Ask for lights and bells. / Learn to cross your hands, / to taste the cold air / of metals and of cliffs. A Spanish poet and playwright associated with avant-garde surrealism, Federico García Lorca … [Read more...]
Ed Sanders Poems by Alan Catlin
Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flowers at the Chicago Democratic Convention 1968 Was he in town to see the American political system in action or was it simply to witness a new kind of … [Read more...]
Book Review — Brownian Life by John Tischer
Brownian Life by John Tischer / Bibliotheca Universalis / Bucharest, Romania / 2015 John Tischer was born in Chicago. He graduated from Carleton College in 1971 and was a student of Chögyam … [Read more...]
Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg (Bill Morgan, ed.) / Grove Press / hardcover When I first heard about this book of uncollected poems by Allen Ginsberg, I imagined a slim … [Read more...]
The Middle Word in Life: Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling’s “If”
Actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper staged performances of British poet Rudyard Kipling's "If" throughout his career. In Kipling's original poem, the voice is that of a father offering prudent … [Read more...]
Six sonnets by Bradley J. Fest
2014.01 I wish to transcribe Camera Obscura into your oscilloscopes, forsake the barriers of the next seventeen years for two little droplets of carbon nanofiber. I will. You’ll see. Many … [Read more...]
3 Poems by Viatrix Curry
Men Who Make the Rounds Men who make the rounds of the ashtrays around the exits of public buildings care less about being seen when temperatures drop below freezing. They are asking for … [Read more...]
Poems by Kenneth Pobo
JEFF, JERRY, & THE LAP Jerry says, “The chance of winning the lottery is one in a billion. Decent odds!” Jeff buys tickets, displays them on the mantle. They both pray, believing there’s a … [Read more...]
A Study of Assassination
you are a pixel and i’m not at fault, failing to feel remorse, x -ing figures from overhead start to make patterns, circling, and there’s a rhythm and process to … [Read more...]
Poems by Niko Nelson
Poem by 2045 I’ll start a revised SF Renaissance with yuppie blood as muse to exit a childhood of piers I have heroin death fantasies in the bathtub while the moon's yelling lapis allures and … [Read more...]
The Woman on Ocean Boulevard
A woman with long brown hair stands behind a door with a torn screen. She’s late thirties. Her yellow silk blouse billows to Woodstock jeans. A beagle sleeps on the landing below her three-step … [Read more...]
Poetry by Carl Boon
I GO TO CALIFORNIA I go to California to visit my father's grave, to write a letter. I am 53. 53 years ago he died on a Bakersfield highway, the sun slanting at the Shasta firs, his body … [Read more...]
Carolina Ends in Deep August: Poems
CAROLINA ENDS IN DEEP AUGUST Friends!, how the heat of this day has worn me ...this long eternal summer extended as if without hint of sunset. And the light outside forces retreat toward … [Read more...]
Translations of three poems by Helle Busacca
Helle Busacca (1915-1996) was born in Messina and moved with her family to Bergamo as a young child. She spent her working life as a high school teacher in various cities in Italy and ultimately … [Read more...]
San Francisco in the 21st Century: 75 color photographs and poem by Tisa Walden
San Francisco in the 21st Century, Tisa Walden's volume of photographs documents and explores the nuances of the present-day City by the Bay. Designed by John Gossage and published by Washington DC's … [Read more...]
Where We Got Our Cool: Poems
WHERE WE GOT OUR COOL Jazz within the sky ...gold upon this purple swamp ...this bebop swank of lullaby where angels sell their poetry for that treasure of a girl's sweet thigh thrust … [Read more...]
City of words by rob mclennan
City of words All the galaxies we see have a number. Sarah Lang, For Tamara Singlet. Does not wish to. Hardened. Alone is not the page. Breathe rapidly, and nuclear. Articulate. Torrential surf. … [Read more...]
Remembering poet David Gitin
It is with a numbed sense of great personal loss that I report the passing on June 27th of David Gitin: poet, educator, and polymath. As Gloria Avner lovingly phrased it (his long-lost teenage … [Read more...]
Computer Classical Radio: Four poems
COMPUTER CLASSICAL RADIO Alluvial!...floatation of notes in a river of sound where fingers somewhere dance on a keyboard Nature! Nature! in a watery sight ..in the brain ...in the … [Read more...]
An interview with Argentinian poet, publisher and translator, Juan Arabia
Juan Arabia (b.1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a poet, translator and literary critic. He studied Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and is now the director and publisher of the … [Read more...]