"R is for . . ."
Visual Poetry by Amanda Earl, January 2015
Amanda Earl is the author of Kiki (Chaudiere Books, 2014) and Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl. Amanda is also the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the publisher of AngelHousePress and its transgressive imprint, DevilHouse. Her visual poetry has appeared in the Last Vispo Anthology with exhibits in Russia and Canada, as well as DrunkenBoat.com, the Volta, Jacket2, Tip of the Knife, the New Post Literate, and the Bleed.
Seven Pop-Ups by Joel Chace
January 2015
Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as, The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity's Kitchen, and Jacket. He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections, most recently Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, Blake's Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Whole Cloth, from Avantacular Press, Red Power, from Quarter After Press, Kansoz, from Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press, and Web Too, from Tonerworks.
Three Scorpions by Joel Chace
January 2015
"Treason has done his worst. Burst, smilingly, I believe
he said. Instead of accuracy,
they tried for maximum disruption.
"NUDE GIRL ORDER," "found poem from soon," and "Federal Reserve Boink"
by john e, January 2015
"Knowing now that I've been led through a life of guilt trips and unnecessary servitude, I opt for the duet of two bodies, in any and all of its possible cantations. A man on the downward slope, I finally realize even this may be tainted at times—a song and dance to keep one weary."
Three Poems by Michael McAloran
"in the asking of for all tomorrow's parties/ in the asking of the self to unbecome/ unrooted in the non-snare of/ the nothing of that is no snare +1/ no none +1/ dragging the unrepentant into the light what light/ spurious as the absenteeism of/ in the collapse of else what matter/"
"What We're Supposed to Do," "Chinatown," and "For All I Know on a Day Like Any Other"
by Jay Passer, January 2015
"We pressed against the moonlit doorway
She gave herself so freely I thought I might
Fuck her right there in strobes of urban alacrity."
"Ether," "Filing System," and "St. Jude's Hostel"
by Alan Fyfe, January 2015
"Discourse mightily
on the smallness of her hands.
Put good words all around her."
"A Homing," "Song," and "Into an Animal Bone"
by Laura Carter, January 2015
"Something tells me an ending's regret is
a greater portion,
rescinding out into a new form of quest.
Something tells me I will be okay."
Three Sonnets from 555
by John Lowther, January 2015
"I'm a gun and there is someone who puts the bullets.
There's a place to go just know you will not return.
Sandman's orders."
"New Orleans poetry scene, taking turns or the sea's terms, and the dead that don't float"
by Vincent A. Cellucci and Christopher Shipman, January 2015
"I'm afraid to go in afraid to go
back to sleep to sink"
"A Citizen above Suspicion, We Live in Negative Space, and New Chilling Picto-Fiction"
by Peter Marra, January 2015
"high heels encapsulated in descending music fade away,
leaving only us to use them again and again
and to hand them over for a photo shoot of mundane
sexual activity: thighs wet and slimy,
detecting infrared emissions of aggression."
"crafted listening amid a sole desire to connect movement," "object|ive-oriented," and "toward a solitary watching"
by Felino A. Soriano, January 2015
"silence becoming
staccato, searing cadence
inward then
the exhale burns a breathing"
"Versus," "Practice," and "Eventual Opacity"
by Sheila E. Murphy, January 2015
"Start as though no finish will occur. Scrub away the ruse for focus on affordable small tales the color yarn. Emotion has a place equivalent to posted vacancy. Inform the hearers you intend to stay taut within earshot."
"and here the dead god," "corpses waiting," "absences in us," and "a silence"
by David McLean, January 2015
"and here the dead god was presence stopping
the whole bizarre scam, nothing resting
in-itself a dream of absence unfolded"
"A Tyranny of Rules, Down Where the Roses Grow, and Gimme Shelter"
by Allie Marini Batts, January 2015
"when my body meets
another body after last call, whiskey-soaked,
a cocktail napkin shredded— fibers like the peel of chapped lips"
Thirty-One Visual Poems by John M. Bennett
January 2015
John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of Lost and Found Times (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
"So Say the Fundementalists"
by Ally Malinenko, May 2014
beside if evolution were true
there'd be vampires and werewolves
cause we'd have evolved
to beat
death"
"T'Shuva"
by Alan Fyfe, May 2014
"At the other corner of the balcony,
there's the ghost of a living girl
that may be half dead yet.
She stands, smoking."
"A Day in Marble Hill"
by Charles Clifford Brooks III, May 2014
"This malaise quells the urge
to cut grass,
repaint the shutters,
or get a divorce."
