04.22.2011
Ephemera
As a lover/hater of all things pantoum, I was truly excited to read “Dawn” by C.S. Carrier. The poem feels more like a procession than a beginning. Lines like “she’s splotched with porcelain” and “the rain pools in the turquoise ashtray” immediately evoke stillness, silence, inactivity. You feel the inevitability of the day, the stillness [...]
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Jeremy Pettis,
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03.30.2011
Ephemera
Little Red Leaves has taken on a pretty ambitious task. Issue #6 will consist of individually owned and operated ephemera objects that promise to be all over the place (in a good way). The first poem up for ephemerization was Lauren Levin’s ‘Tresk,” a wonderfully jagged poem that stomps down the page. Here’s a sneak [...]
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Lauren Levin,
Little Red Leaves
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