Monthly Archives: February 2011

On “In That Place Down the Way From This Other Place” (#50)

The process of getting from Point A to Point Z can be twisted indeed. Martin recommended a poem to John: Thomas Lux’s “The People of the Other Village”. John loved the poem. It became the very rough inspiration for “In … Continue reading

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“Fifteen Miles Outside the City Limits of Summervale, Alabama”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Umbrella #13 (Spring/Summer 2010): http://www.umbrellajournal.com/springsummer2010/gall/MartinOttJohnF.Buckley.html

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“A Lone Star Stomachache”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Splash of Red (December 14, 2009): http://splashofred.squarespace.com/poetry/2009/12/14/martin-ott-john-f-buckley.html

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“The Darlings of New Orleans”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Poemeleon Volume 4, Issue 2 (Winter/Spring 2010): http://www.poemeleon.org/john-buckley-martin-ott

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“The Last Fortune Teller of Chicago”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Evergreen Review #122 (March 2010): http://www.evergreenreview.com/122/last-fortune-teller-of-chicago.html

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“Pantsless in Boston”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Eleven Eleven #8 (January 2010): http://elevenelevenjournal.com/Poetry/buckley_andott.html

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“Objects in a Forgotten Cedar Point Lost-and-Found Locker”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Denver Syntax #20 (Summer 2010): http://www.denversyntax.com/issue20/poems/buckley/objects.html

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“School Trip to the Vegas Strip”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Children, Churches & Daddies Volume 211 (August 2010): http://scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/g2702.txt

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“Chiron in Los Angeles”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Calliope Nerve (April 15, 2010): http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20F.%20Buckley%20and%20Martin%20Ott

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“Ruins of Roanoke”

A selection from Poets’ Guide to America, first published in Breakwater Review #4 (January 2011): http://www.breakwaterreview.com/4-current/4p/ruins-of-roanoke/. “Ruins of Roanoke” is also forthcoming in The Homestead Review.

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