Problem Child
Ron Kolm
It all started with a big bang -- the sound of something heavy smashing against a wall, and it came from the apartment directly below mine. I headed out into the hallway to see what had happened, and was greeted by the secon...
The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces by Max Wolf Valerio – Review
Marc Olmsted
The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces
by Max Wolf Valerio
Eoagh Books, $20.00
Reviewed By Marc Olmsted
MAX WOLF VALERIO said, “Before I transitioned, I was 19 and showed Allen Ginsberg a poem of mine ...
Poems from Hungary by Gabor G. Gyukics
Gabor G Gyukics
they’re not afraid
a paper lampshade swayed
illuminating a well laid table
as the guests
shuffled around the stove’s mouth
that let the soot fall back down in
from the brick chimney
the host
knock...
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle – Review
Vincent Zangrillo
Outside Looking In
by T.C. Boyle
Harper Collins 2019
$27.99
Reviewed by Vincent Zangrillo
TC Boyle’s new novel, Outside Looking In, explores the luminous world of Dr. Timothy Leary’s early years, while LSD w...
Mike Golden: The Unbearable Beatnik of Lite – & Dark
bart plantenga
I come from a long line of people who drank rat poison. They got headaches every time because they thought the skull & crossbones over the instructions was just a cool logo.
Mike Golden [RIP], bless and rest his littl...
madly in love love you madly
Amy Ouzoonian
for Steve Cannon
I keep wanting to call you up and say
Steve, can you believe this shit?
And you’d laugh
and say I’m hip!
I’m throwing some shit in the game.
600,000 VA patients died because of Hospital negl...
East of Bowery & The Circus Life
Drew Hubner
East of Bowery was what my mother called the place where we lived when I was a kid, and this is the way our family lived: when my mom wasn’t completely drunk yet, and if my dad got high in time, he might come in and Diz, m...
Something’s Happening But You Don’t Know What It Is
Vincent Zangrillo
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Reviewed by Vincent Zangrillo
I’ll tell you my own Bob Dylan story. Or maybe two or three. I can guarantee you that these are the god’s honest truth, ...
First Thought, Best Thought
Richard Modiano
The expression “first thought, best thought” is usually attributed to Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg indeed popularized the phrase but it was actually coined by his Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Further, there is ...
Episode 20 – Marc Olmsted
Bernard Meisler
Marc Olmsted in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Marc Olmsted with an original Brion Gysin dream machine
Marc Olmsted is a poet whose work has appeared in a million different places, he's a teacher, of both writing...
Michael Herr Once Asked Me…
Peter Marti
Michael Herr Once Asked Me...
“How do you write about Buddhism?” and looked around
where we stood, eating our ritual potluck rice and stew after
evening puja—our Teacher sat huddled with the other
Tibetans la...
Episode 19 – Mark Howell
Bernard Meisler
Mark Howell in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Mark Howell
Musical archaeologist (and great guitar player) Mark Howell has played with everybody in the - what would you call it? - avant-progressive-jazz-rock scene -...
Now light, now shadow
Naum Korzhavin
Naum Korzhavin was born in the Ukraine in 1925 and as a child witnessed the horrors of collectivization: “I remember the Kiev of 1933. People died right in the streets. . . We survived not only hunger. We got used to think...
Episode 18 – Rob Roberge
Bernard Meisler
Rob Roberge in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Rob Roberge
Rob Roberge, novelist (The Cost of Living, More Than They Could Chew, etc.), memoirist (Liar) and guitarist (The Urinals) and I spoke about everything from ...
20 Feet from Enlightenment: A Coming of Sage Story
J. Macon King
Never cease from exploring the other side of that ridge... even though you may get lost, or step on a rattlesnake. Here in California I sometimes feel a bit guilty for not being spiritually woo woo enough. I’m just a regul...
