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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.

SUNY, Saranac Review, Poetry, Michael Carrino, Mellen, Conestoga Zen, Books, Arts and Entertainment	13 Oct 2009
New Poems by Michael Carrino by Rustin Larson	Comment (1)

Michael Carrino holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College. He is an English lecturer at the State University College at Plattsburgh, New York, where he is co-editor and poetry editor of the Saranac Review. His publications include Some Rescues, (New Poets Series, Inc.) Under This Combustible Sky, (Mellen Poetry Press) and Café Sonata, (Brown Pepper Press), Autumn's Return to the Maple

World, Tunnels, Theater, Spirituality, Rustin Larson, Politics, Poetry, Pets, Paradise, Junk food, green living, Ghosts, Food, Flame skunks, Fiction, Arts and Entertainment, Abraham Lincoln	10 Sep 2009
A Few Things Straight about Flame Skunks, Abraham Lincoln, and the Endless Tunnels of Paradise by Rustin Larson	Comment (5)

Flame skunks. They is a problem to most home owners, be all they don't know it though. Pesky little fellers, git in your basement and start feedin off the lint of most furnace filters. You can tell 'em by their plumpish skunk bodies, but they's head's just like a gas broiler with the flames all lit and lickin up the sides like whispy blue whiskery cheeks. Natural fire hazards. Burnt up a

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Black Oil by Bill Kemmett by Rustin Larson	Comment (2)

Bill Kemmett is a brilliant poet. He lives in Port Saint Lucie, Florida and he crafts gems: carefully cut, polished, sparkling, many-faceted gems. He may start the day with his noggin on his pillow, at the beach, or browsing a yard sale, but with the mere flick of his eye he reveals fathoms. His forthcoming book, Black Oil, is a long-awaited volume, and I have the exclusive honor of sharing some

Rustin Larson, paranormal activity, hauntings, Ghosts	8 Aug 2009
WELCOME TO THIS HAUNTED ROOM by Rustin Larson	Comment (1)

This room in which you stand is rife with paranormal activity eight (8) minutes every day, starting at 7:15 p.m. This has been the case every day since the evening of December 24, 1938 when this activity was first discovered.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT DURING YOUR VISIT

While experiences may differ from person to person, these and similar phenomena were reported by more than one visitor:

1) A vigorous

Untagged	20 Jul 2009
Mouse by Rustin Larson	Comment (0)

Alone, in the quiet hour,

I don't know

If, where you are,

You sleep

Or are kept awake

By the moon,

But

I can say

The mouse who has come

To visit me

Is not afraid

As she sits

On the carpet,

Licks her hands,

And grooms her