Dec.
27, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Steve Peacock
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POINT PLEASANT POET FEATURED IN NYC LITERARY PODCAST
(NEW YORK)
A local writer’s work has been selected to appear both in print and via the
iTunes podcast of a New York City
literary magazine. Steve Peacock of Point Pleasant performed “Commuters,” a narrative poem
inspired by his former daily trek from Lakewood
to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.
“Commuters,” though a fictional work, explores to the
travails of a daily New Jersey
commuter from the perspective of an exhausted man who works the midnight shift—a man who draws the line one day
in response to the:
mistreatment
sustained at the hands
and heels
and hearts of his fellow interstate
commuters
[which] makes for a spicy
concoction
when brought to a boil.
Dustin Luke Nelson, co-editor of InDigest Magazine, invited
Peacock to participate in the journal’s “Poem of the Day” podcast. Nelson and Peacock crossed paths earlier this year after their respective
poetic works were featured in an unrelated literary venture. Peacock’s poetry appeared in the literary journal Monkeybicycle, as did
Nelson’s. Both poets participated in Monkeybicycle’s “Lightning Round” event at
the Cake Shop in New York.
“I’m delighted that Dustin remembered me from the
Monkeybicycle event and enjoyed my work enough to actually invite me to submit
something to his magazine,” Peacock said. “It’s rare thing for an aspiring
writer to receive such an unsolicited invitation from a respected literary
publication.”
Peacock currently works as an English teacher at Manchester
Township High School.
An excerpt from his true-crime memoir-in-progress, Play Dead, Roll Over,
was a finalist in Creative Nonfiction
magazine’s
recent “Anger & Revenge” contest. His poetry has appeared in Edison Literary Reviews, The Idiom, South Jersey Underground, and Towson U.'s Grub Street. He also currently writes for and edits
the investigative news blog U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor (tradeaidmonitor.com).
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