Advertising, a Terrible Influence

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
The dark-haired Judy is literally ridiculed/erased and replaced by the stereotype and figment of blondeness, Madeline. One woman carries/performs the split of the two inside her.

Poems: Nicola Maye Goldberg

Burst O’Teh Web

/ Cornelia Barber / Burst
Love Blood // The Establishment I’d Like To Feel Safe // Prelude Freedom Flotilla //  Mondoweiss  Let […]

Trump Haiku: 7

Fiction Review: List of the Lost

/ Simon Calder / Reviews
You know, there’s more – but not much more – to this book, Morrissey’s first novel.

Obsessed, adj.

/ Hannah Walser / Misc
It's odd to turn from "OCD" to "obsessed"—another everyday idiom that draws upon clinical language, but that in dropping the "compulsive" element seems to completely reverse its affective charge.

Five Questions with Gil McElroy

/ Roland Prevost / Interviews
There’s little comfort in randomness, in accident, in chaos – except the knowledge of their certainty, I guess. But I know them as a way forward – at least aesthetically.

Anatomy of a hold-up

/ Jessica Sequeira / Misc
Midnight at a bus stop, following a gallery event. Fatigue from hours of conversation. A man approaches, pipe in hand.

Poems: Steve Subrizi

/ Steve Subrizi / Poetry
'I really am sorry / that you stepped in that crap / which slid off the back / of what I have tried to become.'

Submission Call: Misfit Holidays

/ Reb Livingston / Misfit Docs
Jesus, Santa, Green Man, Grinch, Krampus, Scrooge, elves, reindeer, snowpeople, snowflakes, sleigh bells, dreidels, tinsel, jingles

Burst O’Teh Web

Cambodia Bladed (5)

Trump Haiku: 6

/ Lance Newman / Poetry
'We're going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.'