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Everyhere, Everythere, Maxene Kuppermann-Guiñals
Everyhere, Everythere, Maxene Kuppermann-Guiñals
Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones
Food and people are arguably the poetic commonalities among us all. We eat together; we dine together, we snack together. Wherever we are on the planet, we derive pleasure from the source of our singular and communal energy. We share our food in the most intimate process: what sustains me I give to you to sustain yourself. We love when people appreciate what we have given them, and we are grateful when someone gives their food, or their poems, to us. They become expressions of love.
Food, and poetry, has a complexity of understanding and acceptance. What do we eat? …
Wearing Bare Feet, J. P. Schlottman
Wearing Bare Feet, J. P. Schlottman
Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones
Wearing Bare Feet is a linked collection of wry short stories about a family of three on fictional Eel Island, three miles off the coast of Maine, an island that revolves around lobstering, tourism, billionaire movie stars, department store heirs, jewelry store heiresses, people who houseclean for snowbirds ... and the old, rich and entitled summer people who come back from Florida for the annual Fourth of July Parade, and then die. Because it is easier to die there. It is why the 13-mile-long "rock off America" has more ambulances per capita than anywhere else in New England.
It also …