by Bending Genres | Apr 30, 2020 | BG Productions
Bending Genres Productions … Meet Colin Pope Bending Genres presents “Still Life with Casket in the Distance” by Colin Pope from Why I Didn’t Go To Your Funeral (Tolsun Books). Directed by Meg Tuite, envisioned by Brian Mihok. Produced by...
by Jared Povanda | Apr 7, 2020 | CNF, Issue Fourteen
This boy sends paper airplanes skyward, hoping to touch the moon. They’re fast-devoured by air, dirt, momentum carrying them to crumple. This boy says he’s sorry to people in Walmart before he’s had a chance to brush against them. This boy knocks everything down—full...
by Lisa Mecham | Apr 7, 2020 | CNF, Issue Fourteen
She’s planted grass again, your mother. Now she’s lying out there, making angels in bright, green springiness. So you go out too since she’s laughing, since maybe this time she won’t narrow her eyes. It’s warm. Ground under your back, sun behind a cloud so you can...
by Faye Rapoport DesPres | Apr 7, 2020 | CNF, Issue Fourteen
A nurse shoves some papers onto my lap. “These give your permission —” The gurney is surrounded by doctors and nurses wearing pale blue scrubs and masks. I try to sit up. “If…cancer…lymph nodes…permission to remove…” The words brand my brain. The first time I...
by Sylvan Lebrun | Apr 7, 2020 | CNF, Issue Fourteen
Let me tell you about loose women, girls on high, groupie runaways and the immaculate mother. In a city of old convents they walk silent in white dresses, the crowd parts, no one asks questions or takes photos but evil tourists like me write poetry. A park with orange...
