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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Poem by Buff Whitman-Bradley
The Corporate State By Buff Whitman-Bradley The Supreme Court has just declared us unconstitutional Killer drones keep track of us night and day Monster multinationals have patented all our genes And nailed eviction notices to our foreheads We’re going to … Continue reading
Don’t Look at Me: Emotive Associations Upon Reading Two Poems by Christie Ann Reynolds
By Jean Macpherson If you have a fear of losing your mind, or swaying on the ledge, stop reading. Go read something else like Oprah’s poetry issue. Lit Number 19, Winter 2011 features two untitled poems or sections from I’m … Continue reading
Poem by Pam Ward
The Hollywood Sign for Hilda Weiss By Pam Ward Each day I leave home I see Hollywood’s sign Straight up Sixth Underneath Venice after a quick costume switch where Rossmore turns to the cement stars on Vine. Where the lip … Continue reading
Poem by Lenore Weiss
Park Bench By Lenore Weiss TVs are cinema-sized, computers in a back pocket, a world imploding like an elderly person, shorter every year, or like a garbage compacter from an old Mafia movie where victims get compressed into a neat … Continue reading
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Tagged Lenore Weiss, poetry & technology, political poems
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Invented Forms: QWERTY
How to Write a QWERTY By Benjamin Young The beginning letter of each word in the poem must follow the order of letters on the standard QWERTY keyboard. Optionally, and ideally, the line breaks and length of each line will … Continue reading
Poem by Hugh Fox
At The Same Time By Hugh Fox Eighty-five, feeling like every hour is a step back to the Great Crash of ‘29 when almost everyone in my family was struggling to find a shovel, scalpel, handgun, broom, cow barn to … Continue reading
Excerpts from “The Poison Tree”
By Eric John Priestley Lucky Old Son I first moved to the Poison Tree in 1982. The FBI had burned the Watts Writers’ Workshop down in 1973. I had no place else to go. It was cold in East Los … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric John Priestley, Looking East, novel excerpts, poets' memoirs
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Poem by Sam Cha
Kill Team By Sam Cha 1. “It was finally time to kill a haji” “The soldiers were bored, shellshocked and angry”* “There is a lot more to being in the infantry than shooting, but everything else is just boring [...] … Continue reading
Poem by Paulus Kapteyn
All The Rage Shrub By Paulus Kapteyn I listen to Chopin because I like to hear the missing keys of the piano. Buddhism may help me with my guilt but not with my rage that is replete with my ancestor’s … Continue reading