Tony Barnstone | Fishouse

Grace Under Pressure

Ed: We will post text of this poem pending publication in a forthcoming print journal..

17 years ago

It was as if someone had shot a flash off inches from my eyes. It was white, white, and stung my cheeks as if I had been slapped hard in the face. I must have lost some time, because I woke up in a shattered house. Then stumbling down the street, I heard the people […]

17 years ago

Home Brew

He never drank a lick before the war but he came back a fall-down drunk. He said they’d cook up home brew from potatoes or from fruit and then get bombed among the dead. He started slapping me around, and changed to someone moaning to himself at night, oh God, oh mom, a silent man, […]

17 years ago

Tony Barnstone Q&A on the contemporary sonnet

Tony Barnstone, Professor of English at Whittier College and author of several poetry collections, translations, and textbooks, including recently The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), writes about the contemporary sonnet in The Cortland Review. Click here to read the article.

17 years ago

Tony Barnstone Q&A on the form of Commandments

Tony Barnstone, Professor of English at Whittier College and author of several poetry collections, translations, and textbooks, including recently The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), talks about his use of form in his poem Commandments.

17 years ago

Tony Barnstone Q&A on the genesis of three poems

Tony Barnstone, Professor of English at Whittier College and author of several poetry collections, translations, and textbooks, including recently The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), talks about the genesis of his poems Grace Under Pressure, Snapshot, and Home Brew.

17 years ago

Tony Barnstone Q&A on a current project

Tony Barnstone, Professor of English at Whittier College and author of several poetry collections, translations, and textbooks, including recently The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), talks about one of his current poetry projects, called Pulp Sonnets.

17 years ago

Tony Barnstone Q&A on obstacles to becoming a poet

Tony Barnstone, Professor of English at Whittier College and author of several poetry collections, translations, and textbooks, including recently The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), talks about obstacles he faced in becoming a poet, and about his education in poetry.

17 years ago