Matthew Olzmann in Rattle

Alumni Matthew Olzmann’s poem, “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” is up at Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century.

MOUNTAIN DEW COMMERCIAL DISGUISED AS A LOVE POEM

Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage
might work: Because you wear pink but write poems
about bullets and gravestones. Because you yell
at your keys when you lose them, and laugh,
loudly, at your own jokes. Because you can hold a pistol,
gut a pig. Because you memorize songs, even commercials
from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming… [Keep Reading]