Recently on Suss

  • title image

    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...”

    Read more »

  • 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”

    All work by David Shumate »

  • title image

    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...”

    Read more »

  • title image

    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...”

    Read more »

  • 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)”

    All work by Gregory Sherl »

  • title image

    “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.”

    Read more »

  • “Excited By the Burden”
    a review by

    cover of book review #265

    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...”

    Read more »

Weekly Podcast

Vol. 1 No. 1

browse all podcasts »

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.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (ver­sion 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the lat­est ver­sion here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Gossip!

  • ... loading ...

dish another

read 'em all »