Marcus Silcock
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PEACHES (first take)
From my new novel in progress for the summer. It’s called The Dreamlife of Honey. Here is the current description: From the over-stimulation and financial stresses of London to a… Read more.
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WHITE RABBITS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON
Here is story, from Leonora Carrington, about carnivorous rabbits. And more. Read more.
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The Endlus Summur
Image: Trilogy of the Desert, Salvador Dali, 1946. Dali painted The Trilogy of the Desert shortly after moving to the United States in 1946. The desert was new to me,… Read more.
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THE AUTOMATIC CRYSTAL
by Aimé Césaire (trans. Mary Ann Caws). Read more.
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THE REALITIES BY LOUIS ARAGON
Except from Paris Peasant, by Louis Aragon. A French surrealist classic. Pg.55-56. English translation by Simon Watson Taylor. Read more.
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BROOMS
“Brooms” by Charles Simic. Performed by Marcus Slease. Read more.
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ORIGINAL PLUS DUB
A collaborative poetry experiment for the anthology Original Plus Dub (Hesterglock Press, 2019) edited by Paul Hawkins and Richard Skinner. The premise: to work with a collaborator (Richard Brammer), each… Read more.
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Hermit Kingdom (the first 8 pages)
(Art: Hieronymus Bosch. From Garden of Earthly Delights. Read more.
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A MASK OF RUBBER BANDS
From book of stories in progress. This one is called “A Mask of Rubber Bands.” Read more.
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LIMITED EDITION: THE SPIRIT OF THE BATHTUB
The Spirit of the Bathtub is a limited edition. You can grab a copy until 1st June 2019. Here is a description of the nomadic surrealist journey: Experience surreal tales… Read more.
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From Altazor by Vicente Huidobro
A small sample from Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor. So much magic. It is easy to get lost in there. The best kind of traveling. (Painting: Miguel Hernadez. Music: Minor Victories. Reading:… Read more.
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DEEP SPACE ADVENTURES
A small excerpt from my novel in progress, Never Mind the Beasts. This is the early 80’s, on a government housing estate in Milton Keynes, England. Don Whiskers is baptised… Read more.
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EXCHANGES: FOUR POEMS BY GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI
Kyoto. Spiders. Men in black coats. Minimalist existentialist prose poems by GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI (Painting by Janusz Tyrpak. Drawings by Grzegorz Wroblewski.) Read more.
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Forbidden Fruit
1969. Leonora Carrington. Read more.
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from “The Lover’s Nest”
A excerpt from my second novel in progress, Hermit Kingdom. This section is called “The Lover’s Nest.” Polish sailor pubs. Rustic jazz clubs. Vibrating Pineal glands. Self-branding, love and companionship,… Read more.
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Miroslav Holub and Bud Powell
“The Subway Station” by Miroslav Holub, 1970. “Ornithology” by Bud Powell. Reading by Marcus Slease. Read more.
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Subway Station
by Miroslav Holub. 1970. Trans. Ian & Jaramila Miller Read more.
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Maryland Trip
From my 1st novel in progress, Never Mind the Beasts. This excerpt from the section “Howling Dogs and Crinkled Whispers.” Read more.
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Expectation
by Richard Oelze, 1935. Read more.
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Interval of the Apotheosis
by Leonor Fini. A sylphlike figure, a voyeuristic dialogue. Lurking behind the perfect figure, old hags contorting themselves into lascivious gestures. Read more.
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet. June 20th 1931. A hut or a cave by the sea? How does our slavery weigh upon us? The monotony of everyday existence. Most of… Read more.
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Albert Porta
Fantastic Art has been with us since the beginning. The birth of consciousness. Again and again. Read more.
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Jitters
“A part wants to break away from the other part. The part that wants to break away claims a different culture. How many cultures make the whole. Who are the… Read more.
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Dream Pop
Some excerpts from my novel Never Mind the Beasts (formally The Autobiography of Don Whiskers) in the new issue of Dream Pop. “In Milton Keynes, during the conversion, they watch… Read more.
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SANDPIT
From 8 year novel in progress, Never Mind the Beasts (formally The Autobiography of Don Whiskers). This part takes place after Don Whiskers has immigrated from N. Ireland to Las… Read more.
