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Evil Nature (5)Jane Joritz-NakagawaThe head finally wad(dl)es through As if written by >> more |
Two PoemsNik De Dominicit is probably too late for apologies – but here goes. >> more |
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Lie AboutSusan OsbornWhen the boy was born, they said that something was wrong with his heart, but after the operation, he came out all stiff and twisted. His left leg no longer bent at the knee so that when he walked, he had to drag it behind him the way a child does a toy. And his right arm which was now... >> more |
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American Dementia: Castro?s Kitchen Jim Lopez Please God, be on my side today. Napalm my face. Spray me down with Malathion. Let a rabid mole eat through my brain. Dip my balls in a pot of battery acid. Fart in my mouth. Shove a canister of Agent Orange up my ass. Canker me with erratic skin... >> more |
Oana Sanziana Marian in English and RomanianOana Sanziana Marian Circus Song
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The Dear Companion. Soprano, banjo, fiddle. Haunting North Carolina song. Laura Semilian Watch a beautiful song Click Me
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ZURICH 2010: NEIGHBORSFriendsNieghbors 1 and 2
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POEZII DE BOGDAN ODAGESCUBOGDAN ODAGESCUThese poems are looking for translators into Indo-European, Finno-Ugric and Altaic language groups. >> more |
| MelancholiaAndrei Codrescuthe maybes and the almosts
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Les Enfants by Caroline WallenbergCaroline Wallenberg Les Enfants arrivent on francais >> more |
REVIVAL OF 500 SMALL PAINTINGS!Shawn HallStuck Art Needs Help! >> more |
DE CUSUT by Paul Tanicui, TO SEW in English by A. CodrescuAndrei CodrescuSEWING NEWS! >> more |
Robert Perchan Masters Timor MortisRobert PerchanRobert Perchan, our long-time South Korea genius-in-Pusan does old man well, but is he? The Corpse position on this is: yes and no. >> more |
Brief ReviewsVariousVarious reviewers on books that exhibit an independence of spirit. Each testifies to the range of fine writing being written and published in this imperiled day. >> more |
THE NEWS FROM HOMEBeth BosworthEvery time I jumped in, I shouted, "Heavens to Mergetroyd!" and my older brother laughed so his freckles stood out. I must have jumped for him a thousand times. Later he took too many drugs. >> more |
Kali Yuga on the Rio Pinheiros: review by Tom BradleyTom Bradley
Review of Jim Chaffee's Sao Paulo Blues,>> more |
UnsaddledElizabeth J. ColenThey would have had much, but they would never have had language between them. >> more |
Water on WaterClark Lunberry >> more |
Two Poems by Harold NorseHarold NorseCarnivorous Saint
we dig up ancient shards clicking cameras among the dying cypresses choked by Athenian smog.
yet cats continue basking in the hazy sun the chained goat sways in ecstasy the Parthenon looks down from creamy... >> more |
Latest from Greece: Changing EuropeMark SargentEurope is changing. Our correspondent from Greece, Mark Sargent, on the latest from Greece. >> more |
Smugglers TrainEddie WoodsKohitoftun is the only real village one sees before Mirjawa, the border town where you must change trains for the short and comparatively expensive ride into Zahedan. >> more |
PoesyPeyton Burgessfresh from the Cabildo! >> more |
Simon Perchik: New PoemsSimon PerchikSimon Perchik, dear to the Corpse since we were born, sends new work! >> more |
Throat Song And Notesj.j. phillipscutting the throat utting the throat tting the throat ting the throat ing the throat ng the throat g the throat the throat he throat e throat throat hroat roat oat at t >> more |
3 Portions and NotebooksHank Lazerat dawn no really at dawn aubade or not. >> more |
Interview with John-Ivan PalmerTom Bradley John-Ivan Palmer’s novel, Motels of Burning Madness, Confessions of a Male Stripper, has just been released by The Drill Press. Palmer, a stage hypnotist,... >> more |
THE PAST: BUCHAREST: Labyrinth by Florin Ion FirimitFlorin Ion Firimit It was in the winter of 1982 when I moved to the Bucharest Municipal Hospital at the recommendation of a friend of the family who happened to be the director of the facility. >> more |
SentenciasDaniel LiebertTwo fat & lazy nickels can't equal the nervous intensity of a dime. >> more |
M.G. Stephens: New PoemsM.G. StephensVISITORS
