Category: Poetry

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A Friend & A Poem

Charlotte Hamrick

Poetry lovers, you’re in luck today. Super talented poet and friend, Matt Dennison, recently collaborated with the super talented videographer Marc Neys (aka “Swoon”) on a video-poem of his poem Centered. Matt has been a great supporter of my own  poetry, working with me and sharing his expertise and opinions freely. I like how honest he is in his opinions and I know I can trust what he tells me, good or bad.  Unfortunately, his work isn’t found online often because he publishes mostly in print journals. Lots and lots of print journals. Today I’m sharing his new video-poem below. Enjoy! … Continue reading A Friend & A Poem

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Unsettled

Charlotte Hamrick

No matter how old you get the nightmare still horrifies the scream for help is just a whisper the thrashing in hostile arms hopeless but still… there’s a last hard push for recognition and the strangled cry for “Mamma!” that awakens and you turn on the light with heart to bursting and wild eyes searching dark corners and the smell of fear in the room. What does it mean that in your fifth decade you still cry for mamma in the middle of the night? _____________________________ So, yes, I had a terrible nightmare last night. The kind where you don’t want … Continue reading Unsettled

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Hot Reads

Charlotte Hamrick

  Hot Reads is a feature I published on my now defunct group blog, NOLAFemmes. I’ve decided to continue it here, from time to time, focusing mainly on the great fiction, flash fiction and poetry I read around the web. I love to share good writing! First, here’s a little something-something  I recently wrote: Unwitnessed Intimate flaws abandoned in darkness feed the hungry impulse for feeling less than loved. A strange bed sets a fluid stage, transposing in reflected light, sifting like sand through numbed fingers. ———————– “Unwitnessed” is currently up at Fictionaut where it’s joined by a gaggle of … Continue reading Hot Reads

About Writing, Books, Poetry, Random8 Comments

I will never,ever,ever

Charlotte Hamrick

have a tidy coffee table like you see in those chichi design magazines. Mine is always covered with books, magazines, DVD’s, CD’s, iPad, journal and, at various times, dog biscuits, remote controls, plates of crumbs and cups of half-finished tea. I love the minimal look of a coffee table with only an object or two but that will never happen here for more than a few minutes when I dust and put things away. I need my books and reading material close by.  The book you see there, “New Orleans Style”, will be reviewed here soon. I hope. I intend.  … Continue reading I will never,ever,ever

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“Houdini” is live!

Charlotte Hamrick

I am crazy-happy to be a part of Literary Orphans new issue, “Houdini”. The Editor, Mike Joyce, and his staff put out a unique zine full of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, and interviews. It’s obvious by the visual beauty of the zine and the top notch talent that they work very hard to give their readers a stimulating and exceptional reading/viewing experience. Each issue has a theme and each contributor’s work is complimented by original artwork which, in my opinion, brings an added dimension to the words on the page. This is my second time to be a part of … Continue reading “Houdini” is live!

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Selective Mirage

Charlotte Hamrick

I want us to sit on the sofa with popcorn salt on our lips watching a foreign film with subtitles, arms and legs all a-tangle, hands rubbing thighs, contentment on our faces – you know, like those commercials on TV where all the couples are perfectly in sync gazing with adoration into each others eyes. But I don’t like popcorn and you can’t sit still and all those TV couples are only figments in the minds of pampered old white men looking down from their castles in the sky. Continue reading Selective Mirage