http://www.literal-latte.com A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Art Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:41:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.literal-latte.com/2012/01/edie-watches-the-tsunami-from-her-bed-at-life-care-rehabilitation-center-in-las-vegas-march-2011/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2012/01/edie-watches-the-tsunami-from-her-bed-at-life-care-rehabilitation-center-in-las-vegas-march-2011/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:11:45 +0000 Paige Riehl http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1639 First Prize, 2011 Literal Latte Poetry Award. Through the window was the concrete parking lot. Cars came and went as if the drivers couldn’t decide.... ]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2012/01/edie-watches-the-tsunami-from-her-bed-at-life-care-rehabilitation-center-in-las-vegas-march-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/daylight-savings/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/daylight-savings/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:51:34 +0000 Pamela Kenley-Meschino http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1546 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/daylight-savings/feed/ 2 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/ophelia%e2%80%99s-dress/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/ophelia%e2%80%99s-dress/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:47:51 +0000 Pamela Kenley-Meschino http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1544 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/ophelia%e2%80%99s-dress/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/maria/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/maria/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:47:19 +0000 Adam Chambers http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1525 First Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Poetry Award. Much came into the clay that was not intended: the round bottom and the quivering lip; the hollowness of years...]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/maria/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/arched-angels/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/arched-angels/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:22:08 +0000 Adam Chambers http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1496 First Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Poetry Award. The last thing that I wrote, the last thing I will ever write about mushrooms...]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/arched-angels/feed/ 2 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/dance-of-the-cakes/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/dance-of-the-cakes/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:14:19 +0000 Terry Alan Kirts http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1521 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/dance-of-the-cakes/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/bon-appetit/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/bon-appetit/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:05:21 +0000 Carol Milkuhn http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1527 Winner, 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Contest. We relax over lunch, sipping Courvoisier floats, savoring lemon slices sugared in champagne, while the waiter brings paté spiced with caper berries...]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/bon-appetit/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/down-on-the-farm/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/down-on-the-farm/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:22:22 +0000 Sally Yocom http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1400 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/down-on-the-farm/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/igneous-or-%e2%80%9cof-fire%e2%80%9d/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/igneous-or-%e2%80%9cof-fire%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:59:39 +0000 Rosemary Royston http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1363 Winner, 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Contest. Magma undulates in the mantle, forming as the Earth’s plates collide.       A man and woman collide       in a café. He pays for the coffee... ]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/igneous-or-%e2%80%9cof-fire%e2%80%9d/feed/ 3 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/fritillary/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/fritillary/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:58:11 +0000 W.F. Lantry http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1369 within this glass, I almost half believe
each can be tasted singly...]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/10/fritillary/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/prayer-for-the-new-year/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/prayer-for-the-new-year/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:57:06 +0000 Marian Kaplun Shapiro http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1208 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/prayer-for-the-new-year/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/please-submit-a-brief-bio/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/please-submit-a-brief-bio/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:19:20 +0000 Marian Kaplun Shapiro http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1202 Third Prize, 2009 Literal Latte Poetry Award. I have a who singing silently to your who singing silently to my who, whoever and whomever]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/please-submit-a-brief-bio/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/paperboy/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/paperboy/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:17:18 +0000 Melanie McCabe http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1215 Second Prize, 2009 Literal Latte Poetry Award. At twelve, I could only see the seventeen-year-old boy as a gift. A fluke from God [...]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/paperboy/feed/ 4 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/the-black-stones/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/the-black-stones/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:10:32 +0000 Michael Shally-Jensen http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1212 First Prize, 2009 Literal Latte Poetry Award I did that, and it didn't go as expected. For one, I'm not the person in the poem, though I share certain affinities with her[...]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/the-black-stones/feed/ 3 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/note-on-the-translation/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/note-on-the-translation/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:17:07 +0000 Michael Shally-Jensen http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1200 First Prize, 2009 Literal Latte Poetry Award. We have sought here to wrestle with the polished burl bowl of the author's mind — its baroque excesses, its stark and stained language — as if taking on Grendel in the dark woods of indeterminacy...]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/note-on-the-translation/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/in-case-you-came-in-late/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/in-case-you-came-in-late/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:15:05 +0000 Melanie McCabe http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1196 Second Prize, 2009 Literal Latte Poetry Award. It's that scene in the thriller where the woman walks alone down the rain-flashed city street in teetering, come-kill-me stilettos —]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/in-case-you-came-in-late/feed/ 2 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/11/last-meal/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/11/last-meal/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:21:05 +0000 Ellen Peckham http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1042 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/11/last-meal/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/11/permanent-stains/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/11/permanent-stains/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:21:03 +0000 Eileen Malone http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1020 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/11/permanent-stains/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/offerings/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/offerings/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:36:42 +0000 Laurel Bastian http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=814 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/offerings/feed/ 5 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/what-frommers-left-out/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/what-frommers-left-out/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:36:29 +0000 Laurel Bastian http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=819 Winner 2009 Food Verse Contest. The Ristorante di Memoria has a zealot for a chef....]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/what-frommers-left-out/feed/ 2 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/on-the-set/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/on-the-set/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:41:12 +0000 JoAnne Preiser http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=444 Second Prize 2008 Latte Poetry Awards They’re making a movie at the old state mental institution; they’re making it look like it’s 1954[...]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/on-the-set/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/3-fascicles/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/3-fascicles/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:40:15 +0000 Suzanne Heyd http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=414 First Prize 2008 Latte Poetry Awards Curls drench & I can but wonder is she drowning & is there any once upon a time. The river’s looking glass glints ruthlessly northward & there’s tensile strength to the locks. Postpone your departure love, this may be a miracle in the offing. ]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/3-fascicles/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/mistletoe/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/mistletoe/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Starkey Flythe http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/06/13/mistletoe/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/mistletoe/feed/ 3 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/a-good-idea-at-the-time/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/a-good-idea-at-the-time/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Brooke Pacy http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/06/13/a-good-idea-at-the-time/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/a-good-idea-at-the-time/feed/ 2 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/night-school-north-hill-akron-august-1966/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/night-school-north-hill-akron-august-1966/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Kimberly Willardson http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/06/13/night-school-north-hill-akron-august-1966/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/night-school-north-hill-akron-august-1966/feed/ 5