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Robert Duncan Gray
refreshing as a London sun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCFVsJeW38&feature=em-subs_digest Read more
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Moby Dick plus The Flintstones
EQUALS THIS: http://www.chapbook-genius.com/ THANK YOU JOSEPH YOUNG! Read more
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Thank you Tin House & Matthew Dickman
A huge thanks to Matthew Dickman (poetry editor of Tin House) for kind words about Mu (Dream) So (Window): http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/22915/what-were-reading-8.html Read more
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Bushwick Review
Just got the summer 2011 edition and I am very very happy. Read it on my tube commute today. It has everything. The stories got the juice and the craft to boot. I’m still thinking about Kristen Felicetti’s story: Ms. TG C/O T.G.! A man approaching 40 who writes an advice column for young teenage… Read more
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YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL
YOU GAVE ME YOUR ADDERALL + fiction by RL Goldberg http://housefirebooks.com/you-gave-me-your-adderall-fiction-rl-goldberg/ Read more
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ALT LIT and NY School Poetry
Alt LIT and NY School Poetry (Frank O’ Hara and Ted Berrigan etc.) This same kind of negative review of the legacy of NY School poetics was also leveled at Alt Lit in Vice recently. Sociability. Pop art. Speed. The bad dna of Frank O Hara and Ted Berrigan etc. The attention deficit of NY… Read more
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Mu Dream So Window from Poor Claudia
my chapbook based on experiences living in South Korea in 2006. Mu Dream So Window. Available from Poor Claudia. Limited edition of 150. Order here: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php Read more
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Frank O’ Hara
Larry’s uncle sent a missionary to China when he was in grade school who cried ”go straight” to the white men there (Frank O ’ Hara) Read more
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The House of Zabka
if you like visuals and other such things visit my other blog The House of Zabka www.marcusslease.tumblr.com Read more
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Mu dream So Window is Ready
Hey Marcus Slease – We just finished putting yr book together. When you rub yr hand against it, it whispers. — Drew Scott Swenhaugen limited run of 150 copies scratchy purple cover a bit of creative translation of Basho there is a gay balloon flower song there are pocket rubbings near Buddhist temples there is a Korean… Read more
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GAYNG
beachsloth: GAYNG Issue #1 GAYNG has been one of the most hotly anticipated releases in Alt Lit. Lasting many online generations or several months, it took a while to get into PDF form. So many things had to be absolutely perfect. The Buzz was strong with GAYNG. With all this hope could it possibly live up… Read more
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THE SHARK IS GETTING MARRIED
“A whiskey breath man does not like your English so you speak in Ponglish. Ponglish is sexy. When you speak Ponglish you must hide your erection or squeeze your legs to prevent the juice from running down your legs. You may excuse yourself to the side of the building and smoke smoke smoke away your… Read more
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Grzegorz Wroblewski in Poems and Paintings
Grzegorz Wroblewki poems and paintings on Wojtek Wilczyk blog: http://www.hiperrealizm.blogspot.dk/2013/01/w-hodzie-krotkim-pobytom.html (painting: Grzegorz Wroblewski: Deep Blue Adventures) Read more
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THE GREAT BEAR PAMPHLET SERIES
the Great Bear pamphlet series This series of pamphlets, published by Something Else Press from 1965-67, featured experimental writing from the likes of John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Nam Jun Paik. The pamphlets ranged from 16 to 32 pages in length, were saddle-stitched, and were printed on varying color stock; content included concrete… Read more
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NEW ISSUE OF GESTURE
the new Gesture is finally here :) :) :) here are the contributors: M.g. Martin, Steve Roggenbuck, Daniel Alexander, Anhvu Buchanan, Susan Calvillo, Kati Mertz, Kelly Schirmann, Michael Inscoe, Robert Vaughan,Yume Kim, Mat Cochran (lead singer of the band Coma Cinema), Marcus Slease (…) (DOWNLOAD PDF): http://thegorillapress.com/sites/default/files/gesture_4_.pdf (FLASH) http://thegorillapress.com/sites/default/files/gesture_4_.swf(FIND IT ON GORILLAPRESS WEBSITE) http://thegorillapress.com/node/7 Read more
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THE OTHER ROOM MANCHESTER
