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Shane Allison
African Dancer Alan tried to do me dry, thinking that
Aunt Karen's House in Ozone Park, Queens At Andy's Deli
Back in the Day Bastard
Beth Birthday Poem for David
Blue Underpants Bryan's Jeans
Cars case of emergency
Cold Sweat Cologne & Cigarettes
Cruising Dancing in the Living Room That is in the Process of Being Remodeled
Derriere Displaced in New York
Drama Queen Drinking Antler's Semen
Elegy for Felicia Hayes 1973-1998 Fatboy or Sweet and Low Self-Esteem
Feminine Side Flesh
George Costanza Doesn't Love Me Girl at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Godfather Greg
Grown Men Hair, Scalp and Skin Oil Make for Great Lube
Hate He Said He Wanted to Get Naked With Me
he stepped over me Her
Hey Lover Hot Cuban Stud
How Come You Didn't Tell Me He Has AIDS? I Brought Cake
I Call You Phillip I Don't Want You Thinking That All Gay Men Like to Do Is Fuck
I Think My Friend Matt Is a Vampire I Want to Suck a Big Dick
I Was a Teenage Poet I Was Wonder Woman and Linda Carter Was the Perpetrator
If I Was the Editor of a Literary Magazine I'm His Nigger
I'm Not Leaving This Bathroom Until I'm Saving Myself for You Todd Pierce
In Your Name Jaime
Jesus Gave Me a Blowjob Jewish: A Love Poem
John: The Movie Kenny
Kicking and Screaming Kids
Kissing Love & Romance
Lush Life Matthew Killed Somebody
The Michael Lassell Pantoum Milk
The Morning After Night of the Living Dead My Nuts Are Titanium
Naked-Butt New York is Kicking My Black Ass
Pervert's Joy piss
Poem for Lenny Bruce A Poem for Leonardo DiCaprio
A Poem for Paul Poem in Celebration of My Penis
Poem to the Late Melvin Dixon in a Black and White Photo Pictured in James White Review 1988 Posing
Psycho Responding to Timothy Liu's The Size of It
Rimming Ryan Blackmer's Asshole Scott and John Plan to Blow Up the Jenny Jones Show
Searching for Allen Ginsberg Shit
Show Me the Man Who Pinched Your Ass Skin
Someone in Wyoming Loves Me Study of a Model in Calvin Klein Jeans
Sweet 18 Talking Dirty to Myself
Take it in the Butt Taking Brian Crowell by the Cock
Tearoom Poem They Don't Kiss
Thin Skin This Is for Real
This Is Where Frank O'Hara Lives to the guys that always want to know, what do you look like?
Tom Cruise Never Sucked My Cock Waffle House
When I Called Perry Brass at Two in the Morning White Boys Are Beautiful
With Why can't I call you sweetie?
Wondering Your Poems are the Poems that Make Me Shoot Loads: A Tribute to Antler


Yona Alon
A Year's Diary


George Anderson
Dr Katz Psychiatrist Phlegmatica
pride & prejudice The...


Josh Anderson
A Bullshitter's Manifesto Howdy, Neighbor


Mechell Arant
caught in the teeth get off my toes
a story of three ziplocks are hell


Charles Ardinger
Charles Ardinger Father and/or Abraham
On First Self-Portrait by Hearsay


Anne Lombardo Ardolino
Acrobatics Always
In The Fire It is one thing to kill yourself
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Mango Moon
The Naked Ache No Room
Not the West Village The Olde Marble Cemetery
The Park Too Damn Hot
Untitled #3


Esteban R. Arellano, Jr.
At Las Cruces catfish songs & simple prayers
For Lisa--Black Ants and Fruit Flies I Act Like a Chimpanzee and Howl Like a Motherfucker
i hear a stream represent
She Tells Me This Shit Ten Years Too Late Sister, Twilight Is A Thousand Candles God Burns For You
Smiling Death Songs and Other Poems The Story of Bear and Wolf and the Dream
Summer of the Sparrow Tonight I'm an Orphan


Richard Arnold
Different Universe Formication
Pronoun Paralysis Tornado


Matthew Lee Bain
All My So-Sharp and Pointy Things Eating Dust
Side Effects When I'm Moribund


