BEST VIEWED FULL SCREEN
FRANCISCO ALARCON
Memorial
GARY ALLEN
Selected Translations of Classical Korean Shijo
Homage To Guru Rinpoche
A Complete If Dicey Tour
ANTLER
Mother Hummingbird Thought
Campfiretalk
Prove To Me
Too Bad Good Thing
Blowjob Skull In Eternity
Doting On Dust Motes
For All a Baby Knows
from "Antler: Learning the Constellations"
Interview by Brandon Lewis
Come Brothers
Hearing a Deaf Boy's Orgasmcries
Doesn't Have to Believe to Be Born
Firing Squad vs. Jack Off Squad
Blind Boy Braille Daydream
Couldn't Believe
So Far, So Good
Hard to Believe
Fool the Bears
How Can It Be?
Her Last Summer
Spring Break-up Happening
Smart Squirrels
Skyscraper Apocalypse
CARMEN BUGAN
Crossing The Carpathians With You
Oblivion
Portrait Of A Family
By The Lamp, Burning
This Spring
(A shadow wrings her hands in a room full of light)
At The Window
Making the hay mattress
Note to a suicide
Padua train station
Gleanings
Making Wine
RUXANDRA CESEREANU
Letter to American Poets
Delirionism or a Concentrated Textbook
on How Not to Stay Stuck in Reality
ANDY CLAUSEN
Bodhisattvas All
In Cleveland
Lenny
Love Fragment
Judas Talks To Jesus
For Janine
Insurgency
Kerouac Noted You Weren't Named After An Indian King
Now We Won
Neal Cassady was a man
Ginsberg, Corso and me
Memorial for Janine Pommy Vega
ANDREI CODRESCU
To A Young Poet
Greeting They Weren't Using Then
Old Snake Ponders
Weird 1 (Cool)
Weird 2 (real cool)
Turks and Diamonds
JIM COHN
Not A Lost Dream
I Give Up My Place In The World To Come
Contributing To The One Great Poem
Shekhina
I Shouldn't Have To Do This
Each Faded Mile
Revolution
Dragon Tracks
If Every God
Notes To A Young P-Borg
My Video Game
Al-sh’ir Al-hur (Free Verse) Iraq
The Great Magician
Coloring The Gongs
Interview by Randy Roark
The President Had Already Been Lynched
Recording
The Woes Of Godzilla
Treasures For Heaven
WANDA COLEMAN
Soul Eyes
Death Don't Drink Water
False Spring
Night Coffee (6)
Dream 0511
Neeli Straight Up
PETER COOK
improv poem while driving at 67mph
(The words must have the end)
DAVID COPE
AP Wire Story: "Janitors at Risk"
For Martin King
Everyone gone
The Rhododendron
He took a long pull on the stout, thanked us all,
& disappeared into the night
Fran
Ghazal Of The High Plateau
Lear By Lanternlight
Tender Petals For Calm Crossing
"La Goulue" Considers His Lines
The Dharma At Last
In Silence
Blinding snow freeway rush hour
Abu Ghraib
words
Marines with cobbled armor
Haditha
Hostas
Five Singers on the Ends of Night
Trumpets, please
The Gateway
Frail Dreams
As my mother lay waiting for surgery
Starlight Call
Death, you come
fallen
frail dreams
the black bees
Mask of Six Decades
Between Sleep & Wake
Her New Room
Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
Last Look
The Empty Chair
Flight to Phoenix
In My Father’s House
The Empty Chair
Tahquamenon
Thornapple
For Antler, after the storm
Building the Beat Canon
Online Interview for Becky Spaulding
at The Collegiate
American Pewter with Burroughs II:
Green is a Man / To Fill is a Boy
Blues for Frank
River Rouge
VIVIAN DEMUTH
The Mountain Firetower
Big Easy Ride
Virgin of the Barricades
Addressing the Names
Black Hole
A Holdover
DENYSE DU ROI
Authentic Memoirs
The Big Maybe
Still And All
Because I Chose Her
FLYING WORDS PROJECT
Soft Boiled Egg
Wise Old Corn
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER
Landscape
Here
CLIFF FYMAN
Atlantic Hotel In Long Beach
Zero Hour
Lines Written In A Remote Area Of Nepal
Monday Continued
Fall Reading So Far
Shipping Out
Bedrock Mortar
Cabin Reading
Her
This Affair with Joy is Getting Insane
ALLEN GINSBERG
Letters to David Cope
KIRPAL GORDON
The Magus of the Blue Hour
Searching for Big Daddy Midnight:
An Ellington/Strayhorn Suite
ELIOT GREENSPAN
So Long, It's...
