No Tell Motel's Nominations for Sundress' 2009 Best of the Net Anthology

"from, The Adventures of Beauty Girl" (2, 3, 4, 5) by Robyn Art

"A ___ is a World, a Windstorm, a Love Letter Lost in the Breeze" by Fritz Ward

"The Survives" by Shane McCrae

"A Crush in Dream Time" by Lea Graham

"Departure" by Laynie Browne

"Shrapnel's dotter" by Kirsten Kaschock

This Week at No Tell Motel

Arlene Ang slices the cockscomb with a blade before feeding it to the rooster this week at No Tell Motel.

No Tell's Fan Page

Not one we created ourselves, but one created by honest to goodness strangers who seem to like us. They really like us. Check it out.

Best American Poetry 2009

The Best American Poetry 2009 (edited by David Wagoner) is available now.

Included in this year's selection is Craig Morgan Teicher's poem "Ultimately Justice Directs Them" first published in No Tell Motel.

This Week at No Tell

David Wolach tries to cup a burning artery this week at No Tell Motel.

12 or 20 questions: with Lea Graham

Always for me the question of place is central. I still am trying to figure out how geography and all that goes along with it informs our language and music. Maybe this comes out of feeling like an “outsider” because of where I grew up—if that even exists anymore. I’m not sure. But even that I find so curious. How was it that my early associations of culture, art, and being a writer, in particular, were not with the place I was from? Place is so important, even if our notions of it are based out of misinformation or stereotypes. But besides all of that, as I travel around I still believe to a certain extent “change your geography, change your mind.

This Week at No Tell

Lauren Kizi-Ann Alleyne has learned to live well enough without them this week at No Tell Motel.

This Week at No Tell

Carolyn Guinzio doesn't mean to be kind or unkind this week at No Tell Motel.