Christopher Barnes
Bug-Eyed Flapper Gabby, Goddess of Touch
'Guerite I.M. A Latitude at My Fingertips
Refuge Space Shuttle Show


David-Matthew Barnes
Clockwork Give it to Me
Hollywood Is Gonna Fuck You If I Were
I'll Never Tell This Man's Watch


Mark Battelle
And latex cunts At large
she liked that other thing


Jason Bennett
Because rain talks to Leaning on a Razor
My Musician


J. Berk
an abstemious assembly Like I Know What Poetry Is
vulgar


Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Bitter Columbus Day
Concoction Counting Teeth
Crow Songs Face in the Sun
How Do You Feel? I Am Nobody
The Incident Making a Fist
A New Body One More Try
The Ruse Sitting in the Sun
The Skull-Smasher Small World
Stay Clean Stop the Devil
Talent to Spare Voices Like Conversations


Katy Bertrand
As the World Turns... Discovering that eggshell-colored
I Scream Sundae Juxtsupposed
Unconventional Manifestation Wearing my sweatshirt I am warm
Worddrops


Jason Van Blaricom
$3.04 Bring 'Em Down
Bully


Averil Bones
Condolence Delicious
Long Lost On Titan
Rubenesque She Called My Curves


Laurel Ann Bogen
Also Frankenstein Bones Dig this Dream
Building on Sand Closing the Door on the Icebox of Zero Possibilities
Dodging My Past Like a Gumshoe The Door of Love and Death
Harvest Come Home Imprint, May 1970
The Nameless Poem One
Orgami: The Unfolding Heart Shade
The Silk Road Slow Questions Nudge Like a Gentle Intruder
Spankings I've Known Still Listening to Suite Judy Blues
Washing a Language The Witness Tree


B. M. Bradley
1 62
After Arms
Balance Bed-Time Story
Beginning Beth
Breakfast Chocolate
Clench Closet
Cocksuckers Crawling
Dancer Dear Jesus
Empty Sensations Hyper-Boil
Kiss Old Days
Oh Baby One of Two Things
Out My Window Playground
Poet Points
Real Red
Room Sex
Saint Seventeen
Sick Silverlake
Slam Storyboard
Talk Talk Test
That Walk Three Hot Tears
Three-Way Split Time
Vague Would You


Jessica Brand
Beer with a friend My ex-boyfriend and I still meet
Prison


Rofiah Breen
Consequence How I Came to America
How Is the Body Held at Ease I'm telling you
The Mistake The Right
The Song White Noise


J Bridges
Bottles and Clits. The Connoisseur.
Crap. Haircut.
Insanity Is a Journey for the Brave. It's All a Case of A, B, C.
The Kitchen, the Cook, the Meat and Her Lover. Moosehead.
A Poem in Two Parts Due to a Lack of Self-Control Sliding.
When It Comes It Comes. Why?


Anselm Brocki
Art of Eating Census
Circling Nesting
Pose Yes


Teri Browning
The Big Universe Dead Cull
Nor Love, Nor Force Portrait of Woman
Transcendence


Michael H. Brownstein
Fire Lusting for Kali
Seedlings Three Daughters


Nick Bruno
If This Poem Were Hannibal Lecter Meltdown
Nightscape Old Keyboards
One Hand Clapping A Piece of Broccoli
Surrogate Poet Unprintable


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John Bryan
aspersions, counter-intelligence, to a foriegn language Asunder arvo
BBC affects fx Beautify
Bipolar Girls ' the biological symbol for the female comes from the representation of the hand Mirror of Venus '
Calvary Hospital can't make fire / can't make spears
Carcharodon magolodon Childhood/lum
theconcreteabstract Confrontation
Conquistador Conspiracy :)
Dip Skinnies Dog
(economy of madness) receiving an email from favoured girl & re: in Dhampiric form Faith
field of Mars Flashback
Goblin Shark Grand Moff Tarkin
The Great Canberra Fires of 18 / 01 / 03 haunted
Himmler at Posen How in cunt's name did I end up here?
Hubris Huitzilopochtli, post - conquest
Le Immaculate Magnetic In our darker moments
K - k - keith Kindergarten
Letter Forecast: Chance of Chain Life Affirming
Lip Spill the maze
Methuselah Trees Ms. X
Necromance new strain of porn ( , inventing a )
Order Quidnunc
relic Respect
Rockin' the Suburbs She didn't come, even after two hours
Somnambulist Suicide by Hanging: Images
Still Life Taboo
Throatcut To ways of joy and clarity
Top Myself Tzompantli
Umbrella Warning Signs
Weetangera Well of Knowledge
Wendigo Blues What Tracey Said
World War You The Writing of the Fits


