Jul 14
Citizens for Decent Literature is a project of The Literary Underground. CfDL #7 is now live. Alan Catlin, Tim Murray, Carl Miller Daniels, Len Kuntz, Leah Angstman, Michael D. Grover, Brian W. Fugett, Larry Duncan, David Blaine, Bree, William Taylor Jr., Sarah E. Alderman, Ted Jackins, Heather Dorn, H. Lynnette Barr, Rebecca Ferlotti, J Claudius …
Jul 10
Announcing the Silver Birch Press NOIR Erasure Poetry Anthology, a collection of passages from hardboiled detective novels — by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, and others — with sections marked out to create poems. If you’re unfamiliar with erasure poetry, check out our posts that feature The Great Gatsby erasure poems by james (w) …
Jul 07
ZYGOTE IN MY RADIO! TONIGHT!!! Saturday, July 6th. 9pm Pacific/11pm Central Open Mic/Free-for-All. Call in to (805) 856-2808 join us for the debut of Zygote in my Coffee #142. Great new work by Doug Draime, William Taylor Jr., Cassandra Dallett, Ian Mullins, Michael Cuglietta, John Bennett, J.J. Campbell, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Walter Beck, Misti Rainwater-Lites, …
Jul 07
Underground report: denver. January 20, 2013 First time back in my office in a week. I just didn’t want to come in here. 1. it’s a damn mess. It happens. Getting ready for a trip/event, just start throwing stuff everywhere in a frenzy to get everything done. And still I don’t get it all done, …
Jul 07
Underground Pre-Report: Cleveland, Ohio. April 15, 2013 miles and miles to go just days from cleveland and i’m using up wishes, hoping the jeep is fixed in time but know i’ll get there either way. maybe the howll-mobile rides again. maybe i skip the gps and get lost among the windmills in indiana. maybe just …
Jul 07
Underground report: Carlinville, Illinois. March 2013 I didn’t get lost until the way home. Which is usually the way it happens since I don’t bother with directions at that point. Not a big deal though since it was daylight and I have a general sense of the area already. I was able to clip down …
Jul 07
Underground Report: Jacksonville, Illinois. June 24, 2013 you can try to make sense of it, or … (just say Thank You) so how did this all come together? the reporter asks hhmmm. why isn’t this wifi working? how late are we running? does anyone have an extension cord?? how did what…? he should have been …
Jul 07
I don’t think that I’ll age well. I was counting on poetry to keep me young like some kind of island or some shit that gives the mind a much needed respite… but look at Cummings: never worked a straight job; traveled to Europe frequently; given a generous allowance; had someone else father his child; …
Jul 07
SHIT, I muttered, and adjusted my ballsack. I’m pretty sure this woman will be the death of me, I thought. She wouldn’t stop talking about her best friend, Karen, from Long Island with a PhD in biology. I vaguely remember her mentioning painting her nails this morning. Bright red. She flashed them in my face. …