http://foggedclarity.com An Arts Review Fri, 17 May 2013 00:12:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=Arts Review Fogged Clarity's interviews with authors, musicians and poets, exclusive acoustic music sessions and poetry readings from some of the world's most gifted and interesting contemporary creators. TC Boyle, Benjamin Percy, Samantha Farrell, Strand of Oaks, Will Oldham, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bruce Smith, Joe Meno and many more. Hosted by Benjamin Evans, Executive Editor of Fogged Clarity. Fogged Clarity no Fogged Clarity ryandaly@foggedclarity.com ryandaly@foggedclarity.com (Fogged Clarity) Fogged Clarity Interviews, Readings and sessions with authors, musicians and poets Fogged Clarity, Art, Music, Literature, Fiction, Authors, Interviews, Visual, Poetry, Acoustic, Sessions http://foggedclarity.com/images/logoSM.pnghttp://foggedclarity.com http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/mountain-sounds/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/mountain-sounds/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:59:05 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19833 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/mountain-sounds/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/untitled-sequence/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/untitled-sequence/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:55 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19818 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/untitled-sequence/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/who-has-time-for-stars/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/who-has-time-for-stars/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:54 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19809 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/who-has-time-for-stars/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/kissing-fire/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/kissing-fire/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:52 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19793 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/kissing-fire/feed/ 0 audio reading,fogged clarity,Kissing Fire,Like Some Bookie God,poet,Poetry,Yvonne Zipter Yvonne Zipter - I. Our lips are so dry, she says, we could start a fire, kissing. Once, we were incendiary as match tips, any flick of skin on skin: a conflagration, a curtain of flame through which we saw the world. Yvonne Zipter I. Our lips are so dry, she says, we could start a fire, kissing. Once, we were incendiary as match tips, any flick of skin on skin: a conflagration, a curtain of flame through which we saw the world. Something as coy as oxygen fed us, our bodies the proverbial two sticks rubbed in concert. And wasn’t it exciting? But fire never holds still, never latches on to a sole identity. Like when the dollar-store factory caught fire and the flames changed complexion with every new pallet of trinkets they pressed their tongues to, chameleons gauging mood by mouth. II. Scoff, if you will, at the stupidity of moths, flying doggedly into the heat of their own deaths, but when that fire flowered beside the railroad tracks like an awful poppy, we spilled from the doors of homes and cars and the 78 bus, as phototaxic as any bug that ever kissed the blue light. III. Suppose the campfire’s flicker gestured like the hands of an Arabian dancer, liquid and hypnotic, training the eye to its breathtaking center. Suppose the conflagration, caressed by its necklace of stones, dissolves the sound of those other children, the grandfather, the whip-poor-will at the lip of Toothaker’s farm, the wind in the pines and the pines themselves. Why, then, should it surprise when the boy, seated atop the picnic table, tumbles forward, head over heels in a daze, into the fire’s warm embrace? IV. I am the first to put out the light, press my face to the pillow, nesting there like a dog in its pile of rags. I feel a familiar body, then, lean across from the opposite side of the bed, familiar words fall upon my ear, familiar lips touch lightly to my cheek. I tell you this, young lovers: the fire is a liar, a ravishing fiction that diverts notice from the unassuming ember, which knows a thing or two about how to linger. Yvonne Zipter is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: As If the Night Could Heal Itself and The Patience of Metal. Her 2006 chapbook, Like Some Bookie God was nominated for a Dog Writer's Association of America award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Spoon River Poetry Review, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review and Bellingham Review, among many other publications. She is a recipient of the Sprague-Todes Literary Award and an Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award for nonfiction. Fogged Clarity no 2:29 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/boss/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/boss/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:50 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19797 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/boss/feed/ 0 Arts & Letters,Brooklyn,fogged clarity,Hilary Sideris,Iowa Writers Workshop,Mid-American Review,poem,Poetry Hilary Sideris Could I labor better, repress my yes hiss - in the power of a higher wage, a multitasking - tongue, a sticky kiss in the Employees Only - pantry over free cookies? Can you breathe life - into me, Hilary Sideris Could I labor better, repress my yes hiss in the power of a higher wage, a multitasking tongue, a sticky kiss in the Employees Only pantry over free cookies? Can you breathe life into me, mortal to whom I submit my report, by whom I’m blessed when I sneeze. Hilary Sideris holds an MFA from The Writers' Workshop at The University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, The Cortland Review, Mid-American Review, The Southern Poetry Review and Swink, among other publications. She is the author of the chapbooks The Orange Juice is Over, Gold & Other Fish, Sweet Flag, Baby and A House Not Made with Hands. