Lyrical Grain, Doggerel Chaff, &amp; Pedestrian Preoccupations will remind you that everything -- waste paper emerging from melting snow in a lot, the memory of midnights in bus shelters at twenty below, tangled skeins of work places that read like a manual on how to survive without really suffocating, spectacles of solidarity with those who have nothing to give but themselves -- is, by far and away, worth our time and reflection. Accompany Roskos to, for instance, the Laundromat where on this particular occasion successive buffers of bad luck pinball him through so many twists and turns we almost lose sight of the equanimity of the human spirit and the humor that often informs moments of loss. Hunch down next to him in the shadow of the nacreous wall as he pulls the crushed pack from his coat and regards it with what amounts to a curious mixture of distaste and forbearance before looking you straight in the eye and asking the question he’s asked so many times it’s taken on air of guarded expectance, taps once, twice, allows your own hand to make the next move. -- Tom Kryss

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Literature & Fiction

Roskos, Dave

Poetry

Redux Consortium

Big Hammer 18

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Poetry Magazine founded in 1988, published by Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, edited by Dave Roskos. This is issue #19. Winter 2017. Art by Angela Mark, Michael Shores, Loring Hughes, Jen Dunford, Ayler Roskos. Poetry by Olga Cabral, Charles Potts, George Held, Candace Kaucher, Sam Friedman, Helmut Christoferus Calabrese, Ron Androla, Jim Cohn, Bree, Ingrid Swanberg, D.r. Wagner, Mather Schneider, Neeli Cherkovsky, Jake St. John, Kurt Nimmo, Misa Levey, Adrian Manning, Geza Szocs translated by Paul Sohar, Roberto Santoro translated by Arturo Desimone, Matthew Borczon, Belinda Subraman, John Bennett, Bob Rixon, John Lunar Richey, EiLeen Doster, Linda Lerner, Kymberly Brown, Heather Sullivan, Rebecca Schumejda, Kit Knight, Arthur Winfield Knight, Ed Sousa, normal, Chris Stroffolino, Lamont B. Steptoe, Jakima Davis, A.D. Winans, Lyn Lifshin, Michael Pingarron, M. Henri Ibid, Kell Robertson, Stephanie Hiteshew, Rick Kearns, Marc D. Goldfinger, Marc Olmsted, J.J. Campbell, RD Armstrong, Seamus Artaud, Paul Sohar, Lajos Kassak translated by Paul Sohar, Dave Roskos, David S. Pointer, Joel Lewis, Mark Hartenbach, Bertha Sanchez Bello, Emily Vogel, Joe Weil, Andrew Darlington, Ken Greenley, Susan Gunderson, Scott Roskos, Jen Dunford, Larry Marshall, Robert D. Chelednik, Seth Howard, Arnold Skemer, Carl Kaucher, Lonnie Monka, Lewis Goudy, John Neiss, Henry Dunlevy, Lou Schwarcz, Kent Taylor, Loring Hughes, David Elsey, Anthony George, Tom Obrzut, John Dorsey, Donald Lev, Kevin Ridgeway, Stuart N. Ross, Dave Church, Catfish McDaris, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Dennis Saleh, Joel Dailey, Guy R. Beining, Tom Weigel, John M. Bennett, Dwyer Jones, Rusty Barnes, Tony Gloeggler, Jonathan Church, Mike James, Alan Catlin, Art Beck, Tony Schoultz, Bart Solarczyk, Mike Faran.

Big Hammer 19

Poetry Magazine founded in 1988, published by Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, edited by Dave Roskos. This is issue #20. Winter 2019. Contributors include: Jen Dunford Roskos, Angela Mark, Michael Shores, Helen Hoyt, Olga Cabral, Bree, Anthony George, Joe Weil, Jim Cohn, Lamont Steptoe, Rick Kearns, D.r. Wagner, John Lunar Richey, Michael Pingarron, Matt Borczon, Dave Church, Kell Robertson, normal, Andy Clausen, Pamela Twining, Cliff Fyman, Tom Obrzut, Donald Lev, Matt Borkowski, Miriam Halliday Borkowski, Eugenia Borkowski-Sypherd, Mary Elizabeth Borkowski, Dwyer Jones, Kevin Hayes, Chris Stroffolino, Alan Catlin, Allen Johnson, Stuart N. Ross, Charlie Mosler, Andrew Gettler, Arturo Desimone, Neeli Cherkovski, Paul Sohar, Istvan Eorsi, Adolf Wolff, Hilary Krzywkowski, Tom Kryss, Alex Gildzen, John Burroughs, Joel Lewis, Bob Rixon, William Taylor Jr, Beth Borrus, Mary Dacorro, Nourish Cruz, Allison Baldwin, Emily Vogel, Rebecca Schumejda, Ingrid Swanberg, Loring Hughes, Lotus Baby, Frances Gregg, Bertha Sanchez Bello, Charles Joseph, A.D. Winans, William Wantling, Dave Roskos, Fenton Johnson, Jakima Davis, Yictove aka Eugene Turk, Christopher F. Brown, Lorri Jackson, Misa Levey, Joe Davidson, Sheryl L. Nelms, Jeff Maschi, Arnold Skemer, Joe Roarty, Marc Olmsted, Kevin Ridgeway, Henry Dunlevy, Anthony Bernstein, Seth Howard, Lonnie Monka, Larry Marshall, Helmut C. Calabrese, Jake St John, Tom Weigel, Joel Dailey, Gillian G. Hiscox, Gregory Schwartz, Jeffrey Grossman, John Bennett, Albert Huffstickler, M. Kettner, Ed Galing, Michael Estabrook, Mather Schneider, Jonathan Church, Catfish McDaris, Kurt Nimmo, Ron Androla, David S. Pointer, Doug Draime, Mike Faran, Ed Sousa, Ken Greenley, Joe Haskins, Richard D. Houff, Bart Solarczyk, Scott Silsbe, K.W. Perry, Paul Brooks, Scott Roskos, John Dorsey, Damian Rucci, Carl Kaucher, Calvin Kaucher, Brenton Booth, Bob Kaufman, Russell Salamon. A REVIEW OF BIG HAMMER #19: "Much of the poetry seems to have an elegaic quality for the passing of the human species, if not the earth as an ongoing, near-future prospect. Simple, declarative lyrics. Many full-page drawings, often fantastic or surreal--some cartoonish--as well as collages and fancy borders for some poems. There are blows against the literary establishment, the modern elites, the ruling class, their greed and heartlessness. Little tales of suffering--of love gone missing or awry. Here's one by Mather schneider: 'I watch a fly land on the counter / sucking on a drop of something sugary / I think of cute Billy Collins / buzzing around his house on espresso // then squash it flat / as the Hudson Review' Ooh. Good one." by Phil Wagner in ICONOCLAST

Big Hammer 20

Literary

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