Michael Dwayne Smith
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Two Contributor Books: Michael Dwayne Smith & Jeffrey Heath
Contributor Michael Dwayne Smith, recently selected as one of our Best of the Net nominees, has a new poetry collection coming out in September from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. The book is available for pre-order now (20% off through 8/15!): https://sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-na-gig-editions/michael-dwayne-smith-music/ In Shaking Music from the Angry Air, Michael Dwayne Smith keeps poems close to their source: mortality, Continue reading
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Moment in American Nectarine
by Michael Dwayne Smith Thus radiant, therefore unlasting, this poemthat is Cactus Wren with its jar-jar-jar, nesthatching messages from a spirit world humanshave long forgotten. Sublimity, as if it weresky. Minimalism, as if it were happiness. Yourtumor, your PTSD, your children vapingurns full of disenchantment, the slurry speechof your ancient gods, jubilant all. The past Continue reading
January House Literary Journal 