May9th
CONTENTS:
POETRY
FICTION
NONFICTION
Music: John Stockton Slow Drag (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 3.0
May9th
Joseph G. Peterson lives in Chicago with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of the two novels, Wanted: Elevator Man, and Beautiful Piece. He is also the author of the novel in verse, Inside the Whale.
Publishers Weekly review of Inside the Whale:
“Written entirely in verse, Peterson’s second book (after Beautiful Piece) follows Irishman Jim O’Connor, an aspiring poet and successful alcoholic, as he moves disastrously through life in modern Chicago. In addition to Peterson’s narrative, plenty of Jim’s ‘actual’ poems appear throughout, facilitating an effortless shifting between third and first person accounts of the drunken bard’s exploits.” - 5/9/2012
Intro music: Free Film Music (cameronmusic.co.uk) (Alastair Cameron) / CC BY 3.0
May9th
Jac Jemc lives in Chicago. Her debut novel, My Only Wife, was just released from Dzanc Books. She is the author of a chapbook of stories, These Strangers She’d Invited In, and the poetry editor of decomP. She blogs her rejections at jacjemc.com.
Intro music: Free Film Music (cameronmusic.co.uk) (Alastair Cameron) / CC BY 3.0
May9th
Chad Smith is a poet living with his family in Portland, Oregon.
By day he’s a graphic-design professional, digital photography retouch production worker, new-media dabbler, and daydream yearner. He often embarks on explorations in mouse clicking, video, web design, and illustration.
One of his poems was published in the Boise Novel Orchard’s “Bridges” chapbook. Some of his flash fiction pieces were published by 52/250 A year of Flash, and other poems have appeared in Red Fez.
He blogs at jacknoodle.com.
Intro music: Free Film Music (cameronmusic.co.uk) (Alastair Cameron) / CC BY 3.0
May9th
I was born in Miami to a Colombian woman and an Anglo man. I have ‘pieces’ of myself scattered across the internet and my nail clippings float in multiples oceans. I edit TheOpenEnd and blog at MySwag. Like Don DeLillo, I believe each word triggers an electrical impulse inside our brains. When a perfect string of tiny explosions goes off, both readers and writers experience the deepest kind of pleasure. Austin Nights is my first novel.
Intro music: Free Film Music (cameronmusic.co.uk) (Alastair Cameron) / CC BY 3.0
May9th
Nathan Singleton lives in Wadsworth, Ohio, and teaches Honors American Literature and Creative Writing at Wadsworth High School. He is married to Jeana Singleton, and together they’ll welcome their new baby into the world this October. Though Nathan has published professionally, this is his first creative piece. One of his proudest moments with writing came when he performed an original Slam poem at the famous Green Mill Lounge in Chicago.
His piece for WordPlaySound, “Mona Lisa: The Secret Unveiled,” can best be appreciated by visiting these two paintings ahead of time: the Mona Lisa and the Wedding Feast at Cana.
Intro music: Free Film Music (cameronmusic.co.uk) (Alastair Cameron) / CC BY 3.0
Feature music: Undercover Vampire Policeman (Chris Zabriskie) / CC BY 3.0
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