Friday, December 11, 2020

Matthew A Hamilton’s "The Wishing Tree" is #216 in the never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION

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****Matthew A Hamilton’s The Wishing Tree is #216 in the never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION where the Chris Rice Cooper Blog (CRC) focuses on one specific excerpt from a fiction genre and how that fiction writer wrote that specific excerpt.  


Name of fiction work? And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with us? The Wishing Tree. No, I never considered other names. Wishing Trees are scattered throughout Armenia. (Right) The title just made since from the very beginning. Wishing Trees symbolize Armenian strength and spiritual devotion. I felt that I needed to honor that in some way. 

 

What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I began writing this story in the summer of 2014 and worked on it off and on for the next few years, completing the work around Christmas of 2019. (Matthew A Hamilton and his wife in December of 2019)

 

Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work?  And please describe in detail.  And can you please include a photo? I exclusively wrote the novel in my home office. (Right)


I thought about my time living in Armenia, where I served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer from 2006-2008. The terrain I describe in the book and the customs I learned is mostly based on my memory. (Left: Matthew A Hamilton in the winter in Getk, Armenia.  Mt Aragats is in the background.  Photo courtesy Lazlo Lieszkovszky)


I lived with an elderly couple (Right) on a small farm that overlooked the Armenian/Turkish border. The main character in the story, Valia, is named after my host mother. The story is loosely based on her grandmother. I was told she was the only family member to survive the genocide. 

She did not necessarily experience all of the brutal conditions as depicted in the story, but someone did. The stories my host mother told me are based off of that.  




I also conducted research through The Armenia National Institute. It is a good place to begin research if you are interested in learning more about the genocide and the affects it still has on Armenians today. 

https://www.armenian-genocide.org/ 


Other times I relied on books, especially the work of Peter Balakian (Left), an Armenian poet and scholar that, to my knowledge, still teaches at Colgate University. 

https://peterbalakian.com/ 



What were your writing habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I am a morning person. I wake up every day at 5am, so my drink of choice while writing this story was coffee. Too, my memory is sound and I rarely take notes. I sometimes highlighted pages in books I wanted to return to, though. Other than that, I simply hammered away on a laptop until I exhausted all my memories for that day. And finally, I have to have complete silence while I write, so listening to music would have been a distraction for me. (Above Right: Armenian dancers)

 

Please include just one excerpt and include page numbers as references.  This one excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer. The excerpt can be found on page 56. 


It’s evening when I awake. A large knot on the back of my head throbs. The moon shines an eerie light on the light. Large pyres burn. Police soldiers toss corpses on the fire. No time to mourn. The wind twists the fire into threatening shapes. A restless gray light flickers above the trees until clouds blow in and cover the moon. A soft rain falls. My tongue crawls out of my mouth like an impatient worm. My thirst satisfied, I nibble on a stub of dry bread, listen to the burning wagons hiss and pop until the flames take their last fading breaths. My thoughts run wild with the fateful road ahead. 


Why is this excerpt so emotional for you as a writer to write?  And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this specific excerpt? That part of the story is right after Valia’s family is murdered in front of her by the Turkish police soldiers. 

It was especially emotional for me to write because it is based on a story my host mother told me about her grandmother. To listen to her tell it, it was like I was right there with the grandmother, suffering along with her. I wanted to write a story that would give the reader a similar experience. 



Were there any deletions from this excerpt that you can share with us? And can you please include a photo of your marked up rough drafts of this excerpt. No deletions. I wrote that passage exactly how you see it now. 


Matthew A. Hamilton holds an MFA from Fairfield University and a MSLIS from St. John’s University. He is a 6-time Pushcart Prize nominee. His stories and poems have appeared in a variety of national and international journals, including Atticus Review, Coe Magazine, Noctua Review, Burnt Bridge, Boston Literary Magazine, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Muddy River Poetry Review,Tuck Magazine, and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing. His chapbook, The Land of the Four Rivers, published by Cervena Barva Press, won the 2013 Best Poetry Book from Peace Corps Writers. His second poetry collection, Lips Open and Divine, was published in 2016 by Winter Goose. His debut novel, The Wishing Tree, about the 1915 Armenian Genocide, was published by Winter Goose in 2020. He and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia.  (Left:  Matthew A Hamilton with his wife in November of 2020)

https://matthew-a-hamilton.com/


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“The Ash, the Well and the Blue Bell”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/108-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ash-well.html 


#109 12 16 2019 Amalia Carosella’s

Historical/Contemporary/Duel Timeline/ Women’s

Fiction

“DAUGHTER OF A THOUSAND YEARS”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/109-inside-emotion-of-fiction-daughter_17.html


#110 12 19 2019 Laura Bickle’s

Weird Western/Contemporary Fantasy

“DARK ALCHEMY”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/110-inside-emotion-of-fiction-dark.html


#111 12 27 2019 Brian Pinkerton’s

Science Fiction Thriller

“THE GEMINI EXPERIMENT”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/111-inside-emotion-of-fiction-gemini.html


#112  12 28 2019 Sandra de Helen’s

Lesbian Thriller

“TILL DARKNESS COMES”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/112-inside-emotion-of-fiction-till.html


#113 12 29 2019 Jo Wilde’s

Vampire Thriller

“THE CROSSING”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/113-inside-emotion-of-fiction-crossing.html 


#114 12 30 2019 Sam Richard’s

Short Story Collection of Weird and Transgressive

Horror

“To Wallow In Ash and Sorrows”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/114-inside-emotion-of-fiction-to-wallow.html


#115 12 31 2019 Duncan B Barlow’s

Literary Fiction Novel

“A DOG BETWEEN US”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/12/inside-emotion-of-fiction-dog-between.html


#116 01 02 2020 Allison Landa’s

Young Adult Novel

“BAD HAIR”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/116-inside-emotion-of-fiction-bad-hair.html


#117 01 03 2020 Pablo Medina’s

Literary Satire Novel

“THE CUBAN COMEDY”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/117-inside-emotion-of-fiction-cuban.html


