Electronic poetry magazine Unlikely Stories has been around since 1998. It’s currently in its fifth incarnation (Mark V). Today, the journal published three of my poems: “Huck and Jim,” “A Protest, A Demonstration,” and “People Get Ready.” You can read them here.
Today, online poetry journal Poppy Road Review published two of my poems, “The Inner Life of a Phantom” and “Night Fires.” You can read them here.
Online poetry blog Experiential-Experimental-Literature released a big batch of poems today stretching the boundaries of the written word. Among them was my poem “Another Absence.” You can read it here.
The first issue of online poetry journal Gold Wake Live had its official debut today. It includes three of my poems: “Hello Boys,” “Platypus on Mars,” and “Unemployed Nematodes Keep It Real.” You can read them here.
Today, poetry blog Your One Phone Call published my poem “Sellathon of the Mind.” Just another satire on business-think and the capitalist oligarchy. If you enjoy that sort of thing, you can read it here.
Visual poetry blog H& features a wide variety of image based poems and pseudo-textual experiments. Yesterday, a video still from “Succubus Highway” was posted to the site. You can see the image here. The image includes text veering into asemic territory due to heavy video processing, but the original words read “Wherever there are ruins/lies like flames/dance across time.”
The video itself can be viewed here.
Online journal Danse Macabre du Jour presents dark and strange literature in a blend of obscure classics and contemporary works. Today, it published my poem “My Pretties.” This one conjures familiars to carry on ecoterrorist schemes of spreading seeds in areas dominated by civilization. You can read it here.
Outlaw poetry blog In Between Hangovers releases several new poems every day. Today, one of its offerings is my poem “Rabbit Money Tree.” It features a trickster rabbit character–based more on the Mayan idea of such a creature than Bugs Bunny–that I used in a few pieces. In this one, Rabbit robs a bank; he’s always getting into some antisocial mischief. You can read it here.
The issue 5.2 of Futures Trading was released August 16. It includes my poem “All Those Zimbabwes,” part of a series based on various lost civilizations. Under the current U.S. regime, it seems important to examine the fragility of languages, cultures and nations. This one starts with the ancient kingdom of Zimbabwe, which left many cities in ruins, each of them apparently called “Zimbabwe.” You can read it here.
Outlaw poetry blog Your One Phone Call published my poem “Johnson Absolutely” today. You can read it here.
This piece is another to feature Jean Savage, an antiestablishment figure who turned up in a number of poems and stories. When I compiled Savage Magic to be the “complete Jean Savage poems,” I overlooked this one somehow. That’s what happens when you have a backlog of a few hundred poems. If you like this one or some of my other pieces in “surrealist rant” mode, you might check out the book, available on Amazon and Lulu.
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