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Luxury Salts
from The Green Monk, Boiler House Press, 2018. Read more.
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Francis Picabia
Subtlety, 1928 Read more.
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Say It
by Jayne Cortez Read more.
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Leonor Fini
Terrific article about the erotic art of Leonor Fini. A sexually charged lifelong revolution Read more.
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Jayne Cortez
(From Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere, High Risk Books, 1996 Read more.
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Everything is Connected
Danishness, homo-sapiens, improv jazz, interconnections, collaborations. Reminds me what matters!! Needed that. Investigative. Imaginative. Open. An interview with nomadic existentialist artist and writer Grzegorz Wroblewski https://www.dik.org.pl/everything-connected-interview-author-grzegorz-wroblewski/?lang=en Read more.
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Reading of Wild Man
Are you feeling wild. Beepers were wild, especially on studly belts, in the 1990s, in Southern Utah. Here is a studly poem. From my most recent book, The Green Monk… Read more.
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Wild Man
from my latest book, The Green Monk (Boiler House Press 2018). Read more.
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99 Red Balloons
from The Green Monk (Boiler House Press). Read more.
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Casting the Runes
Leonora Carrington, 1951. Read more.
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Simone Yoyotte
The first woman of African descent to take part in Surrealism, Simone Yoyotte was born in Martinique. Read more.
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Ancient Elephants
Ancient elephants and Dalí. From my book The Green Monk. Read more.
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Trinkets
From my book The Green Monk (Boiler House Press 2018). Read more.
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A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
A collage novel by Max Ernst. Fantastic! Read more.
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2018 Beachies
Super happy to have my book Play Yr Kardz in terrific list of books from Beach Sloth. Check ’em out over here Read more.
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The Blood of a Poet
Directed by Jean Cocteau Read more.
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First Star
A Polish Christmas poem. From The Green Monk. Read more.
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The Street of Lamps
In Madrid there is a street called the street of lamps. It is called the street of lamps because they sell many lamps. It is also a street with cold… Read more.
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Benjamin Peret
One of my favs. Spectacular surrealist. “And So On and So Forth Read more.
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Jacques-Bernard Brunius
I love. Jacques-Bernard Brunius. Read more.
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Gold Chains and French Kissing
Jerry sported gold chains, even when he broke the bread, the body of Jesus, and passed the little cups of water, the blood of Jesus. It was a thin one,… Read more.
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Swan’s Way
There are so many. Dancers dance them. Lordly swans. Soft swans. Isn’t it time for the swans. Noise rock, post-punk, industrial and post-rock. Temperamental and beautiful. Here is a poem,… Read more.
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The Candle in the Pumpkin
The Candle in the Pumpkin From my new book The Green Monk. Read more.
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Feast Day
Zapiekanka? Yes please!! Here is a flash fiction, written during Christmas 2016 in Krakow Poland, in the historic Jewish quarter of Kazimierz. Frommy book The Green Monk. Available from Boiler House… Read more.
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Storm Shoes
The faces in the holes were egg shaped. Read more.
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That Weird Guy
From Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse. Translated by Damion Sparks. Fitzcarraldo Editions. Read more.
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Workers of the World
An excerpt from my novel in progress, Hermit Kingdom, is up today at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. Hermit Kingdom is interconnecting flash fictions, prose poetry, hybrids. International Worker’s Day 2018, Pineapple… Read more.
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The Green Monk Out Now!
The Green Monk is out in the world. Collaborations with the paintings of Dali and Leonora Carrington. The green parrots of Garcia Lorca and Paul Celan. The queer erotics of swans.… Read more.
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The Hacking Powders
An excerpt from my novel manuscript, The Autobiography of Don Whiskers, is over at #thesideshow. Partly based on experiences in Katowice, Poland, Cercedilla (Spain), Madrid (Spain), and Palermo (Sicily). It is… Read more.
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Bear Review
Super happy to have my horse poem in the new issue of Bear Review. It is from my book The Green Monk. This poem, in the new issue of Bear… Read more.
