Underground poetry blog In Between Hangovers published my poem “Another Alarming Trend” today. You can check out the full thing here.
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“Like That” published in The Five-Two
Online literary journal The Five-Two focuses exclusively on poems about crime. Today, my poem “Like That” was published in the journal. The poem is sort of about a romance gone wrong. You can read the whole piece here. There’s also a clip of me reading the poem you can check out.
“Black Pages of the Last Death” and three other poems published in Danse Macabre
Issue 112 of Danse Macabre was released yesterday, titled “Ricordi.” Among the stories and poems of a darker nature–including reprints by Ambrose Bierce and Maksim Gorky–are four of my poems: “Black Pages of the Last Death,” “Go My Incubi, Fly My Lovers”, “Happy Monsters, Happy Ghosts,” and “Lone Cloud: Spells for a Moment.” They all involve ritual incantations usually directed against consumer culture. You can read them here.
“Drowned Lands I-V” and 7 film stills published in Otoliths #48
The first Otoliths of 2018 was released today; this is number 48 for the journal, and as usual it’s packed with innovative texts, visual poetry, and imagery from all over the world. The issue also includes some of my work: “Drowned Lands I-V” and seven film stills. The text work is part of my “Civilization’s Lost” series, examining the fragility of languages, cultures and nations. This piece is in five parts, each based on a different lost city, civilization or continent. You can read the full poem here.
The film stills can be found under another link here. All seven images come from a video that has yet to be edited into its final form. Some of the text was drawn from a spam email and reads “Feel the call of your body.” Other text comes from the captioning on the source footage. I recently recorded some new music, so perhaps that will motivate the final assembly of the video.
“Why I love Ouija” and two other poems published in Midnight Lane Boutique
One of my favorite online journals, Midnight Lane Boutique covers underground and outlaw poetry with great features and graphic style. So I’m pleased to report it has published three of my poems: “Why I Love Ouija,” “Buying a King for the Price of a Twin,” and “About Our Entering a No-Sex Era.” You can read them here.
A few notes on these. The Ouija poem is part of a series featuring a ouija board as a character. “Buying a King” takes a mattress ad and hopefully blows it up into something bigger. “No-Sex Era” was originally accepted by Verbal Abuse magazine back in the 90s, but the journal folded before it put out that issue. Kind of a bummer, as it was a pretty rad mag.
“Karmic Ladder Wheel and the Little Boom” published at In Between Hangovers
One more poem in venerable underground journal In Between Hangovers. You can read the complete text of “The Karmic Ladder Wheel and the Little Boom” here.
“In the Engine Room” and 6 vispo in Angry Old Man
The second issue of Angry Old Man was unleashed on the world last night. A massive issue of experimental works in many media, this one contains my text poem “In the Engine Room with Bettie & Andrea” and six video stills. You can check out the full poem here, and the vispo here.
“Once Upon an Island” published in Black Poppy Review
My poem “Once Upon an Island” appeared in online poetry journal Black Poppy Review today. You can read the whole piece here.
“The Wait” published by In Between Hangovers
Just discovered that my poem “The Wait” appeared in In Between Hangovers on Dec 7. You can check it out here.
“The Last Dance” published in Your One Phone Call
Poetry blog Your One Phone Call published my poem “The Last Dance” today. You can read the full text here.
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