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Description: Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, The Atlanta Review and other magazines. Crazy Star, his latest collection, was selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005. Larson won 1st Editor’s Prize from Rhino magazine in 2000 and has won prizes for his poetry from The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation among others. A five-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing, Larson was an Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and 2004, a featured writer in the DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts in 2007, 2008, and has been highlighted on the public radio programs Live from Prairie Lights and Voices from the Prairie. He is the host of the radio talk show Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost http://www.kruufm.com and lives in Fairfield, Iowa. |
| Fiction | 16 Sep 2008 |
| The River Road, Part One by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
Part 1 of 8
Lola and Charlene
The cannon was on a limestone bluff that surveyed the moonlit river. Her daddy had told her it would be fired occasionally to scare the Indians, but she could not imagine why, thinking of the shy family, the Sunfish, who had their tar-papered cabin in the depths of the Stevich woods and who silently fished the banks of the Little Cedar for a significant
| Untagged | 19 Aug 2008 |
| THE INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF ORILLA by Rustin Larson | Comment (4) |
“Orilla is mainly dust,” I once wrote. I was about nineteen then, trying to write a short story. In 1979, on summer break from Maharishi International University, I had somehow cut a deal with my father, (for whom I was an employee), that allowed me to write part of the day. Frequently, glancing out the big storefront windows, I noted the gravel road cutting through the middle of our “business
| Fiction | 10 Jun 2008 |
| The Yellow Impala by Rustin Larson | Comment (4) |
I keep seeing my father drive around town in a yellow 1975 Chevrolet Impala. This is fine as far as most people (who don’t know my father) are concerned—it’s just that my brothers and I buried dad in November, 2001. For several very practical reasons, dad should be quietly resting in the cemetery and not tooling around town.
I often catch sight of him when I’m driving one of the
| Poetry | 26 May 2008 |
| W. E. Butts by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
I’m sharing a poem not written by me. This is by W. E. Butts , who, if you remember, visited Fairfield in November, 2007. His Sunday Evening at the Stardust Café was the winner of The Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize and is available on amazon.com and from 1st World Publishers. The poem presented here originally appeared in Poetry East ’s Fall 2007 issue on “Bliss.” He reads this poem on the KRUU-LP
| Poetic Commerce | 8 May 2008 |
| Zazzle Me Home by Rustin Larson | Comment (0) |
I'm all for making a few bucks. Looking greedily around at all the artistic productions lying unmarshalled in my own home, I decided to open a store with Zazzle.com . Custom t-shirts, cards, posters and more , all you need to do is open an account, upload a few image files and you are in business. I started with my own artwork, abstract things I made while I was in college. "Milk Hair,"
