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Category: Art
Dragging While Pain Drags Us. Poem by James Cervantes
5 February 2017
Art by Selwyn Rodda, I hear Russian Winters are harsh Surrender by James Cervantes Just shadow-dragging while pain drags us October into November. Following advice, we picture ourselves nimble, bend easily to collect wrapping paper, sparkle in sunlight, and hum along. We lend body heat to our cats, fog the windows. We play in the … More Dragging While Pain Drags Us. Poem by James Cervantes
Grand Central of the Sea: Poem by Irina Mashinski
3 February 2017
Irina Mashinski’s poem to all the native cities and their mermaids swimming by rusty snapped-off doors. Human, by Selwyn Rodda To an Atlantis Fleet left. Towers are rising from waters – and sink again: Grand Central of the sea – its bottle glass of empty deep terminals, and foamless passages, and shoals of baby fish… Brave … More Grand Central of the Sea: Poem by Irina Mashinski
UKASE 1 by Jon Goerner
19 January 2017
Art by Chris Mansel Из офиса президента Владимира Владимировича Путина: завтра это открытие вашего нового губернатора области. Там будет день общего праздника. Радуйтесь или умереть! By Jon Goerner From the office of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin: Tomorrow is the inauguration of the new regional governor. There will be a general holiday. Rejoice or die! Translation … More UKASE 1 by Jon Goerner
Hamlet’s Ghost Visits the President-Elect
13 January 2017
Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses was obsessed with Shakespeare’s Ghost, as our inspired Michael T. Young is too: enjoy his perspective on Hamlet including our President elect with us! Ghosts in Central Park. Photo credits Alice Sieve Hamlet’s Ghost Visits the President-Elect The lights were always on me. Everyone listened to what I said, but in the … More Hamlet’s Ghost Visits the President-Elect
Base Camp: a Flash by Chris Mansel
12 January 2017
Fear and Loathing in the Trump Camp… Photo Credits: Alice Sieve “Base Camp” Agenda, the word rang in the ears of every opponent of his own “agenda”. The buzz word or talking point, used on the Fox Network, driven into the mind by television, or radio, print media could be brought forth as fact. So, … More Base Camp: a Flash by Chris Mansel
Laura Hinton’s Hybrid Poetics
8 January 2017
We are pleased to present Laura Hinton’s hybrid poetic performance at the City College of New York on December 6th, 2016 that has involved students as well as dancers to obtain a great result. The challenge of hybrid poetics lies in the difficulty of defining it, because this genre escapes the formality of definitions; so, … More Laura Hinton’s Hybrid Poetics
Poems by Elizabeth L. Hodges
7 January 2017
Art by Donna Kuhn Today enjoy these two poems from a series Elizabeth L. Hodges has written under the working title of She Sonnets, whose “Jane Doe” had been published in Matrix. Her personal way of humanizing female figures in history works through imagining emotions and secret private acts, so that taking victimization and owning it becomes a … More Poems by Elizabeth L. Hodges
A Flash by Chris Mansel
6 January 2017
No Image, No Direction Featured Image and Text by Chris Mansel He wandered into a large room through a side-door. Immediately he could sense that he shouldn’t be there. He overheard a man on the phone while several men shuffled about in matching suits and people at desks typed away with one man rushing about … More A Flash by Chris Mansel
Harsh Words for Harsh Times
30 December 2016
Photo credits: Alice Sieve An extreme poem to finish a lost year, by Larissa Shmailo. “Lager NYC” You, volunteer: Reichsgeboren. You choose to be here Select. You, volunteer: You know the difference Between cause and effect: The people on the street Are too stupid to have homes Too filthy to wash See them root through … More Harsh Words for Harsh Times
Humanities Opposition World League 