Stella would be Sam, trade “star” for “the name of god,” as far as meaning goes; exchange her great-grandmother’s name for something more gender-ambiguous, and I get the Adam/Madam, name game, sexist bullshit labeling is and the gender- bending, gender-neutral emergency of her current state of being. I am all about fluidity. But it was […]
John Smith
John Smith lives on the Delaware River in NJ with the calligrapher and henna artist, Catherine Lent. His book of poems, Even That Indigo, was published by Hip Pocket Press in 2012. His poems have appeared in journals such as Smartish Pace, Slipstream,The Literary Review, New York Quarterly, Canary, and US1. His work has been set to choral music for Tina Davidson's Listening to the Earth and commissioned by New Jersey Audubon for their centennial. His poetry has been anthologized in Double Kiss: Stories, Poems & Essays on the Art of Billiards; Under a Gull’s Wing: Poems and Photographs of the Jersey Shore; Liberty’s Vigil: The Occupy Anthology. He has also had poems in two books, The Lure of Sea Glass and Pete Dunne's New Jersey.