Tag: 8

  • KENNEDY’S ACOLYTES

    A full-length play with six women – nine without doubling by JACK GILHOOLEY On the the evening of November 22, 1963 in rural Western Ireland, three mid-teen-age girls grapple with the news that U.S. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated. Fifty years later the three reconnoiter at the same – but different –…

  • KENNEDY’S ACOLYTES

    A full-length play with six women – nine without doubling by JACK GILHOOLEY On the the evening of November 22, 1963 in rural Western Ireland, three mid-teen-age girls grapple with the news that U.S. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated. Fifty years later the three reconnoiter at the same – but different –…

  • Jack Gilhooley

    Jack Gilhooley–New Dramatists (NYC) alum., Eugene O’Neill Conference guest playwright, NYFTA grant recipient, Fulbright Guest Artist appointments (Spain and Ireland), four FLorida Arts Council grants, two NEA awards (Individual Playwright and International to Centaur Theatre, Montreal), two Puffin grants, John Ringling Fund Award, etc. GUEST ARTIST: Yaddo, MacDowell, Edward Albee, Millay, Djerassi, Hawthornden Castle (SCOT),…

  • I’D THINK OF A PRETTY METAPHOR, BUT INSTEAD I THINK I’LL JUST COME OUT AND SAY

    my body is not my body is  my body seven times removed  and hungry, I’ve shed  and absorbed my skeleton 3.7 times  trying to find the perfect shape  for myself and they’ve all been wrong— beauty is Little House on the Prairie  boasting Father could wrap his hands  all the way around Mother’s waist and…

  • I’D THINK OF A PRETTY METAPHOR, BUT INSTEAD I THINK I’LL JUST COME OUT AND SAY

    my body is not my body is  my body seven times removed  and hungry, I’ve shed  and absorbed my skeleton 3.7 times  trying to find the perfect shape  for myself and they’ve all been wrong— beauty is Little House on the Prairie  boasting Father could wrap his hands  all the way around Mother’s waist and…

  • E.B. Schnepp

    E.B. Schnepp is a poet hailing from rural Mid-Michigan who currently finds herself stranded in the flatlands of Ohio. Her work can also be found in Glass, Gingerbread House, and The Evansville Review, among others.

  • JAIL-BRED

    The 200 best inmates lived on E Block—said the 200 inmates living on E Block. They called it the honor block. The going-home block. The free-to-roam block. And only the jail-good inmates came out to free-roam. E Block’s counselor left their files behind the desk so I saw what I worked with: third-degree murderers, five-D.U.I.…

  • Ben Langston

    Ben Langston, besides being a jailcop, has been a truck-loader, a forklift-driver, a paratrooper, an event-parker, a caterer, a patient-transporter, a capacitor-shaker, a bottle-labeler, and a short-order-cooker. Currently he teaches junior high for high-risk teens (trauma-afflicted kids who only communicate through violence). He’s published in Cactus Heart, New Letters, Storm Cellar, Matter Journal, The Gettysburg…

  • WEED & BINKIES

    Four in the morning. Little bud across the hall is shouting  DA-DA from his crib, static on the Vivaldi in my nearly snuffed dream where a hall of doors open and shut in unison. The subtitles are Arabic, the connection hot-wired from my neighbor’s apartment. Behind my couch the line grows through the wall to…