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  • Welcome to the new & improved Suss!

    It’s taken a long time—too long, we’d say—but we’re back. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be publishing a new issue. In the meantime, poke around the site, explore the new layout, and let us know how it floats your dinghy. Listen to the podcast*, dish up some Gossip!, find your preferred RSS setup, or choose a favorite story header. If something stands out to you, let us know. If something plain doesn’t work, please let us know that, too.

    We’re really excited to be back among the living. Expect a fully reloaded Suss shortly. In the meantime, happy exploring!

    *It’s not a podcast this week. But it is something...

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    New Fiction from D.V. Chatfield

    “Mark pivots his left foot a quarter inch to the right, wonders if Liza Chapman hears the squeak, pivots it back, wonders why he didn’t know that would just mean another squeak...”

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  • New Poetry by David Shumate

    “When the old man famous for radishes showed up at the community garden with his wife’s ashes in an urn, we gathered round for a short eulogy. He recalled that late night three decades ago when filled with happiness she stepped onto the lawn in her bra and panties and sang a little Verdi...” —from “His Wife’s Ashes”

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    Bridgett Jensen in The Learning Annex

    “My students are parents, court-ordered to attend school because of drug problems, or high school students who need extra credits, or teenagers kicked out of high school for ‘beating the shit’ out of a classmate...”

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    New Fiction from William Walsh

    “Beggars can’t be their own four-color brochures. Beggars can’t be self-aggrandizing. Beggars can’t be in two places at once. Beggars can’t be ATMs...”

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  • New Poetry by Gregory Sherl

    “I can spell cumulonimbus I can spell mellifluous & gently
    craving touch. I can spell diddle dawdle & orifice & orifices
    is the plural of orifice & I have a few. I can spell I won the spelling
    bee the sixth grade spelling bee at my private school. I spelled
    a word I don’t know I spelled it right & I felt well turned-out...” —from “11:50 PM (Tylenol PM)”

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    “My ideal poem is one that can be apprehended literally by a reader and a reader can be entertained or find pleasure in just that, but I also want them to feel that there is something just beyond, either because of a certain word or grouping, or a juxtaposition.”

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  • “Excited By the Burden”
    a review by

    cover of book review #265

    My Kill Adore Him

    by Paul Martinez Pompa

    University of Notre Dame Press, 2009

    “These poems are care­ful and tight. Martinez Pompa gives entire worlds in 16 lines or less. He gets in and out just that fast. He makes you feel chest-heavy sad­ness, nos­tal­gia, arousal, and fear. He takes your hand and shows you char­ac­ters: some you know and some you don’t want to know; some are you...”

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Weekly Podcast

Vol. 1 No. 1

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We’ll have a pod­cast up for you in a cou­ple weeks when we offi­cially relaunch. In the mean­time, here’s Rhode Island’s favorite Americana cel­e­brants and Suss’s home­town neigh­bors, The Low Anthem, doing “Cigarettes & Whiskey.” We love Ben Miller’s voice as much as the next guy, but Jocie Adams scream­ing her face off on backup steals this one every time.

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