Killing Metaphors, Misused Intelligence, and Diplomacy of Quietude in Critical Landscape
by Peter Ciccariello, October 2006
Three Visual Poems
Staying with Friends in Minneapolis, Refugee in Iowa, and The Comforts of Home
by Zoë Gabriel, October 2006
Being a guest in a house full of love
is not a very comfortable place to be"
I Can't Even Give Me Away and Party Favor
by John Grey, October 2006
"someone crashed their
Pontiac on the way to the shindig
or the hostess has a headache
and she wants to go to bed"
death+love and myth+love
by Brad Elliot, October 2006
"Just let me say that when you arrive in my country on a dark street with all your drugs and nothing to do but walk down the main street towards the zocalo we will pantomime meaning to get meaning across to you it will be exhausting the black smog in the open market looking for a place to eat we find a side alley filled with smoke the smell of human flesh carne asada and chorizo on the grill"
Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Martin Luther King Day
by Lyn Lifshin, October 2006
"I knew his hands
would be winged,
I could feel guilt
clot in my fingers"
Curtains, Dog Conspiracy Theory, and Rhytina
by John Bryan, October 2006
"Cholera is ok I suppose, you'll shit, spew, tighten up.
It may lead you to lights out.
Typhoid, in meals, the secret ingredient, in drinks,
The cock in cocktail. It may lead you to lights out."
Immediate Obliteration Telethon, Skill Shot, and Limp Rag
by Peter Berghoef, October 2006
"I am a model turned actress
turned pop star
ready to invent the best
source of renewable energy"
The Nerve of Some People and Puppy
by Shane Allison, October 2006
"It's not like I wanted to leave. Coming
back here was the last thing I wanted, but I met this puppy
of a twink, and ended up falling for him. Stop
laughing. I know it's hard to believe. I stopped messing around,"
Fat Tuesday, Satori Sunset, and Champion Paper Missoula
by Bret Addison, October 2006
"The ninth Ward is in Atlanta now.
Guns aimed at the choppers did no good.
Stealing the DVD player at Wal-Mart didn't help.
Now the Cossacks come to ride us down."
The affair and Forsaken
by Rohith Sundararaman, September 2006
"Every morning I wake
and in her I scent
you:"
The Persistence of Prunes, Violinist, and Piano
by Catherine Edmunds, September 2006
"then the thirty hikers
could sing along
and feel a real sense of achievement"
Only, The Day Before the Elections, and Cruel
by Davide Trame, September 2006
"One only.
You never stop seeing it.
on the desert strand,
unable to leave the roar."
Darwin Fish, Xeriscape, and Bourbon Sprawl
by Chris D'Errico, September 2006
" there is no God on the freeway until someone wrecks…
whirling in oil, a city appears.
no subtle landscape. efficiency in cloning. culture opening up
like Godzilla with hemorrhoid."
Canvas, Electronic Junk, and War Pines
by Rosemarie Crisafi, September 2006
"Dimes fall, with so many faces, spinning
in the frozen skull outposts. Out there,
33 dead; here, a drift, in temporal lobes,
disembodied dots, pixels gather"
laughing food blood orgy i think, My Mistral, and It began where the seams they shut.
by Adam Cohen, September 2006
"Decisions are nothing more than steam
to power involuntary causatum.
I tell you child, denounce the food."
Come Here Cowboy Come Here
by Spiel, September 2006
"come here come here
to face this boy
who could not bear
his superior officer's stare"
Ode to Jack
by Tasha Klein, September 2006
"even dennis rodman eventually smoked himself into a
scene of timber twine"
YOU'RE (So) PHOTOGENIC
A Methmaker poem remixed by Tasha Klein
"and again the plastic mattress you smirk
so again you
explode in my head
you yourself think only in light"
The Girlfriend Knows, Dear Chris, and I'm Not Really Obsessed
by Shane Allison, September 2006
"I cannot tell you how sorry
I am for what I did.
