Ginsberg’s politics were consistent only in how he proclaimed whatever it took to convince his willing following that there was something dangerous in attending a poetry reading.
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April 15, 2017
25,000 in San Francisco. / Twenty five thousand people marching with / A “Trump chicken” down Market Street
Read MoreThe Rules for Black Women Dating White Men in 2019
If you decide to date a white boy / You are no longer pro black.
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The Legacy of BYLINES, Our Content-Free Online Litmag that Duotrope Listed Despite Not Publishing Anything but Bylines
BYLINES is a literary magazine as much as performance art that accepts the reality that nobody reads poetry.
Read MoreWE COULD GET DRUNK IN THIS FIELD BECAUSE WE’RE IN A FIELD & WE’RE IN LOVE & WHAT ELSE WOULD WE DO?
by Nicholas Bon I want to find the way through every tunnel— us not ever stopping for gas, tires always at proper pressure, this all awash in new light. I want to shut this machine down so we can grow tomatoes in its ugly chambers. Nicholas Bon is the author of My Circus Mouth (Ghost…
Read MoreONE HUNDRED KNIGHTS RIDE IN, ARMOR RATTLING, SWORDS DRAWN, AND I’M JUST SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY WITH THIS
by Nicholas Bon We have to accept the things we cannot change, they say. Though I guess I could overturn this desk in a fit of spontaneous ecstasy or rage or something else felt strongly. I could spin in ridiculous arcs and destroy this entire museum. Maybe scientists could coax electricity from my manic body. Maybe this…
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The Rise of Red Lit: Where It Is and How to Write It
by James Cactus To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. —Saint Augustine I don’t know where this stuff is coming from. You can’t track it with hard numbers. Or maybe you can, but there’s certainly no one doing the polling. But it’s there, and it’s growing, and it’s more than what’s ignored in…
Read MoreDesigns
by James P. McNamara When they built that overpass at the end, the one right before the junkyard clutter and screaming axles. They built it for the train tracks on its back, and the trains that pass over so that no truck or bus could travel below. They built the boulevard that breaks beyond sense,…
Read MoreThe Nightshift of the Lepus
We will have decided to bomb the Moon. Improvised explosive devices bearing a payload of [microfiche,culture shock, and plutonium] will be delivered…
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