by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Aug 8, 2019 | Galileo Press
To Francis Jammes In a manner, we all pray. So I’ve walked out at 6 a.m.into the sound and look of things.Arc lamps hum in the city park,and accepting resistance,swallows lift in a sudden breeze.What presses against me now?Francis Jammes, you prayed to be...
by Galileo Press | Jul 27, 2019 | Galileo Press
by Derek Berry Texas Crude, the debut short story collection by Thomas Kearnes, offers an intimate portrait of gay lives in East Texas. In equal measures erotic, heartbreaking, and rousing, the collection invites us into his characters’ inner lives, whether they be...
by Galileo Press | Jul 9, 2019 | Galileo Press
We’ve added The Book Tavern in Augusta, GA–a great Indie bookstore. When I visited to ask if they’d carry Matthew Graham’s The Geography of Home as well as our current issue of Free State Review the manager said maybe, but first they wanted to...
by Galileo Press | Jun 3, 2019 | Galileo Press
Our poetry consultant, Edgar Gabriel Silex, says: “Walt Whitman was a racist who called African Americans ‘baboons.’ White scholars attempt to dismiss his racism by claiming ‘everyone back then was racist.’ Here’s a note to all...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | May 20, 2019 | Galileo Press
Bitter Exercise Sit up, lie down, sit up, lie down, runaround and around the blockuntil a little of myself is leftat each corner. The dogs know it and try to help,nipping at my feet to speed me up, snarling my path into wider, aching circles.The best pain’s...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | May 6, 2019 | Galileo Press
Alice in the Rabbit’s House I’ll call you Alice, unborn childrumbling in my sleep, productof a distant summer’s urge. Now I amstuffed to the gills, a house puffed upby someone’s mischievous lips.It all happened so fast– the closing...