#118 01 06 2020 William Trent Pancoast’s

Historical/Literary Novel

“THE ROAD TO MATEWAN”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/118-inside-emotion-of-fiction-road-to.html


#119 01 07 2020 Jane Bernstein’s

Contemporary Novel

“The Face Tells the Secret”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/119-inside-emotion-of-fiction-face.html


#120 01 09 2020 Terry Kroenung’s

Young Adult, Historical and Fantasy

“Brimstone And Lily”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/120-inside-emotion-of-fiction-brimstone.html



#121 01 12 2020 Melissa Yi’s

Fiction Thriller

“GRAVEYARD SHIFT”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/121-inside-emotion-of-fiction-melissa.html


#122 01 15 2020 Marcie R. Rendon’s

Crime Thriller

“GIRL GONE MISSING”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/122-inside-emotion-of-fiction-girl-gone.html


#123 01 16 2020 Tori Eldridge’s

Multi Genre Novel

“THE NINJA DAUGHTER”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/123-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ninja.html


#124 01 17 2020 Kristen Joy Wilks’s

Christian Romantic Comedy

“YELLOWSTONE YONDERING”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/124-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html 


#125 01 20 2020 Susan C. Shea’s

Cozy Mystery

“DRESSED FOR DEATH IN BURGUNDY”

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/125-inside-emotion-of-fiction-dressed.html



#126  01 22 2020 Phong Nguyen’s

Improvisational Fiction

“ROUNDABOUT”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/126-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html


#127 01 23 2020 Kate Thornton’s

Mystery Short Story In Its Entirety

“Ai Witness”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/127-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ai.html


#128 01 24 2020 Phil McCarron’s

Semi Fictional Essays

“The Great Facepalm: The Farce of 21st Century

Normality”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/128-inside-emotion-of-fiction-great.html


#129  01 27 2020 Kenneth Weene’s

Historicized Literary Fiction

“Red And White”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/01/129-inside-emotion-of-fiction-red-and.html


#130 01 28 2020 Graham Storrs’s

Science Fiction Thriller

“TimeSplash”

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com 

/2020/01/130-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html



#131 02 08 2020 Angela Slatter’s

Short Story “Terrible As An Army With Banners”

From her Short Story Collection THE BITTERWOOD BIBLE AND OTHER RECOUNTINGS

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/131-inside-emotion-of-fiction-terrible.html


#132 02 11 2020 Joan Joachim’s

Romance

Just One Kiss

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/132-inside-emotion-of-fiction-just-one.html


#133 02 16 2020 Kelsey Clifton’s

Science Fiction

A DAY OUT OF TIME

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/133-inside-emotion-of-fiction-day-out.html


#134 02 17 2020 Soraya M Lane’s

Women Historical Fiction

THE GIRLS OF PEARL HARBOR

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/02/134-inside-emotion-of-fiction-girls-of.html


#135 03 07 2020

Linked Fiction

BLEACHERS Fifty-Four Linked Fictions

By Joseph Mills

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/135-inside-emotion-of-fiction-bleachers.html


#136 03 15 2020

Science Fiction Romance

BLUE VISION

By Marie Lavender

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/136-inside-emotion-of-fiction-blue.html


#137 03 17 2020

Crime Fiction

12 Bullets

by O’Neil De Noux

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/137-inside-emotion-of-fiction-12.html


#138 03 18 2020

Flash Fiction Piece

Radical

by Kelle Grace Gaddis 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/138-inside-emotion-of-fiction-radical.html


#139 03 20 2020

Mystery

HERE BE MONSTERS

By Jamie Sheffield

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/139-inside-emotion-of-fiction-here-be.html



#140 03 21 2020

Character Driven Novel

UNBROKEN

By Jamie Lisa Forbes

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/140-inside-emotion-of-fiction-unbroken.html


#141 03 23 2020 

Literary Murder Mystery

COLD COUNTRY

By Russell Rowland

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/03/141-inside-emotion-of-fiction-cold.html


#142 04 01 2020 

Sci-Fi/Paranormal

SWEET SLEEP

By Kim Cormack

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/142-inside-emotion-of-fiction-sweet.html


#143 04 02 2020 

Western Noir Short Story

“Night Rounds”

by James Reasoner

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/143-inside-emotion-of-fiction-night.html


#144 04 03 2020 

Southern Fiction

LITTLE TEA

By Claire Fullerton

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/144-inside-emotion-of-fiction-little.html


#145 04 04 2020

Mainstream novel with elements of crime, mystery, and magic

THE FORGETTING FLOWER

by Karen Hugg 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/145-inside-emotion-of-fiction.html


#146 04 07 2020 

Historical Fiction

MEDICIS DAUGHTER

by Sophie Perinot

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/146-inside-emotion-of-fiction-medicis.html


#147 04 08 2020

Dark Urban Fantasy with elements of Paranormal Romance

COVEN BORN

by Stephanie Reisner aka AUDREY BRICE

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/147-inside-emotion-of-fiction-coven.html


#148 04 13 2020

Mystery With A Fantasy Twist

DEATH LIVES IN THE WATER

By Shoshana Edwards 

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/148-inside-emotion-of-fiction-death.html


#149 04 14 2020

Historical Fiction

ASHES

by Sharon Glogal Friedman 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/149-inside-emotion-of-fiction-ashes-by.html


#150 04 19 2020

Vampire Horror Novelette 

Blood Thrasher:  The Devil’s in the Metal

by Adam Messer

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/adam-messers-blood-thrasher-devils-in.html 


#151 04 25 2020

Historical Fiction

Charis in the World of Wonders

by Marly Youmans

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/marly-youmans-charis-in-world-of.html


#152 04 29 2020

Historical Fiction

The Master of Verona

by David Blixt

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/david-blixts-master-of-verona-is-152-in.html


#153 04 30 2020

General Fiction (Family)

Bread Bags & Bullies:  Surviving the 80s

by Steven Manchester 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/04/steven-manchesters-bread-bags-bullies.html


#154 05 01 2020

Adventure-Thriller/Horror

Into The Ashes

by Lee Murray

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/lee-murrays-into-ashes-is-154-in-never.html