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Fogged Clarity no 32 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/south-facing-window-four-a-m/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/south-facing-window-four-a-m/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:58:46 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19801 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/south-facing-window-four-a-m/feed/ 0 fogged clarity,klipschutz,poems,poet,Poetry,This Drawn & Quartered Moon klipschutz Sirens advertise their right-of-way on empty streets, - guards conjugate in workbooks, lobbies glisten. Glass shatters, voices carry, pressure drops. - Entire buildings perfect the parlor trick of vanishing in fog. klipschutz Sirens advertise their right-of-way on empty streets, guards conjugate in workbooks, lobbies glisten. Glass shatters, voices carry, pressure drops. Entire buildings perfect the parlor trick of vanishing in fog. Found, they’re gone again, like that. And so are you. Finger moon deveins the dark as orbits cross. Not a hiccup, not a hitch, the moon’s gone too. Klipschutz (pen name of Kurt Lipschutz) is a poet, songwriter and occasional freelance journalist, based in San Francisco. His new book of poems, This Drawn & Quartered Moon, was released by Anvil Press in April 2013. Fogged Clarity no 43 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/mountain-sounds-the-fogged-clarity-session/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/mountain-sounds-the-fogged-clarity-session/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:57:34 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19842 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/mountain-sounds-the-fogged-clarity-session/feed/ 0 fogged clarity,Fogged Clarity Session,Mountain Sounds The gentlemen from Mountain Sounds sat down in separate continents to record this exclusive Fogged Clarity session. The gentlemen from Mountain Sounds sat down in separate continents to record this exclusive Fogged Clarity session. Fogged Clarity no 11:38 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/review-sean-nevins-oblivio-gate/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/review-sean-nevins-oblivio-gate/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 23:57:03 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19822 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/review-sean-nevins-oblivio-gate/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/review-game-of-thrones-or-a-guide-to-the-flora-and-fauna-of-westeros/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/review-game-of-thrones-or-a-guide-to-the-flora-and-fauna-of-westeros/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 06:12:09 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19789 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/05/review-game-of-thrones-or-a-guide-to-the-flora-and-fauna-of-westeros/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/spring-grows-prose/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/spring-grows-prose/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:58:56 +0000 jamccaffrey http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19778 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/spring-grows-prose/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/jude-still-obscure/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/jude-still-obscure/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:45:23 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19732 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/jude-still-obscure/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/gnossienne-for-lisa/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/gnossienne-for-lisa/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:43:56 +0000 Bruce Bromley http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19714 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/gnossienne-for-lisa/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/interlude-essay-story-2/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/interlude-essay-story-2/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:48:25 +0000 Bruce Bromley http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19681 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/interlude-essay-story-2/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/interlude-essay-story-1/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/interlude-essay-story-1/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:37:00 +0000 Bruce Bromley http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19647 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/interlude-essay-story-1/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/approaching-50/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/approaching-50/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:55:01 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19512 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/approaching-50/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/anti-pastoral-4/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/anti-pastoral-4/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:57 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19519 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/anti-pastoral-4/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/blaze-orange/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/blaze-orange/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:51 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19561 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/blaze-orange/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/my-jersey-city/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/my-jersey-city/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:48 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19577 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/my-jersey-city/feed/ 0 fogged clarity,Living in the Counterpoint,Michael T. Young,Michael Young,My Jersey City,poet,Poetry Michael T. Young The sun rises from trees, its light pooling under the leaves. But only for a moment, then the wind