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By Scott Duhamel, on March 7th, 2010 126 views  Crazy Heart’s well-traveled tale concerns itself with Bad Blake (Bridges), yet another country and western macho poet with a fistful of magical songs, heartsick and stumbling towards oblivion with a lungful of cigarette smoke and gut full of bourbon. Blake bounces from Bowling Alley stage to straight-up saloon gig, often puking mid-song, piloting himself with laid back charm or churlishness, almost broken with regret, yet nursing dreams about reversing his showbiz status. His shaky encounters with a trio of antagonists set the stage for an admirably unforced and neatly ambiguous tale of
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By the editors, on March 2nd, 2010 82 views  This past Saturday night, fifty-plus hearty spirits crowded the Mediator Fellowship Hall in Providence, RI, braving the churlish end-of-February weather for a night of shiny music, shimmering poetry and shaking prose. It was shaking’s maiden voyage public-wise, a shakingdown cruise so to speak. Everyone survived. Yea, I dare say even flourished__ to the delight of the writers and presenters (Jericho Brown, Marita Andrade, Jo-Ann Reid, R.A. Stovetop Lawson, Liz Carter, Scott Duhamel and shaking editor Mr. Don), and a trio of fine singer/ songwriters (Mark Cutler, Chris Monti and Anthony Loffredio).The next one’s already on the drawing table; check these pages for announcements of more shaking evenings to
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By the editors, on February 13th, 2010 111 views  calling for work on the theme of IMMIGRATION — including INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION — to be published in an anthology, entitled COMMON
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By Allie Marini, on January 27th, 2010 555 views  At sixteen, Manic Panic, punk music, and the Psycho
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By Amity Bitzel, on January 1st, 2010 437 views  In Kick It Till It Breaks: A Belated Novel of the 1960’s, Ira Robbins performs as literary lepidopterist as he pins a roving cast of radicals, wannabes, double agents, academics, and guileless bumblers to the specimen board of his novel, letting the reader examine each in
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By Amity Bitzel, on December 22nd, 2009 687 views  Scribbling from the margins of that cultural framework is seventeen year old Jolene, a high school senior in Toledo, Ohio. The teenage Jolene is a girl that many of us have known, or dated, or perhaps even were; the kind of girl whose carefully cultivated gothy exterior functions a carapace for the anxious, artistic depressive
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By Derek Richards, on December 22nd, 2009 363 views  i’ve got fourteen passports, ranging from
the seychelles to singapore
two CD’s: guns n roses and paul
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By the editors, on December 16th, 2009 270 views  Become a fan of ~shaking like a mountain~ on facebook, or follow us on twitter (@slamlitjournal) to receive updates on what’s shaking here at the
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By Liz Carter, on December 16th, 2009 597 views
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