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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...
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Review

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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Essay

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...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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Essay

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 ...
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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...
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Poem

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...
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Podcasts

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 -...
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Poem

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...
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Podcasts

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 ...
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Story

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...
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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
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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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The Peoples College
Drew Hubner
#1-The Vet I sell nickel bags Pretty good weed sure Comes in bricks from Mexico Ive seen the whole operation The trucks The safe house up on Walton Ave We went down to Manh...
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Merthiolate (and Other Futile Antiseptics)
Robert C. Hardin
Merthiolate After failing to kill myself for the eighteenth time, I decided to be more positive. Why focus on failure? I thought. Why not appreciate the character added by damag...
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Celia Farber
Anyway I had a goldfish, a common Woolworth’s goldfish, which I brought home in a water filled plastic bag, and somebody, a man named Rick, I think, who worked for my father, sai...
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Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & the City – Photographs by Meryl Meisler
Franklin Mount
Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy ‘70s Suburbia & the City Meryl Meisler, Bizarre Publishing, 2016 Do you remember New York before Reagan and the cult of the Free Market? Before it...
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The Earring
Alan Kaufman
I first saw the gold crescent of renegade freedom dangling from the lobe of a nameless hairy hippy Goy, his scrawny, insolent neck bound by a red bandanna. He leaned with outthrust...
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