Sitting with Michael McClure in the living room of his Oakland hills home nestled into a grove of flammable eucalyptus, inhaling the camphor and mint- perfused air which dilates alveoli in our lungs until we become a little oxygen high talking about Artaud and Deconstruction and the mental versus physiological construction of language and Michael …
Author: Jedediah Smith
Instructor of English Composition and Literature
“The Sealotus” published in horror anthology
from the listing: "I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beneath the treacherous waves hides untold peril and doom. For generations man has taken to the sea, to explore, to hunt- looking for treasure or glory, …
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PoJo #8 is here and it’s jazz!
Episode 8 of the PoJo Show — a podcast mixing poetry, spoken word, music, and sound — has now been posted on the Sound Files page and on my YouTube channel. This episode is called "Unity: Jazz Poetry." Includes poems by Amiri Baraka, Philip Whalen, Kenneth Rexroth, Frank O'Hara, ruth weiss, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, …
CENSORED!
Got this email today about a short fiction of mine that had been accepted a while back: "Please note that the term "gypsy" has been changed to "Romani" for publication since the original word appears on lists of ethnic slurs. We're sorry no one noticed the issue before the story went live to ask you …
Quadrille – Sky
While colored rings marry some planets our sky is the shorter, bluer end of the spectrum scattering due to and away from the source a wavelength stronger than the Sun like sounds of spoken language scatter free from us among atoms of terrestrial light. __________________________________________________ for dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille prompt Episode 7 of the PoJo …
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