Janet Buck
Anchors in Erratic Soil The Empty Bed
Like Brie Lost Nickels
Moss Turning Fish
White Cuff


Luke Buckham
Admit this to Women: alarm clocks trampled on the sidewalks, massah.
all the obvious shades ancient invitations
Attraction be still & travel with a new prayer
binocular necrosis black & white summer
columns for the many children I never was come
Earth Come Unstuck Eating in Daylight
everything at once extraterritorial triumph
forgetting all your wars The Glutton God
godfunk the agony rest a goodbye to most doors
heaven fits in my suitcase help me haul this night
Highway 95 --holy holy in the unholy dust--
hope we can wait, galileo. hrumph!
I Have Known i'll tell you what it is, honey
indigo snake in the orgone box it's raining bathtubs
the landfill symphonies the life whose little door is swinging shut
the loneliness of birth love's maniac
mars is warming up my short-cuts have all been paved
No Arrival. Perfect
a phantasmagoria featuring spastic & languid figures in opposition; redhead insomniac song
run a so-called Luddite's metaphysical chisel sends sparks
to enjoy unnamed fun
winter's comedian the white sand and the sun
You Asked Me To Tell You What's Going On Here So I'll Tell You: your mouth will stop here


Michael Burch
Goddess In Flight Convergence
Once Psycho Analysis


Bill Burns
Alien Probe All the Myriad Rivers Under Your Skin
The Aunt That Ate Milwaukee Creature Comforts
Future Perfect The High Road and Holy One
Night of the Irritable Dead On Escher and Becoming
The Other


Tim Button
Balut Concerning a Diary Found in the Woods
An Earthworm's Ars Poetica I've Bought a Bottle of Jim Beam
Just Some Prophet Oedipus in the Dark
Orichalcum Parade of Monkeys
A Sand Mandala at Low Tide


caine
let it be said, it's all been said stitches
when i stopped remembering a ladybug stepped out of the air conditioner


Kohsé Caldwell
After Day 2010 Dalmane -- 30 mg.
Doctor Your Herbs Kiss the Flour
Sequence


J. J. Campbell
as meaningless as we are breaking news
the fourth of july the shallow end of the gene pool


Jack Cannon
1973 The buildings I've built
Drawing the Blinds


Steve Caratzas
Catching Up with Frankenstein Enchanting Dachau
Later Has Passed, Never Just Started Maker
Memo from the Graverobber's Society Of Pleasing Odor to the Lord
Percodan Dreams Tattoo #7, 1995
The Tyrant Unmasked


Wendy Carlisle
'47 Chevy American Air
Aliens Baton Rouge
Colonel Tom Parker at the Pearly Gates Dog Days
How Could Norma Jean How to Travel
How You Know In California
Keeping up with the Dead Lost and Found
Love for the Undead Notes on the Hereafter
Silence Some Questions Raised by Observing the Church of the Firstborn Sign On Highway 99 S.
Speaking in Tongues Stories
Teeth More Importantly White Wolf


Amberlee Carter
after erratic encounters falling short
whitesocksNpinkpanties


Adam Case
Calvary Hill Review Court Ordered 100 Hours
Kitty's: Girls, Girls, Girls The Summer I Attended a Native American Literature Course And My Brother Lost a Wife


Travis Catsull
The Flood of Mathis The Last Raindrop
Mathis Answers The Soft Rejoice


Jamie Cavanagh
another rejection Canto Populi
A Dangerous Place The Fate of the Earnest
Stake in the Ass Visitors Late in Autumn


Michael Ceraolo
American Canto IV Education Bureaucrats (6)
Literary Bureaucrats (2) Starting Points (2)


Bill Chene
Garage Sale The Hunchback
Moral Majority Watch Spring
You're Most Like Me...


