Terrific surreal-absurd sampler from Sylee Gore this week!!! Head on over!!!

reading of new surreal-absurd prose poems. just published at talking about strawberries all the time. lots of dusty dream glitter. & stud muffins. nevermindthebeasts.com/2024/04/12/tal…

4 of my new surreal-absurd prose poems just published with the magazine talking about strawberries all the time. Reality in a nutshell and fear in a handful of dust. All dusty dream glitter. Hopscotch over here with the link to read: nevermindthebeasts.com/2024/04/07/4-n…

Turned 50 today. Terrific birthday books from Ewa. Lots to explore with surrealist and outsider art.

Terrific surreal-absurd surreal sampler this week from Aaron Kent. The belly of a dinosaur indeed!!!

How Americans see Europe.

Kansuke Yamamoto, A Forgotten Person, 1958

Mark Strand

REAL HUMANS - #poetry by UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Marcus Silcock at Hidden Peak Press hiddenpeakpress.com/2024/02/21/mar… Marcus Silcock UNCG Creative Writing UNCG_ENG UNCG_CAS #UNCGAlumni #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere

In honor of Joe Brainard's birthday, it is fun to know that Reveal Digital's recently launched 'HIV, Aids, & the Arts' open access digital archive includes about 350 pages of Brainard's manuscripts & typescripts for 'I Remember' (from his papers at UCSD)

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The Life of a Tenement House by Grzegorz Wroblewski (translation from Polish to English by Adam Zdrodowski and Ben Borek). Poetry of a doomed and hopeful humanity trying to make the best of it. Surreal-absurd gritty reality.

Available for free here josephsalvatoreaversano.com/_files/ugd/9b7…

Thrilled to present the poems of South Korean poet Yi Won, tr. E.J. Koh & Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, as Surreal-Absurd sampler ⁦Mercurius Magazine⁩!

The poems are from her stunning collection The World’s Lightest Motorcycle ⁦Zephyr Press. 💚 mercurius.one/home/yi-won-su…

REAL HUMANS - #poetry by UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Marcus Silcock at Hidden Peak Press hiddenpeakpress.com/2024/02/21/mar… Marcus Silcock UNCG Creative Writing UNCG_ENG UNCG_CAS #UNCGAlumni #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere

“ I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.” Mary Ruefle channels Hamlet.

Cabbage has been with me a long time. German or Polish or Irish. There are lots of cabbages.

Also green. My favourite Garcia Lorca poems are green.

Here is a poem about cabbage. And the colour green. Recently published in Laurel Review.

Stay green! nevermindthebeasts.com/2024/03/01/the…

owl feeding

PMF Prague Microfestival XVI 'SAMIZDAT' 14-27 October 2024 put it in your diaries!!!

Was very pleased a while back to have some poems in LongPoemMag from my Mum & Dad sequence, which are now also online here: longpoemmagazine.org.uk/poems/mum-dad/

LPM is a really great publication. Their new issue is out now.

Ahhh forgot about the Poetry Scroll. My poems from 2014 created into a scroll from the British Museum. Courtesy of the saintly artist Erkembode.

RIP Lyn Hejinian (1941-2024).

Two from The Unfollowing in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, edited by Jeff Hilson.

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