#155 05 06 2020

Coming of Age/Crime Novel

All Things Left In The Wild

by James Wade

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/james-wades-all-things-left-in-wild-is.html


#156 05 10 2020

Paranormal Mystery

Southern Bound

by Stuart Jaffe

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/stuart-jaffes-southern-bound-is-156-in.html


#157 05 13 2020

Mystery/Crime Novel

Yardbird

By Mark Slade

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/mark-slades-yardbird-is-157-in-never.html


#158 05 15 2020 

Horror/Crime Novel

Hotel Nowhere

By David E Adkins 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/david-e-adkinss-hotel-nowhere-is-158-in.html


#159 05 16 2020

Satire/Crime Novel

THE LYING BASTARD

by Clint Margrave

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/clint-margraves-lying-bastard-is-159-in.html


#160 05 19 2020

Southern Gothic Fiction

REVIVING THE HAWTHORN SISTERS

by Emily Carpenter

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/emily-carpenters-reviving-hawthorn.html


#161 05 21 2020

Women’s Domestic Life Fiction

MERCY HOUSE

by Alena Dillon 

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/alena-dillons-mercy-house-is-161-in.html


#162 05 26 2020

Screenplay/Film

BEAST MODE

by Drew Fortune and Spain Willingham

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/drew-fortunes-and-spain-willinghams_26.html


#163 05 31 2020

Coming of Age/ Psychological Thriller

MY SISTER & OTHER LIARS

by Ruth Dugdall

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/05/ruth-dugdalls-my-sister-and-other-liars.html


#164 06 01 2020 

Psychological Thriller

IN HARM’S WAY

by Owen Mullen

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/owen-mullens-in-harms-way-is-164-in.html


#165 06 02 2020 

Small Town Short Story Collection

SNAPSHOT “Old Lady”

by Eliot Parker

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/eliot-parkers-old-lady-from-snapshots.html


#166 06 04 2020

Noir Crime Novel

SKIN OF TATTOOS

by Christina Hoag

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/christina-hoags-skin-of-tattoos-is-166.html


#167 06 06 2020

Coming of Age/Historical

THE ORPHAN COLLECTOR

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/ellen-marie-wisemans-orphan-collector.html


#168 06 08 2020

World War Two Historical Fiction

THE PRISONER’S WIFE

by Maggie Brookes

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/maggie-brookess-prisoners-wife-is-168.html


#169 06 09 2020

Novella 

(about the 1960s, 

Rolling Stones in their exile,

genocide, it’s survivors, and

people from places that no longer exist.)

BLUE COAST MYSTERY:  ALMOST SOLVED

by Nick Sweeney

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/nick-sweeneys-blue-coast-mystery-almost.html


#170 06 11 2020

Family Life/Coming of Age Novel

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAM HELL

by Robert Dugoni

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/robert-dugonis-extraordinary-life-of.html


#171 06 26 2020

Women’s Divorce Fiction

QUEEN OF THE OWLS

by Barbara Linn Probst

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/06/barbara-linn-probsts-queen-of-owls-is.html


#172 07 01 2020

Short Story “The Belindas” from the Short Story Collection LOVE WAR STORIES 

By Ivelisse Rodriguez

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/ivelisse-rodriguezs-short-story.html


#173 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 04 2020

Organized Crime Thriller

BLUES IN THE DARK

by Raymond Benson

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/raymond-bensons-blues-in-dark-is-173-in.html


#174 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 08 2020

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

THE ESCAPE OF MALCOLM POE

by Allison Burnett

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/allison-burnetts-escape-of-malcolm-poe.html


#175 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 09 2020

Horror Novella

TERMINUS STATION

by Jeff Lyons

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/jeff-lyonss-terminus-station-is-175-in.html


#176 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 12 2020

20th Century Historical Romance

“The Bootlegger’s Wife”

by Denise Devine

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/chris-rice-cooper-blog-176-inside.html


#177 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 24 2020

Literary Fiction Novel

“What Drives Men”

by Susan Tepper 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/susan-teppers-what-drives-men-is-177-in.html


#178 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

07 27 2020

Short story

“Tidings of Comfort and Joyce”

by Kimberly Kurth Gray

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/kimberly-kurth-grays-short-story.html

 

#179 Inside the Emotion of Fiction 

07 28 2020

Historical Fiction

“Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey”

by Kathleen Rooney

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/07/kathleen-rooneys-cher-ami-and-major.html


#180 Inside the Emotion of Fiction 

08 04 2020

Screenplay

“BUNNY”

by Shaun Hughes 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/director-shaun-hughess-screenplay-bunny.html 


#181 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

08 09 2020

Short Story 

“Wrong Road” from the Short Story Collection George’s Mother and Other Weird Stories

by Susan Berliner 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/susan-berliners-short-story-wrong-road.html


#182 Inside the Emotion of Fiction 

08 11 2020

Thriller Mystery

“Death in the Time of Ice”

by Kaye George

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/kaye-georges-death-in-time-of-ice-is.html


#183 Inside the Emotion of Fiction 

08 13 2020

Screenplay

“Igor and Frankie”

by Jim Picariello

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/jim-picariellos-screenplay-igor-and.html


#184 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

08 14 2020

Short Story 

Short Story “Breaking on the Wheel” from the Short Story Collection No Call Too Small. 

by Oscar Martens 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/oscar-martenss-short-story-breaking-on.html


#185 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

08 20 2020

Romance

A Secret, a Safari, a Second Chance

by Liz Fielding

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/liz-feldings-secret-safari-second.html


#186 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

08 26 2020

Mystery and Psychological Fiction 

Falling Woman

by Richard Farrell

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/08/richard-farrells-falling-woman-is-186.html


#187 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 03 2020

Children’s Picture Book

MAC AND CHEESE AND THE PERSONAL SPACE INVADER 

By Jolene Gutierrez

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/jolene-gutierrezs-mac-and-cheese-and.html


#188 Inside the Emotion of Fiction 

09 07 2020

Screenplay

JUDE COLE

By Janelle Marie Evans

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/janelle-evanss-screenplay-jude-cole-is.html