I know you were completely freaked
Out about it. It all happened so fast.
I wasn't going to throw a rock through your window"
It Has Been There All Along, The Crows, and Two Pictures in a Day
by Rumjhum Biswas, July 2006
"Each half-my-pinky-size creature
Lay flat and still, but retained
It’s shape –
A quilt
Of patterns on a concrete sheet."
rage against the rusty badge, on industrial boulevard, and ornithology
by Ray Brown, July 2006
"cowboy jukebox cold-blooded thoughts of
righteous greed, auctions of silence buying black hearts
ten cent nickel and dimes"
Mister Kurtz, Aztec Sacrifice Syndrome, and Tangled
by Christian Ward, July 2006
"you said no prayers, knowing
that no-one would hear them,
let alone want them."
Searching for Jesus on Drugs, The Humidity is High-Cool Cats, and American Paté
by Elizabeth P. Glixman, July 2006
"Images flicker across the TV screen
And women wag like dogs
Lips part breasts plump up per Frank Perdue
Men like Dick and Frank jump and fly from rooftops"
my compass, incommunicado in italia (day seven), and robert
by J. A. Spahr-Summers, July 2006
"before litigation
before my son
i cut my teeth
on fire and ice"
Only the Great Ones, Tank Man, and Immaculate Conception
by Joja, July 2006
'and borders grew
and so did your stomach
and every child wondered but was
afraid to ask, "Did he eat my bothers and sisters?"'
Cultured Pearl, or, The Ritual Murder of the Rabbi's Daughter from Williamsburg and DOA
by Ron Spurga, July 2006
"If you don't like my peaches
don't you shake my tree
the country is shutting down
sexually."
Words and Two Minutes Before the Boss Asks for the Messages
by Kristie Langone, July 2006
"I hesitate answering the way a child might
upon his first meeting with the classroom:
the kids will morph into monkeys,
hyenas, most likely parrots;"
Four Preludes
by Paul Murphy, July 2006
"Dr Hegelfisch opened a jade green eye. It swung round the room telescopically and then sank back into its socket. A jaded finger extended. Scratching his wax candle melting nose, leafing violently through the text book."
Mischief, Mouse in the news and in the house, and The truth is
by Violetta Tarpinian, June 2006
"such as we remembered
from pornographic magazines
and the facades of Indian temples
lost deep in tropical forests"
"never crossed my mind," iv., and fuck the rest
by Maggie Shurtleff, June 2006
"never crossed my mind
i would not be seen
for who i am
white broke down ghetto baby"
Carbon Dating, first grow a soul, and Long Way Home
by john e, June 2006
"these hours, that's all they are, weak knees of once upon a time
of before time as i think now about time, who am i kidding
i can't smell time. aroma of halfway, zest of start."
Foreword: On What Cannot Be Said, Revelations of Waterfowl and Wisteria, and Afterword: On What Cannot Be Said
by C. Derick Varn, June 2006
"see but not speak of
and if I do not tell you
or if I can not you will
not know the car wreck"
Writer's Block is all about Attitude, The Ballad of Human Condition Sung By The Poems That Didn't Work By Me, and Let us wait a little longer
by John Bryan, June 2006
"Until my eyes abandon their own equations for your geometry.
Until the new lover is always epoch making epochs forever mating.
Until I stigmatize juices peculiar to you."
monday, industry, and simple message
by Tom Harding, June 2006
"i'm going to smile
when i go there tomorrow
and they're going to smile at me."
When and Japanese Schoolgirls
by Rachel Stewart, June 2006
"When they told me not to look at you
I closed my eyes and saw bright black holes
stars in reverse"
Sing a Song, a box at your door, and Distant Fire
by Anthony Liccione, June 2006
"breaking news alert about that girl
at wal-mart, who clocked the clock
and headed out the dark sliding doors
to her car, re-locked."
