Three of my poems are in Big Hammer #13. The poems are titled Worker’s Compensation Blues, They Bill Him Out, and Jobs Are Hard To Find In Rural Ohio & If You Call OSHA, This Place Will Close. . I’ve been grinning like a fool for the past two days, because I’m holding a copy [...]
Archive for June, 2009
BIG HAMMER
Posted in Big Hammer, Check It Out, poetry, tagged Awesome poetry, Big Hammer, Big Hammer #13, Dave Roskos, Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, Kell Robertson, Outlaw Poetry and Free Jazz Network, poetry on June 30, 2009 | 37 Comments »
Never Give Up
Posted in poetry, tagged job hunt, job interview, poetry, working class fiction, working class poetry on June 22, 2009 | 48 Comments »
Tips For A Job Interview Julie Buffaloe-Yoder . Pick out your outfit the night before. Sew up the holes. Glue soles back in place. Wear white if not stained. It looks the least faded. . Wake up early–scrape your skin until it burns to remove all residue of funk and desperation. . Park three blocks [...]
Stories With Teeth
Posted in poetry, tagged culture, fiction, poetry, poetry of place, respect, stereotypes, storytelling on June 15, 2009 | 24 Comments »
The Storytellers Julie Buffaloe-Yoder They tell stories they learned in school, take off their shoes, black out a tooth, put on straw hats to look cute. . They hold their hands the way the teacher told them to . talk about possums and articulate with just enough dramatic accent . to make the crowd in [...]
Recession Special!
Posted in Alternating Current, Check It Out, tagged Alternating Current, awesome work, booksale!, Leah Angstman, low price poetry, Propoganda Press on June 11, 2009 | 31 Comments »
When things don’t always work out like you planned… . AT LEAST YOU CAN READ GOOD POETRY AT A LOW PRICE! . leah angstman of Alternating Current/Propoganda Press is having a clearance booksale. It’s a recession special. Some of the prices are as low as one dollar! . Click HERE to check out the [...]
I Can’t Be Your Virgin And Your Mother
Posted in Check It Out, I Can't Be Your Virgin & Your Mother, poetry, tagged Aleathia Drehmer, Constance Stadler, Crystal Folz, fiction, Holly Day, I Can't Be Your Virgin and Your Mother, Jessica Graustein, journal, Katie Moore, Kristin Fouquet, Marie Gornell, Misti Rainwater-Lites, poetry, Small Press, Wanda D. Campbell, women in the small press world on June 7, 2009 | 34 Comments »
Three of my poems are included in I Can’t Be Your Virgin And Your Mother. You can read the poems by clicking HERE. . This zine was the brainchild of Crystal Folz, editor of Shoots and Vines. Crystal did a beautiful job of putting it all together. It is an all-woman edition and tells many [...]
Bob Church Forever
Posted in Bob Church, Check It Out, The Dead Mule, tagged awesome friend, Awesome Journal, Awesome writer, Bob Church, Bob Church forever, fiction, poetry, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature on June 3, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Update: Read Bob’s essay HERE. It is excellent! *********************** I received the most awesome comment this morning from Valerie MacEwan of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Our dear friend, Bob Church, will be published there on June 5th! Here is the message: *** Found an essay of Bob’s in the submit.mule mailbox [...]