#189 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 09 2020

Historical Christian Romance

UNTIL JUNE

by Barbara M Britton

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/barbara-m-brittons-until-june-is-189-in.html


#190 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 10 2020

Screenplay

THROUGH THE SILENCE

by Elaine Roberts-Kercheff

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/filmmaker-elaine-roberts-kercheffs.html 


#191 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 16 2020

1960s Historical Fiction

California Dreamin’ Teens Interrupted 2

by KC Sprayberry 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/kc-sprayberrys-california-dreamin-teens.html 


#192 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 17 2020

Screenplay

DAUGHTERS LOST TO THE DESERT

by April Sanchez

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/kc-sprayberrys-california-dreamin-teens.html 


#193 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 18 2020

Contemporary Literature and Fiction

THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY

by Clifford Garstang

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/clifford-garstangs-shaman-of-turtle.html 


#194 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 19 2020

Crime Fiction

THE ACE OF DIAMONDS

by ES Gibson

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/es-gibsons-ace-of-diamonds-is-194-in.html 


#195 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 20 2020

Historical Fiction

Katherine-Tudor Duchess

by Tony Riches

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/tony-richess-katherine-tudor-duchess-is.html 


#196 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 21 2020

Short Fiction

“Dinner Prep”

by Thaddeus Rutkowski 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/thaddeus-rutkowskis-dinner-prep-is-196.html 


#197 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 22 2020

Screenplay

SWEET DREAMS

by Ben Johnson

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/bill-johnsons-screenplay-sweet-dreams.html 


#198 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 26 2020

Crime Thriller

Dirty Deeds

by Armand Rosamilia

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/armand-rosamilias-dirty-deeds-is-198-in.html 


#199 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

09 29 2020

Crime Thriller

Hunting Mariah 

by Janice Spina 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/09/janice-spinas-hunting-mariah-is-199-in.html 


#200 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10   2020

Crime Novel

Indelible:  A Sean McPhereson Novel, Book One

by Laurie Buchanan

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/laurie-buchanans-indelible-sean.html 


#201 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 04 2020  

Cross-genre novel

January River

by Bernard Jan

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/bernard-jans-january-river-is-201-in.html 


#202 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 10 2020

Historical Novel

Robin Hood’s Dawn: The Earl of Huntingdon”

by Olivia Longueville

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/olivia-longuevilles-robin-hoods-dawn.html



#203  Inside the Emotion

10 14 2020

Historical Novel

The Alexanders Volume 1 1911-1920

by Allan Hudson

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/allan-hudsons-alexanders-volume-1-1911.html

 

#204 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 15 2020

Short story

Forget Me Not

by Angele Ellis

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/angele-elliss-short-story-forget-me-not.html 


#205 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 16 2020

Coming of Age Fiction

My Gypsy War Diary

by Shawn Brink

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/shawn-brinks-my-gypsy-war-diary-is-205.html 


#206 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 19 2020

Western Screenplay 

The Search for Sundown, Texas

by Patrick Emralino

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/director-patrick-emralino-s-screenplay.html 



#207 Inside the Emotion of Fiction 

10 20 2020

Romance

A Promise for Faith-Briar Creek Love Book 1

by Stacy K Simmons

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/stacy-k-simmonss-promise-for-faith.html 


#208 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 22 2020

Terrorism Thriller

Death In The Cloud

by E.J. Simon

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/ej-simons-death-in-cloud-is-208-in.html 


#209 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 25 2020

Mystery

“The Nazi Spy Mystery Series Book 1”

by Alan Hardy

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/alan-hardys-nazi-spy-nazi-spy-mystery.html  


#210 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

10 29 2020

Historical

“The Unbridled Tongue”

by Catherine Meyrick

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/catherine-meyricks-bridled-tongue-is.html 


#211 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

11 03 2020

Short Story Collection

“Tales From Los Cabos”

by Lila C Duville

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/10/catherine-meyricks-bridled-tongue-is.html 


#212 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

11 09 2020

Historical Fiction

“THE LAST OF THE ROMANS: FIGHT OR DIE”

by Derek Birks

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/11/derek-birkss-last-of-romans-fight-or.html 


#213 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

11 12 2020

Historical Fiction

RISING FROM THE RUINS

by Anna Chant 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/11/images-in-this-specific-piece-are.html 


#214 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

11 14 2020

Short Story

NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE 

http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/11/paula-persoleos-short-story-new.html 


#215 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

11 29 2020

Science Fiction

A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/11/jack-wears-hole-in-universe-is-215-in.html 


#216 Inside the Emotion of Fiction

12 11 2020

Historical War Fiction

The Wishing Well 

https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2020/12/matthew-hamiltons-wishing-tree-is-216.html 



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Saturday, December 5, 2020

Erik Fuhrer’s “(the creature of bad habits)” is #220 in the never-ending series called BACKSTORY OF THE POEM

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***Erik Fuhrer’s “(the creature of bad habits)” is #220 in the never-ending series called BACKSTORY OF THE POEM where the Chris Rice Cooper Blog (CRC) focuses on one specific poem and how the poet wrote that specific poem.  All BACKSTORY OF THE POEM links are at the end of this piece. 



Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form? The poem began as a type of automatic writing, in that I just let the writing flow without stopping until I felt I was done. I do not believe this to be a spiritual process, but it is a mediated process. In this particular instance, the media was music, with lyrics, my television, both turned up to the max, and the winter wind that howled right behind me at my front door, so that what I was writing was not necessarily influenced by particular sound bites but rather by the noise generated by the sonic crossover of the various interlocking mediums. 

This process produced a large prose piece that contained the beginnings of “[the creature of dark habits]” and another poem in the book’s first section, “[once there was a tree].” I immediately decided there were two pieces present and separated them into two thick prose versions of how the poems appear now. At first, I liked the way the prose read quite literally breathlessly, since I did not include any punctuation at that stage either, so the words pressed together quickly off the tongue. 