READING A WEEK FROM TODAY WED 6TH FEB IN MANCHESTER. AT THE OTHER ROOM READING SERIES. READING FROM SOON TO BE RELEASED NEW BOOK FROM POOR CLAUDIA Mu (so) Dream (window) http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php COME ON OUT IF YOU ARE IN MANCHESTER!! Read more
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cabbage language
CABBAGE LANGUAGE, by Robert Duncan Gray, collects Gray’s debut novella THE SON OF THE SUN with AMATEUR PORNOGRAPHY, a selection of the author’s best poetic works. http://www.amazon.com/CABBAGE-LANGUAGE-Robert-Duncan-Gray/dp/1937395030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358523915&sr=8-1&keywords=cabbage+language.CABBAGE LANGUAGE will turn you over. It will put you where you need to be. It will teach you all of the new positions—even the ones you’re afraid to… Read more
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The Suicidal Moose by Andrew Wayne Adams
“The pirate—Captain Whiskeycola—scanned the room with a bulging eye while he tapped the handle of a sword at his belt. As if daring us to ask why he had a moose on his shoulder instead of a parrot.” find out more at:http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11896 Read more
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eggs and people
Half of you happened before your mother was born. When your mother was an embryo. You were tiny. A single cell. About the size of a printed full stop. If your mother was 30 when she had on your 18th birthday you were over 48 years old. This is your real age. I guess. Read more
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Sometimes my heart pushes my ribs
the hair is black and smells like lemonstwo people using one green toothbrush — Ellen Kennedy http://muumuuhouse.com/ellenkennedy.poetrybook.html Read more
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Compass by Dani Sandal
“It’s three in the morning and my wife is standing in the doorway of our garage in flannel pajamas and that pink robe she’s worn since high school. She’s watching me use a red Gerber spoon to dip into the urn and finally she goes, “Bobby, you just can’t do it — it’s too morbid.… Read more
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Grzegorz Wroblewski Remix
I did a reading of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s poems from A Marzipan Factory with some music. Also our performance together in London with some of my nomadic surrealist poems. The recordings are now available at PennSound A Marzipan Factory is available over here: Read more
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THE ARRANGEMENT AT MONKEYBICYCLE
MY SHORT STORY “THE ARRANGEMENT” NOW OVER AT MONKEYBICYCLE. BORA WINDS. OPERA. A RED HOODED GIRL BIRD FROM LJUBLJANA. DOGGIE PARK PICK UPS. A SEXY PIPE SMOKING BUTCHER FROM TRIESTE: http://monkeybicycle.net/the-arrangement/ Read more
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Pussycat Fever
A man just brought me Pussycat Fever. Plus Dear Jenny We Are All find. I am a happy man. Read more
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One Minute Sculpture
but mostly he carried an astronaut he carried an astronaut like greasy bacon over a rump roast like an ox that plows and plows and plows that sexes his cherries and sends him up with moon humps and sucker punches a sucker for a suckling diddling his axis with her helmet and her little white… Read more
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A Marzipan Factory
Nice review of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s A Marzipan Factory over here. Nomadic surrealism and also absurdism. http://zorosko.blogspot.dk/2012/11/grzegorz-wroblewski-it-is-kafkaesque.html Read more
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Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction
http://issuu.com/napmagazine/docs/tokyogirls This was absolutely dead on fuckin great!! I want more of this Kyle Hemmings fella. Just finished re-reading Burrough’s Soft Machine this weekend and then woke up Monday morning and read Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction. Feels like cut ups in some ways. But not Burroughs. Of course. It is almost like if Murakami… Read more
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from Smashing Time
Influenced by NY School poetry. Bernadette Mayer and Kenneth Koch ALSO Philip Whalen (one of my favs) Part of my Nomadic Surrealist project. free pdf here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/299099 cover painting: Grzegorz Wroblewski Read more
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stella fella
Granny Hops liked the old street junky cleaners. They swept the streets and popped open a Stella. On their breaks. Granny Hops plopped herself on the curb with them. Brought her own Stella. Granny Hops was one for the Stellas. Read more
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Northern Cream
