TPR Is Lit - December 2012
03.12.2012
About Strawberries Poetry By Siegfried Mortkowitz
Surprise, curiosity, joy, enlightenment and above all humor... Siegfried Mortkowitz's writing will draw you in, twist you up, take you on a little journey, then land you out the other end with a smile on your face and a different perspective. As we're marching steadily into the depths of winter in our part of the world, it makes us (and we hope you) happy to present About Strawberries, a burst of summer flavor to cheer up this grey dull day. If you're lucky enough to be living in warmer parts, then savor it for what it is - sharp, tart, luscious and complex.
31.12.2012
The Best of the Stream By the Editors
At TPR, we strive to bring you daily content concerning all things writing in The Stream. In 2013, we want this to be more of a user-generated content stream featuring the best writing on the web period. That means we’re soliciting you, dear reader, to submit the very best of your re-purposed original content, creative non-fiction, or whatever else you think might have the artistic merit to make your fellow TPR readers’ day a little more enlightened. Maybe even a family story. Remember there are no formal rules of rigidity here. As long as it’s not fiction or poetry (and it’s good), the piece can find a home in The Stream. To get an idea of what The Stream is about we’ve assembled some of our favorite pieces from our re-launch this past year.
24.12.2012
The Elbow Room Café Poetry By Helen Mort
Situated in the north of England, Sheffield built its fame after the industrial revolution on its stainless steel production. Since the decline of the steel industry, it’s better known for producing earthy but heart-warming tales about male strippers (at least that’s what we understand from The Full Monty). But Sheffield is also the birthplace of Helen Mort, a poet whose work contains a tensile strength which allows her to layer images onto a structure without it breaking. Often tempered with a dash of the wry humor for which the north is known, Mort’s poems are sensually and emotively evocative of the people, places and situations she describes. As with the breakfast in The Elbow Room Café, this dish of verse is so real you can taste it.
17.12.2012
The Spoon Fiction By Unknown
While looking through a cache of past TPR documents for the lost location of the Prague Golem, something was discovered. No, it was not the Golem but a treasure in its own right. A manuscript. The editors agreed that it was a great piece and worthy of publication, except for one problem. The author failed to write his or her name on the document. After many weeks of trying to track down said author, a plan was hatched. TPR would publish the story in the hopes of giving the author (and the story) the exposure they both deserve. If you wrote this please contact us and we’ll make sure you get full accreditation. If you didn’t, then feel free to read. The Spoon is a great story, and one that we know you will enjoy.
10.12.2012
Fairy Tale Poetry By Bohumil Hrabal
In 1998, TPR published of a selection of twenty poems translated by David Chirico from Bohumil Hrabal’s Den a noci (Days and Nights). These selections are at times both tragic and funny. Both brain scorchingly vivid and luminously tender. These are verse and prose poems that deserve the widest audience possible. As a way of celebrating Hrabal, we will bring you few of these poems every month culminating in the completion The TPR Bohumil Hrabal Archives. We hope you enjoy, in Hrabal’s own words, his “trafficking with beauty”.
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