Joseph Chiappelli
Conversation with Frog Peyote Soul Ramble
Undulations of the Soul


Laurie Christenson
A Daily Thought Drop Any Coin and I Will Tell You More
Rare find Whatever


Tyler Clay
Abducted by Dawn Abortion
As a Place to Vent My Care As a Tomorrow That
As I Rounded the Corner Cleaned Up
A Dream Has Expired The Filmstrip Repeats
The Hell of Eternity I Know Not
I Wake in Ruptured Dreams It Said in Ink
It Was Naught but the Toss of a Quarter It's Easier to Think Of
It's Routine - A Trait - Light Seeps Through
A Lonely Wretch I Am Look for Me There
Monogomy Must
My New Mortality
Oh My God Outside, the Dark Clouds Move Slowly
Outside the Hum A Pretense Is Here
Reliance The Sky Switches On
She Falls from Balance, Sometimes She Kept You Alive
She Walked into the End Somewhere a Boy Throws a Stone
Stacks of Paper The Stillness Remembers
Stirring There Stood the Last
This Virgin Solitude Violated Forever
The Weather Changed What's an It?
You Can Make Me A Your Name Is Sister Seven?
You've Come a Distance


Kim Cochran
Doing a Little Time Wind Across the Moon
World of Black


Ira Cohen
Between Shit & Shinola A Brickbat for Herman Brood
For Roxanne & Marina Tsvetaeva Mandaran Vigil
Optical Time Delay The Stauffenberg Cycle


K. R. Copeland
Beat Blind Date: Bad Sign
Combo Platter Discovering April
Emphasis Eve-Like I
Fear of the Rabbit Finale
Good Posture Harebrained
Human Nature Hypothetical Display of Affection
I Wonder When I Am Dead Mediocrity
Nervousness Not a Dream; But Life
The Prose of Cons Red Lipstick
Role Reversal Scum Love
Should I Marry a Cannibal Still
A Taste of Breaking Up Terribly Twisted
Throb


R. Paul Craig
Dad The Leap
The Person


Laura Craig Mason
Dance Inner Peace Doesn't Sell
Rootless Seasick


Chris D'Errico
Ambulance Before I Float (Through Your Back Porch Still Buttoning My Shirt)
Cut & Bleed God's Special Nonsense Creation
High i'm the exterminator
Noble Rot Possessions
She Likes the Blues Singer Street Music


Ed da Silveira, Jr.
An Abbreviated History of the U.S. through the Late 1800's Architectural Mutations in the American Trajectory
Fulcrum Point Los Angeles in Winter
¡Mira Guey! (Hey Asshole!)


Steve Dalachinsky
columns of light The Feminine
La Fenice fragments from the life of a sleepwalker
Overcast the Panama Francis Big Band in Washington Square Park - Contemporary Poetry #2
Patti Smith's Fingers the phone call (first)
the rain storm rear window 1
rear window 2 the state of the empire
we live in the faces on the wall yesterday my eyes were a garden


Dancing Bear
Back Brian's Mom
The Cover of Her Notebook God Business
Layaway Menthol Cigarettes
Michael Madsen Moving Day
Revisionist Ridin' the Road to Hell
Taking the Stud Home


T. O. Davis
Aches Fencing
The Freudian Position When you told me he fucked you all night


Holly Day
All Souls' Eve Go Away
Grubworm Man


Kristen Day
boxing the curves Normal, Crazy, and St. Peter's Girlfriend
Sharing the Love


Barbara DeCesare
2:30 AM Pennsylvania Avenue Aria
Dogs and Doves Like No Plague
True Love


L. J. Denney
Irony Moments of Desperation
Over the Rhine


K. M. Dersley
Pulp (audio only)


Jim DeWitt
Butt-Busting Moments Explode Go Manicure Your Eyelashes
Mannequin over in Sportswear Stain-Free Up-Standing
Taste Time Appreciation


Brian Downes
#6 #16
#19 No #21
#36 Shy Angel
War Song


Andrea Drugay
Fuschia, or, For heaven's sake I left the light on by mistake Godspeed
Jar of Coins


