Christopher Marlowe Had Nothing to do With This

Rhymes With Orange: by Hilary Price

Two For Tuesday + 2 - For Good Measure

Catching up on the Mail

This from Brian Leary over at 42opus:


May at 42opus

Currently featured on the site is "The Adventure of the Mason," a brief, classic story by Washington Irving. Also featured this month is work from Farrah Field, John Clare, Keetje Kuipers, Matthew Arnold, Brittany Fonte, Carmen Giménez Smith, Sara Levine, and Ryo Yamaguchi.

Farrah Field began the month with "Desperate Mothers Are an Easy Lay":

They usually treated Detective Summers as though he were bravebecause they thought spending time with him would bring their children back.Summers approaches some women by what they're willing to door outdo. They believe it themselves, a freedom with bunions.It's easy to use someone's body.… read more…

debuts last month

The following pieces debuted on 42opus in April 2008:

Losing Your Breasts a poem by Joy Ladin
Apocrypha #9 a poem by Richard Froude
The Scholar Gypsy a poem by Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach a poem by Matthew Arnold
Postcard from a Kitchen Window a poem by J. Mae Barizo
Noche Buena a short story by Curt Eriksen
Out of Sorts a poem by David Thornbrugh
Rappaccini's Daughter a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Yellow Absence a poem by Melissa Koosmann
Another a poem by Melissa Koosmann


This kinda caught my eye and ear:


Out of Sorts

by DAVID THORNBRUGH



I have a zebra in my neck
going the wrong way against
his stripes, like Venetian blinds
caught in the throat
of a late afternoon hotel room.
Is this malaria in the public bath,
is this curare in the toothpaste,
is this my prostate clicking
on one of those digital ducks
swimming across the top of the page?
The streets of heaven are lined
with Prozac, and hell, well,
hell is beer that's all foam.
Drugs and religion both wore out
for me a long time ago
and lately my laptop overheats
alarmingly. By birth I’m a
fire sign tiger giving off noxious fumes
as I smolder towards tomorrow,
and the ache in my spine
is a vulture flopping itself clean
in an eyelid birdbath.

Via E-mail Express

Smartish Pace Issue 15 Release Party; Featuring Poets and Bands!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Saturday May 31, 2008, 7:30 PM

The Whole Gallery,

405 W. Franklin St.,

Baltimore, MD 21201.

410-452-1816.

$10 at the door includes a copy of Issue 15 and all the food, drinks and merriment you can stomach. The event is free to Smartish Pace subscribers. Everyone is welcome.

Poets (from #15) at 8 PM: Douglas Basford, Christopher Cunningham, Stephen Kampa, Lia Purpura, Elizabeth Spires & Terrance Wedin.

Bands at 9 PM and playing late into the night:

Beans (Folk, Blues, Ghettotech) http://www.myspace.com/sinebean,

Baby Venom (Synth Lovely) http://www.myspace.com/babyvenombaby

& TBA (very soon).

For more info or questions e-mail Editor Stephen Reichert at sreichert@smartishpace.com.

http://www.smartishpace.com/

From the "You Know Your Career is Going Down the Toilet- When:" File

Oliver Stone to Shoot George W. Bush Biopic

Stone is famous for courting controversy with dramas like JFK (1991) and Nixon (1995). But with W, the 61-year-old filmmaker isn't merely courting it — he's grabbing controversy by the lapels and giving it a big wet smacker. For the first time, he's turning his cameras not just on a living president but on one who'll still be knocking around the White House when the movie premieres late this year. As if that weren't provocative enough, Stone could end up releasing the film as early as October, at the height of a presidential campaign in which one of the major issues will undoubtedly be the legacy of the guy on the screen. The movie has become a lightning rod before Stone has shot a single frame. ... Josh Brolin will play President George W. Bush and Elizabeth Banks will star as Laura — there is one major character still in search of an actor: a heavy named Dick Cheney.

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source: First Look: 'W,' Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic

By Benjamin Svetkey - Entertainment Weekly

Two For Tuesday

Mail Call

Received this from Karen Craigo of Mid-American Review:


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

As I mentioned earlier, we do read work all through the year, and in general we're actually faster in the summer. So feel free to send your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translations, and reviews to the following address:

Mid-American Review
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green OH 43403

Unfortunately, we do not yet accept electronic submissions except in very rare cases for people with special circumstances. We expect to change that and open up electronic submissions to all in the future. Hopefully I'll be able to make that announcement in my fall newsletter. ...


Best,
Karen Craigo
Editor-in-Chief