shakes it loose, glinting along rails as a train pulls out from Journal Square Michael T. Young The sun rises from trees, its light pooling under the leaves. But only for a moment, then the wind shakes it loose, glinting along rails as a train pulls out from Journal Square passing a recess in the granite trench where a ginkgo twists like a dancer of green grace fixed in a precarious balance of revelation and mystery which it passes on like love, never content to stay in the same place long, and maybe changes with each arrival, now billowing from smokestacks off Pulaski Skyway, now falling through car fumes in the wake of a swooping gull. Its avenues through the swampy stench of mildew bless even the collapsed docks rotting in shore water bursting the terms of beauty and disclosure with the plumes of fireworks at Liberty State Park. It travels the same dark bridges as the pounding rain reaching down to the roots where it settles and waits. Michael T. Young has published three collections of poetry: Transcriptions of Daylight, Because the Wind Has Questions and, most recently, Living in the Counterpoint. He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Young received the Chaffin Poetry Award and was runner-up for the William Stafford Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals including Coe Review, BigCityLit, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Potomac Review, and The Raintown Review. Fogged Clarity no 1:16 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/auspicious/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/auspicious/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:44 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19529 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/auspicious/feed/ 0 Auspicious,Bruce McRae,fogged clarity,poems,poet,Poetry Bruce McRae The weather promises to change from man to animal. Today’s forecast is absence, with a chance of longing. In the east, flying horses and a scattering of flowers. From the west, incursions, barbarous hordes, black ice. - Bruce McRae The weather promises to change from man to animal. Today’s forecast is absence, with a chance of longing. In the east, flying horses and a scattering of flowers. From the west, incursions, barbarous hordes, black ice. The weather changes its mind, abandons its principles, is forced to choose between darkness and light. They’re predicting tons of tons and long cold showers. They say it might break, but we’re in for a hard spell. Today’s weather is being brought to you by sponsors who’d rather you didn’t put their names around. Listener, the sea is rising up out of its empty shell. For all its talk of courage, the wind is turning. Bruce McRae is a musician and poet originally from Niagara Falls, Canada. His poems have been published in hundreds of periodicals and anthologies. His first book, The So-Called Sonnets is available from Silenced Press. Fogged Clarity no 47 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/the-wisdom-of-the-ancients/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/the-wisdom-of-the-ancients/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:39 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19523 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/the-wisdom-of-the-ancients/feed/ 0 fogged clarity,fogged clarity poetry,Mark Doty,poem,poet,Poetry,Saturnalia Book Prize,Sebastian Agudelo,The Wisdom of the Ancients,To the Bone Sebastian Agudelo - What country is this? blind Oedipus stumbles at the threshold, on his way out, his last job. - You feel for him even if you’re neither old nor blind, are just waking to the headlines. - What country? Sebastian Agudelo What country is this? blind Oedipus stumbles at the threshold, on his way out, his last job. You feel for him even if you’re neither old nor blind, are just waking to the headlines. What country? The neo-Nazi baby showers, bbq’s with aging KKK’s, the munitions stockpiled in some California basement where, about right now, they’re lifting prints, have handcuffed the ten year old who shot his white supremacist dad. What Country. And that’s just one instance gone awry in the freak-show of grievance and discontent, all very justified, if misguided. In the morning paper, the mighty purse their lips, so serious, so worried, so… To stay the part they must re-run Doomsday tsunamis in their heads, imagine tax-havens going like Atlantis. The crowd throngs around Oedipus who tramples the manicured grounds of shrine, steps in the wrong place, considering the blesséd ones under are chartered to avenge the very crimes he’s guilty of. The crowd is wary, touchy, territorial, the sort of throng that hovers near the wounded, vacillates, in full choric sway, between taking the thing out of its misery or picking it up, offer alms or arm. Nothing as bad as what I’ve seen of late, the proud man’s contumely in full display, on Broad and Walnut, where walking past one of those guys who’ve broad-tipped abridged bio to cardboard, begging for change— Iraq Vet, HIV positive, hungry—the boss to the windowashing crew turned around and began to pellet the beggar, hard, a pocket-full of loose change, penny by penny. What country. Everyone a paycheck away from the curb; everyone, the best still, quick for illegal turns. Them and them alone. Who was the man? Where has he gone?... A bum, a beggar, not of this place the chorus asks in unison Were you born like this? Born for this? Then, I’ll be damned if you bring down this curse of yours on us. They’ll relax, begin to oh and ah along with him, welcome him eventually, proud of country, rich and strong. Whose city is this? asks Oedipus, learning to be easy with whatever happens, resigned with every crime committed. He is a man come to die, trying to wipe clean a rap-sheet that has it all, parricide, regicide, incest, worse, the sheer insolent pride that got him here in the first place and though there’s greatness in him, we’re supposed to glean an exemplar of what the human is, not just the smarts to down the idols a city is beholden to, but the way your finest moment will do that volte-face and turn out fuck up really with a mighty comeuppance as a prize. Here he is, worn