Issue 5

                                                             Reading Pam O’Shaughnessy                                      Reading Pam O’Shaughnessy, one quickly discovers an erudite, intelligent, thoughtful and funny—yes—funny poet. This underlying humor is found throughout the works, sometimes absurdist, as “In California,” which is about, as Pam herself wrote “…an early ships captain who sets himself ashore to die in California…he’s reincarnated as a mushroom,” or ‘How […]