Writing a story called “Northern Cream.” Granny Hops aka Kurios Oranj. Takes place in Manchester. Collaged with Borroughs’ Soft Machine and lyrics of Mark E Smith. For the reading On Beat: http://parasol-unit.org/on-beat Read more
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Lost on Purpose by Shane Jones
GET LOST!!!! http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11671 if you haven’t read Shane Jones’ Light Boxes or Daniel Fights a Hurricane . . oh boyo . . best reads of this side of the century . . Read more
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heartworn highways
I am looking at just boiled potatoes. I can share a porch with an old man and fantasize about his hands on my neck. We can do many things with our breath. Such as syncopate or synchronize. I think you can guess which one is better. This persons eyes begins to close. This person sleeps.… Read more
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HAVE U SEEN MY WHALE
http://husmw5.tumblr.com/marcus_slease happy to be in great company . . Socrates Adams-Florou Grace Millard Ananta Prayitno Jean Hui Ng Beach Sloth Paige Gresty Marcus Slease Kevin Pinner Blare Coughlin Livia Franchini Wern Luk Christopher Scarborough Dianna Dragonetti Michael O’Brien Michael Hessel-Mial Kelly Schirmann Jmar Atienza Amelia Gillis Robert Schofield Michael Scarborough check out issue five .… Read more
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freudian comics with my Polish girlfriend Ewa
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TRANSMISSION 2. CHRISTMAS EVE. KATOWICE POLAND
or bodies made of smokeor a giant made of meat hearts ***** I want a floor like this laminated and shining everything in its right place even when it’s not ***** we are bathed in green lightsthe first star is still waitingto arriveto Katowice ***** I’m sitting in a little wooden roomtyping thisin a room… Read more
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TRANSMISSION 1. CHRISTMAS EVE. KATOWICE POLAND
My body ballooned in the bathtub. My scrotum was a magical sea creature. I watched it bob before annointing myself with oils. Then I ate a plate of bigos. No two plates. Then I entered the house of zabka and said pa prush sha do va LM na bel ski. That means two packs of cigarettes. The lady… Read more
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THE BLUE RIDER BY MARCUS SPEH
check it . . dig it . . http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11843 Read more
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gonna do a Mu (so) Dream (Window) reading in Manchester in Feb
If you are in Manchester . . come on out . . . 6th Feb 2013 . . . Read more
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I luved this city by Stephanie Gray
what overly optimistic candy must feel . . http://paperbagazine.com/IssueNo4/Gray_Loved.html Read more
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A Mayan ride in the soft machine
If you are in London come on out. Will be reading some fucked up elfish mayan house of Zabka bizarro in honour of Mr. Burroughs. Tues Jan 15th 2013. Parasol Unit is the place: http://parasol-unit.org/on-beat Read more
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Mu (so) Dream (Window)
available for pre-order over here at Poor Claudia: http://www.poorclaudia.org/details_slease.php A informal reading of some of the poems: Read more
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how the strip club is a constellation & other poems By Julia Clare Tillinghast-Akalin
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/julia-tillinghast-akalin-how-the-strip-club/ She has spent a number of years, on and off, living in Istanbul, Turkey, and is Co-Translator of Dirty August, a selected poems of the experimental 20th-century Turkish poet Edip Cansever. This mades me very curious. I loved living in Turkey and exploring experimental Turkish poetry. Must find this Dirty August!!! Read more
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NEW CRUSH AT POOR CLAUDIA: SARA RENEE MARSHALL
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THE BOOK I TOSS BY TED GREENWALD
THE BOOK I TOSS BY TED GREENWALD The book I toss is Boss It bangs against the walls And gets me working I watch its thin green Recede into a reed And think the time right To set the Boss right We argue Cops suddenly appear I throw them and Boss Out the window And… Read more
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Jake Adam York
I met Jake Adam York when I lived in North Carolina. He published one of my first poems “Mr Whiskers and the Picnic Basket.” I have a broadside of one of his poems celebrating the sensuality of southern BBQ. It was a shock to hear that he has died this past weekend. Close to my… Read more
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how to waste your lunch hour
how to waste your lunch hour by Jennifer Omega http://www.metazen.ca/?p=11662 Read more
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FEELINGS POETRY READING (NORTH LONDON)
