| THE SELLING OF THE AMERICANS, part oneHariette Surovell INSIDIOUS MOVIE PRODUCT PLACEMENT TRENDS Television shows are sponsored by advertisers who really get bangs for their... >> more |
Four PoemsHalvard JohnsonFrida Kahlo, after a long overland journey, arrives at a conclusion. >> more |
Dachau IdyllPeter FreundOur arrival in Dachau was very well received, understandably so. Because of the town’s stigma, they had not been able to get a gynecologist to accept a position there. >> more |
From the Book of GodTerrance Jacobus THAT HUGE PARANOIA
This is my beloved son in Whom I am well pleased
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The Animals Began on the PorchWillis BarnstoneThey began on the porch. My daughter saw them first and she said they came in all sizes and they were goats, but my son said no they were deer, perfectly formed deer who had come in from the forests and their coats were immaculately clean pelts of Irish setters but they were certainly not... >> more |
FIFTY/FIFTYLee Meitzen Gruenow that s he s having this affair with Rose, her name appears everywhere: Rose owns the street. Overnight Rose has bought the woman out. >> more |
Varanasi, India (his)Adrian Sangeorzan Here life and death wear the same shari Through which you can see the ribs of time As through the bares of a cage. >> more |
BOMBE FOR DESSERTMike ToppHe is afraid to go to the war zone but he has heard one restaurant there serves a great bombe. >> more |
How I Spent my Summer VacationHariette SurovellHow I Spent my Summer Vacation (or Aunt Matahariette Flees Pompous Pontificating Professors to Hang with Autistic Canadian Kid)
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ZURICH 2010: NEIGHBORSFriendsNieghbors 1 and 2
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two up-to-date pomesJohn OlsonGas is $4.09 per gallon. Aromatic cedar mulch is $3.49 per 2 cubic foot bag. A flight to Paris is beyond my means. >> more |
| Life of Crime: Black Bart Rides Again, AssholesPat Nolan MORE POETRY ASSHOLES
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Two Poems by Kate WyerKate WyerPeanuts & Azerbaijan >> more |
Haydn's HeadGershon HepnerAn addition to "The Disposition of Body Parts in the Romantic Era," in The Stiffest of the Corpse (City Lights) >> more |
Friendship: The Brain (Of a Fascist) & The Heart (Of a Jew): Mircea Eliade & Mihail SebastianAndrei Oisteanu CHRONICLE OF A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP* The “paradisiacal” period (1932-1933) In the National Museum of Romanian Literature’s archive there is a set of photographs remarkably interesting . They depict a group of youngsters, about... >> more |
Ten PoemsGrzegorz Wr?blewskitranslated from the Polish by Adam Zdrodowski
The rose demands a poem sensitive to a lizard’s tongue, crooked cumulus clouds or the gesticulation of deranged children. >> more |
Cadavre Exquis Web 2.0Library VixenDear Exquisite Corpse Magazine,
These are a series of “Tag Cloud” poetry. I ran a tag cloud from my blog and what was generated was a gigantic list of words remarkably similar to the exquisite corpse theme. I call them... >> more |
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Megan Volpert Alphabetizes Her PetsMegan VolpertMORE NEW PETS ALL STARTING WITH B! For those readers of the Corpse who don't have any idea what this is all about, we have nothing to say to you! Only kidding, come back. Megan had the benefit of an excellent education that included knowledge of the alphabet. How many of us can say that?... >> more |
Pacifica PointDoren RobbinsI haven't been this awake in a month, I feel the renewal coming, the Rastaman says "I-and-I," I don't mean the same thing, the filled-up part turns on—never more clear how the placement of the clouds eroticized the liquid in my eyes, remember those eyes, remember those... >> more |
Precious (A Christmas Carol)Hariette Surovell Louis Farrakhan is an evil sociopathic anti-Semite who was responsible for the murder of Malcolm X, but he was right-on about one thing-- the Jews who ran Hollywood were racists. The... >> more |
TWO ARABESQUES BY MIKE TOPPMike ToppSome of Mike Topp's longer works on Japanese themes in the arabesque style (see Gongorra) >> more |
Bernadette Mayer's Fabulousness in the Eyes of the FaithfulBill DeNoyellesBernadette Mayer is a saint like her namesake: she flies and brings colors into the world. Bill DeNoyelles testify on just how he thinks she does this. >> more |
Greece: VertigoMark Sargentspecial to the Corpse by Mark Sargent >> more |
From the Border: A CorridoSal Salasin De Monterrey a linares salieron una manana un grupo de federales in Spanish by the composer in English by Sal Salasin >> more |
The Geometry of SoundDave Brinksa dearth of lumen the oasis of fresh pond alongside a road one number can describe all the objects inside your house I like the idea of being a bottle of milk or heavy cream doesn’t everyone sleep in persian blue satin sheets like cucumbers in a box of snow >> more |
FROM THE MFA FRONTJanis HubschmanI stared at him, fighting back tears. Would it have been too much to ask for him to introduce me to his accomplished friends? After all, I had kept up my end of the bargain, providing him with sex and home-cooked meals.
