This eclectic assemblage is a metaphorical exploration of the compartmentalized personality and the collection of feelings, thoughts, and life experiences that we gather over time and put in a junk drawer or a basement. We revisit our collection on occasion, as if we are conjuring a visit from our ancestors.
What is in John's Basement
is a meditation by poets across the globe at a time when some believe we are closest to the veil of the beyond and we are more able to talk to the dearly departed. The harvest is done, and we can rest and reflect on what we have decided to keep with our life force that once or still has meaning to us. It could be anything: boxes of photos, broken china, rusty old tools still with useful life. Boxes of aspects of our lives that make us laugh or are frightening to consider.
Contributing authors
John Angell Grant
K.R. Morrison
Dane Ince
Ron Whitehead
Bryan Franco
Deborah C. Segal
Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto
Mark States
Jeff Cottrill
Michael Sindler
Antoinette Vella Payne
Jonathon S. Baker
Chiina Bloodmire
John Burroughs
Merilee Johnson
Tyler Frederick
Frogg Corpse
Gary Huskisson
Eddy Forman
Darrell Parry
Clive Oseman
LKN
Fin Hall
Jon Wesick
Sophia Falco
Phynne Belle
hil hoover