FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Choose Your Own America by Jon Davis
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In Choose Your Own America, his thirteenth collection, but the first to include his short fables, Jon Davis casts a cold eye on our moment, revealing our fatuousness and our nobility both.
@dlseuss @Powell_DA I have a copy of the Bits chapbook Man in the Attic by CH that I have held onto for 42 years. The poems are quietly eloquent & haunted.
@Powell_DA My first poetry teacher was Dick Allen. I sent him an envelope full of poems and a letter asking if I could take a creative writing course with him. I was a 24 year old construction worker who had taught myself to write poems by reading APR. He said yes.
"Briefly handsome
in the squalor, squalid
where hope met hoped-for.
Hopped-up. Hoveled.
Tenured. Muddled.
Tonsured by events,
spraddled and pratfallen,
labile in midlife,
fallow in the mudstruck eve."
~ Jon Davis, Issue 8
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