Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading # 5 – Gerald Nicosia, Emily Carter, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Bob Holman
The Editors
Here's the fifth Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading live via Zoom! Readings in the time of quarantine, featuring work by:
Gerald Nicosia (MEMORY BABE) - 2:11
Emily Carter (GLORY GOES AND GETS SOME) - 13:57
Jeffrey Cypher...
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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
Three Poets, Three Books — Café Crazy, We Became Summer, and Blue Lyre
William Considine
Café Crazy, by Francine Witte
We Became Summer, by Amy Barone
Blue Lyre, by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
On Wednesday, June 13, three well-known Downtown New York poets read together from their new books, published w...
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Poem
Fake Lies
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
FAKE LIES
The donor class is warping the loom.
Domination is damnation.
Defiance is a shortcut to de-finance.
We have to scrap for all that’s left.
Make of your suffering, charms.
The best things are free (like me...
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Poem
Exiguity
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Exiguity
I never get mad, I get even —
written in glitter on the broad back
of a fat man’s blue jean jacket.
Everything faded
except the dust & grease. Grace being
a monument not to survival, but to
resigna...
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