Podcasts
Episode 18 – Rob Roberge
Bernard Meisler
Rob Roberge in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Rob Roberge
Rob Roberge, novelist (The Cost of Living, More Than They Could Chew, etc.), memoirist (Liar) and guitarist (The Urinals) and I spoke about everything from ...
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Story
20 Feet from Enlightenment: A Coming of Sage Story
J. Macon King
Never cease from exploring the other side of that ridge... even though you may get lost, or step on a rattlesnake. Here in California I sometimes feel a bit guilty for not being spiritually woo woo enough. I’m just a regul...
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Podcasts
Episode 17 – Andrew Hubner
Bernard Meisler
Andrew (Drew) Hubner in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Andrew (Drew) Hubner, is the author of East of Bowery, We Pierce and American By Blood, and an educator at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. We spoke abo...
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Essay
Blood and Soil, Trump and Incest
James Reich
Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933/1943) poses a question familiar to many Americans bewildered by the presidency of Donald Trump and the igneous qualities of his base. That the question was answered so l...
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Podcasts
Episode 16 – Agneta Falk
Bernard Meisler
Agneta Falk in conversation with Bernard Meisler
Agneta Falk at Live Worms Gallery in North Beach, San Francisco.
I met poet and painter Agneta (Aggie) Falk at the Live Worms Gallery in San Francisco's North Beach neig...
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Poem
Eye-Moon Crescent in Morocco
Valery Oisteanu
The eyelid of the moon just opened
The wind is never quiet in the desert
Dunes of no return, caravans not ever stopping
Where rain falls invisible leaving no trace
Shape shifting humps reveal a sphinx
At the edge of a...
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Podcasts
Episode 15 – Steve Cannon
Bernard Meisler
Steve Cannon in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Professor Steve Cannon is the founder and publisher of Gathering of the Tribes magazine, and author of the filthiest book of all time, Groove, Bang and Jive Around - ...
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Story
Invisible Sharks
Mike Roberts
I spent a fair amount of time in the Gulf of Oman back in 1988. My shipmates and I were escorting Saddam Hussein’s oil tankers through the Straights of Hormuz, where the Iranians liked to take shots at them with their Silk...
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Poem
from “A STRETCH IN PARADISE”
Yuko Otomo
Repeatedly tracing the footsteps of the past, I shed my lingering desire for its pastiche. I am almost there to be “here now.” As I keep opening & closing the window, I slowly step into “Paradise.” Now I have no reas...
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Podcasts
Episode 14 – Ron Kolm
Bernard Meisler
Ron Kolm in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Ron Kolm is a poet (The Plastic Factory, Welcome to the Barbecue, and most recently,"A Change In the Weather," from Sensitive Skin Press), an editor of many books, includ...
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Poem
THE GARDEN
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Once I pushed the tiller round
and round, breaking circles
concentric in the dry, knotty
ground. What we'd planted
before had gone to seasons
so long past, the weeds' hold
had returned, rooted
in clumps of gray rock
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Poem
Shirt Context
Peter Bushyeager
The poet doesn't know shit.
He stands by the telephone
which will ring in one second the
dish will break at the
moment of regret and
this is boring but
there's movement at the edges.
It's a clean sunrise, birds are...
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Poem
Everything Looks Like Freddie Mercury
Sharon Mesmer
Have you ever seen something weird out of the corner of your eye that made you wonder if evolution just made a really big step forward? I did, and now everything looks like Freddie Mercury.
Starbursts and Twizzlers look l...
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Poem
Net Worth
Chavisa Woods
net worth, a face
strung out like a net
like a meth-head, that’s a net, strung out
cast into outcast waters.
what is the deductible expense
of my mother’s un-medicated, ...
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Poem
hudson yards: day 1
Eve Packer
what a jerk, to drag a friend
to hudson yards the day after it opens,
today st patricks day and the city
bursting w/drunk green people. over here
on the west side we join the masses streaming
through knock you down and ...
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