Peter Dabbene
Peter Dabbene is a Hamilton, New Jersey-based writer. Some of his stories can be found online at (parenthetical note) and Eyeshot, and in print in American Drivel Review. Another story is forthcoming in the Kearney Street Press music anthology. His poetry has been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Apple Valley Review, and California Quarterly, and is forthcoming in Bogg, Zillah, ByLine, and The Journal of New Jersey Poets. He has also published two story collections, Prime Movements and Glossolalia, as well as a novel, Mister Dreyfus' Demons. He enjoys Yankee Pot Roast, as reading material, and as an entrée.
Rockin' In Iraq
(Interview conducted by Peter Dabbene) Zakim Salah al-Awi, an Iraqi prisoner detained at a United States holding facility near Mosul for the last three years, has secretly published the first Iraqi criticism of American music. The slim volume is causing...