Comic/ Yoko OK, December 2, 2021
YOKO OK is a New Yorker who has been living in the Bay Area of California for the past 10 years. She makes a comic every day as part of her...
Greg Fuchs’ Unguided Tour, December 2021
[su_pullquote align="right"]West Tremont & Montgomery Avenues, Bronx [/su_pullquote] GREG FUCHS teaches students with disabilities to trust themselves and question everything. He writes poems and makes photographs. Fuchs survives beneath the underground but...
Printed Matter/ No Way. Way. Ruth Lepson’s Transformative Irony
by Sam Cha On the Way: New and Selected Poems by Ruth Lepson, edited by Ben Mazer Mad Hat Press There's a poem called “The Poem of J.” It's by...
Printed Matter/ Archeologist Poets of the Future Unite and Take Over
by Michael Londra 14 International Younger Poets Edited by Philip NikolayevArt and Letters Some use poetry as a mirror. They search for themselves in the words they find. Others unearth....
Poets Theater/ Drew Sachs
A Covered DishAT RISE: A porch with a rocking chair, in Savannah, Ga. It’s a July afternoon, present day. ALETHEIA, 53, sits in the rocker, fanning herself. HELEN, 52, paces while holding a casserole dish...
Fiction/ Cheryl J. Fish
Off the Yoga MatChapter Two from the novelSevaJanuary, 1999 (Lulu)There may have been a connection between the yoga triangles Lulu Betancourt demonstrated and her tendency to form love triangles. She had...
Beat Happening: Allen Ginsberg’s Holy Grail
Review by Brenda CoultasAllen Ginsberg at Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl & other Poems Omnivore Recordings http://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/at-reed-college/ "He'd already achieved what any national poet could hope to...
A Woman Who Sails: All-Female Crew Tackles Racing in Santa Monica Harbor
by Paula Paige“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” --Louisa May AlcottWe were straining every muscle, cranking on the already taut, but...
Thomas Peters/ Gina Marie Ballerina
New Year’s Day 1992 I was at City Lights Bookstore with Sarah Jeanne, and Flea walked in with a purple-haired dude I always assumed was John Frusciante, the skinny man...
Thomas Peters/ ‘Some Unknown Morrison Clone’: A Fan’s Notes
I had been preparing to play Jim Morrison in The Doors movie” for a year and I had grown my hair to the correct length it was the right color...