The Piccadilly Line to Leicester Square, I said, and then change for the Northern Line, But make sure it is the Edgware Branch, Get off in Hampstead, I’ll be waiting outside, Old, bald, worn, your classmate from grade school,... >> more |
Special to the Corpse: Big News from Dave BreithauptDavid BreithauptDave Breithaupt Breaks the Literary News of the Year! Special to the Corpse! >> more |
The Florida TestKevin DuceyThe students aren’t learning? We’ll fix that: we’ll test them. >> more |
top de topless, a latEnt manifestoCalin Andrei-MihailescuThe mummyfestos cracking open after the Bastille came out of her mythochondrial boudoir. >> more |
2010 The Updated Version of HistoryEddie WoodsAmsterdam: A Brief History of Ins & Outs Press >> 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 |
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Belated Homage to Hariette Surrovell by Tom SilvestriTom Silvestria fond farewell to our darling Hariette
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Megan Volpert's freshly alphabetized pets!Megan Volpertany secrets can keep to infinity as long as they aren't my own >> more |
They Call It A Broken Heart For A ReasonSteven WolfeA little later she was lying on her back with her head in my lap. “You’re the only one who didn’t,” she said. “The only one ever. Why didn’t you?” >> more |
the wrong boogie (or, durabright coating lob sanction)Mark Prejsnarlash at a slat gang in the mud where >> 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 |
| Zurich: Our Other HomeAndrei Oisteanu Zurich: Our Other Home
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Homesick Abortion by Katie SchwartzKatie SchwartzA woman's relationship with her abortion, a verbatim report from the depths. >> more |
Four poems from Das Auge des Entdeckers (The Discoverer?s Eye)Nicolas Born Translated by Eric Torgersen “according to reliable sources”* I’m already far away from myself but I still feel me lying here ... >> more |
The Wart of SatanAdrian C. Louis “Never bring the Lord an animal that is blind, has broken bones, cuts, warts, scabs, or ringworm. Never give the Lord any of these in a sacrifice by fire on the altar." —LEVITICUS 22:22 >> more |
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf ExpoundedYusuf al ShirbiniJ.J. Phillips brought this remarkable text to our attention. Here is an excerpt from her letter:
Andrei, I’m sending you a few brief excerpts from the 17th century Egyptian satirist Yusuf al Shirbini’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (pub. by Peeters, a... >> more |
On the Eve of Kelo v. City of New LondonFelix B. Chang Looters. Anarchists. Gangbangers. Communists. Terrorists. Felons. >> more |
The CommyOlympia VernonThe girl’s mother extended her wrist to the velvet smear of the dotted fabric and whispered: My dear, you’ve bled through. >> more |
Poison by Ruxandra CesereanuRuxandra CesereanuNew Orleans magic poison distilled by Romania's great poet! >> more |
Excerpt from "The Egyptian Chronicles"Dawn-Michelle BaudeExcerpt from "The Egyptian Chronicles: How a Mom-and-Son Duo Skirted Terrorists, Dodged Suitors and Heard the Gods Speak"
The Supreme Guide of the Council of Antiquities of Egypt is a small, compact sparkplug of a man fond of his laser pointer. With typical modesty, he... >> more |
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Old Bull Lee Waves the Black Flag: Politics in William S. Burroughs?s Naked LunchMichael GurnowPolitics are bountiful in most of American novelist William S. Burroughs’s canon. Whether they are of a strictly political nature or psychological, sexual, or psychosexual ones, his prose seeps with power struggles between both individuals and groups. However, in respect to politics qua... >> more |
Tristan Tzara, the Lonely MakerWillis BarnstoneTristan Tzara lonely? Dada an-
archist, Résistance hero during the War,
can he have doubt? Abused by clique and clan
and foe? Is Peking Man about to soar
from his cave and attack the monocled,
gentle, three-piece bourgeois suit I wal... >> more |
Conversations with Dave BrinksDave BrinksBERNADETTE MAYER, BILL ZAVATSKY ON VALERY LARBAUD, JOHN SINCLAIR IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVE... >> more |
How to Date a Flying MexicanDaniel A. OlivasWhen Conchita finally broached the subject with Moises-about his flying, not marriage-he held up his right hand, palm out to his new love, and corrected her: "I do not fly, mi amor," he said softly. "I levitate." >> more |
No Bullshit ReviewsChristian ProzakOur reviewer is seized by the gods & reviews (occasionally) in verse! New reviews every month!