Jim Dunlap
Fanning the Embers A Proctological Version of "What Goes Around Comes Around"
Tropics' Tithes Too Much Thinking Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
War on the Homefront


john e
jean tectonics
true crime story


Alethea Eason
Alethea at Disneyland (3) with Donna Kuhn Alethea's Mermaid (5) with Donna Kuhn
Barry Bonds Holy Man
Primitive Body Queen of Fire (2) with Donna Kuhn
We Wait


R. C. Edrington
After Heroin As she sleeps
B&D Chorizo & Eggs
Cutter Dumbass Artist
Ghosts of Hollywood Murder
pencil slash Sick Fucks
Stay


Gerald England
And Every Star Shall Shine Clinging to the Valley
Dreams The Image-Maker
Lame Dog Love Poem My Last Poem about Snow
Traces You, Being Absent, and the Cat


Kaan Erkam
A Cat Died Today Memory


Michael Estabrook
2 Crows at the Side of the Road Boxes, Baskets and Masks
the Staten Island Ferry Strangest Thing Really


Linda Etheridge
A Former Christmas Hannah
Keep the Faith Libra
Love Reckoning Sigh
Up Country Inn


Richard Fein
Cetacean Creed The Daughter's Version
Dynamics of Capitalism Envy
Estate Appraisal The Old Neanderthal Shaman Muses
One Night Stand A Question of Thirteen Seconds


Laura Fletcher
Absorb And to Hold Your Hand for Just this One Night
Bourgeois Brand New Purse
Damp Disturbances
Do You Ever Wonder How Much of Life Is a Stunt? A Drunk Rambling
DUI Feminism
Good Guys He Is Reaching
Hit and Run I Give God an Erection
I Wish I Could Be Silly More Often imeyou
Home Again Hot Tears
Jesus Mary Mother of Christ Knife: Mine
The Librarian Multimedia
My Patience Has Expired ode to elmer
Recollections (What's Swept Under the Carpet) Rings
Ripped Off A Rock
sadness, a religion obnoxious ...said a virgin to a woman
Self-Confession Sexual Invalid
Simple Opportunities Singular
Sinsation A Short Film
Sleep ...a sort of letter to an ex
Thumper Time Warp
Toothless You Used to be My Carpet


Dennis Formento
tongue paint with Donna Kuhn


Michael Foster
Easy Street In Wine, Prayer
Leaving Complacency Making Do
Mining Fool's Gold Untilted
Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang


Jason Paul Fox
An Ecstatic Nightmare A Smile of Bone


Rich Furman
The best years Boldly going nowhere
Broke Final curtain
A nightmare that never should have been written No poems, no peace
Wayang What I thought about looking out the window as a kid


Sara Gaffney-Gilbertson
The Apple Tree Bloomed My Silence
Peering through Zoo Bars The Power Is in Me
The Sound of Alone


Ray Gallucci
Assault Denouement
Earthworms Flown the Coop
"Four" Cast Phased Out
Prey Tell Replay at Infinity
Reunion Uncertainty


Tony Gallucci
The Hum of High Wires Melissa in the Year of Nothing Else to Do
Sometimes Suicide Is Not Enough


Izabel Sonia Ganz
Haiku for Four Seasons Hueing the Eye
A Life, Wasted Quitting Time
U N S C R A M B L I N G


Joseph Garner
Amnion, allantois, chorion The cast
Echo forever Eight reasons to call Paris
The eyes have it Tell the graphologist, tell the FBI
Trinity


Ricky Garni
1.22 Ode, Written on 5.23 Coffin
Lazy Bones of Boston poetry
Thelnt & Shin


Daniel Garrett
Night Came A Remembrance of Class
We confused intensities


Joseph Gartrell
If This, Then That Just Turned 16: The Waif's In The Kitchen With His Girlfriend And He's In Love
Motherless Mama's Boy


Emma Alvarez Gibson
2:45 Dismissal And a Fighter by His Trade
The Early Show Never
Subtext