I can’t quite explain why I decided to start whittling down the density of the text and opening up the form, except to say that the piece just felt like it needed to sprawl. In high school, I was taught that form followed function, but I don’t necessarily agree with that. If everything needed a reason to exist, we’d have very few things, and the musicality of the composition developed not necessarily in response, but alongside, and sometimes even against, the meaning of the poem. That said, I did intentionally have the last stanza press against the right hand margin, in order to demonstrate the ways bodies that don’t fit into normative categories are literally marginalized.


Where were you when you started to actually write the poem? And please describe the place in great detail. I was in the foyer of my home, in which I have tightly fit a home office next to a large coat rack always full with coats, scarves, and hats, alongside a small table on which we keep my dog’s leash and our keys, which is next to a tiny box in which our mail collects after it is pressed through the slot next to our front door by the mail carrier. The space is a light bluish color with white trim and is adjacent to my living room and television. It is a hybrid space, good for hybrid thinking that allows me to get distracted— a necessary process for me, since I write much more productively when I am not actively thinking about the work itself.


What month and year did you start writing this poem? February 2017


How many drafts of this poem did you write before going to the
final? (And can you share a photograph of your rough drafts with pen markings on it?) I would say too many to count. The difference from the first draft to the second was perhaps the most drastic, because it went from a prose poem to a poem with line breaks. After that, I made countless small changes in spacing and word placement especially, which accounts for probably the next half dozen drafts. The second big leap was when I cut roughly half of the content from the poem, after which I again dabbled in composition arrangement. I place a lot of weight on the musical and spatial composition of the piece, so even a minor change like adding a space can have, at least for me, significant ramifications. 

Since the spacing of poems is so important to me, I usually arrange and rearrange the lines on my computer so that I can immediately visualize the edits. I’m fairly certain that the major content cuts were made on paper, as I find it easier to do specific edits off screen, where my eyes seem to, for whatever reason, have more precision. That said, I have the habit of tearing up and discarding old drafts, leaving only their trace in the versions I decide to keep. I suppose I like to be bold and resolute in my choices, not allowing the past to come back to haunt me. 


Were there any lines in any of your rough drafts of this poem that were not in the final version? And can you share them with us? Yes, and yes of course! It took some digging into old emails from my MFA program to unearth the original versions, which included Anthony Hopkins and Audrey Hepburn. (Left) It feels strange to think that this poem was once part ode to the cinema. There’s a randomness to this original version that I kind of like, but I ultimately agree with my final instincts that Hopkins and Hepburn tend to obfuscate already often opaque images and phrases

Excerpt from the original: “many times at night I look into the creature and see a mirror of Audrey Hepburn and I slide under the screen with my creature left under the pillow with its feathered toad Anthony Hopkins is a nested nightmare and I bathe him in a tub with my creature and bead acorns between our teeth as he tithers&slithers&sluices juices that impersonate the creature whose mouth is an echo of Anthony’s mouth which is wet echo of moth's wings traveling over my tongue yes we are closer than your eyes are flicker the shutter against our bodies”


What do you want readers of this poem to take from this
poem? That language can reduce a body to illegibility. That those who are socially marginalized are also often physically marginalized—pressed against the page, the wall, the police car. That the term human is sometimes used as a weapon to keep others “not human enough for the census,” the newspaper, the workforce. I really want the poem to bear witness in the way that it offers readers to step into its gaps and to confront their own complicity in pushing the text and “fleshboy” further into the margins.


Which part of the poem was the most emotional of you to write and why? I’m not sure that writing this poem was an emotional experience for me, since I wrote it very quickly, without stopping. There was no room to think or emote. That said, looking back on it, the parts about “fleshboy” and the way that certain bodies are relegated to the margins are most emotional for me, especially as they set up the framework for a latter section of the book called “Body Count,” which details ways certain bodies have been dehumanized or made expendable.


Has this poem been published before? And if so where? Yes, in the first issue of SPF Lit Mag: https://spflitmag.com/erik-fuhrer/ 




Erik Fuhrer is the author of several books of poetry, including last year’s Not Human Enough for the Census (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), which is officially described as “an ode to apocalypse as anthem for the environment [that] sees nature as a protagonist fighting to change humanity by exposing its absurdity. This collection finds both beauty in decay and hope in our mistakes.” His upcoming book, in which I take myself hostage, will be published by Spuyten Duyvil Press later this year.

BACKSTORY OF THE POEM LINKS 

001  December 29, 2017
Margo Berdeshevksy’s “12-24”

002  January 08, 2018 
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s “82 Miles From the Beach, We Order The Lobster At Clear Lake Café”

