestnut Review, Crazyhorse, Georgia
Review, </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Huizache, Iowa Review, The Journal, Los Angeles Review, The Missouri
Review, </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Northwest Review, Poetry, Southeast Review, The Southern Review,
Witness </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Magazine, </i><i>The Yale Review</i>, and <i>The Best American Nonrequired Reading </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Anthology 2011</i>. He teaches creative writing online and edits for <i>Frontier</i> <i>Poetry</i>.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-4105630119004549852023-01-02T14:40:00.000-08:002023-01-02T14:40:51.847-08:00LAUREN K. WATEL—"THE JAILS" (Issue 25) <iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1396146139&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/the-jails-lauren-k-watel" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Lauren K. Watel's "The Jails"">Lauren K. Watel's "The Jails"</a></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><br /></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">THE JAILS</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">The jails, they’re full of prisoners. Why are they full of prisoners? </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Because everyone’s doing drugs or selling them. Why is everyone doing </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">drugs or selling them? Because they’re bored and desperate. Why are </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">they bored and desperate? Because they have no work. Why don’t they </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">have work? Because the jobs went away. Why did the jobs go away? </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Because the bosses put in robots. Why did the bosses put in robots? </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Because robots don’t ask questions. Why don’t robots ask questions? </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Because they don’t have minds. Why don’t they have minds? Because </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">the scientists haven’t gotten that far. Why haven’t the scientists gotten </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">that far? Because the government won’t fund them. Why won’t the </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">government fund them? Because they’re funding the army. Why are </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">they funding the army? So we can fight. Why should we fight? Because </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">we have enemies. Why do we have enemies? Because we’re always </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">interfering. Why are we interfering? Because we’re better than they are. </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Why are we better than they are? Because we’re free. Why are we free? </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Because we waged a war to worship our own gods. Why did we wage a </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">war to worship our own gods? Because we felt oppressed. Why did we </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">feel oppressed? Because they put us in the jails.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Lauren K. Watel's poetry, fiction, essays and translations have appeared in </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><i>The Paris Review, The Nation, Narrative, Tin House, Antioch Review, </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><i>TriQuarterly,
The Massachusetts Review, Slate, Colorado Review, </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><i>Birmingham Poetry Review,
Poetry International, Ploughshares</i>, and the </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><i>Collected Poems of Marcel Proust</i>,
among others. She was awarded a visiting </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">artist residency at the American
Academy in Rome as well as a Distinguished </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Fellowship at Hambidge Art Center.
Her work has also won awards from <i>Poets </i></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><i>and Writers, Moment Magazine-Karma
Foundation</i> and <i>Mississippi Review</i>. </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">Her prose poem "The House She Lived In"
honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">was set to music by Pulitzer-winning
composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and </p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">premiered at the Dallas Symphony</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7045642417881356304.post-39618883616249008292022-12-18T15:48:00.001-08:002022-12-30T15:03:26.721-08:00JENNIFER MANTHEY—"THE FIGHT" (Issue 24)<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1405428916&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sugar House Review">Sugar House Review</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sugar-house-review/jennifer-mantheys-the-fight" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Jennifer Manthey's "The Fight"">Jennifer Manthey's "The Fight"</a></div><div>THE FIGHT</div><div><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">My son’s principal calls on the day<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">of his first fight. First grade.<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">A boy pushed him out of line,<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">and he pushed back. Pushing then hitting—<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">they are six. A white boy’s father<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">might say, <i>good for you,<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: times;"><i>standing up for yourself</i>.<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">My husband says, <i>there are injustices<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: times;"><i>coming all the time. Sometimes you have to be<br /></i></span><span style="font-family: times;"><i>the bigger man</i>. He is six. He cries<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">in bed, <i>I’m a bad boy</i>, and I hate<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">America. I hate what I can’t stop<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">it saying to my son. Outside our window,<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">a dog passes on a leash and our dog<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">goes crazy with barking. I don’t<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">bother to stop her—her nose and teeth<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">crashing at the glass.</span></span></div><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT THE POET </span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;">Jennifer Manthey's </span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">poems have appeared in places such as <i>Crab </i></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;"><i>Orchard Review, </i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;"><i>Best New Poets, Calyx Journal, Prairie Schooner,</i> and <i>Palette </i></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;"><i>Poetry</i>. She teaches </span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;">writing at The Loft Literary Center and North Central </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 17.6px;">University in Minneapolis.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;">ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="font-family: times;">hear it.</span></div></div>Sugar House Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14180060867575046532noreply@blogger.com0