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| Craig Sernotti is the former editor of Yellow Bat Review and now the editor of the on-line zine "THE." TONGUE By Craig Sernotti Dressed in old leather jackets, carefully ripped jeans, band patches, rings, ink, he with more black eyeliner than her. Sharing a clove cigarette. He says now what. She says I can lick your ass wagging her studded tongue at the passing tourists FEAR By Craig Sernotti I keep waking up and you're dead next to me missing your face. I look for answers but all I find is dust and blood and your mother's tears. The only thing I can say is agree that it's all my fault DANCE By Craig Sernotti The stripper dances and there's nothing. Her eyes are like dust. I say this is about as much fun as combing dogshit out of my beard. She says this is about as much fun as shaving my dick |
| Crossing By John Macker Mangas, imperfect winter tool of the gods, astride a good pony the rare snow last night spitballed sideways, frosted the organ pipe, & indigenous chickadee; soon, it’ll be time to harvest the mescal plant eastern slope of the Chiricahuas, despite the hoarseness & drear of the droughtscape. Each flake disappeared in his hand before it could declare its individuality, a brittle irony not lost on the aged chief- just north of the border, oblivion rhymes with vermilion, not a soul was caught in the living act of crossing just the tarantulas & winter wired coyotes; now in his seventies, dreams of one last score, riding off some Fronteras rancheria’ s renegade remuda in the dark because revenge this sweet must be Mexican, must taste mescal bitter on the tongue, the dusk glows saffron & must last a lifetime. |
| consoling bear-trap pussy By Justin Hyde he's got a tattoo of a barcode on his neck even-odds there's a pistol and at least five 8-balls of meth under that floor length leather coat. she's twenty pounds underweight wears black lycra shirts cut below collar bones jutting out farther than most shoulder blades. they usually roll into the flying j around 2:30 after the bars close. sometimes i’ll smile at her if he gets up to piss. last night she showed alone, bloody lip black eyeliner running down her face. she sat in the booth right in front of me. i turned my headphones up, traced over three lines of a poem in my notebook trying to pretend she wasn't staring at me. she waved, then she snapped her fingers, then she whipped a saltshaker right past my ear, but my sphincter didn't even flinch. i felt bad for the girl, i really did. but i’m thirty years old. i've had a butterfly knife at my adam's apple and a loaded shotgun flush with my nut-sack. i’ve seen that show before. |
| POETRY NEWS 8/19/2008 Poets & Writers Picnic Sat. Aug. 23 in Mountainair plus writing workshop It's that time of year again! The 11th annual Poets & Writers Picnic in Mountainair, NM is Sat. Aug. 23, noon to 5 pm, at the historic Shaffer Hotel outside in the gazebo yard. There are terrific featured readers and music alternating with a gentle open mic throughout the afternoon. People bring picnic lunches, spread out blankets on the lawn (there's actually grass!) and come and go as they wish. The town is doing its Sunflower Festival that day, so it is a fun time to drive out, noticing the fields of sunflowers along your way. Both events are sponsored by the Manzano Mountain Arts Council and are free. Featured readers at Poets & Writers Picnic this year are Hakim Bellamy, Gary Brower, Maria Leyba, Lou Liberty, Merimee Moffitt, Connie Rossingol, Miriam Sagan, Charles Usmar, and the Santa Fe Moon Writers poetry writing group: Debbi Brody, Zoe Dwyer, Ann Hunkins, Mary McGinnes, Elizabeth Raby, and Rachelle Woods. Music is by "The Blue Rose Ramblers" Jessica Billey & Bud Melvin, and "LuLu" Lou Blackwell and Gregory Louis Candela. Make it a whole poetry weekend by signing up for the Sunflower Poetry Writing Workshop, also at the Shaffer Hotel from thursday afternoon Aug. 21 thru saturday noon Aug. 23 - then you stay on for the Poets & Writers Picnic, of course! A special feature this year is Plein Air writing at Tom & Edit Cates' THE LAND/an art site located in nearby Loma Parda. Guest teacher Miriam Sagan just completed a poetry & art residency there and will guide us in some fine fresh air writing. Actor-Director Scott Sharot will coach us on performing poetry. Guest teacher Vanessa Vaille will give us a head start on presenting poetry on-line and you can begin your own blog. Tuition is $125. for the entire 3 day workshop and does not include lodging or meals. Accomodations are limited, don't wait! Contact me, Dale Harris poetdale@yahoo.com to enroll. There's much more info about the Poets & Writers Picnic, the Sunflower Poetry Writing Workshop and the town of Mountainair's Sunflower Festival available on the Poets & Writers Picnic blog (yes, curated by Vanessa the blog goddess!) The site includes bios and poems by many of the Poets & Writers Picnic features and interesting links to other parts of the poetry cosmos. Meet you in Mountainair! http://poetsandwriterspicnic.blogspot.com http://www.landartsite.org http://shafferhotel.com http://mountainairarts.blogspot.com Dale Harris 2115 Aspen Avenue NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 Poets & Writers Picnic - Mountainair, New Mexico Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008 during Sunflower Festival Sunflower Poetry Writing Workshop Thurs. - Sat. Aug. 21-23 More info at http://poetsandwriterspicnic.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ Hello friends - Thanks to Bill Gainer for reminding me that I need to keep up with my progress by updating my website as well! I've listed El Pagano on there with a PayPal button so you can impulse buy to your heart's content. Also, I've made it more accessible (I hope). And while you're at it, look for a new edition of the Lummox Journal! It should be up by this next week (still tweeking with the new format). The third book in the Raindog Reader is available. Perhaps this volume will meet with better reception than the last (soon they will be available as a boxed set). El Pagano is a collection of short stories that will knock your socks off. Please see the attached file for more info. If you'd like a copy, please email me and I will get the wheels in motion. -- Raindog Word Smith Get the Raindog Reader (4 books) - A hot beef injection for your soul! www.lummoxpress.com www.myspace.com/poetraindog/ www.blogger.com/raindog-theviewfromdownhere/ ______________________________________________________________ Hi, I know many of you are anticipating the issue of #37. I predict a release as scheduled in September, but late September. As usual, it is taking us a lot of time and effort to get through the submissions. No matter how many times I close submissions for 3 months, they seem to flood back in quite amazingly fast. Anyway, we have changed our "News" link on the website to connect with a more user friendly page at : http://poesymag.blogspot.com. Here you can keep up to speed with the current status of POESY. I would rather do this than flood you all with emails. Poetry submissions are closed for this issue, but we still are reviewing photographs and art. I will try to get back to you all personally very soon! Brian ---- POESY c/o Brian Morrisey P.O. Box 7823 Santa Cruz, CA 95061 http://www.poesy.org _________________________________________________________ Check out this website: 100 Near Perfect Books of Poetry. Dad’s Dillinger books are mentioned here on this list, alongside folks such as Jack Kerouac, Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski and others. Here's the URL for it: http: //lilliputreview.blogspot.com/2008/08/100-near-perfect-books-of-poetry_10.html ___________________________________________________________ And last but not not least, believe it or not St. Vitus is getting more techno, hell, we should, i'm majoring in Computer Networking at school! We've now got a MYSPACE PAGE up and running. Check it out, send us shit to post on it, videos, etc. and we'll do it. Click on: Saint Vitus Press & Poetry Review MYSPACE page |