NEW: Maddox, Alleman, CÈline, Bukowski, Kerouac & Burroughs >> more |
Works by Louis ArmandLouis Armandbeneath the window Rimbaud masturbated from >> more |
LOST AND FOUNDPat NolanLOST AND FOUND
Don’t worry about making it real it’s all imaginary
windy and warm a summer of days approaches
my leg is killing me my arm is killing me my head is killing me my back is killing me my foot is killing m... >> more |
| Hitler paintings fail to attract interestScuttlebutt Hitler paintings fail to attract interest >> more |
Robert Serban's Thirty Poems in Romanian EnglishRobert SerbanRobert Şerban is a poet from Timisoara, Romania, the editor of the Brumar poetry editions, a publisher with frighteningly high standards for the work and the beauty of its books. >> 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 |
Poems by Elizabeth CohenElizabeth Cohenrehabilitating crow and other activities >> more |
Ken Mikolowski's Fat Man BluesKen Mikolowski ECONOMIC CRISIS buy low ... >> more |
& Rats DanceElizabeth Kate Switaj weep for marbled red weep for ivory weep for eleph/ants/ >> more |
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 |
Three PoemsSheema KalbasiNothing is all I am Nothing overloading nothing Closing the doors, Opening an extra into an empty space, Nothing ensues but a further war. >> more |
K-Town: HaintsRyan B. RicheyI’m out here year round waiting for the killer. If you stay too long I’ll think it’s you. >> more |
A Question in GeorgiaWilliam WalshA derived text sourced from An Education in Georgia: The Integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, by Calvin Trillin, 1966. >> more |
Cobbler by Willie SmithWillie SmithThe Amazing Willie Smith Retirns to the Corpse! >> more |
Portrait and Dream: Selected Poems by Bill BerksonCharlie VermontAn uptown, downtown poet or is it a downtown uptown poet. Then too, as Edwin Denby said of dancers "They should be pretty" as part of the environment, there is a look to these poems over the years that's consistent. Also could live in an elite basket but doesn't... >> more |
31 Poems (Katrina Series)Bill LavenderI’m relieved to discover that even in this extremis I still like what I like in normal times, a little wine some pot after dinner...
A poet's view of our illustrious storm, now with images and video—a multi-media feast. >> more |
Two New Romanian Books, reviewed by Peter ThompsonPeter ThompsonThe Romanians, Englished by Adam Sorkin's skilled keyboard, keep taking America by storm. Reviews by Peter Thompson. >> more |
The Boys and Emily DickinsonDoug Lasken "Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me…." Waves of raucous laughter, “Fuck! Did you see that shut-out at lunch?” “Shit yeah!” It is every public school teacher’s onus... >> more |
In The Dust Zone: Part 2Maggie Dubris & Scott Gillis IN THE DUST ZONE :: www.dustzone.com written by Maggie Dubris drawings by Scott Gillis >> 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 |
Mark Sargent Models for Kenneth PatchenMark SargentWe love Kenneth Patchen's art, not often seen these days. This is Mark Sargent's report from The Past. >> more |
4 things all guys like to keep privateJoel DaileyI keep reminding myself just about anybody would 3 times the power of ordinary fish oil >> more |
Sam Abrams on Walt Whitman, New Poems, and Misc.Andrei Codrescuwhen I start to brood...
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Bob Holman On Words!Bob HolmanBob Holman Released!
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Art Mother BeastGregg Barrios >> 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
Black Widow Press, Boston, MA 02116 143 pp. Paper $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-9818088-7-1
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How Everyone Came To Put on Their CoatWillie SmithBut one evening, after a hard day pounding grammar into the skulls of nitwits, its use came to me. >> more |
four (t)hexagrams from (r)i-chingJoseph Makkoshere are only ways to move >> more |
Multilegged Milliped by Gershon HepnerGershon HepnerGershon Hepner (gwhepner@yahoo.com ) is America's news poet, author of seventy thousand (you heard right!) poems on the margins of comments of interest to him, culled from our ever-growing media. His wide interests are expressed in extraordinarily thoughtful,... >> more |
Three New Works by Joel DaileyJoel Daileyman elusive like his magazine >> more |
Akim, Zappy and the Green Eye by Pierre JorisPierre Jorisfrom Pierre's ongoing memoir >> more |
| Lucy In the Sky With Darrell: Actualism Part 1Dave Morice Lucy In the Sky With Darrell Part 1 >> more |
The Ouroboros & Other PoemsDave Brinks with men as with caterpillars nothing was chanced >> more |
Mario Melendez translated by Ron HudsonMario Melendez Mario Melendez translated by Ron Hudson >> 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 |
V. Ponte & Sons Wastepaper CollectorsVincent Katz“I hungry” chimes a croak anod the sill. “You silly goat,” >> more |
When You Don't Know Who's Listening: from David Dixon's Days of Napster filesDavid DixonI've amassed many, many hours of these recordings, which provide endless voyeuristic entertainment. >> more |
| Twitter Iran : Twitter AmericaBrian P. Hall Project Gone Postal
“Going to work” was one of the first status updates I read after I joined Facebook. At the time, I was naïve about the nature of... >> more |
New York: Wet PromiseDoru ChirodeaLook dick head! In this country, we do whatever the fuck we want! >> more |
Arcadian TunnelAlan Ram?n Clintondown in Boston all I did was die >> more |
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