"Tree of Life A Manifesto"
by Louise Landes Levi, July 2012
"Alas,
For the loss
Of cultural focus, literally
Architectural & natural identity,"
a subsection from xems
by j/j hastain, July 2012
"Why were there no reports regarding sexual stimulus of the clitoris in this context? Was it because the neurosurgeons did not care to look at the subtle radiances that emanate from a stroked clit? Or were they not even able to see those radiances? Did they think working with the nipples and the penises was somehow easier to gauge because those organs worked in more obvious ways?"
"genius out of me" and "she asks me why"
by John Grochalski, July 2012
"and i sit here
devoid of thought
and artistry
the smell of her
still on my cock"
"Recipe for Caliban" and "Why Don't We"
by Jay Passer, July 2012
"he fell off a barstool
toasting a friend
met his maker in throes
of carousing"
"A Song of Revolution" and "Fragment(ed)"
by William Aaron Tanner, July 2012
"—Boom!Boom! the drummers have begun:
So steel meets steel and Men bleed blood.
If metal's forged in flames of spleen,
Our mettle's pounded painful keen:
Carve pound for pound this muddy green!"
"why hitch hiking fell out of favour" and "my i-phone is being retrieved from the stomach of a fish"
by Billy Cancel, July 2012
"because out of the ground flowers were
sticking treated sewerage discharged
into a cave on the beach not quite believing
the game but playing anyway pre-firework"
"2/13/12," "We have Nothing to Fear but August Itself," and "Street Work"
by Dan Raphael, July 2012
"When i wait when i quake when every direction is uphill
When the rain burns my skin, my bones whistling with termites
When the wind is a wave of armored police
I am pavement i am shadow
I am the last crescent of bun thrown away with the wrapper"
"Variations on the Theme of Last Night: A Whoroscopular Opera," "Stellar Arabesque," and "Soap Op. Posthum: Anita Aesthetician"
by Kim Vodicka, July 2012
"Anita:
You are no Maude nor Beulah.
You were not born at forty.
You are not a corpse
until people start vandalizing you"
"How We Died, All Those Times," "My Light with Your Teeth," and "atomic time."
by Michelle Greenblatt, July 2012
"Stiff-jointed, I stretch to write tonight instead of chasing your vague ecstasies. Circle after circle after circle: I have written about you, "I have written about you, for you, & to you but it's never been enough. By the show of your jagged face in the unknown light I know the answer—Not now. Not ever."
I DEA L
by Steve Dalachinsky and Vernon Frazer, June 2012
Steve Dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in anthologies and journals including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Big Bridge, Milk, Xpressed, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Beat Indeed and The Haiku Moment. He has read his work throughout the New York area, the United States, Japan and Europe. Vernon Frazer's most recent books of poetry include T(exto)-V(isual) Poetry and Unsettled Music. Enigmatic Ink has published Frazer's new novel, Field Reporting. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Frazer also performs his poetry, incorporating text and recitation with animation and musical accompaniment on YouTube.
"Lines written upon returning to El Paso and Sunset Heights after a long absence," "C'est la vie," and "Dark Night"
by Wayne Daniel, June 2012
"The children
who now roam
these crooked streets
will fare the same"
"On Sunday Afternoon In the Tenderloin," "To Sacramento from Nob Hill," and "To My Neighbor"
by Jonathan Hayes, June 2012
"A prostitute pulls down her skirt
To hide a bruise that the sun reveals
For every demon here there is a place of worship open:
Vietnamese; Cambodian; Pakistani; or Indonesian"
"Fracture," "Recognition," and "Kaleidoscope #7"
by B. Z. Niditch, June 2012
"except what lasts
blinding the universe
in a simulacrum
joined at the compact
skin and flesh"
"The Word Does Not Come," "Poem for the Madonna," and "Distortion"
by Clare L. Martin, June 2012
"I wonder if this is it. I don't fear
growing old because it has already happened to me.
I am isolated in the kitchen. I am isolated
in a house falling apart around me."
"Magicicada," "The Opposite of Construction," and "Aleutian Island Recipe"
by Kelly Clayton, June 2012
"I stare from the back
of the room
near the supply closet at
beings like me."
"noir dances," "coevolution - a startling story," and "ecstasies of night traffic"
by Peter Marra, June 2012
"small and clot-like tiny creatures
accusing. slowly white limbs burning.
slow times we can't see.
we're born in water drowning,"
"caller id," "Another Timely Descent," and "Oh sure there comes a time"
by Allen M. Weber, June 2012
"It's all too much
detail sometimes,
such drama, even for me;
I have galaxies to spin—"
"Outer Space Workout"
by Larry Goodell, June 2012
"The negotiations to reach
the large
space
requires
intoning, intoning in the largest sense of the word"
"Fish," "Date," and "Phase Change"
by Larissa Shmailo, June 2012
Good morning, blind date; like Milton's daughters, I will read to you.
Good morning, date from hell; why are you still here? I sent you a Dante with a map.
