In honor of Gregory Corso's birthday (he was born March 26, 1930), we've collected some videos of him. Check 'em out. 1. & 2. Gregory Corso Walks and Talks in Roma, 1989 "Two weeks with Gregory … [Read more...]
2 poems for Easter (Video)
Here are two poems which were inspired by Easter. Oscar Wilde - "On Easter Day" Bernadette Mayer - "Eve of Easter" … [Read more...]
Poems from COUNTRY by Shelby Stephenson
Nin’s making ham-hock soup, feeding her hypomania: A.M. radio talking-heads rail for holiness on and on for keeping “Christ” in Christmas, the needles, I’m sure screaming eagles in the … [Read more...]
Poetry Book Release! A.D. Winans – In the Dead Hours of Dawn
New Release from Bottle of Smoke Press:A.D. Winans - In the Dead Hours of Dawn Poetry, 32 pages. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4". A new book of poems by award winning poet A.D. Winans consists of poems not … [Read more...]
Remember When You Have A Son
remember when you have a son nothing is erased words get stamped upon the letters that will fall from his full grown mouth that the window he sits before is curtained by the canvas colored humming … [Read more...]
A Night in Spain
A Night in Spain Remember when we were in Spain? and we went to that little town? with the old monastery? and the good restaurant with the stew? and the Roman ruins? You loved me so much … [Read more...]
Dancing with Words
There are poets who like To dance with words Dance for favors and illusionary Poetry careers But dancing for an audience Isn’t like feeling the rhythm That rubs up against the soul Odetta, … [Read more...]
30 Years Between Letters, by Kirby Wright
30 Years Between Letters Words from an old flame Sunrise the past The time of immortality When the future Was not reduced But expansive as ocean At sunset Where you embraced In a … [Read more...]
Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle
Kirby Doyle & the Snows of Yesteryear by Michael McClure In 1958 Kirby Doyle's menage on Sacramento Street, in a basement apartment of the no-man's land between the wealthy on the Hill and the … [Read more...]
Book Review – The Beauty of being Hated by Jack Leaf Willetts
Empty Mirror received a review copy of this book. Many of the poems in Jack Willetts' debut poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, explore the way we label and think about feelings. Here are … [Read more...]
Everything All at Once: A Short Story
I left my poetry somewhere...dropped it...didn't even know it was missing until recently. I found it tucked inside an old book given to me when I was younger from a poet with sparkling eyes. Given to … [Read more...]
An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts
Jack, your new poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, has just been published. What can you tell us about it? It was hard to live and hard to write. It was written out of a series of … [Read more...]
3 poems by Jim Bennett
scenes 1 this poem is a movie man walking Dale Street in Liverpool three girls pass and turn their heads like they recognise him walk away giggling looking back one with hand over mouth … [Read more...]
3 poems from The Beauty of being Hated by Jack Leaf Willetts
Ode to Trailer Trash Trailer trash: who didn’t understand the endearment, the mock insult Trailer trash: who walks with no shoes through glass and beer and blood never cutting her … [Read more...]
We Are Jack Kerouac
Though not in the sense we were born in Lowell Mass or beat it out of there to get famous, though we gassed up and burned rubber in Lowell Mass and in other states and cities we hitched … [Read more...]
Poetry Review – Waterloo, by J.T. Welsch
Waterloo by J.T. Welsch / Like This Press / Saddle-Stitch, 36 pages The twenty-four numbered but untitled poems, and almost as many monochrome images, of J.T. Welsch’s Waterloo begin with a wake. … [Read more...]
Long-Sleeve White Collared Shirt
Self Portrait To Ginsberg Don’t read into this, Allen. I just want to talk. I’m listening to Vietnam protest songs, meditating through my anxiety and my need for approval from … [Read more...]
Funeral for James D Quinton Scheduled for September 26, 2012
Amy Quinton writes, I just wanted to let you now that the funeral for my wonderful James will be held at Ipswich Crematorium, IP4 2TQ, on Wednesday 26 September 2012 at 15:15. Afterwards … [Read more...]
San Francisco Poems by A.D. Winans
A.D. Winans' new 190-page poetry collection, San Francisco Poems, has been published by Little Red Tree Publishing, of New Haven, CT. A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and … [Read more...]
Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek – The Piano Poems: Live From San Francisco
McClure & Manzarek's third CD Listen to tracks / buy at Amazon: Piano Poems: Live in San Francisco A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded … [Read more...]