Jersey Slide

Danny Shot is the author of Works, also published by CavanKerry Press. Danny Shot was a longtime publisher and editor of Long Shot, an arts and literary magazine, which he founded along with Eliot Katz in 1982 in New Brunswick, NJ. More information can be found on his website: dannyshot.com

• 1.Tempestthe meaning of lifeHero WorshipKidsIn a BottleHopper’s MuseNY StoryPresentation (of Self as Performance Piece)Open Mic (at Shades of Green)Art2.The Jersey SlideWhy I’m a Mets FanInevitableA Sunday in MarchWreckageLast Night at MaxwellsDebraBefore LunchFor EvaThat Was FunLobster DanceAutumn Sketches3.Raging BullFamily HistoryAbout ForgettingDispossessionHawk from a HandsawLuckDorisThe Golden PathRelativityThese Days4.LanguishHow to Look Good at 60LegacyClothesNote Written on a FB PostEight Days of HanukkahHeinrich Heine ReconsidersSlumber Day 228NoelFlowerCodaHOPEThanks

Danny Shot’s beautifully vulnerable poetry is a splendid, multi-barreled blues song DuBois called double consciousness. As Shot says we live in “the land of God and Google,” a place where this poet, American and Jewish, in New York and in Jersey, on the page and off the wall, splits his chest in half again and again. There we see him, family members and friends and memories come and gone, his words the autobiography of a man who is not only one of our finest poets, but also a living, breathing record of Punk and Plath, of loss and love.