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Young Word Fountain Poet Competes in DC
I’ve been sharing a few posts from Word Fountain, the newly revived little literary magazine I have the honor of editing. We’ve been posting the pieces of the current issue that will go together to become the online version. Along with those pieces and bios, we’ve tried to include some links to the authors’ work…
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Brian Dean Powers, Summer 2016
Originally posted on Word Fountain: My Voice Brian Dean Powers I always sound hoarse. Like a radio half-tuned to the station. It’s hard to make myself heard. I repeat myself often, every day. It’s hard to make myself heard. That’s the voice I have. I can’t converse in noisy places. Don’t ask me to speak…
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For the Man in the Museum, by David J. Bauman
For the details of why I am posting this here, you can review the last post. Let’s keep this simple. I’m sharing a couple of poems of mine that were published three years ago by Word Fountain, the Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library. At that time I had no idea that I would…
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On Selecting Optics, by David J. Bauman
I am sometimes asked why I don’t post more of my poems here, and I think I’ve answered that question on this blog’s Poet bio, but to put it succinctly, if I publish it myself, even here on this little blog, most literary magazines will not want to publish it. Yes, works posted on blogs…
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Bio Updates
And by that title, I mean biography, not biology, of course. I’ve been trying to update my biology, but age and a bad knee are making for slow progress. As you have possibly seen in recent posts, this year I became the adopted father of a bouncing baby literary magazine. Actually, it’s no longer a…
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“Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert
Originally posted on Words … for the Time Being: Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth…