out, impaired, needing pity. My students don’t or won’t care or get it. They’re getting the news from gradesaver.com There are some hints of sadness in the poem one of them cuts and pastes, continues The narcissus is the symbolic flower of death, the plagiarist. Them and them alone, quick enough for the illegal moves, invulnerable, blessed, in a rich country. Oedipus will wend his way into the thicket that keeps the daughters of the dark, threshold to a city, its very border. Today is his last day. He’s on the know, his turn to tease with riddle: Whose country, whose city is this? No answer. Them alone. Sebastian Agudelo's forthcoming book is entitled Each Chartered Street. Poems from the collection have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review and Manchester Review. His first collection, To the Bone was selected by Mark Doty as the winner of the 2008 Saturnalia Book Prize. Fogged Clarity no 4:45 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/finding-the-baby/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/finding-the-baby/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:53:55 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19507 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/finding-the-baby/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/review-miguel-murphys-a-book-called-rats/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/review-miguel-murphys-a-book-called-rats/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:53:28 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19542 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/review-miguel-murphys-a-book-called-rats/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/classics-robert-wrigley-interview/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/classics-robert-wrigley-interview/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:52:32 +0000 Ryan Daly http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19587 Beautiful Country. ]]> http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/classics-robert-wrigley-interview/feed/ 0 Beautiful Country,Ben Evans,Exxon,fogged clarity,Penguin,poems,poet,poets,reading,responsibility,Robert Wrigley,ryan daly In an intimate interview, the prolific American poet discusses process, politics, and his acclaimed new collection, Beautiful Country. In an intimate interview, the prolific American poet discusses process, politics, and his acclaimed new collection, Beautiful Country. Fogged Clarity no 18:27 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/classics-laura-veirs/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/classics-laura-veirs/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:51:59 +0000 Ryan Daly http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19606 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/03/classics-laura-veirs/feed/ 0 acoustic,Aural,fogged clarity,Fogged Clarity Sessions,July Flame,Laura Veirs Portland-based songwriter and founder of Raven Marching Band Records Laura Veirs' exclusive acoustic session for Fogged Clarity. Portland-based songwriter and founder of Raven Marching Band Records Laura Veirs' exclusive acoustic session for Fogged Clarity. Fogged Clarity no 8:07 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/reading-for-the-pleasure-of-purpose/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/reading-for-the-pleasure-of-purpose/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:28:04 +0000 jamccaffrey http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19555 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/reading-for-the-pleasure-of-purpose/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-pleasures-of-philosophy/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-pleasures-of-philosophy/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:38:08 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19551 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-pleasures-of-philosophy/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-joys-of-the-amateur/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-joys-of-the-amateur/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:42:59 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19536 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-joys-of-the-amateur/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/san-pedro-river-review-spring-issue-is-almost-here/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/san-pedro-river-review-spring-issue-is-almost-here/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:06:11 +0000 Tobi Cogswell http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19503 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/san-pedro-river-review-spring-issue-is-almost-here/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-pleasures-of-drama/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-pleasures-of-drama/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:30:59 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19494 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/02/the-pleasures-of-drama/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/shakespeare-uncovered-a-review/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/shakespeare-uncovered-a-review/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:07:22 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19486 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/shakespeare-uncovered-a-review/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/we-need-guns/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/we-need-guns/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:45:22 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19416 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/we-need-guns/feed/ 2 poem,poems,poet,Poetry,Scott Hightower,We Need Guns Scott Hightower “a murder of crows; a hell of guns” - Oh, Vatican, have your bank clear our way to guns! We need them in our beauty shops, our schools, our class rooms, for our children with soft bodies. Scott Hightower “a murder of crows; a hell of guns” Oh, Vatican, have your bank clear our way to guns! We need them in our beauty shops, our