Good morning, birth date and the day that I'll marry, or die; my biography will read, I was born.
Good morning, date that will live in infamy, or in Queens, which Fitzgerald called land of ashes, preferring East Egg.
Good morning, dried-apple & fig-leaf date that covered my foremother's love, this figured by Usher as a fall.
untitled (a white chicken), "it is no time to sleep," and "manifesto"
by Marc Thompson, April 2012
"the hard men in suits
force us to pay tribute
to their temples built
in praise of mammon
and mammaries"
"Whisper, then the illusion lengthens"
by Felino A. Soriano, April 2012
"removal from compromised presence
corporeal advancement
deceiving oration, pullulate
interpretation conceivable relief from
articulated blur of human misconception."
"handmade baskets for sale on ebay," "Fuck Her Descartes," and "two whets that spin me round"
by Lizzy Swane, April 2012
"A language of crow's wings sputters
about his wolves' unknowing: no moons
embraced such a bald throat of wind
the day Aunt Barb stood to receive
tap water and fell fallow at your feet."
selections from Symphony No.7 (detached resonating hour)
by Ric Carfagna, April 2012
"anthracite glaciers
receding behind
the dust-knitted
quantum veil"
"September," "Meteorologist," and "After"
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, April 2012
"I look out through mother's face.
Many women do this
We own what we have done, garden gloves,
movie popcorn, a Thesaurus."
"Postcard unto the radical active," "Postcard unto a tiredness in notional jingo," and "Postcard unto a Necronomicon"
by Jacob A. Bennett, April 2012
"Fuck ideas, and fuck all things. I want to be a thing alone without ideas, goddammit. Let me eat a cherry abstraction with a chocolate dollop of concrete atop."
"From the Pearl," "Possible Musics," and "Golgotha"
by Lawrence Welsh, April 2012
"we loved green street lights
and smeltertown graves
to remember villa
or the river"
"Elephantiasis," "Manifold," and "hellen-hol(o) = hol(o)-hellen (entropic cartography)"
a selection of diagrammic visual poems by Nicholas Komodore, April 2012
"Harmony," "Monostich to My Lineage," and "As All the World Burns"
by Alia Vancrown, April 2012
"Poverty is the cacophony of a street carnival:
caged pigeons for sale
whose freedom my mother purchased
from slaves,"
"Sartre's Tongue," "Hans Hoffman's Night," and "Benjamin's Exile"
by B. Z. Niditch, April 2012
"from fetish fascism
church or state
drawing the defaced
and abject objects"
"bootleggers loggerheads," "honey junta," and "allusion in rome"
by Michael Farrell, March 2012
" then it rushes in like in a boat
the scenes, maybe three, maybe
two people, its short, simple
theyre in bedroom, shouting at
petrol attendants; in the shop"
"River Sage Post Surgical Theme from Gauze," "Tree Forks Excoriated Ghazal," and "Skinpop and Buckfringe in Old Rose City"
by Dennis Mahagin, March 2012
"Custer stuffs four more
quarters in the pay phone slot, pages his dealer
again, past goose flesh and yawned snot, skinny arms up-raised
in awesome anxiety, an iffy archer with the rickets; Armstrong hears
brake squeals near Colonel Summers park, the body and fender shop"
"The Doctor," "Marble Soul" and "The Exodus"
by Ally Malinenko, March 2012
"Tomorrow is just more flowers, bodily pink and spiked green.
It is only more kneeling at gravesites,
more ashes to scatter.
We will take off and put back on
the funeral clothes."
"Murder 1," "Charles Manson Said," and "Examination of the Corpse of a Moral Giant"
by Raymond Keen, March 2012
"Most extraordinary,
Ladies and gentlemen,
The hands and fingers
Are strangely missing.
Yet where are the amputation scars?"
"Spring City," "Winter in Conflict," and "Wish Making"
by B. Z. Niditch, March 2012
"here on Boston Common
near revolutionary graves
still covered with snow
in late cold March
indifferent to the sparrows"
"Swallow" and "Tuesday"
by Mindy Mae Friesen, March 2012
"Breaking now: Tuesday
Is loose,
Lobbed out of circulation, boding
Continental planets under cockroach rule,
Zipping up our generations of maxed out YKK"
"Science Kneels" and "Dictator of Jazz"
by Jay Passer, March 2012
"I am a drill bit in the jaw of a crocodile
A lottery check winner in triplicate
I'm waiting for a sign from the casket maker
The flag slaps against the battleship gray of my solitude
Sparks fly in the wake of midnight nightmare visions"
"Colloidal Love Poem" and "JAYA JAYA Lakshmi Mother OM."
by Louise Landes Levi, March 2012
" full will be empty, night
will be day, inspiration will
pervade the forest, the animals will
leave the zoo, take over the town, indeed
the dinosaurs will prevail, as before–"
"Tropisms"
by Bruce Holsapple, March 2012
"a metaphoric disease
spread like margarine does
spread like Asian germs
spread like Kali:
Wide open for heroes"
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