Month: September 2021

Kent, I don't mean to bother you with this but I don't have anyone else to talk to and I really don't need a response so your end of the situation...

Chronologically speaking, my story begins with my sexual molestation by a 55-year-old neighbor when I was 11-years-old. In the years following that summer, I developed into a second generation alcoholic....

review by Paul McDonaldD.S. PoormanBefore the GraveRadial BooksOn Jan. 18, 2019, author and poet Dave Baker, writing under the pen name of D.S. Poorman, passed away at the relatively young...

by Chris ByrdI had alienated DS Poorman for the first time years before Mistook his kind heart One, two, three…too many times to count, really He cautiously let me back in after nearly two...

by Rebekah Reeves 12/21/96Event, events. So many all the time. Most ultimately meaningless and trivial distractions. Didn’t go to The Nutcracker with N. Woke up this morning feeling terrible (and...

by Ryan MastersI first met the poet and writer D.S. Poorman through the eyes of Kent Fielding during the dark years Fielding and I spent embedded in the University of...

by Kent FieldingD.S. Poorman became a cult figure around Louisville during the ’90s and early 2000s. The band Wodka wrote the theme song for his first novel, Macky Dunn Got Nothing...

by Susan VisakowitzFor Tricia Yost, “the best works have an existentialist bent—who are you, how do you live in the world, what is the lived experience and what does it...

by Susan Visakowitz“We don’t make any money from this, but it’s joyful—we do it because it’s the right thing to do and we love it.” That’s how Lily Poetry Review...

by Susan VisakowitzBarbara Henning, former editor of the poetry/art journal Long News: In the Short Century (1990-1995), had only published one book by way of her Long News Books imprint,...