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Psychic Marmalade
The Green Monk is heavily influenced by Surrealist writers and painters who have lived or passed through Madrid in the first part of the 20th century. It is also influenced by… Read more.
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Dostoyevsky Wannabe Spotlight
A nice spotlight on Dostoyevsky Wannabe over at The London Magazine by Robert Greer. Greer describes the presses radical approach to publishing, in both design, distribution, and content: “With their books retailing… Read more.
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THE GREEN MONK
I am very happy and excited to announce my new book, The Green Monk, is now available for pre-order. The Green Monk is a dreambox or a sweatbox of a sugar… Read more.
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Adjacent Pineapple
Super happy to have an excerpt from Hermit Kingdom (formally The Autobiography of Don Whiskers) in Adjacent Pineapple. Book 2 begins in Spain (Madrid) and the move to Barcelona. This… Read more.
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A BEND IN THE RIVER
Another childhood micro story. From my novel manuscript The Autobiography of Don Whiskers. A micro tale of a six year old boy from Northern Ireland in London in the early… Read more.
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THE TIGERS
After my brother Aaron died I went on a road trip with my brothers and sisters. We traveled from Utah to the ocean of California. Along the way we stopped… Read more.
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Review of Play Yr Kardz Right by Beach Sloth
Terrific review of my book Play Yr Kardz Right. Thank you so much Beach Sloth!! “Over the course of the work, the use of a childlike wonder allows the poetry… Read more.
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THE POWER OF HERMITS
Do you want the magic back in your life? Me too. Also people. It is so noisy out there. Meaning in here. How about some peace. We are all competing… Read more.
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A RABBIT HAT ADVENTURE IN LONDON
Just before leaving London/Tower Hamlets to live in Madrid, I met up with my good friend and fellow artist Stephen Emmerson. We walked across Waterloo Bridge and wandered into… Read more.
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Warrior of Light
As an immigrant in America I was obsessed with ninjas and invisibility. Also pink hot dogs. I was no good with baseball but liked the slap of the leather. My… Read more.
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BRIGHT EYES BURNING LIKE FIRE
Did you watch Watership Down, the cartoon, as a wee lad or lass? Was it scary? I think it is still scary. The theme song, with its chorus of bright… Read more.
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TEN POEMS FROM THE GREEN MONK AT FLULAND
Fluland published 10 of my nomadic surrealist stories/prose poems from my book The Green Monk (forthcoming from Boiler House Press on 5th November 2018). Some Las Vegas immigrant stories. Gold… Read more.
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DALI AND LONDON MUSTARD IN STOCKHOLM REVIEW OF LITERATURE
I have two prose poems in The Stockholm Review of Literature from my book of surrealist prose poems. The book is called The Green Monk. Forthcoming from Boiler House Press… Read more.
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NOMADIC SURREALIST STORIES WITH MUSIC
https://nevermindthebeasts.bandcamp.com/album/never-mind-the-beasts Folk surrealism. Experimental electronic. Magical realism. Immigrant stories. Outsider art. A journey!! A collaboration between UK musician Stephen Emmerson and Madrid-based writer and performer Marcus Slease. Available over at… Read more.
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MODERN SHAMANISM AND NOMADIC SURREALISM
There are so many of them. Don’t you get tired. Reading all those words. Dry lifeless fossilised language. Every technology leaves something behind. There is a cost, always, with traveling… Read more.
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WHAT IS HOME?
There are so many places in the world and the grass is always greener. If we are lucky and live in rich countries with professional jobs, or live simply, we… Read more.
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NOMADIC SURREALISM
“Slease refuses the comforts of rootedness, stability, permanence. In doing so, he represents what the philosopher Rose Braidotti identifies as the model of nomadic subjectivity “in flux, never opposed to… Read more.
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WHAT IS NAPLES?
The Grand Tour, back in the day, we based on John Dewey and experiential education, at least partially. It was also based on ideas of high culture, and the lack… Read more.
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IMPROV JAZZ WITH POETRY FROM THE BATHTUB
When Ewa and I first arrived in Madrid, Christian Pérez, his wife Megan, and their son Oscar welcomed us. Showed us around their neighbourhood of La Latina, lollies and neighbourhood… Read more.
