Lisa Marie Basile's Writings
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Article
Aug.08.2010
Daily Femme Online
A poet who has also written for magazines including Maxim and CosmoGirl, Lisa Marie Basile discusses the importance of making poetry accessible to a larger community while still recognizing that it is not for everyone and must remain “challenging and honest, not lazy.” Although she long questioned womanhood and feminism, when she founded The Caper Literary...
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Apr.27.2010
The Sun Killed Him: www.ifinfinity.blogspot.com
We would greet eachother's aloneness, there at the tree that embraced us all. —Denise Chavez, a writer from Las Cruces, NM.
Too many distractions, and you lose yourself.
I love New York City. I must preface this by saying New York offers everything, and lives up to its promises.
I have a feeling I will die here, but I feel the Southwest pricking me from afar,...
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Poem
Oct.28.2009
There are names I do not speak in Italiano, così splendido like the name on Sabatino's lips when he will need to blame someone for turning this family into a casket.
Even the infants clutch to Mediterranean water like a mother, they suckle at our flesh and our heritage God is found in Sicily in the rocks and in the streets and...
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Poem
Oct.28.2009
Mesilleros bury their poorest without names,with una cruz de madera.No hablo español bien, perointento.
We are in the cementerio de Mesilla,and we bring chocolate fromThe Chocolate Lady and una cafe,our ofrendaand we sit under the sun bySeñor Guitterez, pretending tolove Muerte,
but dear God, I am scared because this allis sorrowfullybeautiful,and I wear flowers...
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Short Story
Oct.28.2009
It was God this morning in Rio De Janeiro, singing.
I stood facing the brick wall where through a window Señora Absidiola Silva was washing the baby. Then I heard Natanael. He said this, "Why do you make me do this?" and I sat there a wilted flower, watching the man scrape his knees and I could not have said one word, nothing, no words.
Nereida is...
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About Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie Basile is a published writer and poet who focuses on culture and magic realism.
Her book, "A Decent Voodoo," will be released by Cervena Barva Press. She is founder of Caper Literary Journal. Her work has been featured in several...
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