schools, our class rooms, for our children with soft bodies. If we are going to transform our way of life into an arsenal, we need guns in our funeral parlors, our barber shops, our tattoo and bingo parlors. We need guns in our soup, our armoire, our one night stands, and our kitchen spice rack. In our police stations, our kitchen cupboards, our dirty clothes hampers, in our kindergartens. We need them in our garden sheds, gyms and sauna; in our garters, in our falafels, in our operas and theaters, in our forensic laboratories, our beds, our burritos, courtrooms, hospitals, mythic narratives, and temples, mosques, synagogues, and churches! We need guns in our Jell-O, our chili, our guitar cases, our dance studios, our prisons, our television studios, in airplanes, on birthdays, in birthday cakes, at birthday parties. At Mardi Gras, in syringes, in cemeteries, our text books, our bath rooms, divorce courts, and ball games. We need guns galore! Scott Hightower is an award winning poet, translator, and the author of four books. This fall, Hontanares/Fountains, a bi-lingual book, is forthcoming from Devenir, Madrid. Hightower teaches as adjunct faculty at NYU. A native of central Texas, he lives in Manhattan and sojourns in Spain. Fogged Clarity no 1:44 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/imaging-figures-3/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/imaging-figures-3/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:43:15 +0000 Bruce Bromley http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19420 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/imaging-figures-3/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/sandra-marchettis-the-canopy-a-review/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/sandra-marchettis-the-canopy-a-review/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:41:16 +0000 Kirsten Clodfelter http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19465 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/sandra-marchettis-the-canopy-a-review/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/guide-to-the-guides-spunk-and-bite/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/guide-to-the-guides-spunk-and-bite/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:42:52 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19409 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/guide-to-the-guides-spunk-and-bite/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/guide-to-the-guides-on-writing-well/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/guide-to-the-guides-on-writing-well/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:16:04 +0000 Ian McCaul http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19400 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/guide-to-the-guides-on-writing-well/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/november-2012/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/november-2012/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:44:45 +0000 Ryan Daly http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19376 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/november-2012/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/parents-give-their-son-with-down-syndrome-cosmetic-surgery/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/parents-give-their-son-with-down-syndrome-cosmetic-surgery/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:39:12 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19266 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/parents-give-their-son-with-down-syndrome-cosmetic-surgery/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/anemones-2/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/anemones-2/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:39:09 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19334 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/anemones-2/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/the-waves-receded-in-december/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/the-waves-receded-in-december/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:39:06 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19253 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/the-waves-receded-in-december/feed/ 0 fogged clarity,Ohio State,poems,poet,Poetry,Raena Shirali Raena Shirali - & abandoned the jellyfish on the beach. no messages were etched in the sand— no lovers or children - dragging twigs through the grains. we were left with cargo ships rounding the harbor, - Raena Shirali & abandoned the jellyfish on the beach. no messages were etched in the sand— no lovers or children dragging twigs through the grains. we were left with cargo ships rounding the harbor, left standing amidst a plume of the dead, sunlight stinting off bodies the color of melting glass. i admit it was sunset. i looked at them to keep from looking at you. some withered from tentacle-up, those trailings purpling black, manubrium collapsed, nerve net flinching like a touch-me-not. you didn’t answer when i asked which of us is more poisonous. some had lost their luminosity & lay transparently mauled, the mesoglea’s edges frayed & milky white, the whole gelatinous mass disfigured, less umbrella-shaped than a shriveling flower at half-wilt. slowly we inched close, toed them with sandy shoes. watched them shudder in response, wobble back to stillness. look how i can describe a dying thing without once saying your name. Raena Shirali lives in Columbus, OH, where she is currently enrolled in Ohio State University's MFA program. Fogged Clarity no 1:32 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/canopies/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/canopies/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:39:03 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19257 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/canopies/feed/ 0 Canopies,fogged clarity,Jack Myers,Martin Balgach,poem,poet,Poetry Martin Balgach - For Jack Myers - On my way to Arkansas for work this job has me selling books to strangers and I’m reading you on the plane drunk in your canopy of hurt when I think of my wife