Education in Wisconsin is done.
Arts and Sciences have packed up and run.
Walker laughs with such glee,
“Ain’t it great to be free?”
while police enforce it with a gun.
June 6, 2015
Paul Dickey, Poet, Playwright,
Author of Fiction,
& Political Libericist
(a totally made-up word, of course)
"On starless nights like this, the poetry wants them
dead or alive."
-- from "The Poetry Doesn't Even Know Where They Live."
Video (Poetry Readings)
Wichita State University -- October 6, 2011, Ablah Library, Wichita, KS
John H. Ames Reading Series -- March 18, 2012, Lincoln, NE
Video (Comedy Sketch)
The Raven -- Skullduggery Theatre - December 13/2011, Omaha, NE
Stories & Flash Fiction
The Woman Who Wonders over the Potting Shed Over the Kitchen Window - failbetter
Ladies of the Night -- Potomac
The Four Seasons -- Potomac
The Serial Killer Confesses to His Daughter - Milk Candy Review
In Rough Economic Times, the Community College Instructor Teaches Critical Reasoning
Consequences of “Careless Love” - South Florida Poetry Review
Making Personal Copies at Work -- Potomac
Wake Up, Little Susie - Chiron Review
The True Story of Her Play - Amarillo Bay
Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)/“ A Little Bit of Reason
I-70 Review
Poetry
Dean's Tree Service -- Valparaiso Poetry Review
Delivering to the Client -- Broadsided / Mid-American Review
How They Once Were -- Softblow
How to Decorate a Closet -- Softblow
Love Doesn't Work Here Anymore -- Softblow
Old Torso at the Inner City Museum -- qarrtsiluni
Omaha High School Poetics -- qarrtsiluni
On the State Line -- Softblow
Roaming the Streets -- Superstition Review
The Impoverishment of Our Imagination -- Fee
This Is How We Dream -- Duende
To Justify the Ways of God to Men -- Fee
Workshop on Metrics -- The Valparaiso Review
“Free Men Escaping By the Full Moon / How Something Never Should Have
Been in America” - In Parentheses
Brother, Brother -- In Parentheses
For My Wife (On Her Anniversary) - The Midwest Quarterly
Floral Wallpaper -- I-70 Review
“Skull with its Lyric Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Should
Have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal Bird’s Nest” (Dali, 1934)
Plainsongs
A Woman and a Forest - The Midwest Quarterly
What Santa Asked When Lord Russell Argued that “Santa Claus” was
a Definite Description and not a Referring Expression -- Plume
Driving Directions From Intercourse -- Laurel Review
Online links to the text of other poems can be found at the Waldorf College Library Guide link located on the more option of the main menu.