poetry
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New 21st Century Anthology of Surreal-Absurd Poetry Released
We’re excited to share the release of the first anthology from Mercurius Magazine — a groundbreaking collection of contemporary surrealist and absurdist poetry. Edited by Marcus Silcock, Vik Shirley, Thoman Helm, and Benjamin Niespodziany, this volume brings together over 80 poets whose work challenges conventional form and embraces the strange, the uncanny, and the beautifully unclassifiable. Spanning 370 pages, the anthology offers… Read more
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Navigating January Blues: the head and the heart
Happy Monday! January is not an easy month. Post-Christmas. Winter for many. February even more so. My head is spinning. Some lack of sleep. Too many thoughts of what’s next. Finding some kind of purpose. Trying not to read too much news. It is so easy to get lost in the head. It is good… Read more
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Exploring Travel Through Prose Poetry
I am super chuffed to have a new prose poem in issue 2 of Strings literary magazine. Written during the summer of 2024. I found inspiration in reading various translations of Rilke. I also acquired a new technique of writing in pencil. Rilke brought to mind my days in Trieste as a dog walker. I… Read more
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A Thin Slice of Anxiety
“When you look up anti-poetry you are likely to run into the work of Nicanor Parra. Parra said something like “real seriousness” resides in the “comic.” We can of course go further. It is also cosmic. Like Parra, Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poetry is often anti-poetic and minimalist. Many of the speakers resemble visitors from another planet.… Read more
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what gets translated???
from Heriberto Yépez for his weekly column at the Mexico City magazine Laberinto (translated from Spanish by the poet Guillermo Para): “Generally, unsubmissive foreigners are not translated and instead marketable or functional foreigners are chosen. We translate what is exemplary. What serves as an example of something we want to make visible in our own culture.”… Read more
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ugly mouth by David Tomaloff
Housefire lights my fire . . over and over and over again . . check out Ugly Mouth: ugly mouth (painting by one mr michael j trull) Read more
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Rachael Katz at Jellyfish
check out Boogaloo at Jellyfish http://jellyfishmagazine.org/katz1.html Read more
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authenticity
so here i sit on a friday afternoon i got a view so that helps and the weather has changed into spring almost summer and i am flooded with all the memories of countries and people and it is getting crowded in my head plus there’s the net with its endless streams of words information… Read more
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Never Mind the Beasts 