003 January 12, 2018 
Barbara Crooker’s “Orange”

004 January 22, 2018 
Sonia Saikaley’s “Modern Matsushima”

005 January 29, 2018
Ellen Foos’s “Side Yard”

006 February 03, 2018
Susan Sundwall’s “The Ringmaster” 

007 February 09, 2018
Leslea Newman’s “That Night”

008 February 17, 2018
Alexis Rhone Fancher “June Fairchild Isn’t Dead”

009 February 24, 2018
Charles Clifford Brooks III “The Gift of the Year With Granny”

010 March 03, 2018
Scott Thomas Outlar’s “The Natural Reflection of Your Palms”

011 March 10, 2018
Anya Francesca Jenkins’s “After Diane Beatty’s Photograph “History Abandoned”

012  March 17, 2018
Angela Narciso Torres’s “What I Learned This Week” 

013 March 24, 2018
Jan Steckel’s “Holiday On ICE”

014 March 31, 2018
Ibrahim Honjo’s “Colors”

015 April 14, 2018
Marilyn Kallett’s “Ode to Disappointment”

016  April 27, 2018 
Beth Copeland’s “Reliquary”

017  May 12, 2018
Marlon L Fick’s “The Swallows of Barcelona”

018  May 25, 2018
Juliet Cook’s “ARTERIAL DISCOMBOBULATION”

019  June 09, 2018
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s “Stiletto Killer. . . A Surmise”

020 June 16, 2018 
Charles Rammelkamp’s “At Last I Can Start Suffering”

021  July 05, 2018 
Marla Shaw O’Neill’s “Wind Chimes”

022 July 13, 2018
Julia Gordon-Bramer’s “Studying Ariel” 

023 July 20, 2018 
Bill Yarrow’s “Jesus Zombie”

024  July 27, 2018 
Telaina Eriksen’s “Brag 2016”

025  August 01, 2018
Seth Berg’s “It is only Yourself that Bends – so Wake up!”

026  August 07, 2018
David Herrle’s “Devil In the Details”

027  August 13, 2018
Gloria Mindock’s “Carmen Polo, Lady Necklaces, 2017”

028  August 21, 2018
Connie Post’s “Two Deaths”

029  August 30, 2018
Mary Harwell Sayler’s “Faces in a Crowd”

030 September 16, 2018
Larry Jaffe’s “The Risking Point”
 
031  September 24, 2018
Mark Lee Webb’s “After We Drove”

032  October 04, 2018
Melissa Studdard’s “Astral”

033 October 13, 2018
Robert Craven’s “I Have A Bass Guitar Called Vanessa”

034  October 17, 2018
David Sullivan’s “Paper Mache Peaches of Heaven”

035 October 23, 2018
Timothy Gager’s “Sobriety” 

036  October 30, 2018
Gary Glauber’s “The Second Breakfast”

037  November 04, 2018
Heather Forbes-McKeon’s “Melania’s Deaf Tone Jacket”

038 November 11, 2018
Andrena Zawinski’s “Women of the Fields”

039  November 00, 2018
Gordon Hilger’s “Poe”

040 November 16, 2018
Rita Quillen’s “My Children Question Me About Poetry” and “Deathbed Dreams”

041 November 20, 2018
Jonathan Kevin Rice’s “Dog Sitting”

042 November 22, 2018
Haroldo Barbosa Filho’s “Mountain”

043  November 27, 2018
Megan Merchant’s “Grief Flowers”

044 November 30, 2018
Jonathan P Taylor’s “This poem is too neat”

045  December 03, 2018
Ian Haight’s “Sungmyo for our Dead Father-in-Law”

046 December 06, 2018
Nancy Dafoe’s “Poem in the Throat”

047 December 11, 2018
Jeffrey Pearson’s “Memorial Day”

048  December 14, 2018
Frank Paino’s “Laika”

049  December 15, 2018
Jennifer Martelli’s “Anniversary”

O50  December 19, 2018 
Joseph Ross’s “For Gilberto Ramos, 15, Who Died in the Texas Desert, June 2014”

051 December 23, 2018
“The Persistence of Music”
by Anatoly Molotkov

052  December 27, 2018
“Under Surveillance”
by Michael Farry

053  December 28, 2018
“Grand Finale”
by Renuka Raghavan

054  December 29, 2018
“Aftermath”
by Gene Barry

055 January 2, 2019
“&”
by Larissa Shmailo

056  January 7, 2019
“The Seamstress:
by Len Kuntz

057  January 10, 2019
"Natural History"
by Camille T Dungy

058  January 11, 2019
“BLOCKADE”
by Brian Burmeister

059  January 12, 2019
“Lost”
by Clint Margrave

060 January 14, 2019
“Menopause”
by Pat Durmon

061 January 19, 2019
“Neptune’s Choir”
by Linda Imbler

062  January 22, 2019
“Views From the Driveway”
by Amy Barone

063  January 25, 2019
“The heron leaves her haunts in the marsh”
by Gail Wronsky

064  January 30, 2019
“Shiprock”
by Terry Lucas

065 February 02, 2019
“Summer 1970, The University of Virginia Opens to Women in the Fall”
by Alarie Tennille

066 February 05, 2019
“At School They Learn Nouns”
by Patrick Bizzaro

067  February 06, 2019
“I Must Not Breathe”
by Angela Jackson-Brown

068 February 11, 2019
“Lunch on City Island, Early June”
by Christine Potter

069 February 12, 2019
“Singing”
by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum

070 February 14, 2019
“Daily Commute”
by Christopher P. Locke 

071 February 18, 2019
“How Silent The Trees”
by Wyn Cooper 

072 February 20, 2019
“A New Psalm of Montreal”
by Sheenagh Pugh

073 February 23, 2019
“Make Me A Butterfly”
by Amy Barbera

074 February 26, 2019
“Anthem”
by Sandy Coomer

075 March 4, 2019
“Shape of a Violin”
by Kelly Powell

076 March 5, 2019
“Inward Oracle”
by J.P. Dancing Bear

077 March 7, 2019
“I Broke My Bust Of Jesus”
by Susan Sundwall

078 March 9, 2019
“My Mother at 19”
by John Guzlowski

079 March 10, 2019 
“Paddling”
by Chera Hammons Miller 

080 March 12, 2019
“Of Water and Echo”
by Gillian Cummings

081   082   083    March 14, 2019
“Little Political Sense”   “Crossing Kansas with Jim
Morrison”  “The Land of Sky and Blue Waters”
by Dr. Lindsey Martin-Bowen

084 March 15, 2019
“A Tune To Remember”
by Anna Evans

085 March 19, 2019
“At the End of Time (Wish You Were Here)
by Jeannine Hall Gailey

086 March 20, 2019
“Garden of Gethsemane”
by Marletta Hemphill

087 March 21, 2019
“Letters From a War”
by Chelsea Dingman

088 March 26, 2019
“HAT”
by Bob Heman
 
089 March 27, 2019
“Clay for the Potter”
by Belinda Bourgeois

#090 March 30, 2019
“The Pose”
by John Hicks 

#091 April 2, 2019
“Last Night at the Wursthaus”
by Doug Holder

#092 April 4, 2019
“Original Sin”
by Diane Lockward

#093 April 5, 2019
“A Father Calls to his child on liveleak”
by Stephen Byrne
 
#094 April 8, 2019
“XX”
by Marc Zegans
 
#095 April 12, 2019
“Landscape and Still Life”
by Marjorie Maddox

#096 April 16, 2019
“Strawberries Have Been Growing Here for Hundreds of
Years”

