Two Poems by Jack Giaour

art opening   instead of a gun you use a camera   amputees are your subject    /these poor people/ you say   the walls of the gallery are dark prints pinned neatly under spotlight   //life under deformity// is the name of the show   you...

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Poetry on the menuHey, how are you doing, my name is Walpoet,and I'll be your poet for his evening and the remainder of this...

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Etched protectedand unprotectedpartsmake the wholemake the art pour on the acidthe chemicalsfeel the burnfeel the boiling consumptiondepletiondestruction or just watch it from beneath the quiet balmof secrecy and...

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM MY FORMER SELF I lost everything:the contours of the body I knewthe housethe identity of wife/motherhalf of a couplea name that...

There is in the Water by Cassie Premo Steele

There is in the Water What happened here the history I mean thismean thing there right there the bridgewhere they were lynched and who elsewas there and this is always here Ito make them mean something and howcan inanimate objects say...

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An open letter from musician, composer and music historian Loren Ludwig to Bourgeon editor Robert Bettmann asserting that "technique is ideology."

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The Odds Weren’t In Our Favorfor Janet A classic exit affair, she called it—and the diploma on the wallbacked up her assertion. Withour passion hot...

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