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Michael Antonucci's creative and scholarly work can (or will soon) be found in publications including Arkansas Review,
African American Review, Callaloo, Cortland Review, Byline, Cold Mountain Review, Near South, and VIA. A selection from his longer poem Baker Bowl is included in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab, 2007). He is part of the Jimmy Wynn Ensemble, a Chicago collaborative writing experiment. Currently at work on a poetic series called Halogen Martyrs, his favorite element is Hassium.

from Baker Bowl

Michael Antonucci

Post Card 7

To: Baker
re: SAMUEL F. B. MORSE:

the orgy of
finger pointing insued
and
I do not have
the space (or time)
to offer Lincoln's case against

Catholicism (or Jesuits.

((but )) close friend,
S. F. B. Morse, inventor, premillennialist,
(telegraph and Morse Code
writing in

"Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States"

follows Frederick Schlegel,

proclaims

Monarchy // Catholicism inseparable

I wiff

(Murtaugh over Ozark, again.

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