PETER HALE
Photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
KEVIN HAYES
September 11, 2001
Designated An Enemy Of The State
Because The System Is Closed
Invisible Presence
Endless War (Conspiracy Of Love)
Mystery Town
STEVEN HIRSCH
Transgressions
The Ancients
Stocks
Way Beyond Anger
Urban Verses
BOB HOLMAN
"You Are" (Such Beautiful Words)
In Real Life
Fortune into a Bargain
You Can’t Be A Jerk & Write Great Poetry
Unity
This Closeness Thing
CHRIS IDE
(What is poetry, if not that feel)
HOLLY JONES
A Letter In A Slight Dark
The Organist and The Child
Before...
A Walk to a Pier
I, like a lunatic
Falling asleep in Berlin
Before and Since
ELIOT KATZ
My Two Senses
A Visit To Multnomah Falls
On Way From Portland To Seattle
Rocking The Globe From DC
The Logic of War
To the Northern Winds July 4, 2002
Playing Catch with Cracked Globes
Gambling with Human Chips
Shock TV, Day One
Eve Gets Angry with God after Reading
Her High School Science Book
With eyes on the Kitchen Table
Inauguration Day 2005
Global Warming
Which Way Does This Bird Fly?
Sitting to Praise
Full Moon Over Falluja
Why I Did Civil Disobedience at Wall Street
with the War Resisters League
Breath Is Like the End of Breath
With Body Another Year Older
Bail Out What?
One Satellite One Vote
Abbie Hoffman and the Four Corners Defense
How the Congressional Health Care Plan Was Developed
Lyme Code
Tribute for Janine Pommy Vega
Is the Earth Spinning Faster These Days Or Is It Me?
Unpublished Letter to New York Times Book Review
re: Allen Ginsberg
Even a Poet Laureate Doesn’t Deserve
to Get Beaten by the Police
Dear President Obama, Congress,
and the Mainstream Media:
Give Us Single-Payer Health Care
Liberation Recalled
MARY KITE
His Watch
GARY LAWLESS
full moon eclipse
Which World
(Every stump is sacred)
(What mauls our hearts)
Caribouddhism
For those who would compromise the forest
(Whatever happens enters)
Migrationist
KENNY LERNER
Nowhere Man: George Bush and the Disappeared
JOEL LEWIS
Portrait in Jew: Superman
M.L. LIEBLER
Breaking the Voodoo
PETER MARTI
My Fatty Liver
Samsaric Plans (Mom’s Voice All Night in My Dreams)
Blind Ray is Gone
Too Weary
Every Winter
Long Beach, Long Island New Year’s Day Night
Firebreak
"The Old Canceroo, They Call It..."
Your Wisdom Eye Gleams
They Got Osama
Beautiful Blood
Thigh-bone Trumpet Echo
“Heard The Old Poet Corso Died, Did…
NANCY MERCADO
El Coto Laurel
In My Perfect Puerto Rico
Homemade Hot Sauce
Where My Father Is Buried
Iraq 2003
I Told You
Litany for Change
To Repair A Broken World
We The People
No Where
The Rose That Waits
What Archeologists Will Say
Last Guaguancó in Puerto Rico
On Broadway
SHARON MESMER
What Happened To The Women Of Country Valley?
This Sly Anus Of Mine
When I Hear The World “Fluxus”
I Reach For My Anti-Semitism
SHIV MIRABITO
Respect
Insiders Outsiders for Ira Cohen
I Am So Grateful
EILEEN MYLES
Fist
Cute
Basic August
LESLÉA NEWMAN
October 20, 1993
(Pass Me a Rearrange): Lines from Buddy’s Poems
First Love
The Wood Gatherer Speaks
First Death
Near Death Experience
Poem for Two Dogs Hanged
in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
Interview by Renée Olander
Upon Hearing that the Second Avenue Deli
Is Being Replaced By
Chase Manhattan Bank
AKILAH OLIVER
Excerpt from “The Putterer’s Notebook: an anti-Memoir”
MARC OLMSTED
Leper Fingers In My Tea
Cemetery King
Blood Dripping Guru
Mutant Clinic
Getting Older With Iggy Pop
Everyone Dies (Goodbye Joey Ramone)
Carcass Poet
Headskip
Academy 23
Noble Flying Lizard
Die All The Time
Funeral Tattoo
Tales From The Crypt
New Bohemia
McDonald's Funeral
The Deaf Club
Blue-Haired Junkie Boy
I Celebrate Myself notes to Bill Morgan
Good Sign
Pump
Karmapa In America ‘08
Calm abiding
Silver Hand (SFO-Halifax-NYC roundtrip)
Consecrating Monument Proclaiming Buddha’s Mind
Turquoise Lake: Notebooks/Snapshots in Tibet
Jewel Of Activity Leaving Earth
SUZI KAPLAN OLMSTED
The Words
"Hey, Nutcase"
Institutional Wallet
Things I Cannot Write About,
Even If They Are True:
Emergency Room, (redux)
On Leaving Rehab in Sand Diego January 2006, Cured
Previous Employment?