#097 April 17, 2019
“The New Science of Slippery Surfaces”
by Donna Spruijt-Metz

#098 April 19, 2019
“Tennessee Epithalamium”
by Alyse Knorr

#099 April 20, 2019
“Mermaid, 1969”
by Tameca L. Coleman

#100 April 21, 2019
“How Do You Know?”
by Stephanie

#101 April 23, 2019
“Rare Book and Reader”
by Ned Balbo
 
#102 April 26, 2019
“THUNDER”
by Jefferson Carter

#103 May 01, 2019
“The sight of a million angels”
by Jenneth Graser

#104 May 09, 2019
“How to tell my dog I’m dying”
by Richard Fox

#105 May 17, 2019
“Promises Had Been Made”
by Sarah Sarai 

#106 June 01, 2019
“i sold your car today”
by Pamela Twining

#107 June 02, 2019
“Abandoned Stable”
by Nancy Susanna Breen

#108 June 05, 2019
“Cupcake”
by Julene Tripp Weaver

#109 June 6, 2019
“Bobby’s Story”
by Jimmy Pappas

#110 June 10, 2019
“When You Ask Me to Tell You About My Father”
by Pauletta Hansel 

#111 Backstory of the Poem’s
“Cemetery Mailbox”
by Jennifer Horne

#112 Backstory of the Poem’s
“Relics”
by Kate Peper

#113 Backstory of the Poem’s
“Q”
by Jennifer Johnson

#114 Backstory of the Poem’s
“Brushing My Hair”
by Tammika Dorsey Jones

#115 Backstory of the Poem
“Because the Birds Will Survive, Too”
by Katherine Riegel 

#116 Backstory of the Poem
“DIVORCE”
by Joan Barasovska

#117 Backstory of the Poem
“NEW YEAR”S EVE 2016”
by Michael Meyerhofer

#118 Backstory of the Poem
“Dear the estranged,”
by Gina Tron

#119 Backstory of the Poem
“In Remembrance of Them”
by Janet Renee Cryer

#120 Backstory of the Poem
“Horse Fly Grade Card, Doesn’t Play Well With Others”
by David L. Harrison

#121 Backstory of the Poem
“My Mother’s Cookbook”
by Rachael Ikins

#122 Backstory of the Poem
“Cousins I Never Met”
by Maureen Kadish Sherbondy 

#123 Backstory of the Poem
“To Those Who Were Our First Gods”
by Nickole Brown

#124 Backstory of the Poem
“Looking For Sunsets (In the Early Morning)”
by Paul Levinson

#125 Backstory of the Poem
“Tracy”
by Tiff Holland

#126 Backstory of the Poem
“Legs”
by Cindy Hochman
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/126-backstory-of-poem-legs-by-cindy.html

#127 Backstory of the Poem
“Anathema”
by Natasha Saje

#128 Backstory of the Poem
“How to Explain Fertility When an Acquaintance Asks Casually”
by Allison Blevins

#129 Backstory of the Poem
“The Art of Meditation In Tennessee”
by Linda Parsons

#130 Backstory of the Poem
“Schooling High, In Beslan”
by Satabdi Saha

#131 Backstory of the Poem
““Baby Jacob survives the Oso Landslide, 2014”
by Amie Zimmerman

#132 Backstory of the Poem
“Our Age of Anxiety”
by Henry Israeli

#133 Backstory of the Poem
“Earth Cries; Heaven Smiles”
by Ken Allan Dronsfield

#134  Backstory of the Poem
“Eons”
by Janine Canan

#135 Backstory of the Poem
“Sworn”
by Catherine Zickgraf

#136 Backstory of the Poem
“Bushwick Blue”
by Susana H. Case

#137 Backstory of the Poem
“Then She Was Forever”
by Paula Persoleo

#138 Backstory of the Poem
“Enough”
by Kris Bigalk

#139 Backstory of the Poem
“From Ghosts of the Upper Floor”
by Tony Trigilio

#140 Backstory of the Poem
“Cloud Audience”
by Wanita Zumbrunnen

#141 Backstory of the Poem
“Condition Center”
by Matthew Freeman

#142 Backstory of the Poem
“Adventuresome Woman”
by Cheryl Suchors

#143 Backstory of the Poem
“The Way Back” 
by Robert Walicki

#144 Backstory of the Poem
“If I Had Three Lives”
by Sarah Russell

#145 Backstory of the Poem
“Reservoir”
by Andrea Rexilius

#146 Backstory of the Poem
“The Night Before Our Dog Died”
by Melissa Fite Johnson

#147 Backstory of the Poem
“Pileated”
by David Anthony Sam

#148 Backstory of the Poem
“A Kitchen Argument”
by Matthew Gwathmey

#149 Backstory of the Poem
“Insulation”
by Bruce Kauffman

#150 Backstory of the Poem
“I Will Tell You Where I’ve Been”
by Justin Hamm

#151 Backstory of the Poem
“Comfort”
by Michael A Griffith

#152 Backstory of the Poem
“VAN GOGH TO HIS MISTRESS”
by Margo Taft Stever


#153 Backstory of the Poem
“1. Girl”
by Margaret Manuel

#154 Backstory of the Poem
“Trading Places”
by Maria Chisolm

#155 Backstory of the Poem
“The Reoccurring Woman”
by Debra May

#156 Backstory of the Poem
“Word Falling”
by Sheryl St. Germain

#157 Backstory of the Poem
“Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup of 7,000 Jews Detained in an
Arena”
by Liz Marlow

#158 Backstory of the Poem
“Why Otters Hold Hands”
by William Walsh

#159 Backstory of the Poem
“The Invisible World”
by Rocco de Giacoma

#160 Backstory of the Poem
“Last Call”
by Ralph Culver

#161 Backstory of the Poem
“ALIVE”
by David Dephy 

#162 Backstory of the Poem
“Mare Nostrum”
by Janice D Soderling

#163 Backstory of the Poem
“Winnipeg Noir”
by Carmelo Militano

#164 Backstory of the Poem
“Needlepoint Roses”
by Jason O’Toole 

#165 Backstory of the Poem
“Singing, Studying on Whiteness, This Penelope Strings”
by Jeanne Larsen

