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Outside the Clinic
by Andrew Rihn, March 2010
In 2009, we of Unlikely ran The First Annual WRITE REAL GOOD Poetry Chapbook contest, judged by Michael Harold, Anne McMillen, and Belinda Subraman. Outside the Clinic was the second-place entrant, "losing" by a fraction of a point. Although we didn't have the budget to declare two winners, we knew that we couldn't let this outstanding manuscript go unread, and were delighted when Andrew Rihn agreed to let us to run it as a free e-book.
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Six Paintings by Janet Snell
Janet Snell is a graduate, magna-cum-laude, of the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studied painting with the late Ed Dugmore. She has shown her work in New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Cleveland and other cities, and is the author of two books of art with poems: Flytrap (Cleveland State University Press Poetry Center, 1990) and Heads (March Street Press, 1998).
Also in Visual Art: Four Photographs by Michael Crowley
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Three Songs by The Train Wrecks
The Train Wrecks have only been releasing music for the last three years. That isn't terribly noteworthy until you actually sit down and listen to a song like "Desert Gunfire." It's not just a great piece of lyrical storytelling, well within the traditions of their musical heroes. The song is a well-tuned and well-played blast of old-school country and blues.
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Such Lofty Encounters (Rarely Forgotten)
by Hydropods, with animation by Cyril Victor
"They were prudes then, and they were prudes when they died."
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Night of the Living Dead: The Party of Palin: An Unguided Anabolic Verboid For Reverdy Gliddon and Karl Johnson
by Jim Chaffee
'Note that these people are not fiscal conservatives; fiscal conservatism is incompatible with militarism. Militarists spend whatever is necessary to build military dominance to terrify other nations. That a significant portion of this spending is for bluster value is evidenced by the lack of US military success in actual warfare. Consider the fact that when the US went to war in Iraq, its too-few troops were poorly equipped despite the billions spent on "defense."'
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Scheherazade
by John Kuligowski
"First and foremost, this is not a story about your home, wherever that is. Secondly, America and Iraq are the same place. Now that you've taken in the preliminaries, the story can begin, but like a bad dream, one of those that seem to run on an eternal loop. That way you'll know the story like your left hand. Familiar terrain, you'll think. And that's a good thing. That's the nature of stories and bad dreams."
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Three Poems by Jason Neese
"matrix mouth had the obscene density of televangelist tears. both quickly put out a retraction and became saved in waves under a small body of water that is later recanted and done again, then, cosigned by sin and your child-self which is actually trapped inside your adult-self wondering how the fuck it can get out
in a way that doesn't compromise your adult-self's position."
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An Interview with Charles Plymell
by Catfish McDaris
"Montreal has been good to me. I was there with Burroughs, Ginsberg, Waldman, Giomo, Mary and Claude Pelieu at the Bibliotec National, in the 70's. Before we went on stage we were having dinner—Ginsberg ordered milk! Burroughs reprimanded him like he didn't have any sense, saying he didn't know what milk would do to his throat, etc. Burroughs angrily ordered his vodka."
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Throw Out Your Sunscreen, You Pale People, and Get a Life!
Opposites Day by Tantra Bensko, March 2010
"While many of us have been careful not to use sunscreen for years because the information was out there all along, now, people en masse are starting to throw their chemical tubes in the trash, where they belong. Well, it's about time, and now, the effects of vitamin D are all the rage as effective against the flu, and more. The main message is—the sun is good for you."
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"death+love" and "myth+love"
by Brad Elliot, October 2006
"Just let me say that when you arrive in my country on a dark street with all your drugs and nothing to do but walk down the main street towards the zocalo we will pantomime meaning to get meaning across to you it will be exhausting the black smog in the open market looking for a place to eat we find a side alley filled with smoke the smell of human flesh carne asada and chorizo on the grill"
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