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Joseph Goosey

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Joseph Goosey lives in North Carolina where he held multiple jobs prior to the pandemic and is a volunteer at the Carolina Tiger Rescue. A dropout of the MFA Program at George Mason University, he is the author of a few chapbooks including STUPID ACHE (Greybook Press, 2013) and one full-length collection of poems, Parade of Malfeasance (EMP Books, 2020).
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The Authentic Self: I Live in the Country & other dirty poems by Arielle Greenberg

  • Joseph Goosey
  • September 18, 2020
Every poem in I Live in the Country sells what it’s craving.
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Body Odor Can Be a Room

  • Joseph Goosey
  • September 22, 2010
In individual poems, small series of interconnected poems, and in the book as object, Mairéad Byrne has made in The Best Of (What’s Left Of) Heaven a map that covers…
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The Drunk Sonnets

  • Joseph Goosey
  • May 14, 2010
Like most winning drunken acts, The Drunk Sonnets is comprised of extremes. I came away from each poem thinking it was either the best damn thing I’d read in years…
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Assorted Poems

  • Joseph Goosey
  • April 5, 2010
Susan Wheeler manages to navigate a wide terrain of both content and form while maintaining the interconnectedness of one of the less lame concept albums ever produced.
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