Was fortunate enough to have an excerpt of How to Dispose of Dead Elephants published in Witness for their Winter 2014 issue. The excerpt is a chapter focusing on bogeymen and the things that congregate under our beds. In particular (as far as this piece is concerned) that would be Hannibal: the man who marched 37 elephants over the Alps.
http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/volume-27-number-3-winter-2014/hannibal/
Recently was fortunate enough to have a poem accepted for publication in Sediments Literary-Arts Journal. If you have the time and inclination, I’d be honored if you checked out the poem (titled “Beyond Happy and Sad”) using the following link below. In short, it’s about musical shoulder-angels and shoulder-devils and the purgatory of musicians in between. Or something along those lines. I believe I just demonstrated the reason why it’s taboo to summarize poems…
http://sedimentslit.com/beyond-happy-and-sad/
Paid a visit yesterday to one of my favorite indie bookstores – “Capitol Hill Books” – and was inspired to celebrate the venue in a post. The bookstore (as I describe it in my “Will to Books!” section of the website) is not unlike a mad librarian’s laboratory. Pretty fantastic. If you’re in D.C.’s Eastern Market, do yourself a favor and give this venue a visit.
http://www.capitolhillbooks-dc.com/
Andrew Gretes 