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Eliade, from Opium And Cannabis to Amphetamines*Andrei OisteanuAndrei Oisteanu's groundbreaking study on Mircea Eliade and drugs >> more |
Storisteanu Inaugurates Memory BureauAdrian StoristeanuAdrian Storisteanu inaugurates our MEMORY BUREAU with BUCHAREST! >> more |
Pigeon Study, 2007-2008Susan Silas a document of decay and transformation a 24 week-24 image collaboration between Exquisite Corpse & Susan Silas >> more |
Seattle: Aimez-vous Pearl Jam? (a tale of Old Seattle)David Fewster(From the Diary of Nanette Jenkins, NOVEMBER 1993) Yesterday was my 39th birthday, as depressing a personal milestone as any I’ve experienced, with the possible exception of my wedding day with Stanley. Maybe this one was... >> more |
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Letter from Greece July 2014Mark SargentThe Corpse stays informed, Sargent is on the job. >> more |
TrafficBill BerksonChoice is painful, Occasion but a drag. >> more |
The PalindromeLaura RiggsIt was past two o’clock in the morning. The letters on the keyboard were blurred. Her carpal tunnel was aching. Monkey-mind gone wild. >> more |
The Romanian Avant-Garde And Visual PoetryAndrei Oisteanunew scholarship on Dada and picto-poesy from Andrei Oisteanu >> more |
go to churchMrs. Julian A. (Laura) SemilianIn today's US, religion is one of the few fields >> more |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Guan YinErick Heroux First, she is a goddess. She is one today throughout East Asia—although in some countries she is a he. Yes the goddess is sometimes a god, so that's worth a second look, for some a... >> more |
Ode to MeDave BreithauptSpecial to the Corpse: Ohio Poet Makes Peace With self! >> more |
Five Poems Con Leche y Sangre by Merilyn JacksonMerilyn Jackson >> more |
Paul Fiction by Calin-Andrei MihailescuCalin-Andrei MihailescuSaul going to see Paul >> more |
SonnetsBernadette MayerHERE’S A NEW KIND OF SONNET to bewilder the ever-present ladybugs & turn supermarkets into galaxies there’s a snowdrop coming up... >> more |
Art Kills One, Injures Two! Special to the Corpse Direct from CampusRandy F. NelsonThen the art descended. Now that was a cold day!
