Rexstocklin.com Website Review

“Rex Stocklin has pulled a poetic rabbit out of his hat, squeaking just past expectations of what poetry should be, in his aptly named Wiggle Room. Each poem in the collection is a morsel of wit, without being overly freighted with expectations of what a poem should do or be. There’s little to no punctuation and most people can’t pull that off, but once you settle on the idea that each ‘thoughtlet’ is only a piece in the stream of consciousness the poet shares, this works quite well. An enjoyable read from start to finish.” ~ “Rex Stocklin wills a wider gap in Wiggle Room. The wit, word play, and pleasing rhymes that pepper his haiku and limericks don a resolute I have become familiar with Rex's ability to turn a phrase or two after reading several years worth of family Christmas letters, but this compilation is a leap forward. It boxed a whole bunch of thoughts into little tiny nuggets, hidden inside a printed game or word-play. I wasn't able to speed read them. Nor could I read them just once and parse out the whole story. It often took several times on different days for the 'a-ha!' moment to hit me. Days for my head to unravel the intertwined subtleties of the words and sometimes even the actual point. I think I found all the Easter eggs, but that may change when I read them again. Anyway, I am hardly a creative writing critic, so let I have read Wiggle Room multiple times and enjoy it more and get more out of it with each read. The cleverness with words is uncanny, but no surprise to me having heard Rex speak so well over the years. The poems range from hysterical (esp. Next and Computers) to dark and brooding, or simply goofy. Of course, I particularly like St*oke and Broke As*. I bet Rex would also be quite good at prose and writing Rex was born a boy in the mid-'50s in rural South Central Indiana, grew up in the big city of Indianapolis, and upon graduation, set off for college at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. With minimum effort, he still managed to graduate with a a bachelor's degree in