ROB STURMA!
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Nerd. Poet. Editor. Wrestling mark. Superhero enthusiast. Secret lounge singer. Lloyd Dobler.


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 "Among other things, Rob Sturma’s Head v Heart is a discussion of how popular culture can be magic, how it can help those who love it and take it seriously through life’s most difficult times. " 

​--John Brantingham,  Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park’s first poet laureate, Cultural Daily


Head v Heart, the second full-length poetry collection by poet and FreezeRay Poetry editor-in-chief Rob Sturma is a deep dive into the ways that pop culture and nostalgia can be used as medicine as well as metaphor. Music, movies, television, and comics battle it out in this examination of pivotal moments of Sturma's life, love, and recovery. From Los Angeles to Yancy Street, from Sunnydale to Oklahoma City, this book is scheduled for many, many falls with no time limit.  Available NOW from Moon Tide Press; click on the cover above for the link and read John Brantingham's full review RIGHT HERE.

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Comic version of poem illustrated by the multi-talented poet, writer, and artist CATHERINE WEISS! Throw money at them please!
 
GHOST AT AN OPEN MIC
(after CJ Lance)

She taps on the mic, whispers
is this thing on?  Taps on her 
chest. Is this thing on?

She is not afraid of dying in this room.

The host says, don't go overtime
as if time still held sway for this apparition.
As if she wasn't the definition of timeless.

She is afraid that her metaphors
are see-through. Translucent.
That her word choice is not solid.

All we know is how ethereal she sounds.
How these words will cling to us
and leave an indelible mark.

I feel so at home here, she says.
and thanks us, as if we didn't gather
hoping she would be here;
hoping we would be so gently
haunted.


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