Hole In The Head ReviewFeb 43 minNew From Nine Mile BooksMany books talk about the impact of technology and media on our daily lives, but few give us new ways of finding human ground through...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 311 minEd ValfreEd Valfre is a photographer / musician living in Los Angeles. He has published two children’s books, Backseat Buckaroo and Vacationers...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 314 minEllen WrightThe Other Side The news these days, full of celebrity suicides, puts me in mind of the view from my long-ago ninth floor window where a...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minMary Carroll-HackettShe Sang to Him, I Imagine her pain ringing on a hot wild wind, grief-bent mother of this child, oldest human burial in Africa, a boy,...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minChris BullardWile E. Coyote Checks his Mood As He Falls Toward the Desert Floor I am already thinking past the pain this rapid change of altitude has...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 311 minC.W. BigelowDeath of a Marine Your dreams were taking place in the Officer’s Club— dress khaki and gin martinis attended by all your men from...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 311 minDavid Anthony Sam Seaward When submerged in the sea, look both ways. Rip tides carry your endurance out into the time of your nothing. You have to outlast...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 311 minTricia KnollSolitaire You don’t see well any more. You sometimes forget names of the four suits. You compiled your deck from loose ends at a thrift...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minDavid LawtonOutside of Providence My heart is a regional train yard Sleepy, open to the elements and simmering Train yard where I saw my first...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minJeff FriedmanBully He bullied his wife, walking through and never around her, slamming the screen doors—the metal netting torn at the corners. He...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 313 minBrad RoseNever Can Tell Every day offers an opportunity to explore your personal style, so yesterday I painted open eyes on my sleep mask. You,...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 311 minHilary SiderisBooster We don’t know how we’ve watched two episodes of this cop show with subtitles more terrible than the actors, our mal di testa from...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minChristine PenneyHope Walks on Thin Ice I pick a dandelion its yellow life gone. Scrunch up my eyes take a deep breath, blow wisps of hope into the air. I...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minYvonne AmeyBogie, Par, Bogie, Par, Sand Trap Sonnet If you are caught in a storm and are afraid of lightning hold up a 1 iron. Even God can’t hit a...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 311 minKatrinka MooreUpon Waking Some spirited particles take wing won’t come back can’t no matter how we sing out cry Others try to make up the...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minJennifer Sheridan58.Different What if you had been someone else? What if I had never met you Because you were someone else And I walked right by you My...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minMatthew FlammStudies in the Dark Lately Wislawa Szymborksa has been meeting me in secret, after the streets have withdrawn and this room has been dark...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minE. D. WatsonJeff You were my parents’ friend, you wanted to have sex with me, you told me so the day you found me in the library, alone. You...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 313 minMarc FrazierA Month in the Country That’s what it means to be crazy./Those I loved best died from it—/the fool’s disease. – Anne Sexton I’ll tell...
Hole In The Head ReviewJan 312 minKevin McIlvoyDescriptions of Heaven Got your note from the canyon— glad to know you’re there again. & why go so often now? Old as I am, I’ve never...