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Picnic Game With NudesCarol NovackWe women are naked, men ill suited. >> more |
| New Poems by Grzegorz Wr?blewskGrzegorz Wr?blewski Translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Pokojska
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from "Ready To Eat Individual"Brett Evans and Frank SherlockEd Bradley sang “60 MINUTE MAN” >> more |
Katrina SuiteLee Ann Brownmy past is a field of sleepwalking majorettes too poor to buy white boots —Frank Stanford >> more |
Etiquette: A Beginner's Guide to ThreesomesMegan A. VolpertPublic speaking instructors invariably recommend visualizing your audience as naked to relieve the stress of giving your speech. This is in contrast to a very typical characterization of public humiliation: that you are standing in front of a bunch of people and none of them are naked except you. ... >> more |
YOUR NAME HERE by Pat NolanPat Nolanfor Michael-Sean Lazarchuk (1946–2008) >> more |
Peoples? Weird Shit Namely MineSusan ConnellPolyestra >> more |
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Critical Notes from the D-BagDeWitt BrinsonReviews of Hearth by Simon Pettet ... >> more |
from ERRATA by Michael Allen ZellMichael Allen ZellDAY 4 The glass implies the bottle, >> more |
Eddie Woods InterviewedMichalis LimniosAmerican poet, writer, editor Eddie Woods talks about poetry, music, the Beats and “Ins & Outs”
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Man and DogSusan Kirby-SmithThe dog and the man stared at one another as the light of the sun through their living room window turned orange and then pink. >> more |
Paris: The BullfighterEddie WoodsWell France is anything but tiny, yet this young man had already made a good start toward fulfilling his dream. >> more |
Gherasim Luca: The Inventor of Love, in English by the SemiliansAllan GraubardLUCA IN ENGLISH! EXTRA! EXTRA! The Inventor of Love & Other Writings Translated by Julian and Laura Semilian
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Three Poems by Braden BellBraden BellBraden Bell rings with more and more clarity. >> more |
Mark Sargent: the latest from GreeceMark SargentEurope is changing. Our correspondent in Greece, Mark Sargent, with the latest. >> more |
Irish Bar: a Hopscotch BalladJim LopezI swallowed like a graduate maudlin who auctioned off his degree on E-Bay and made my way to an “Irish Pub.”
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UnsaddledElizabeth J. ColenThey would have had much, but they would never have had language between them. >> more |
Alexandra Dumitrescu?s Poetic NewsAlexandra DmitrescuAlexandra in New Zealand >> more |
YES MEN HONCHO SPRUNG FROM CLINKThe Yes MenFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2009
The Yes Men: http://www.theyesmen.org Andy Bichlbaum, co-founder of activist group the Yes Men, emerged after 26 hours in New York City's central lockup with all charges... >> more |
+loveBrad M. Elliottresting quietly i expose myself in the grocery store isle to christians who make me uncomfortable and listen and hear nobody only the wind through the leaves in the evening i think of crab cakes the wood the pensive hill the rippling nipple the rude step >> more |
A poem by Marc VincenzAndrei Codrescu
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Ten PoemsChangming Yuanas i withhold my tongue waiting for a sunny spell to translate my loud pain into a muted pearl >> more |
A True Wherever MessageMark SargentMark Sargent hits universal vein! >> more |
REVIVAL OF 500 SMALL PAINTINGS!Shawn HallStuck Art Needs Help! >> more |
New Poems by Elinor NauenElinor Nauencher chez la femme behind the house is a woman nothing is behind the house I am the house & twice as safe
or take Italian cinema red wine & guns, space & money-- every day when the sun comes up I dress in my potbellied two-tit stove >> more |
Direct Address: PoemsChuck CalabrezeNot the language of flurry and ease. Not the song of the defrocked vigilante. Not the hemmed and attenuated. >> more |
70TH BIRTHDAY POEMA. D. Winans70TH BIRTHDAY POEM
70 years old feeling like a samurai With a dull bladed sword singing Into the blade of night
Somewhere beyond the horizon Sailors buried at sea Rise in ghostly procession
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The Diamond Question MarkJames NolanWe never steal from nobody, bur when it comes to our genius, James Nolan, we can be as scuzzy as the Huffington Post. Note that we stole this from BOULEVARD. >> more |
from: triangulating happinessNicholas Courage goddammit look at the crowd, tights and miniskirts, girl jeans on bored boys - when did the literary life get so popular? flash art tattoos & pulitzer poets >> more |
BURROUGHS SPEAKS III: Feed Your CatsSimone Ellis WSB: Not that I ever … everyone looks at me reeel funny when I say that I have never considered suicide.
SE: Never considered it?
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Winter in Istanbul, 1996Heather MomyerThe Turks said this on the streets of Istanbul. People should know. The Dutch stole the tulips. >> more |
Four PoemsCharles Vermontfrom the Cabinet of Dr. Vermont >> more |
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| from: The Science of ForgettingBernadette Mayer and Dave Brinks 
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Bob Holman On Words!Bob HolmanBob Holman Released!
