Austin Alexis

SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA

While my hair is being parted,
cut to a respectable length,
police storm in.
They mean business
disrupting this business
because they didn't see a license,
asserting their ability to read
the letter of the law.


Austin reads "Somewhere in Florida":



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Austin confesses: 'Somewhere in Florida' was inspired by hearing a radio announcer on WBAI-Radio mention the incident that is dramatized in the poem. The news story coalesced with thoughts I already had about police misconduct and about portraying "criminal" behavior in poetry.


AUSTIN ALEXIS is the author of Privacy Issues (Lotus Press/Wayne State University Press) and has published in the anthologies Off the Cuffs: Poetry by and about the Police, Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless and American Society: What Poets See.

Amy MacLennan on KRUU 100.1 FM, The Voice of Fairfield, Iowa

Lineup 2 and 3 contributor Amy MacLennan appeared on "Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost", hosted by Rustin Larson, Sunday, July 18, 10:30-11:00 A.M. Central.

Listen to Amy MacLennan on Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost.

CrimeWAV 36: The Lineup - Poems on Crime

Go to the episode entry on CrimeWAV.

Richie Narvaez reads his poem "Metro" and Patrick Shawn Bagley's "110 M.P.H. in a Stolen Pickup".

I read my poem "Four Minutes", "Prayer of an Arson Investigator" by Sarah Cortez, "Don Henley Will Be Mine" by Misti Rainwater-Lites, and "Visiting Hours, State Pen" by Amy MacLennan.

Stephen D. Rogers reads his poem "A Whisper of Smoke".

And Christopher Watkins reads his poem "A Wild Flaw Amongst Us".

Thanks once again to CrimeWAV host Seth Harwood and producer Mystery Dawg Aldo Calcagno.

Amy MacLennan

Amy MacLennan has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, River Styx, Pearl, Linebreak, Cimarron Review, Folio, The Literary Bohemian, Willows Wept Review, and Rattle. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Not a Muse from Haven Books and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems from Ragged Sky Press.