
Beau Rivage hotel room, Biloxi, Miss., 2008.
Polaroid 600 film.
Friends! Ninjas! Poetry Lovers! You will want to direct your browser over to the latest issue of Town Creek Poetry, the online magazine with the good sense to feature the poetry of Jack Butler. In addition to nineteen poems drawn from across Jack’s career, the issue features an essay on the state of poetry and a new interview. It’s like Jack Butler box set with extensive liner notes, all for free on your computer. I’m amazed you’re still reading this paragraph. Follow the link!
Here, Jesse Custer weighs in on this weekend’s planned Ku Klux Klan rally at the University of Mississippi:
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In the line there is a cat wearing
a black leather vest, Confederate flag
stitched high on his shoulders, a pentangle
filled with stars right below it, PATRIOT RIDERS
embroidered in a delicate script. He has a bright
shard of silver in his left ear, a handlebar mustache to match,
and he and the dude working the register are
both laughing their asses off at this
girl that was in right before.