Fifty-four poets walk into a bar...*
the humor issue :: volume III issue 2:: winter 2008-09
Two live ones arm wrestle two dead ones over what should or should not be deemed 'funny':
Renee Ashley on"An Aesthetic of Anomoly: Edward Taylor's 'Preface' to his 'Gods Determinations', My Mother and the Trolley, and Some Thoughts on Involuntary Comedy"
Moira Richards on John Davies' poem, "O'er those fair Alps, thy breasts (that naked lie....)"
Three eavesdrop on the barflies and take notes:
Diego Báez scribbles something on a napkin about Drift & Pulse by Kathleen Halme and The Dazzling Land by Brigitte Byrd
Tom Hunley buys a round for Recycle Suburbia by Dan Nowak,The Bird Hoverer by Aaron Belz, and Sudden Anthem by Matthew Guenette
Mari Stanley finds Superman: The Chapbook by Dorianne Laux and At the Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil on the counter beneath a large paperweight that looks suspiciously like a cross between kryptonite and basalt.
Forty-one sign up for the open mic:
- Malaika King Albrecht
- Sherman Alexie
- Lavina Blossom
- Deborah Bogen
- Jason Bredle
- Patrick Carrington
- Alex Cigale
- Maryann Corbett
- Chella Courington
- Barbara Crooker
- Carol Dorf
- R.S. Dunn
- Tim Earley
- Kate Fetherston
- Ann Fisher-Wirth
- Richard Garcia
- David Graham
- Alex Grant
- Matthew Henrickson
- Paul Hostovsky
- Luisa Igloria
- Roy Jacobstein
- Julie Kane
- Janet Kirchheimer
- Judy Kronenfeld
- Robert Krut
- Haley Lasché
- Wayne Lee
- Paul Lieber
- Sarah Maclay
- Holaday Mason
- Ann E. Michael
- Jessy Randall
- Penelope Scambly Schott
- Marian Kaplun Shapiro
- Martha Silano
- J.D. Smith
- Jon Stone
- Marilyn L. Taylor
- Charles Harper Webb
- Katherine Williams