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The fabulous John Dorsey

John Dorsey

John Dorsey has been a published author since age 15.
In 2006 he was the winner of the Toledo City Poetry & Fiction Competition. He is the author of a number of collections including "harvey keitel, harvey keitel, harvey keitel" with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg, Butcher Shop Press/Rose of Sharon
Press/Temple of Man, 2005 and "steal this imagination" Rank Stranger Press, 2006. He is available for one on one workshops and can be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com

poem for philomene long

in a past life
the sun invented dance
was hunted down and
made to suffer the
pleasures of women the
muse drunk on words

while you sister philomene
sang with beauty
drank cheap wine with
pride and invented the
outline of god

tonight the roman dead
stand sentry on the boardwalk
while you blow one last
cotton candy kiss to
your city now being
washed out into a
sea of dreams and ruins

they pray silently
may you join the
ghosts of venice west
for a pint of holy water
and a nugget of dank zen

a
feminine flower set on
fire

the only god
some angels have ever known

John Dorsey
 

Michael D.Grover
Poet, Owner of Covert Press

Michael Grover is a Florida born poet. As a wanderer he has  traveled and lived all over the country. He currently lives in Toledo, Ohio.

His poetry has been published all over the literary underground in places like Cause & Effect, Citizen 32, Alphabet Soup, The San Gabriel Poetry, Quarterly, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Poets and the Anthologies One Drop:  To Be The color Black, West Memphis Witch-hunt, and My Time: The Lunch Break Book and online including www.saintvituspress.com, www.outsiderwriters.org, www.getunderground.com, www.dyingwriters.com, DecomP Literary Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee, Redfez.net, Whirlygig Zine, Beat The Dust, Unlikely Stories, and Offbeat Pulp.

Michael is currently a resident artist at the Collingwood Art Center, where he runs the Covert Press. His newest chapbook is titled Counter Revolutionary Poems on Unadorned Press. He has his first full length book coming out next year on Tainted Coffee Press and is the current head poetry editor at www.redfez.net


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