Your job is to write a piece of flash fiction in 200 words or less based on one of the stanzas in Joe Hall’s poem from the 2013 edition of Ping-Pong here:
POTTING SHED
“The newlyweds will only see their wives
through the grillwork.” I kiss you
behind the ear in the mesh
PING PONG & POETRY CRUSH CROSS-POLLINATE AT THE BUTTERFLY LOUNGE
(inside Grimm’s)
7-10pm, Seattle, Washington
Start off your Thursday night with a mysterious and intimate reading experience at Seattle’s Butterfly Lounge –The dark wood & walls of glass-cased butterflies are sure to inspire courageous & metamorphic readings. Arrive as larva, depart as butterfly.
Readers include: Kim Addonizio, Tara Rebele, James Harms, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Joanna Fuhrman, Joe Hall, Cheryl Quimba, Adeena Karasick, Amy Lawless, James Maughn, Sampson Starkweather, Dan Shapiro, J. Hope Stein, Rauan Klassnik, Janaka Stucky, Maria Garcia Teutsch, Peter Kline and Brittany Perham.
Check out the post on Poetry Crush here
Dear Reader,
Once again you’re doing that thing that’s most important, reading this literary journal. Some smart people say that print journals are a thing of the past, but I say–as I listen to a blue vinyl Radiohead album–not so mon frère. Those of us who love paper, who love words, who love the crack of a spine will always reach for a book. Not to disparage all the multimedia at our fingertips. I have a teenage son, I know what’s up with all that stuff, and I love being able to slip a tiny electronic device into my carry-on when I’m flying all over this blue marble. Sometimes all I need is to read a poem by someone whose voice I need to hear that day on that island or on that train. Read More >
