Painting by: S. Clay Wilson
OUR LADY OF SIMULTANEOUS ORGASM
St. Louis the Absurd had heard that a young prostitute
had been performing miracles at the Shrine of Our Lady
of Simultaneous Orgasm in Laodocea.
The impotent and sterile travelled thousands of miles
from every direction to touch the hem of her garter belt.
“Who fucked me?” she once asked at an [...]
Attila Jozsef | April 11, 1905 – December 3, 1937
ATTILA JOZSEF
Attila Jozsef (1905-1937) was not the first one to shake up Hungarian poetry, to wake it up from the sweet slumber it had enjoyed in the gently rocking cradle of folk-song-like strophes in the 19th century. Enre Ady burst on the scene right at the [...]
Shifting Landscape
by Henry Roth. The Jewish Publication Society. Reviewed by Harvey Pekar
Many literary scholars consider Henry Roth untouchable. Roth’s only novel, Call It Sleep, published in 1934, forgotten, revived in the early ’60s, has justly become regarded as a masterpiece. Drawing from a variety of sources, most obviously James Joyce, Roth might have established a [...]
Please click the text to read a bigger version of Joe Salerno’s Getting Up for Work III. From BIG HAMMER No. 5 | Iniquity Press / Vendetta Books. Much more on Iniquity Press / Vendetta Books can be found by clicking here…
Joe Salerno reading his poem “Getting up for Work (parts 1-3)” at the Great [...]
Something is Burning in BrooklynPoems by Linda Lerner
Published 2009 by Iniquity Press. All poems and art copyright by the artists. ISBN-1-877968-45-5. Layout and design by Angela Mark. Cover by Angela Mark. Title page by Michael Shores. Some of these poems have/will appear in: Mobius, Poesy, New Verse News, The Brownstone Poets, Big Scream, Nomad’s Choir, Northwoods Journal, Rockburts Review, in No Earthly Sense Gets It Right (Lummox Press).
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