Jamie Lynn Gilbert
Cynthia Declaration
Kait Magenta Mood
Prisoner of Elm Street, Apt. 6A


jj goss
Elimination Escapism
Leave of Absence Wedding Function


Candy M. Gourlay
Eighteenth Day Elegy Jazz at Four a.m.
Pieces of Agony


Taylor Graham
471 Booth Street Care Giving and Taking
Field Notes, 31 Jul Meltdown
Music-in-Fusion Tuesday 4:59 A.M.
Two Orders of Menudo Wake Up


Andrea Grant
Associate Genetica
It's Like I'm Not Even There


Daniel Green of Florida
Aging Memory Big Bang
Big Talk Bucephalus
Cinderella Concert in the Park
Epizootic Eyebrows Raised
The Glance Gorgon
Hell's Kitchen 1916 Interval of Mortality
Making Love Minnie
Near Thing in Chitwan Nightmare
Pelagic Garden: Eleuthera Papua New Guinea
Sartorials Sound Effects
Stigmata A Tattered Hat


John Grey
Bowery Country of the Blind 2
Foxy Lady Frog 4
No Reflection That First Time
Wake Up When she found out about him


Paul Grillo
Broken Moons, Neon Echoes The Fruits of the Harvest
Schindler's Fist This Kingdom Without Dawn


Chaya Grossberg
Imagine a very dark room Light hits my heart
Light hits my heart and the thin branches with the same promise Water
With invisible strength and dull knives under a bright light WOW


Gabor G. Gyukics
Down, Around New York Mourning
Private Dead Slow Burning
When They Found Me Dead


Carissa Halston
The Small-Winged Angel


Al Hamblen
Alku Critique This
She's a Kind and Gentle Person With Apologies to Lynyrd Skynyrd


Annalynn Hammond
Funktionslust Instructions for a Desert Walk
Love Calls for Horns and Bullets On Discovering the Bones of a Deer in the Woods I am Immediately Elated
Snappers What Pus Does to Us
When It's Good


Joe Hart
Ars brevis Caroline's Poem
Dead Poets Society Drunk
George, my love Incubus
Liebestod The next morning
On George's other friends A short poem about George and me


Mark Hartenbach
absolom blues confirmation day
even the sparrows are calling for my head i cannot hear america trying to sing
let's not talk about suffering pentecostal thud
prayer wheels, hoops of fire & big fat zeros right now
schizophrenia taoist head on a stick
the thirteenth passion


John R. Harford
Elixir Ghosts
The Prophet


Jonathan Hayes
99.9% absinthe
Acoustic Sunrise 104.5 FM and now
Arles Bent
The Bottom Line Cobb
Crack Crippled Boy
Diabolical drivel unprivileged on a ledge holding onto her while looking at mean black birds and proletarian gray birds splashing our language with afternoon pond wetness while cooling off and making a beakment by the Japanese rock garden on a campus which will remain known Godiva and Tiffany
Good Afternoon Harvest Moon
Klepto Therapy Natural Selection
On Getting Out of Bed On Telegraph Avenue
St. Paul Hotel Twenty Years
Victoria's Secret and Compact Disc Wasp and Apple Gargonzola Salad
What


rebekah hearn
across the world dinner conversation
just another red light a living pandora, bright and shiny
thoughts after spring break


Jason Hecker
The 100th Man Coyote v ACME
Decisions, Decisions Dirt
More Worthless Advice None for Me, Thanks
Ode to a Bunch of Dandelions Offensive Halfwit
Rejection Slips The Touch of God
Work


David Hill
Adonis's Abdomen Announcement
Glad A quick lesson in English tenses


Eric Hoffman
Conversation Piece Evening News
Four Years War Fought Hard


Scott Holstad
arrest asking for it
Cloudy, but who cares? EST
Friendly Offer The Hell of it All
Hush Inside, ya...
Lisa Live With It
No More Mochas poems
Roller Coaster truths
The Words


Forrest Houlette
Americruiser The Capitol Holding Building, Louisville, Kentucky
The Pessimist Pulling
When Someone Is Where They Should Not Be Where to Sit at a Reading


Byron Howell
Body Worship with Shawn Liquia His Soft Hands
Love for Sale My Real Mother - The Bitch
Rocky Slightly Infatuated
Spanish Fly with Shawn Liquia The Spider and the Fly
Tossing the Salad