CANNED - Table of contents

CANNED – Working-class verse about being out of work, bumped, booted, laid-off, let-go, sacked, fired and down-sized.

SIDE BY SIDE
TELL THE WIFE **
SADSACK
FIRST TIME
GOOD THINGS ABOUT BEING OUT OF WORK
TEN MINUTES **
THERE’S THAT PICTURE **
THAT STUPID JOB
A SUCKER AND A BUCK
STATISTIC
A WHOLE NEW WORLD
WANT ADS
YOU GOOD AT SOMETHING
GREATEST WEAKNESS
YOU MUST LIKE FOOD
THE FIRING MONTH
WHAT KIND OF WORK YOU OUT OF
ELEVATOR PITCH
INTERVIEW SUIT
NOON CLOUDS
AIN’T LAZY
MY DAUGHTER’S JUNIOR PROM
WHEN I GO POSTAL **
SAVING FOR THE PLUMBER
LET US COMPARE
BETTER LUCK
HOMELESS AT CHRISTMAS **
EGG
HIERARCHY OF SEAGULLS
JOB ROCK
SANITY CLAUSE
SNOOPY HAT **
FIXING THE ROOF
HANDS IN SOCKS **
FREE LUNCH
THAT’S WHY THEY CALL IT
THE OLD GUYS HATED ME
HURLING
FEATHERING THE FORKLIFT
MIRROR
SEAGULLS FOR LUNCH **
TWO PAYCHECKS
LUCKY SURVIVOR
EVEN PRISONERS GET LUNCH **
FIRING
COLD SMOKERS
BIG UGLIES
NOTHING PERSONAL
HAPLESS COMMUTERS
LUNCH BOX **
YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME
ME AND HERBIE HAVE A BET

** Published

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TEN MINUTES - Live reading 11/7, Paterson

Anthony Buccino will read his poem “Ten Minutes”

at 1 p.m., on Saturday, Nov. 7
at the Hamilton Club Building,
32 Church Street, Paterson, N.J.

He will join the winners of the 2009 ALLEN GINSBERG POETRY AWARDS, in which his poem was awarded Honorable Mention.

The Poetry Center was awarded a Citation of Excellence and is funded, in partly a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
One College Boulevard, Paterson, New Jersey 07505-1179

Visit our website at www.pccc.edu/poetry or call 973-684-6555

"Ten Minutes" is scheduled to appear in the upcoming CANNED collection.

A brief bio

ANTHONY BUCCINO has published seven books including three poetry collections AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty, Voices On The Bus and One Morning In Jersey City.

His poem Ten Minutes was honorable mention in the 2009 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His poem Hands In Socks was named Editor's Choice in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards.

His poems appear in Celebrating William Carlos Williams and The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry; The American Voice in Poetry: the Legacy of Whitman, Williams, and Ginsberg;

And these literary journals:

CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians; Edison Literary Review; Journal of New Jersey Poets; Medusa’s Kitchen; MEWS; More Sweet Lemons; PowWow Review; Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs); Raving Dove; The Idiom; The Poem Factory; Up And Under; and Voices in Italian Americana.