"Drawing Room"
by Benjamin Bailey, May 2014
'I still smell the rich tobacco in his drawing room.
The room where he always sat: within the house, but apart from it,
And the place where later on in life he was attended to,
"made comfortable".'
"Feathers in da Sky"
by Joe Balaz, May 2014
"Research & Development
foa da academic position
at da university—
— objective: infiltrate
wit wun smile'"
"la política del fin" and "funnel time"
by John M. Bennett, May 2014
",a tubeworm snores .))w
ash the cave deck the
rocks with spit stuff
the tunnel with corn your
head collection shaking"
"That starless night" and "Friendly Wars"
by Ndaba Sibanda, May 2014
"Ever since his appointment to the lofty position of defence minister, he seemed to be gripped by some phobia. Some residents claimed the irrational fear stemmed from the possibility that he did not know what he was expected to do. Others thought that he was a lucky coward who found himself having to oversee a strategic security portfolio which he did not deserve or understand."
"we" and "Daytura"
by Mark Young, May 2014
"modern research has in
fact now documented
through a safety
analysis of the Ulchin"
"psychedelic mishap pt 1" and "Into the River of Deceit She Pulled Me Down"
by L. Wayne Russell, May 2014
"the blue recluse in the black leather coat
side steps like a hermit crab over the man
lying lowly in the gutter, that man is me,
look at him bleed! all the while..."
"Two days after the shooting" and "Almost date raped"
by Jay Sizemore, May 2014
"He never fooled himself into believing
that music could start a revolution,
that words could stop a war
the way darkness could drain
color from a tan."
"Female Reproductive System" and "One Year Later"
by Anne Elezabeth Pluto, May 2014
"They could be girls names, recited
In Latin to call up Mary or the Devil
Whispered softly to bring on menus,
Pregnancy, and the pleasure in its making"
"Scaling the Dream Face All Night" and "Fire"
by David Allen Sullivan, May 2014
"Eighteen-eighty-seven.
In this print, the Dartmouth Inn
wears a blotchy skin,"
"Black Coffee" and "All This Remembering"
by Clare L. Martin, May 2014
"Bury it so
even you will forget. Stare
into the void
of your cup."
"Crude" and "The Laughter Mechanic"
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, May 2014
"The laughter mechanic's arrival is routine. He rents an office, puts ads in the Pennysaver and arranges his tools—funny car, one liner, banana peel. He waits."
"Scrubby English" and "Seaward Grudge"
by Jeff Harrison, May 2014
"there were more than one? surely
a couple of them at least will
top this writing with wish words
who half in kicks grow skill - hist!,
someone rouses my syllables:"
"would you wallow in the syrup gash?," "could be the missing jigsaw in the piece," and "interrupted harshline was totally what i needed"
by Billy Cancel, May 2014
could be the missing jigsaw in the piece
where are you going bleeding pin cushion
plugged in that way?
is it sufficiently important raven cruel?
"vi-," "vii-," and "ix-"
by Michael McAloran, May 2014
"...slivers of/ paper thin/ slivers of the/ night's bone orchards claim of the/ semblance of knowing/ where the spoken is of all erased/ velvet the rush of death's parry/ endless sight or light/ what matter/ piss faculty/ less or more or lessened/ ashen flowers smoke in pale light/ given back the taste of bled and after-follow/ till drain of dawn and the echo-chamber of cylindrical..."
"Ethan has nowhere to go"
by Alexandra Naugton, based on the missing short story by Jeremy Hight, April 2014
her catafalque» a quiet kitchen table covered with notebooks scrap papers ringed with coffee spills» anointing idioms with balms» ash she studied dead words made places on their graves» tended to them
a quiet kitchen not visitable any longer she sat.
"Love Has Been Liquidated, Volume 3"
by John Bryan, October 2013
"Love Has Been Liquidated: Volume 3" is a 66-section choose-your-own-adventure A Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, even role-playing prose poem, in which the author moves away from chain letters and Internet memes and towards the total, multiversal destruction of romance. With dinosaurs.
Tom Bradley reads from We'll See Who Seduces Whom
by Tom Bradley and David Aronson, October 2013
On September 28, 2013, Unlikely Books released We'll See Who Seduces Whom, a full-color ekphrastic graphic longpoem with text by Tom Bradley based on images by David Aronson. Tom from their book at the release party at Innisfree Poetry Books & Café in Boulder, Colorado.
