The Apostrophe Blog
My poem, “Rewind, or One More Reminder of Our Long and Ongoing History of Ochlocracy,” has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2025 “Burn It Down” Issue of TrashLight Press. This poem is included in my yet-unpublished chapbook, Postcards of the Hanging. Many of the poems in this manuscript—including this one—were informed by the newspaper articles and editorials collected in 100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg, first published in 1962 and re-released by the Black Classic Press in 1988.
According to their website, TrashLight Press is “a lit mag for the feral, the rejected, the too-much-to-handle. We’re a home for weirdos and wordsmiths, the ones who never want to stay within the lines. The pieces we publish don’t play it safe – the scream, crawl, glow, and bleed.” Their upcoming “Burn It Down” Issue is, as their editor, Jill Spinelli, says: “our scream into the cracked foundations of society.” These days so many of us feel like we are screaming into the void; I am glad to have one of my attempts to channel the outrage and disgust appear in this new literary journal this fall.
The above photograph was released into the public domain by its author, Jon Sullivan.
Interests: Reading, writing, not arithmetic. The art and craft of poetry. Photography. Vegetable and flower gardening especially heirloom bulbs and dahlias. Movies in real theatres. Theatre on real stages. Art in real galleries. Crossword puzzles and, of course, Wordle. Singer-songwriters like Aimee Mann and Patti Griffin. All kinds of music especially 1930s jazz. Venice, Italy! The Dude abides.
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