So back in 2008, Six Gallery Press published my first (and currently only) book of poems entitled The Wanting Bone. Why am I telling you this? Cause they got a new blog and I think you should check it out. They publish really great writers like John Grochalski (who in full disclosure I am married… Continue reading Six Gallery Bowie
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Point Mass Anthology
Since my last post was so long, I’ll keep this one short. I just wanted to say thank you to AJ Huffman at Kind of a Hurricane press for including my poem, Astronaut in her anthology Point Mass. You can download the whole thing here for free or you can buy a paperback copy from Amazon.… Continue reading Point Mass Anthology
Nine Years Later
Anniversary “I’ll wait for you. And should I fall behind wait for me” -Bruce Springsteen We clink glasses, exhausted from another late night in a long week and I tell you that 9 years ago tomorrow we were in New Orleans me feeling sick from the heat but soon sicker from eating year old cake.… Continue reading Nine Years Later
A song, a picture and a poem
A song, a picture and a poem. It’s up to you to decide how they fit together. Subway Opera I tell myself that I can handle this. He’s just sick speaking French to me, frantically his dark hands fluttering his chapped lips so close to my cheek they’ll catch in my hair. This… Continue reading A song, a picture and a poem
And then Twitter blew up over a poem
Came across this today on twitter via xkcd while reading about everyone freaking out about a poem that Amanda Palmer wrote that might maybe sort of involve seeing people as complex and not just “bad guys” vs “good guys” (though mostly everyone screamed that she was anti-american and should go shave her pits) and I thought… Continue reading And then Twitter blew up over a poem
Ally Malinenko 