Among the Gliesians Farouq Salloum

Among the Gliesians Farouq SalloumPhilip Fried continues experimenting with different registers of language, technical jargon, and a variety of literary and non literary forms, ranging from sonnet, ballad, acrostic, and villanelle to press release and report. His witty and compassionate work takes on a new urgency, however, as he focuses on our alarming present situation. Dealing with such topical themes as mass shootings, nuclear gamesmanship, and threats to democracy, Fried's poems

Abie Budgen

from Banipal

has been castrated

like Darwin and Humboldt

the story starts with a mystery

this is a story of friendship

a school for troubled teens in Milton

But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become notorious for the suicides of young people

the henna painter

Alben plays with formal boundaries

the point you reach after crossing the border of what has already been said

made me think