The Short North Gazette recently published an excerpt of my poem,
Recollections Of How I Smelled On I-90, which is really quite a long poem as I tend to smell like many things. It has some local interest as its content.
I'm fond of the Short North Gazette for reasons outside of their publishing my poem. I like the James Thurber coverage, I like the odd gag cartoons, the poetry, the magazine-length articles on Columbus history, and, most of all, I like the semi-recent addition of
Jared Gardner to their stable of columnists. Gardner is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio State and heads the pop-culture minor there. (He also writes for
The Comics Journal.) He was not only my Personalized Study Program advisor but also the advisor for the independent study project that "
Punk Zine" came out of. So I'm doubly happy to see my poem published across from his moving eulogy of
Harvey Pekar, who I first saw IRL at The Mershon Auditorium during a discussion that Gardner moderated.
The Gazette is free and available seemingly anywhere in The Short North.
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