norbert blei | the doctors diet

The Doctor’s Diet
by
Norbert Blei
Add to the growing list of Door County writers, Dr. Shaun J. Melarvie, born in Prairie du Chien, who joined the medical staff of Door County Memorial Hospital as an employee of John Herlache in 1994 and in 1996 joined forces with him to create Lake Side Surgical Associates.
As a writer, [...]

gerald locklin | beggars & cheeseburgers

Download listen to Gerald Locklin | breadwinner | 12dec2002 | from Albuzerxque Volume 17 (Zerx Records 057) | this record is available as a CD by clicking here…or as an mp3 file here…

jacques prévert | alicante

Alicante

Une orange sur la table
aaaTa robe sur le tapis
aaaEt toi dans mon lit.
Doux présent du présent
aaaFraîcheur de la nuit
aaaChaleur de ma vie.

Alicante

An orange on the table
aaYour dress on the rug
aaaaAnd you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
aaaaCool of the night
aaWarmth of my life.

[From PAROLES, Selected Poems by Jacques Prévert, translated by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City [...]

wolfgang carstens | evicted from paradise: a review of a bellyful of anarchy

A BELLYFUL OF ANARCHY By Rob Plath | 302 pages | $25.00 | Epic Rites Press
birth is
an evil
kidnapper
who
snatches you
from kind
mother nothing
& sticks
yr innocent
nothingness
into a
human meat
straitjacket
called a body
& then
for decades
you are
slashed by
the horrible
machete of
consciousness
(from life is a bad slasher flick)
One of the dominant themes in Rob Plath’s a bellyful of anarchy is birth portrayed as a [...]

hosho mccreesh | elmore james | buddy guy

Elmore James
bleary-eyed
on tub-stilled shine,
passing a bottle back to
the ghost of Robert Johnson,
barreling down a dusty, yellow,
washboard Mississippi backroad,
heart shuddering in his chest,
all the screws shaking loose,
he slides that ‘39 Merc
across the terrible frets
of the American night,
past the crossroads,
hungry and desperate for
more liquor, more money, more women,
more anything-to-make-him-forget,
more he-don’t-even-know-what,
and in the backseat,
the ghost of Robert Johnson
downs [...]

gerald locklin | on air

My poem, “Un Bel Di,” from Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems, World Parade Books, 2008, available on amazon.com, will be broadcast as part of Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac radio program, on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, on 320 non-commercial radio stations around the country. The program will then be streamed, podcast, and archived [...]

ron offen

The sprung flight of doves –
with each ascent it seems they
just invented it.

Wobbly candle flame
nervous as a timid child
afraid of the dark.

matthew borkowski | hieronymus bosch comes to lavallette, n.j.

from BIG HAMMER No. 12 which can be found by clicking here… plus some more publications from Matthew Borkowski

gerald locklin | the dodger’s retirement party: a novella of the good old days

tony moffeit | sleepwalking in the void: a review on crudely mistaken for life

CRUDELY MISTAKEN FOR LIFE. | By Wolfgang Carstens. |$ 15,50 | Epic Rites Press
CRUDELY MISTAKEN FOR LIFE is a book of poetry that uses darkness to get to the light. More than that, it is one of those rare books in which the darkness is the light. The power of darkness gives us [...]