In 2005 David Foster Wallace gave this profound commencement address to the graduating class of Kenyon College:
May 15th, 2013
Malcolm London: “High School Training Ground”
Poet, educator and activist Malcom London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high school. He tells of the “oceans of adolescence” who come to school “but never learn to swim,” of “masculinity mimicked by men who grew up with no fathers.” Beautiful, lyrical, chilling.
April 19th, 2013
Our New Chapbook!
The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell targets the art and necessity of the fairy tale by exploring, with language, its vital energy. With undertones of love and loss, myth and inescapable reality, this poetry collection offers a visceral experience on every page – truly the fairy tales we need to tell.
For a free preview, click here: The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell
Here’s what’s being said about The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell:
“Elisabeth McKetta taps fairy tales and, presto, they transform themselves into living things that reach out and tug at us, reminding us of the exquisite fragility in ‘once upon a time.’ Hers is a Proustian adventure that reinvents the fairy tale for us, infusing it with the drama of times past.”
- Maria Tatar, author of The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
“In this excellent collection, Elisabeth McKetta grapples with the bedrock basics of being human – or perhaps more accurately, as she puts it, of being ‘unsteadily human.’ All of the imperatives of flesh – love, lust, the making and breaking of hearts, marriage, children, and all the rest – get full play in these wise, unflinching poems.”
- Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Available for $8 from Monkey Puzzle Press (PayPal) and Amazon.com
Click here for the Google eBook edition – only $3.85
For mail order info, please visit our mail order page.
Product Details
Chapbook: 44 pages / Poetry
Published: April 2013
ISBN-10: 0-9886077-1-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-9886077-1-2
For info about the author, please visit the author’s website.
April 17th, 2013
Historic Collection of Kerouac Letters Offered at $1,250,000
Click the image below to read the full article from BookTryst:
Ed. Note: I wrote about these letters a few years ago in an article for Denver Voice:
