Five Poems
Ghostly voices race the night
like a finely tuned sports car…
It’s nearing midnight and the
priest has canceled mass, the
TV screen blank for hours.
The witch doctor is making love
to the voodoo priest.
A headless chicken on her plate.
The poems inside my head
turn outlaw
hold me for a ransom
I cannot pay.
By A.D. Winans
3:AM Press
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I Predict a Word Riot
Class consciousness is a pretty big theme for me. I was raised in an upper middle class environment that I felt somewhat apart from. My circle of friends was working class/lower middle class and I’ve always sort of bought into the mythology of the working class hero. When I became a reporter, my coverage area was very blue collar and I felt very comfortable in that setting. Some political blogger who didn’t like my reporting called me the “Queen of White Trash” and it was this huge badge of honor for me. I think a lot of my writing is informed by a level of class awareness or discomfort.
Lee Rourke interviews novelist, editor and publisher Jackie Corley.