I was lucky to end February with another publication.
“Nailbiter” has appeared in Stone Circle Review, a very fine online literary magazine that I am very pleased to appear in.
Like “The pills wear off in Munising,” “Nailbiter” is a prosey prose poem. “Nailbiter” uses some stanza breaks, though, which I don’t see happening in many of the prose poems I see published lately.
The long lines with stanza breaks feel a bit Whitman-esque to me, not that I’m comparing my work to Uncle Walt’s, but I’m sure I was influenced by “Song of Myself” when I look back at “Nailbiter”‘s format.
My language in “Nailbiter” seems choppier than Whitman’s elongated sentences, but if you look at it alongside “The pills wear off in Munising,” between the two, I think you can see me clearly trying to channel something of WW in those poems.
I guess if you’re going to steal inspiration and technique, steal from the best!
Jason Kahler 