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Apr 22
Midwest Small Press Festival
Greetings! We are writing as a group of Milwaukee-based independent literary presses including Rescue Press, New American Press, Plumberries Press, Burdock Magazine and others. Currently, we are curating what we hope to be the 1st annual Midwest Small Press Festival, over the weekend of June 1st-3rd. Due in part to your own investment in independent …
Apr 21
Consequences
You were chasing demons with a Marlin .22 magnum rifle: floating demons, carried by wind and gray mist. Demons who showed their horrifically hideous distorted faces only through glass or in mirrors. Raising the rifle when the howling spirits appeared, you pulled the trigger. But never hit your target. The bullet passed straight through them. …
Apr 20
New Book out from Punk Hostage Press by A. Razor
Punk Hostage Press has recently released a 216 page poetry/prose compilation from renowned American author: A. Razor entitled: Better Than A Gun In A Knife Fight. Perfect-Bound, crisp and sometimes Dadaist in content, it is filled to the brim with the PHP editor’s rapier wit and precision, as well as an engaging introduction from Bucky …
Apr 18
20 years ago
Communism fell in Eastern Europe and the fascists and criminals took over and they’ve cut down all the trees and sunflowers and all the young are leaving cuz there ain’t no jobs and there ain’t no hope either so long as that 3-headed monster called America stomps all over the world but there’s Fidel raising …
Apr 15
status update will carry over
The problem with daylight, like it’s been on since dawn (see?) crack of, and billabong of garbage men having come and gone for six long hours now like it’s two in the after noon, I really ought to be writing about garbage men woke me into guilt, like clattering metal lids, battering ram of hydraulics …
Apr 12
Inscriptions
Enlightenment’s swat team shoves its way in takes command secures the outpost tallies up the phantom body count whites out all its previous defeats While you you wander off grope beneath the trestles and along the sewers eyes shut fingers sensitized to cuts abrasions fugitive graffiti There’s no Rosetta Stone for this your hand lingers and contorts to reenact the …
Apr 09
Jesus vs. the Real Thing
My Bois d’Ilet can stop the holes from grabbing me in the night. Your Holy Spirit play hanky-panky with Jewish virgins. My Erzulie can swear and kiss; your Mary, dressed in blue, pales before her million candles. My Legba yield both eggs and sperm; your sweet Jesus stay limp and yield only Green Stamps for …
Apr 06
Take Me Home
After the movie I saw alone, I wandered into the bar. My throat clenched and my chest heaved to spot Cody. The ease of his toothy smile, the way he slung his arm around the shoulders of whomever made him laugh, the sandy blonde hair sweeping over his eyes. I discarded my paperback novel on …
Apr 03
Untitled Lesbian Poem
Sex is overrated G to XYZ and Love is too hard {taking up the ass}. That’s why i turned trannie and hit on a bi-sexual Adult Video and Toy Store attendant whose butch lesbian girlfriend ran me down and whipped my ass on the maxi-pad isle at the grocery store for quick clean-up. Yes, she …