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Poem

I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW IT WAS

Dorothy Friedman

because this is the only chance I'm going to get-- It was an ordinary day except no one had taken out the garbage. It had been snowing since noon and there were piles of snow on the front lawn and on t...
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Poem

SATORI IN MANHATTAN

Joel Allegretti

———on the platform at the 175th Street subway station, Washington Heights———I find myself thinking I’m Vladimir in Calvin Klein black lambskin and Estragon in Tommy Hilfiger dim-gray chinos———sitting...
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Poem

FOR HERE THERE IS NO PLACE

Anton Yakovlev

You’ve figured out the colonization of Mars and the need to live in caves for five hundred years. You’ve predicted private nuclear weapons, deciphered symbols of bigotry on some trump cards. You’ve held cookout...
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Podcasts

Episode 12 – Norman Douglas

Bernard Meisler

Norman Douglas in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Norman Douglas, Bernard Meisler and Tina Carstensen, relaxing in her Avenue D apartment, 1986 Norman Douglas is a writer (though he says he's not) and a poet (though...
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Poem

HOW TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

There are only two sins—banality and venality. They are not like revenge, hot red pokers. Jealousy, with its long snoot. Sloth, killing me softly with its lips. Vanity—dynamite in a vise. Lust racing across the mud...
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Poem

Strawberry

Suzi Kaplan Olmsted

Spring bursting in strawberry juice down my chin While on the TV reality jail show a blond with a model’s bone structure And over-plucked brows is released from men’s jail to the streets Early dawn with no money and...
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Poem

the dead wife

Carl Watson

The dirt floor had to be leveled And all the stones raked out, Carried out in buckets and piled In the yard as ballast against The bowed foundation of the south wall. There were boulders and bluestone Slabs, some big ...
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Poem

NATURE

Bonny Finberg

We can rewrite the narrative. Eve eats the apple and leaves the Garden fortified by knowledge and multiplied by wisdom, leaves the comfort of the first mirage,. to find the greater world where good and evil make thin...
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Poem

An End-of-the-World Cult of My Own

Jose Padua

One day I will have my own end-of-the-world cult. We will believe that the end of the world is coming tomorrow, and that we had better be prepared. If the end doesn’t come tomorrow, we will admit our mistake, and post...
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Poem

The End of the World

Patricia Carragon

In her dream, her parents’ wedding photo burned slowly. Their ashen marriage vaporized in life and death. A grayish puddle formed a stain on the chest of drawers. She woke up and went about her day, listened to ...
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Podcasts

Episode 11 – steve dalachinsky

Bernard Meisler

In conversation with steve dalachinsky. steve dalachinsky is a downtown New York poet who's also very active in the jazz scene - he's worked with Matt Shipp, William Parker, and wrote one of his many books of poetry w...
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Poem

God, Vodka, Suicide

Michael Lindgren

God hurt her in a place that doesn’t show so she drank until there was no more God and they told her but you will die and she sd of course I will die. every body dies and she didn’t believe it until the sky cracke...
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Poem

Survivors

Amy Barone

Cahows re-emerged on Bermuda’s Nonsuch Island after a three-hundred-year absence. They thrive amid native flora, wildlife, and limited access to man. Tangier Island in the middle of Chesapeake Bay supplies the world...
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Poem

STEAMROLLED

Thaddeus Rutkowski

I come to where I usually take a detour— a stretch where the pavement has been roughed up in preparation for new pavement. Now, I see machines laying new blacktop, so I ride on the new surface. The material is sticky,...
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Poem

Printer’s Delight

John J. Trause

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, has at integre numquam interpretaris, mea ex oratio legere blandit. No eum natum verear albucius. Mei cu nibh dolorem nominavi, hinc dicat option est ex. Utroque eligendi consectetuer ut eum, nusq...
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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
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Mayakovsky Maximum Access

Jenny Wade

24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade
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A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.
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A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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William S. Burroughs interview by Allen Ginsberg, James Greer, Chavisa Woods, Ruby Ray, James Romberger, Tom McGlynn, Rob Hardin, more.
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Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in ...
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City Of Strangers
If we ever colonize Mars, our settlements will look a lot like Santee Town Center. The heart of Santee, CA, on San Diego’s eastern edge, is a series of interlocking strip m...
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i am a descendant of those that have survived for centuries & my mother wanted me to be the perfect child i am still amazed that people know how to make doors their ingenuity ba...
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The Miniature Lower East Side I've been drawn to abandoned buildings for as long as I can remember. As a boy, the challenge and malice of breaking into forbidden places w...
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“Walking home at night was taking your life in your own hands.” Or so said one of the subjects of the documentary Blank City, about life in the East Village in the late seventi...
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