Morning folks. Many thanks to the always awesome Stephen at Dead Snakes for taking these three How to Be An American poems. This whole project has been really interesting, especially people’s reactions to it. As our Ex-president Bush said, “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists.” Happy Monday, America. Peace, Love and Starbursts,… Continue reading Three “How to Be An American” poems up at Dead Snakes
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Three “How to be an American” poems up at the Blue Hour
Hi. Morning. So the very awesome trio over at Blue Hour accepted a couple of my poems from the How to be an American series that I’m working on. It’s odd I was just talking to a friend about how I’ve never had such an easy time writing poems – it’s like they’re practically writing… Continue reading Three “How to be an American” poems up at the Blue Hour
Three ‘How to be an American’ Poems at Underground Books
Hi. This has truly been a crappy week. Truly. Truly truly truly NOT outrageous and NOT like Gem. (good luck getting that song out of your head!) But you know what’s NOT crappy about it? It’s that the truly awesome James from Underground Books published a few of my new poems from the How to… Continue reading Three ‘How to be an American’ Poems at Underground Books
6 Poem Poetry Bomb
So I must have hit some sort of magical submission time jackpot because not one but two editors got back to me nearly immediately and posted the poems they accepted. Not that I mind long waits, but it’s so nice when it all goes in sync. So here you go: First up we have Boyslut… Continue reading 6 Poem Poetry Bomb
How To Be An American poem
Individual Liberty, in the American Mind, Became Synonymous with America, and Americans Consider Themselves the World’s Freest People There is a crowd of tourists blocking the subway turnstiles at Union Square. They can’t figure out which way to swipe their Metrocard and I’m thinking to myself, this is why tokens were better when the… Continue reading How To Be An American poem
Ally Malinenko 