Poems for the Downtrodden Millennium

Las Vegas writer Peter Magliocco tackles the grit of Las Vegas life in his latest poetry collection Poems for the Downtrodden Millennium, where junkies, strippers, prostitutes and former beauty queens all take a turn under the spotlight. Published by The Medulla Review Publishing, the collection is a dark look at the ever-evolving modern world, and Magliocco's powerful narrative voice ventures into bold storytelling that elevates the mundane into something impossible to ignore. "But there are things we know nothing of," he writes. "Dreams that violate our youth/Turning us old too quick." A sense of loneliness permeates the world Magliocco has created, and its characters are starved for beauty, substance, and love: "I am hungry, Mother," the narrator cries in the melancholy piece "The Spoiled Plums." Magliocco's impressive list of credentials includes several collections of poetry and full-length sci-fi novels, four nominations for the Pushcart Prize for poetry and fiction, and more than 25 years editing the lit-zine ART: MAG. He's been published in a multitude of publications, including Gold Dust, Unlikely Stories, Tryst, The Beat, and Misfit Magazine.