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WHAT IS PLAY YR KARDZ RIGHT?
Las Vegas had a show on the telly, it was exotic and foreign, hard to imagine, and we were going there, as immigrant pioneers, for a better life, like immigrants… Read more.
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WHAT ARE HUNGRY MONSTERS?
I have never been comfortable with money. The chasing it, living my life for numbers. In America, as an immigrant, I was saturated with the lack of it. Lower middle… Read more.
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HOW TO GIVE BIRTH IN A HOLE
A few years ago The National Poetry Library in London invited me to record a poem. I decided to read my poem”The Fly“. After the death of my brother… Read more.
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HOW TO RENEW YOURSELF WITH MINDFUL TRAVEL
Why do we travel? The weekend getaway. The summer and winter breaks. The islands and exotic locations. What are we looking for? The travel industry is one of the biggest… Read more.
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WHAT IS INFLUENCE?
Super happy to have my poem “Feedback” in Poetry magazine. It is part of my manuscript The Green Monk, forthcoming from Boiler House Press in November 2018. It was composed while… Read more.
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NOMADIC SURREALIST TRAVEL IN KAZIMIERZ
My partner Ewa and I visit Poland for Christmas every year. My partner Ewa is from Katowice so that is our home base. During our summer visits we explore mountains… Read more.
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WHAT IS NOMADIC SURREALISM?
Panmelys wrote a nice review of my nomadic poetry. She writes: “seeking otherness Of a soul, hungering after ‘Hiraeth’. Which means ‘A longing for something This World can never give’,… Read more.
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MR WHISKERS WITHOUT THE PICNIC BASKET
The only award I ever won, and didn’t even enter, was for a poem called “Mr Whiskers and the Picnic Basket.” It was published in Hayden’s Ferry Review as a… Read more.
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POEMS FROM HELLO TINY BIRD BRAIN IN POLISH ANTHOLOGY
Some of my poems from Hello Tiny Bird Brain (a chapbook from Knives, Forks, and Spoon Press in the U.K.) are now available in Polish. Translated by Adam Zdrodowski. These poems… Read more.
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NOMADIC POETICS WITH MARCUS SLEASE AND GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI AT DESPERATE LITERATURE
A terrific launch last night of The Spirit of the Bathtub with Grzegorz Wroblewski reading from his latest work (in English) Zero Visibility (translated by Piotr Gwiazda). Super nice folks… Read more.
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ON FATHERS
“My step father grew up in Warrington, he joined the British Army. A way out. Northern Ireland. He married my mother. In Bletchley, we went to the swimming pool. Hot… Read more.
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NEVER MIND THE BEASTS: A NEW WEBSITE
I just reached over half million visits on my blogger website Never Mind the Beasts. A mile stone maybe. Thank you so much for stopping by!! The blogger Never Mind… Read more.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Las Vegas, 1985, maybe August. I am a newly arrived immigrant in the United States of America. First Vallejo in a trailer park and then Las Vegas. Also, from… Read more.
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DEAR BELOVED HUMANS
“For eight years now I have been translating the poetry of Grzegorz Wróblewski, a Polish writer and visual artist based in Copenhagen. So far we have published two volumes: Kopenhaga… Read more.
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THE NEW SINCERITY
(Marcus Slease in 1995) Irony and sincerity combined like Voltron, to form a new movement of astonishing power.” — Jesse Thorn How do you feel about irony? And… Read more.
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STELLAR LINEUP FOR PAST SIMPLE 13
The new international issue of Past Simple out now. Manchester, New York City, Lisbon, London, Seattle, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Liège, Madrid, Cambridge (MA), Worcester (MA), Pittsburgh, Prague, Eindhoven, North Queensland (Australia), and… Read more.
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THE ELEPHANTS
The moon is sometimes bloated. There is so much. Just stop, slow down, take a look at your brain. It is very bloated. Put your thoughts in a balloon, maybe… Read more.
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POETRY MAGAZINE Reading List: November 2017
My poem “Feedback” (part of my manuscript The Green Monk forthcoming from Boiler House Press) was published in the November issue of Poetry magazine. Nice! Folks published in the Nov… Read more.
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