epub |eng | 2018-01-12 | Author:Ranjit Hoskote [Hoskote, Ranjit]

III ARCHIPELAGO Philip Guston, in (Pretty Much) His Own Words A Triptych 1. Lecture The hell with art, I said, and went through the mirror. You couldn’t catch me for ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Laurie Sheck [Sheck, Laurie]

With long thick trunk and bent hacked branches you are contorted as the escape artist found still chained and with his heart stopped in the locked vault he vowed he ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Amelia Martens

TUESDAY By the time Jesus leaves the stadium, every bridge has been blown up. Cardboard castles burn down in the background. Lions drink from fountains made of seraphim and abandoned ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Anne Stevenson [Anne Stevenson]

Under the whiteness, a blackness readying itself to be greenness. Gaia, fast sleep in her wedding shroud, warming her genes for resurrection. Thaw I’ve pulled back the curtain to look ...

epub |eng | 1994-12-15 | Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

past knee-high yellow trumpet flowers that out-blare the bees to camp at the summit, look out on houses each corralled by its lawn, where white smoke lifts from two chimneys ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Jack Common [Jack Common]

Chapter Nine GUY FAWKES LIGHTS UP TWO WORLDS Luckily I had never allowed anything of this religious phase of mine to show on me during school hours. Neither its coming ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Christopher Howell

they were probably Communists. We never knew what he meant by that. The Lights followed us for days and the fish followed The Lights. And the phosphorus kept arguing its ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Sarah Arvio [Arvio, Sarah]

so essential to life and love and art. We must feel there’s always more to be known!” “And of course that’s never not true, except in bad art, which puts ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jack Ridl [Ridl, Jack]

Heaven Groucho guards the gate, more bewildering than God in judging supplicants. Behind him Harpo, his hair reason enough to realize there’s nothing we can do. “Say the secret word.” ...

epub |eng | | Author:Devin Becker

Wedding Daniel, our DJ, is having personal problems. He tells me when I pick him up the-morning-of that his wife left him for good on Thursday, taking the car. He ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gerald Stern

FREE LUNCH I don’t give a damn who gets a free lunch in the first Methodist church on Union Street, I just wish they’d fix their roof and let us ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca [Baca, Jimmy Santiago]

I Ask Myself, Should I Cry? Or Laugh? I am like a glossy green leaf, sticking out in midnight moon, waxy drum-skin the moon pounds with wind…. Guilt itches my ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-20 | Author:Kevin Coval

2 the lone character he couldn’t play was Sid Caesar. he’d twitch a nervous fit of coughs thru his show’s intro Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen I’m . . . ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Melissa Kwasny

Clairvoyance (Sunlight) Sunlight falls through the square window into the water of the inside pool and is reflected onto the blue wall above it. Ghosthandkerchiefs, whiter at the folds. When ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alex Lemon [Lemon, Alex]

For swaddled in night’s ink What is meant by any fear Is color: flush To suffer impossibly Narrow skulled glow-in-the-dark tattoos & bleached & duct taped coffins Elephant ears pocketed ...