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On the Eve of Kelo v. City of New LondonFelix B. Chang Looters. Anarchists. Gangbangers. Communists. Terrorists. Felons. >> more |
Death by Scott BaileyScott BaileyDEATH >> more |
Poems by Elizabeth CohenElizabeth Cohenrehabilitating crow and other activities >> more |
The New WorldTom ClarkEruptions of starlight, joy and gladness As, at 10:30 p.m. on Shattuck, the New World dawns with shouts of "Yes we can!" From young persons thronging the clogged street. The street... >> more |
Latest from Greece: Changing EuropeMark SargentEurope is changing. Our correspondent from Greece, Mark Sargent, on the latest from Greece. >> more |
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The Problem of EvilTom Clark and Hitler
 Untitled study of a dog: Adolf Hitler (n.d.)
The Wizard makes the argument The Wizard explains
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Special to the Corpse: Big News from Dave BreithauptDavid BreithauptDave Breithaupt Breaks the Literary News of the Year! Special to the Corpse! >> more |
BlagodysseusRichard Collins Recently, Rod Blagojevich has trotted out several authors, including Kipling and Alan Sillitoe. Just last week, good old Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s mild-mannered and myopic poet laureate, was invoked by the ill-mannered and... >> more |
The Hariette Surovell AnthologyHariette Surrovell Chapter One: Witches and Ghosts
I spent my childhood expecting my father, Abe Surovell, to die. He was 50 and I was 16 when his third coronary finally... >> more |
Pat Nolan, after Philippe SoupaultPat Nolan Everything’s gray and stupid books are dying in store windows >> more |
Five PoemsMichele Salvail1.The Council on Foreign Relations has a gang sign they rule us with one wave of it given our issue of got to have my fair share from first dose we are sprung >> more |
Insomnia SplatterJ.C. HallmanIf everything behaves as if a sign had meaning, then it does have meaning.>> more |
2012 in the hardlight of Kevin McCaffery's poemsKevin McCaffery...and that's just how it was in 2012, more for some, less for others, or vice-versa, but true every which way >> more |
Lauren Herrera eavesdrops on fairiesLauren HerreraI am an analyst, Miss Mary-ann by name I am the Antichrist, I am free on Friday night >> more |
CHAPTER TWO: SLEEP WITH YOUR GRANDMOTHERHariette SurovellSERIAL! VALENTINE DAY SPECIAL TO THE CORPSE! WE CONTINUE SERIAL PUBLICATION OF HARIETTE SUROVELL’S MEMOIRS! WHAT A LIFE! >> more |
MOTHER OF A TRILLION ORGASMS! Four New PoemsSam AbramsMOTHER OF A TRILLION ORGASMS Holy Margaret Sanger Patron Saint of Orgasm who first freed sexual pleasure from association with reproduction’ before birth control how many million women died in childbed... >> more |
Sal Salasin's Blues in English And SpanishSal Salasin“Hello,” she lied. She was dressed in black with enough piercing to swing a compass needle at five paces, some real Mexican prison tatoos and a voracious appetite for an astonishing variety of extremely dangerous drugs.
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Mark Sargent from GreeceMark SargentMark Sargent, our Bureau Chief in Greece, keeps us up to date. >> more |
HUNCE VOELCKERPat Nolanfrom Nolan's semi-published work, Made In The Shade. 11/7/90 Hunce died. We all expected it just not so soon. He was attended by those who loved him. Even if we didn't realize it before we did now. We all walked around dazed and tried to assure... >> more |
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Bright Pleiades Stars of early morning Stationed in the heavens.
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Burnt NorwayJohn VandersliceI’m going to show you something I’ve never shown anyone before. Not even my agent. In fact, Lolly would freak if she knew I was doing this. I can hear her: “You’re going to destroy it for them, Paul. You’re going to turn their tongues sour. You... >> more |
| Wormwood Scrubs by Steven J. FowlerSteven J. Fowler all heart & some voices
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| Two films by Julian SemilianJulian Semilian DEVOTEES OF THE PRECIPITATE: A film by Julian Semilian DEVOTEES OF THE PRECIPITATE
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New Poem by Howard McCord Howard McCordOne of the great elders calls LA the way it (sometimes) is >> more |
Four PoemsLakshmi KrishnanI was born with a black crocus above my head... >> more |
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