Gabriel Blackwell: Best of 2012
You’re reading a “Best of 2012″ list to get some recommendations for 2013, to begin to parse the prodigious number of books published/albums released/movies premiered in 2012, to reassure yourself […]
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Five-and-Five: Okla Elliott’s 2012 List
I love lists. I make them for any number of reasons. They help me organize my thoughts or review events, among a dozen other things, so when I was asked […]
Mike Meginnis: Four Books I Gave as Gifts in 2012, and One I Received
I don’t know what the best books were this year. Mostly I don’t like to read things right after they come out, when people on the Internet and in the […]
“Who is ‘You?’ – Identification and Importance of the Addressee in Poetry,” by Jillian M. Phillips
image source The poet’s choice of point of view is just as important as the imagery, diction, or meter. By choosing a speaking direction for their poem, they choose the […]
“Moonburn,” by Faith Gardner
I’d never heard of moonburn either before I got one. My skin’s pale as dinnerware. I’ve been mistaken for a ghost on foggy nights, sent passersby sprinting and screaming in opposing directions. My […]
“Strange Bravery I Pay the Gods For,” by Sarah Bartlett
We close our eyes so we don’t have to see each other. I drive my car this way and die three times
from “So Fucking Metal,” by Dave Housley
Dad and Rash are awake, finally, grumbling and telling each other stories they already know. I hear variations on Ronnie and James and Dio and RJD and Holy Diver and all kinds of […]
from “Fourth of July, 2010,” by Wiliam Henderson
My wife, Holly, is starting to appear pregnant. She enjoys being pregnant. And she enjoys breastfeeding. She breastfed our son, Avery, for twenty-seven months, and only stopped because her doctor suggested that it […]
“Robert Frost, OMG,” by David Brennan
above me is the moon and Mars and scalloped dictionaries of cloud falling open to the page obsolete lives on. Like a Jazzercise class with one student
“Curating,” by J. Bradley
This HFR podcast HFR 1.1 contributor J. Bradley reads an essay about the love poem, entitled, “Curating.”