and son back home Martin Balgach For Jack Myers On my way to Arkansas for work this job has me selling books to strangers and I’m reading you on the plane drunk in your canopy of hurt when I think of my wife and son back home where I left them in winter’s morning, single digits, everything frozen white Mason barely fifteen months old and warmer than a thousand suns and I wonder why we kill ourselves for dollars when all we should want to know is the gentle ache of breaths hitting our lungs like invisible baseball bats— as the hours grow teeth I hear the heave-hoe-hum of time ringing in my ears like a promise I never made and I realize my family is a refuge from everything I’ve been trying to transcend I think of Mason’s hazel eyes—a perch between my brown and Lisa’s blue-grey and I remember that his heart pounds our blood too But I am a thousand miles away in a canopy of sky that’s cradling this chameleon I almost know Martin Balgach’s writing has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Cream City Review, The Dirty Napkin, Many Mountains Moving, Opium Magazine, and Rain Taxi, among other journals. He holds an MFA from Vermont College, works in publishing, and lives near Boulder, Colorado. Fogged Clarity no 1:22 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/how-do-you-plead/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/how-do-you-plead/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:17:33 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19271 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/how-do-you-plead/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/review-gregory-pardlos-totem/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/review-gregory-pardlos-totem/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:54:53 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19238 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/review-gregory-pardlos-totem/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/my-darling-clementine/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/my-darling-clementine/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:43:52 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19279 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/my-darling-clementine/feed/ 0 fogged clarity,How Do You Plead?,Michael Weston King,My Darling Clementine,the fogged clarity session Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish sit down for a beautiful Fogged Clarity session. Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish sit down for a beautiful Fogged Clarity session. Fogged Clarity no 14:37 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/classics-will-oldham-interview/ http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/classics-will-oldham-interview/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:53:05 +0000 Ryan Daly http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19392 http://foggedclarity.com/2013/01/classics-will-oldham-interview/feed/ 0 beware,Bonnie "Prince" Billy,Bonnie Prince Billy audio interview,Bonnie Prince Billy interview,Drag City,Drag City Records,Greatest Palace Music,I see a darkness,Joanna Newsom,Lie down in the light,Palace Bros.,palace brothers Will Oldham joins me again, and this interview gives me chills. In an inspiring and introspective conversation, one of America's greatest songwriters thoughtfully discusses tenets by which he works and lives, and why fear isn't in the cards. Will Oldham joins me again, and this interview gives me chills. In an inspiring and introspective conversation, one of America's greatest songwriters thoughtfully discusses tenets by which he works and lives, and why fear isn't in the cards. Fogged Clarity no 51:09 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/new-years-resolutions-for-writers/ http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/new-years-resolutions-for-writers/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:44:30 +0000 jamccaffrey http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19323 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/new-years-resolutions-for-writers/feed/ 1 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/a-dozen-for-twelve-not-a-bad-deal-for-another-best-of-list/ http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/a-dozen-for-twelve-not-a-bad-deal-for-another-best-of-list/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:27:49 +0000 James Rioux http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19297 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/a-dozen-for-twelve-not-a-bad-deal-for-another-best-of-list/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/poetry-new-years-resolutions/ http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/poetry-new-years-resolutions/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:34:40 +0000 Tobi Cogswell http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19292 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/poetry-new-years-resolutions/feed/ 2 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/the-search-and-the-kiss-met-at-midnight/ http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/the-search-and-the-kiss-met-at-midnight/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:29:04 +0000 Benjamin Evans http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19235 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/the-search-and-the-kiss-met-at-midnight/feed/ 0 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/helping/ http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/helping/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:09:59 +0000 Tobi Cogswell http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19231 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/helping/feed/ 2 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/things-to-think-about-while-having-acupuncture/ http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/things-to-think-about-while-having-acupuncture/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:45:21 +0000 Tobi Cogswell http://foggedclarity.com/?p=19226 http://foggedclarity.com/2012/12/things-to-think-about-while-having-acupuncture/feed/ 1