Category: Poetry
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a short poem entitled “Trees” (1913), which was published in…
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Unsung Poets… ARAGON There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error i…s certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said…
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Former Doors Mark 40th Anniversary of Jim Morrison’s Death Former members of The Doors have marked the 40th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death in Paris. On Sunday, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger lit candles at Morrison’s grave in the city’s Pere Lachaise cemetery. Morrison, the band’s lead singer, died of heart failure in…
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Lou Reed been quite busy these days. When he’s not collaborating with Metallica on a record, he’s spending time putting together a graphic novel based around his “spiritual forefather” Edgar Allen Poe, called, appropriately, The Raven. It’s not Reed’s first tangle with the author—in 2003, he released an album, also called The Raven, a Poe-themed…
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Astride SaddlingUpFromFirNightbrimmed ⎯Clinkstirrupchink!SilverbugleCopperrimmed ⎯Keening ⎯HeathboundRovesMoonPink ⎯StraddlingNeighingStallion :“HUEESSUEESSUEESSSOOOHYEEEEEE PRUSHHEE HEE HEEEEEEAAAOCHKZPNJRPRRRR HÜ / HÜÜ HÜÜÜÜÜÜ HÜ-HÜ!”AflushBrinkThroughFoggyBogTheySlink ⎯SinkIntoThrobbBated.HushFalls ⎯Stiffling ⎯ShillCricketsShrill ⎯BullfrogSquallsInflatedBarkRidingMoon’sMica –Groin ⎯Strident! Hark! StallionWhinny’sInThickets. EvFL Aphrodite to Mars(read the original manuscript in the Baroness archives) Flashing blade – Poniard buried – High Flexible tenderness web Abdominal Of Systems Equal steel Shaped Female Aflirt…
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ATTENTION FELLOW POETS, WRITERS & Ne’er-do-well’s… http://www.everywritersresource.com/Biglist.html Here is a link to the Holy Grail of Magazine Listings that take poetry submissions & prose submissions in some cases as well. There are 2000 links here…. Use them wisely. Best, R.M. King Of The Literary Links
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New work, poetry published in Horror Sleaze Trash … New Work Published In Horror Sleaze Trash Zine…
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A POEM FOR EVERY MIME WHO HAS EVER ANNOYED US WITH A WALL IMITATION ______________________________________ R.M. ~ 1989 Note …. I hate mimes.
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weeklylizard: Vintage Books launches Weekly Lizard, a new mobile-enabled website for fans of mystery, crime, suspense, and thriller fiction. New York, NY (June 22, 2011) – Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, the leader in quality paperback crime fiction publishing, today launches Weekly Lizard, a content-driven, mobile-enabled site featuring the latest-breaking news and features from the…
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Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Charles Nicholl Random House, 1997 335pp ISBN: 0-224-04376-5 Reviewed by Ann Skea “…one might glimpse an underlying motive of the African years – to recover something elemental and primitive, an ancient feast, a mythologized childhood, an antidote to Europe corrupted by sophistication and pretence.” Charles Nicholl’s comments on Rimbaud…
