Free Speech Canto XXVI Banned in Boston constitutes an epic of censorship A few excerpts from that epic: A private morality police was formed (giving away its religious base with the … [Read more...]
Poetry Archive
6 poems by Bradford Middleton
BORED AND ALONE This life of mine has become trapped In the lacklustre slow lane of a side road Labelled no turning back from here With no sign of hope or salvation out On the horizon of life … [Read more...]
Poems from Matt Hill’s Pellucid Inferno
High End Dirt The place had all the looks of Defeat, the faded Idols of the Marketplace having absconded to parts unknown, the place now littered with mid-age outliers amidst the wreckage of rust, … [Read more...]
Sleeping by Big Sur
I slept with a copy of Big Sur by my pillow a read of a man charting alcoholic decline I have drunk too much to remember my face I have drunk too much to remember the facts I have drunk too … [Read more...]
Three poems by P R Kargaard
False Bay, San Juan Island In the autumn morning, the high thirds of the trees I know have vanished. Obscured by a sleepy fog. It is a way of being in pearl which seeps like a surface … [Read more...]
Long Before the Peaceful Song: Poems
Long Before the Peaceful Song Sick in the dark before dawn irrupts shedding light on the need to sleep the dead like me pondering their being against that sole thing unforgiven. There is … [Read more...]
For the Woman Who Keeps My Forever
We struggle to appear as golden embers gone beyond days of the christchild drawing near when we get old...winter nights and brittle cold drowsy days and melting ice Februaries' left over … [Read more...]
Ginsberg and Lowell
the alignment of planets parents and the cost of going ensured that I missed the Albert Hall in 1965 it was just an early disappointment and not outstanding because over years it joined … [Read more...]
Jack Kerouac Eats an Eggroll by Andrea Bates
JACK KEROUAC EATS AN EGGROLL San Francisco, March, 1952 Hey hunger, typewriter scroll of walled up mysteries. Here’s to you, binge three weeks’ wide, dragon hitched to your sleeve. The love … [Read more...]
Six Poems by Gloria Avner
Circumambulation to walk all the way around Mt. Arunachala takes from dusk until dawn plenty of time to meditate touch darkness chant story sing in harmony with crickets Tibetan … [Read more...]
Jazz and the Money Jungle
The same thing happens everywhere Money Jungle is perfect, of the skin, maybe the pulse On the night no one talks about A day before New Years, in Panama City Crooked toe cranes light the … [Read more...]
2 Poems by Michael Mark
Baby’s got a hot blog She tells her darkest secrets to her 8000 unique visitors. Staring into her screen so passionately I believe it could melt. I would. When I whisper my fear that I … [Read more...]
4 poems by Sam Silva
BLISS Mindless piano trills from the online station ...bright lights!, they might flicker to a migraine while a mind on the other side of me desires something else of the near to swallowed pain … [Read more...]
2 poems and a video by Jeremiah Walton
Campfire Psalms of the Lost and Angry And so we love We love the campfire, the stars, each other O how freely that we love each other! We love as a reaction We are angry. We … [Read more...]
POETRY
I was born with poetry I cried for poetry I bled from poetry seven months out of the womb born at home, eager for the poem in the morning the poems rise with the fog at night they nest in … [Read more...]
3 poems by Ndubisi Otolokpo
On a round table On a round table They sought out the hands of our band masters For dialogue. Masters in whom’s back we Gathered courage to make noises which sounded In the sheer hollowness of … [Read more...]
Delayed Saleslady
my hair is darkening to a lengthy loneliness lava has touched my lips, you consider as lipstick i have propped my heart against the lights of the showcase my tenuous dreams are hung on the … [Read more...]
Music and Sleep
Sunbreak Shot in the eye Pistol dust This is our city Victor says hello In an undressed Mexican accent As I pass with my guitar All the cement Underneath us Sun fight for Earth … [Read more...]
St. Huncke
St. Huncke Christ was hung between the thieves and forgave them amid the blaze and fly buzz of Golgatha, maybe he finally reckoned that thievery is nothing if not a borrowing of … [Read more...]
Six poems by Patrick Mackay
Jack Spicer and the Loyalty Oath “The testing of a University faculty by oath is a stupid and insulting procedure. If this oath is to have the effect of eliminating Communists from the faculty, we … [Read more...]