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LAST LOGIN: April 04
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I live in Greensboro, North Carolina, where I work as the evening Library Technician for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Continual Learning, and as a freelance journalist. My poetry, short fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in various literary journals including Blue Mesa Review, Byline, Chaffin Journal, Coe Review, International Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, and Pedestal Magazine, among others. In Spring 2003 the North Carolina Arts Council and the United Arts Council of Greensboro co-funded the publication of The Mutable Wheel, a book of my poems illustrated by Brian Zegeer (MFA, U Penn). I was the visiting writer at Newberry College (Newberry, SC) in March 2003.
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My torso is fatty, gristly muscle and, like a bear, hair-covered, suggesting a resistance to damage and cold. I stare, trying to find the lean pectorals of my youth, when at the gym I lowered myself into a machine shaped like the mold of a sci-fi or horror butterfly. And before I showered, my feet in a mud of talcum powder and sweat, I inhaled the vaguely fungal, masculine musk of underarms, crotches, aerosol cans. And what is this? This semi-turgid cord of flesh? Love muscle, sex salami, Joh...
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Okay...where to begin? Talking about pain and and asking rhetorical questions as cliche as "why did she have to leave?" are big mistakes in poetry. You need to find images that show us your pain instead of just repeating the word "pain" over and over. The abstract notion of pain does not elicit an emotional (or even an intellectual) response from readers. Find a specific item, something quirky, that this woman left behind. The narrator obsesses over this thing and you build the poem around sp...
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