Both Named Marge
Homeless Sacrament
On the missing Law & Order: LA episode
THOMAS R. PETERS, JR.
"Ay Que Sarandos Mas Profundos!"
XXXIII
XVI
I
XXVII
1984
I-95
1994
LXXXI
My Prayer
The Book of Silence
Delirium
Cineam Automatique
Clare A. Voyance
What I remember from Lisa Jarnot’s Reading
My Grandpa Tremonti
two-thousand
after Kyger, after de Angulo, after
Translucency Sonnet
WANG PING
Liquid Glass
Winter Worm Summer Plant
Let River Move Us
MICHAEL PINGARRON
The Dead Are Dead
our cherished homes
a question of balance
The Truth About Horse Manure
The Rabid Radio Talk Show Crowd
The Monstrosity Of Hate
the crisis (in Afghanistan and other places)
as fear rears its hooved feet
a dictator
the spy
during the passage of a day
cruises the river Styx
a hunchbacked nation
The Doomsday Machine
the tale of the politergeist
this isn't a nightmare
JEFF PONIEWAZ
Pegasus Gasoline
The Tortoise and the Semi
Point of No Return at Noah's Ark
Oremus
No More Jaguar Cats, Just Jaguar Cars
Pacific Life
Coalmines Are Mine Disasters
Even If They Don’t Cave In
20/20 By 2020
Open Letter to Tiger Woods
September 11, 2011
SUE RHYNHART
The Berries I Never Picked
Guard The Heart
JOSEPH RICHEY
From "At Pacal's Tomb"
Blues For Allen
Why We Oppose the Privatization
of the US Postal Service
“Puppy Dies in Fall through Ice at Boulder Reservoir”
When Cruel Penances Mar Holidays
¡Sandinista!
BOB RIXON
(Untitled)
The Memory Of Memory
Brown Fields
Mea Culpa
For Tu Fu, At Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Pine Barrens
A Picture Of Hell-In-Progress
The Marshes By The Highway
The Circus
Chet Baker's Blue Note
Two Doves
Rorschach Test
Draft of a Letter To The Editor
for the widely-circulated Star-Ledger
A Hard Chair
The Burglar
Matchmaking
She Said
I Use A Dead Language Known Only To Myself
(Saddam was caught while I was locked up)
A Common Egret
Latisha
Memorial Day
Pentecost Sunday
Dreaming of Allen Ginsburg
on William Burroughs' Birthday
Aggressor Nation
More Bodhisattvas in a Dream
For the Kids Working at the Mall
The Burglar
Like A Weed
RANDY ROARK
from Beyond Imagining
Blue
Christmas Poem 2003
And If I Didn't Do It, Well, You Know, I Tried
Last Poem for Sarah
Testament
The Role of the Poet. November 24th, Konya, Turkey
Arriving in Santa Monica
Midnight
What I Wrote When I Reached Home
Happiness
Winter
12/19 Dear Anne
Dear Anne 12/21
Near Death by Drowning
(remembering it for the first time)
Every Poet's Autobiography
My Fascination with Her Is Enormous and Intricate
My Statement of Purpose
I Don’t Really Mind
October 16, 2006, Paris
Written at My Last Penny Lane Reading, July 11, 2005
Howltalk
How to Compose
Walking into the Crater
Excerpts from LIT
From the Foreword
Beowolf Faces Death
Shortly Before His Death, Geoffrey Chaucer
Comes to His Senses and Reclaims
at Least The Parliament of Birds
When Love Ceased to Sing
What Love Said in Reply
(for Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
Poem for the Moon
The Difficult Birth of Edmund Spenser’s Shadow
John Wilmot’s Lament:
What Miracles We Harmless Lovers Wrought,
Who Knew Not What We Loved Nor Why
Christopher Marlowe’s Notes for a New Faust
William Shakespeare Imitating Christopher Marlowe
John Donne’s Complaynt
Nocturne
John Milton Takes Refuge in a Buddhist Monastery
So Rare a White
(for Edmund Waller, Anne Bradstreet,
and Richard Lovelace)
I’ve Loved as I Have Loved (for John Dryden)
Before My Life Began (for Thomas Traherne)
Alexander Pope Shoots from the Hip