If you are in London, check this reading out tomorrow. Jeff Hilson rocks my world. Amy De’Ath is cool too. The sad dj is cool. Lots of cool shit. Thursday 20:00 An evening of film, poetry and sad disco.Poetry:Amy De’AthMarianne MorrisSophie MayerJeff HilsonSamantha Walton!more tbc!Film:Liz RosenfeldSad Disco:DJ Dr Kemp Vogue Fabrics 66 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB… Read more
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IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN TIM ATKINS . . ON ANY PLANET
“English poetry is suddenly in the happy state of being wide and generous enough to feel confident in its ability to draw upon art, music, the emotions, beauty, surrealism, language writing, comedy, the diverse strands of the New American Poetry, and, even (after a long time being banned by an academy which valorizes overwrought language… Read more
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Contemporary English Poetry and North American influences
A nice article today about some of the very best poetry coming from the United Kingdom. And it rocks. Big time! Brilliant! Some influences of NY school poetry and more. Check out the article in Jacket 2 magazine: http://jacket2.org/feature/contemporary-english-poetry-and-north-american-influences Read more
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chips and curry
in honour of my brother’s birthday today. He died unexpectedly six months ago. Heroin overdose in Spanish Fork Utah. Miss him a shitload. He would have turned 30 today. We were very close growing up together. Took care of him when he was a baby. Bathed him in a plastic baby tub in Milton Keynes,… Read more
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Dorothea lasky in spanish
tanfachoelbobo: La gente empieza tragedias luego le echa la culpa al mundoNo fue la culpa del mundo que tengo miedoQue la gente empezóEl quilombo que no pude arreglarLa gente como universoLa gente se muere tambiénLa gente como oscuro cielo gris, las luces atizanPuntos amarillos de azul y plataQué es… Read more
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Throb and Gristle on Exile TV
is it where I am going? or where I have gone? is where I am going far? Read more
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what i’d like for christmas by ted berrigan
What I’d Like For Christmas, 1970 by Ted Berrigan Black brothers to get happy The Puerto Ricans to say hello The old folks to take it easy & as it comes The United States to get straight Power to butt out Money to fuck off Business with honor Religion & Art Love A home A… Read more
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ipad edition of poets and artists
video reading of “Regent Street” in new ipad edition of poets and artists. Happy to be in there. Thank you Didi Menendez. Maybe someday I’ll get an ipad. subscribe for free to the mag here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipoetsartists/id586627484?mt=11 Read more
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Poor Claudia and Emily Pettit
Poor Claudia (doesn’t get any better) from Nick van Eck: Something beautiful about swinging! Feel like getting away from the holiday hustle and leaping mid-air into a white hot void of weightless language? Look at that. We’ve got four new poems from EMILY PETTIT.Emily Pettit’s the author of Goat in the Snow (Birds LLC). She’s also… Read more
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cannibal manifesto
Wikipedia: The Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto in English) was published in 1928 by the Brazilian poet and polemicist Oswald de Andrade. The essay was translated to English in 1991 by Leslie Bary. Its argument is that Brazil’s history of “cannibalizing” other cultures is its greatest strength, while playing on the modernists‘ primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite. Cannibalism becomes a way for Brazil to assert… Read more
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new issue of Rampike Magazine
happy for my work to be in great company. Peter Jaeger, Tim Atkins, Richard Parker, Amy De’Ath, Cathy Wagner, bill bissett, Sachiko Murakami and lots more . . My poem is “Song of the Open Road.” A creative translation of Walt Whitman. lots to explore . . Fantastic issue that opens up possibilities. .… Read more
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new rampike issue
happy for my work to be in great company. Peter Jaeger, Tim Atkins, Richard Parker, Amy De’Ath, Cathy Wagner, bill bissett, Sachiko Murakami and lots more . . My poem is “Song of the Open Road.” A creative translation of Walt Whitman. lots to explore . . Fantastic issue that opens up possibilities. . the… Read more
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cloud/moustache by robert duncan gray
great start to my Sunday: check it out: http://naplitmag.com/echapbooks/cloud.pdf Read more
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