The Virginia Quarterly Review "The Mutable Past," a memoir collected in FANTASEERS, A BOOK OF MEMORIES by Lewis Turco of growing up in the 1950s in Meriden, Connecticut, (Scotsdale AZ: Star Cloud Press, 2005).
The Tower Journal Two short stories, "The Demon in the Tree" and "The Substitute Wife," in the spring 2009 issue of Tower Journal.
The Tower Journal A story, "The Car," and two poems, "Fathers" and "Year by Year"
The Tower Journal Memoir, “Pookah, The Greatest Cat in the History of the World,” Spring-Summer 2010.
The Michigan Quarterly Review This is the first terzanelle ever published, in "The Michigan Quarterly Review" in 1965. It has been gathered in THE COLLECTED LYRICS OF LEWIS TURCO/WESLI COURT, 1953-2004 (www.StarCloudPress.com).
The Gawain Poet An essay on the putative medieval author of "Gawain and the Green Knight" in the summer 2010 issue of Per Contra.
The Black Death Bryan Bridges' interesting article on the villanelle and the terzanelle with "The Black Death" by Wesli Court as an example of the latter.
Seniority: Six Shakespearian Tailgaters This is a part of a series called "Gnomes" others of which have appeared in TRINACRIA and on the blog POETICS AND RUMINATIONS.
Reinventing the Wheel, Modern Poems in Classical Meters An essay with illustrations of poems written in classical meters together with a "Table of Meters" and "The Rules of Scansion" in the Summer 2009 issue of Trellis Magazine
Miss Pussy's Parlor Songs, Part Twenty-Four
PART TWENTY-FOUR
VISITATION
"The boss of Russia's not Rasputin!
I'll visit, not embarrass, Putin,
I do not plan to harass Putin
'cuz he's my pal -- there's no disputin'
I'm as wacko as Rasputin,
And that is just as sure as shootin'!"
TWIT TWITTERING
Donald Trump
Thinks with his rump
And loves to Twitter
With his shitter.
COILLUSION
Donald and Rudy
Are both being moody --
In the latter's confusion
He says that "collusion
Is no kind of crime!"
Don says, "About time
We pointed that out!"
But Rudy's a lout,
For Oxford's rendition
Of the true definition
Of "collusion" is "Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy in order to deceive others...."
So Trump is a fool,
And Rudy's his tool.
TRUTH
"The truth is not the truth,"
Says Giudy Ruliani,
"My name is not my name,"
Cries Rudy Giuliani.
"My nose is not my nose,"
Says Trump's finest attorney,
"His ass smells like a rose
Supine upon a gurney
"As Don's rolled down the hall,"
Asserts the spaghetti lawyer,
"To have my nose removed --
I guess they'll need a sawyer
"To saw my wooden nose
Off there right at the crack line
Just below the spot
Where most folks have a spine,
"Which Donny claims he's got,
But who can tell what's true?
I don't think it is I (me?) --
It's certainly not you!"
CONVICTIONS
Fake news witch-hunt! No collusion!
I won't tolerate restrictions!
You're just stirring up confusion!
I'm a man of great convictions!
Sessions fails me with recusion!
Russians screw up our elections!
I can't even get my shoes on
Before I don my new convictions!
Manafort -- merely illusions!
Cohen is inventing fictions!
Stab wounds are more than contusions!
I have multiple convictions!
TRUMP LOSES PECKER
"Oh, no! Not Pecker too!
I may have been too cocky!
Flipping should be illegal!
This bed is feeling rocky!
"He used to be my friend!
He spiked that woman's story
By buying it, not to publish,
But own its rights to bury
"While I was running hard,
Trying for the erection
Of a college of Electors
That would swing the big election.
Now Pecker's gonna soften,
Confirm that female's tale,
And I'll be hoist on my petard
In substance and detail!"
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