#166 Backstory of the Poem
“How To Befriend Uncertainty”
by Prartho Sereno

#167 Backstory of the Poem
“Shostakovich: Five Pieces”
by Pamela Uschuk

#168 Backstory of the Poem
“Bouquet for Amy Clampitt”
by Peter Kline

#169 Backstory of the Poem
“Heartbroken”
by Catherine Arra

#170 Backstory of the Poem
“Silence – a lost art”
by Megha Sood

#171 Backstory of the Poem/ May 09, 2020
“Horribly Dull”
by Mark DeCharmes

#172 Backstory of the Poem/ May 12, 2020
“Celebrating His Ninety-Second Birthday the Year his Wife Died”
by Michael Mark

#173 Backstory of the Poem/ May 14, 2020
“Night Clouds in the Black Hills” 
by Cameron Morse

#174 Backstory of the Poem/ May 18, 2020
“I’ve Been In Heaven For Long”
by Evanesced Dethroned Angel

#175 Backstory of the Poem/ May 20, 2020
“Tutti-Frutti”
by Barbara Crooker

#176 and #177 Backstory of the Poem/ May 25, 2020
“My Small World” and
“My Mistake”
by Tina Barry

#178 Backstory of the Poem/ June 05, 2020
“Against Numbers”
by Andrea Potos

#179 Backstory of the Poem/ June 15, 2020
“Wish”
by Julie Weiss

#180 Backstory of the Poem/ June 20, 2020
“The Tree That Stood Beside Me”
by Carly My Loper

#181 Backstory of the Poem/ June 23, 2020
“Electric Mail”
by Julie E. Bloemeke 

#182 Backstory of the Poem
June 24, 2020
“Her First Ten Days”
by Julieta Corpus

#183 Backstory of the Poem
June 26, 2020
“Outside My House Is A Guava Tree”
by Dr. Ampat Varghese Koshy

#184 Backstory of the Poem
July 2, 2020
“Torpor”
by Victor Enns

#185 Backstory of the Poem
July 5, 2020
“A Way of Life”
by Dan Provost

#186 Backstory of the Poem
July 6, 2020
“The Alabama Wiregrassers”
by Charles Ghigna

#187 Backstory of the Poem
July 7, 2020
“The Seer”
by Kathleen Winter

#188 Backstory of the Poem
July 11, 2020
“Stuck At Home”
by Valerie Frost

#189 Backstory of the Poem
July 13, 2020
“Between the Earth and Sky”
by Eleanor Kedney 

#190 Backstory of the Poem
July 14, 2020
““ΜΕΡΕΣ  ΥΠΟΜΟΝΗΣ/ Days
of patience” 
by Eftichia Kapardell’

#191 Backstory of the Poem
July 15, 2020
“Threnody by the President for Victims of COVID-19, Beginning with a Line from Milosz”
by Ralph Culver

#192 Backstory of the Poem
July 16, 2020
“Will Be Done”
by Tom Hunley

#193 Backstory of the Poem
July 17, 2020
“The Love of Two Trees”
by Hussein Habasch

#194 Backstory of the Poem
July 18, 2020
“June Almeida”
by Lev RI Ardiansyah

#195 Backstory of the Poem
July 19. 2020
“After Grano Maturo”
by Matthew Gavin Frank

#196 Backstory of the Poem
July 20, 2020
“Practice”
by Linda Neal Reising

#197 Backstory of the Poem
July 21, 2020
“Will Be Done”
by Tom C Hunley 

#198 Backstory of the Poem
July 22, 2020
“Shroud”
by Ted Morrissey

#199 Backstory of the Poem
July 23, 2020
“Being In Love at Fifty”
by Anne Walsh Donnelly

#200 Backstory of the Poem
July 25, 2020
“Star pinwheel poem”
by Andrea Watson

#201 Backstory of the Poem
July 30, 2020
“Gentle Women, Adult Female Persons, and Housewives in Indonesia ♀” 
by Kimberly Burnham

#202 Backstory of the Poem
July 31, 2020
“192”
by Don Yorty

#203  Backstory of the Poem
August 01, 2020
“I want to unfold the disease”
by Vanessa Shields

#204 Backstory of the Poem
August 06, 2020
“A Bone of Contention with the Ghost of John Lennon Over Strawberry Fields Forever”
by Ruth Weinstein

#205 Backstory of the Poem
August 07 2020
“Statement by the Pedestrian Liberation Organisation”
by Thomas McColl 

#206 Backstory of the Poem
August 08 2020
“Un Poco Pequeño”
by Damon Chua

#207 Backstory of the Poem
August 10, 2020
“mary lou williams’s piano workshop (after Fred Moten)”
by Makalani Bandele

#208 Backstory of the Poem
August 18, 2020
“Roll Credits by KCK”
by Casey Kirkpatrick aka KCK

#209 Backstory of the Poem
August 21, 2020
“Ancient Pyramid”
by Mark Tulin

#210 Backstory of the Poem
August 23, 2020
“How Far the Storm?”
by Charles Malone

#211 Backstory of the Poem
August 27, 2020
“89 Tears”
by Robert Carr
  
#212 Backstory of the Poem
August 28, 2020 
“Food and Water”
by Brooke McNamara

#213 Backstory of the Poem
August 30, 2020
“To hold, to hollow”
by Meghan Lamb

#214 Backstory of the Poem
September 01, 2020
“Would It Be Too Much”
by Justine Quammie

#215 Backstory of the Poem
September 15, 2020
“Darkest days. . .Loneliest nights”
by Aaron R

#216 Backstory of the Poem
September 23, 2020
“About My Death”
by Jennifer Barber
 
#217 Backstory of the Pome
October 09, 2020
“Leash of Deer”
by Catherine Graham

#218 Backstory of the Poem
October 11, 2020
“Sticky”
by Susan Tepper

#219 Backstory of the Poem
November 22, 2020
“Penguins”
by Volodymyr Bilyk 

#220 Backstory of the Poem
December 05, w0w0
“the creature of bad habits”
by Erik Fuhrer

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