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Is Thomas Disch the Right God for You? [by Tom Disch, 1939-2008]
Once a mortal, soon to be in Heaven, I may beyour best chance to distinguish yourselfas someone specially Blessed and bound for Glorywithout going to a lot of trouble or expense.The Scripture is out…
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Performance art meets literary étrangeté: Lina Lapelytè’s The Mutes makes my uncanny familiar [by Sean Ashton]
Behind the nettles, the wandering un-choral of Lina Lapelytè’s ”The Mutes”, turned the strangeness of ”I have never driven a 7.5 ton truck” into the normative, authoritative, of a Pater Noster. Lafayette Anticipations. Photo…
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5 Poems from “The Big Smoke” [by Adrian Matejka]
Hubert’s Museum & Flea Circus (1937) Below constellations of pool balls clatteringgeometry’s grace. Below pinball machinesringing like a telephone full of congratulations& the street-car stutter of a movie projector:Jack Dempsey clubbing Luis Firpo or…
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Mitch Sisskind presents “The Big Bang,” a poem by Nevin Schreiner
A poem by my writer friend of many years — The Big Bang This took place when they were half asleepThe way you look when you roll over and say Huh?Dead brained, dream soakedLava eyed. While…
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Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Ciara Mulvihill ___________________________________________________ We Can Move Forward Now My nose is burning from…
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Spontaneous Aphorism: Hope
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." — Mignon McLaughlinThe Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 via The American Scholar (Summer, 2008) The line (which has also been attributed to Jean Kerr) makes it…
