February 2008
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Sharkforum OpEd Cartoons and Comics by Steve Hamann and Mark Staff Brandl

Steve Hamann and I will be doing an irregular series of cartoons and short comics on art for Sharkforum. They will primarily be collaborations between us, yet also individual pieces as well. All will be presented here in the future under the rubric Feeding Frenzy Funnies.



Sharkforum:Chapter Two

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Our new design, a huge new server and fresh exciting directions have finally begun! Keep your eyes here for our electrifying plans. Thanks to Tim Olson for getting it all together, to Marianna Levant for the redesign and to Dave Roth for starting the transformation.




Poem of the Week: from Closed Histories by Sara Veglahn

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Sara Veglahn was born and raised in the American Midwest. Recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Sleepingfish, Octopus, Fence, 26, Fairy Tale Review, the anthology Poets on Painters (Ulrich Museum of Art, 2007) and elsewhere. She is the author of three chapbooks: Closed Histories (Noemi Press, 2008); Falling Forward (Braincase Press, 2003); and Another Random Heart (Margin to Margin, 2002), and is co-author of the chapbook That We Come to a Consensus (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006), a collaboration with poet Noah Eli Gordon. She is the Associate Editor for the Denver Quarterly and teaches literature at Naropa University and creative writing at the University of Denver, where she is completing her PhD.




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James Kalm brings viewers along for a tour of some of New York's most prestigious Upper East Side galleries.




Poem of the Week: "It Is Possible He Thought" by Nickole Brown

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Nickole Brown is the author of Sister (Red Hen Press, 2007). She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College, studied English Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight. She also has served as the National Publicity Consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival and as the Program Coordinator for the Union Institute & University writing residency in Slovenia. Nickole works for the nonprofit, independent, literary press, Sarabande Books, and currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

It Is Possible He Thought

It is possible he thought
he loved me. It is possible
he wanted me



Tonight (2/15)

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Poem of the Week: "Ancient Sorrow Sleep Already" by Matthew Zapruder

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Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. He is also the co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2008). He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the New School and works as an Editor for Wave Books. In Fall 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas. He lives in New York City.

Ancient Sorrow Sleep Already

It takes a great act of will to poke your head
out of the nocturnes to say those clouds
might seem to be hanging but fact is Emily



Starship Intercourse: The Art of Vintage Paperbacks

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A great site to visit the wonders (and pleasures) of old paperback art. Find it HERE.



Poem of the Week: from Filament Sense by William Allegrezza

filament+sense10.jpg William Allegrezza currently resides in Michigan. His poems, articles and reviews have been published in the U.S., Holland, the Czech Republic and Australia, as well as in several online journals. His chapbooks, e-books and books include Lingo, The Vicious Bunny Translations, Covering Over, Temporal Nomads, Ladders in July, Ishmael Among the Bushes, and In The Weaver's Valley. He is the editor of Moria Poetry, a journal dedicated to experimental poetry and poetics, and the editor-in-chief of Cracked Slab Books, which released the The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. His latest books are Fragile Replacements (Meritage Press, 2007), and the chapbook Filament Sense (Ypolita Press, 2008)

6.

as waters over an edge

boulders placed and waiting for destruction

"is this it?"




EELS

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California Moray (Gymnothorax mordax)




The End Below Where You Were Reading

I.
The end below where you were reading
continues where brush strokes stroke
a horse of yellow halos... halos not attached
to anything ... should we not be bothered by things
of this century. Sometimes description makes me
not believe. That is best to go on.
Getting to endings. And I do love a punch.
But, they leave me nowhere particular.