Unquiet Dreams under Passing Stars
(for William Wordsworth)
Oblivion
Far-Of Lights, Glittering (for Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
The Hyacinth Bride (for Edward Fitzgerald)
The Mystery of What We’ve Been and Why We’ve
Suffered (for Matthew Arnold)
My Sister (for Dante Gabriel Rosetti)
The Idle Singer on an Empty Day (for William Morris)
Resurrection (for Ernest Dowson)
For Any He Had Not Yet Written (for Wilfred Owen)
The Grammar of Myth (for Robert Graves)
Interview by Jim Cohn
Henry VI, Part III
Venus and Adonis
Richard III
The Sonnets
Two Gentleman of Verona
Romeo and Juliet
Elegies for the Post-Modern American Poets, Parts I & II
RON RODRIGUEZ
Two Translations of "Prelude in Boricua"
by Luis Pales Matos
Two Translations of "Candombe"
by Luis Pales Matos
Two Translations of "Mulatta of the Antilles"
by Luis Pales Matos
"Change of Ghosts" by Miguel Angel Flores
"Flowers" by Miguel Angel Flores
"The Lover" by Ulalume Gonzalez de Leon
"Sponge Tree" by Vicente Gerbasi
"The Walls of my house" by Vicente Gerbasi
"Trip" by Vicente Gerbasi
Exploding Like Vermin
"The Dead Conquistadors" by Antonio Cisneros
"Nocturne in Vermont" by Cesar Calvo
"Fundaciones" by Juan Liscano
Vermin Redux
"Comments" by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
"Road" by Pedro Garfias
"Light" by Pedro Garfias
Crackbrained
JOHN ROCHE
Prologue–Suicide Bomber
Workingman's Dead
Song of Wandering Owsley
Here’s for All
DAVE ROSKOS
Childhood Flashback #2
Over Time Suite
Poem for Michael
(The Psychedelic Experience)
High School Hooky Haiku
MICHAEL ROTHENBERG
Simplify Infinity
JAMES RUGGIA
Sunshine State
My Toy Soldier
An Old German Happened By...
Love's Red Dance
Endless Capture
Sadness Of Mind
The Hard Way
Battery Park
In Cavafy's Alexandria
On Two lines by Gabirol
March 27, 2009
With Hopper and Reznikoff in Thailand
Rig-Veda Variations
STEVE SILBERMAN
The Great Pattern
Orphans
Impossible Happiness: An elegy for Peter Orlovsky
EDWIN TORRES
Me No Habla Spic
PAMELA TWINING
Notes From The Front
JANINE POMMY VEGA
Ode to Slippers in Times of Homeland Security
Ice Boom America
Majik's Mala
The Coal Bin Blues
Reading Your Last Book, Fame & Death
ANNE WALDMAN
Cittipatti Blues
Verses For The New Amazing Grace
So Help Me Sappho
Common Law
Obedience & The Rose
Halo 'Round Gregory
5 Female Poets Next To A Block Of Ice
from Matriot Acts
Train Ride (A woman mistress of measure...)
from Martyrology
Death of Peter Orlovsky
Janine Pommy Vega, Beat Sister
RICHARD WILMARTH
roxanne
two hands
Unexpectedly
Again
Apathy
molly was
what does she look like with her hair down
shit luck
Confession Of A Failed Poet
Death
21st Century War Rant Crunch
the war that never ended
When Does The Sentence Really End
KATIE YATES
(couldn't be more than what your movements say)
and wondering
M,
we sd. we get it
choosing one's way outside for J
into emptiness
in particular
chance
intermittent
careoftrees
other things
cardinal
on sound
cupcake truck
fairy tale
the conference of mothers (motels)
motel is
ALI ZARRIN
To Whom Do We Owe Our Freedom
and To Whom Do We Not?
Found Poem: Camp Speicher, Iraq
For Allen
Interview by Jim Cohn
Letter to My Expatriate Friends
Made You Mine America
SERHIY ZHADAN
Serbo-Croatian
Cleaning Ladies In The Corridors
ZHANG ZIQING
Vernon Frazer Came to Introduce
Post-Beat Poetry to China:
His Poetry Readings,
Nanjing and Beijing,
2004
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Allen Ginsberg
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