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‘Round Midnight

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weeks after the massacre

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Days of the Dead

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here we fall | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Reuben Woolley

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 8 June, 2017 • ( 4 Comments )

Coffee Bruise Thursday features two poems from Reuben Woolley—different forms of loss, here we fall… Meta/ Phor(e) / Play

Dreams and Memories | Mike Stone | Sunday Brunch Tuesday

By Michael Dickel on Tuesday, 6 June, 2017 • ( 5 Comments )

Three poems by Mike Stone about dreams and memories, some good, some not, on Meta/Phor(e)/Play

We chose a day | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Paul Brookes

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 1 June, 2017 • ( 4 Comments )

Four poems, comprising some family history narrative | Paul Brookes | Meta/Phor(e)/Play

we dream we are young | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | gary lundy

By Michael Dickel on Tuesday, 30 May, 2017 • ( 4 Comments )

These 3 poems by gary lundy dance to music & drink coffee—reading your meaning, meaning your reading.

Breakfast at the End of Capitalism | Chapbook 

By Michael Dickel on Sunday, 28 May, 2017 • ( 6 Comments )

I am honored to have my chapbook, Breakfast at the End of Capitalism, published by Locofo Chaps, out of Chicago.

A tear drop falls | Coffee Bruise Thursday | Mike Stone

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 25 May, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

Three poems & a Haiku sequence, written winter to spring—glimpses of the world through Mike Stone’s eyes.

memories that no longer exist | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Bill Yarrow

By Michael Dickel on Tuesday, 23 May, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

Yarrow’s poems—three pas de deux partnering memory & family in delicate ballet | Meta/ Phor(e) / Play

Modernism likes its own “post” | Coffee Bruise Thursday

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 18 May, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Adeena Karasick takes us on a satiric tour through the shards and fragments of literary and post-consumerist culture.

An Idea for a Short Story | Sunday Brunch Tuesday

By Michael Dickel on Tuesday, 16 May, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

Stone’s An Idea for a Short Story shows poems’ & stories’ value to being human. | Sunday Brunch Tuesday | MPP

The BeZine | May 2017

By Michael Dickel on Monday, 15 May, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Honesty and Transparency, the Post Truth Era—the latest issue of The BeZine, is up. Here is Jamie Dedes’ introduction. I lent a hand in publication, & have two poems and an essay in the May edition. Stop by at The BeZine and have a look.

Coffee Bruise Thursday | The Rains of Babylon | Song

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 11 May, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

A song for the times—simple chords & words. The Rains of Babylon | Bruised Coffee Thursday | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play

Sunday Brunch Tuesday | Reuben Woolley

By Michael Dickel on Tuesday, 9 May, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

Reuben Woolley on Sunday Brunch Tuesday with 3 poems of geographic wistfulness | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play

Consumer demographic bands | 3 poems | Michael Dickel

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 4 May, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

Three poems from Michael Dickel, commentaries on himself and our times on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play. Now open for submissions.

Le Hinton’s Cards Flash Back | Ann Bracken

By Michael Dickel on Sunday, 30 April, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Ann Bracken discusses Le Hinton’s poem, Cards Flash Back, on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.

speak poetry | poem | Michael Dickel

By Michael Dickel on Saturday, 29 April, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

The voices speak poetry even as so much else happens, including the poet going out | Michael Dickel | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play

hired sycophants | poems | J Matthew Waters

By Michael Dickel on Friday, 28 April, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

A wall waiting for graffiti, a lost love in Paris, psychedelic apple blossoms| hired sycophants | poems | J Matthew Waters

unrepentant insolence | Hassan Melehy

By Michael Dickel on Thursday, 27 April, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Hassan Melehy’s poems, Recriminations & Doctrines of Honesty, provide “unrepentant insolence”—perhaps of the Beats, perhaps of our own.

imaginary maps | Poems | Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

By Michael Dickel on Wednesday, 26 April, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Evocative imagery woven into a sense of displacement, nostalgia, & longing | imaginary maps | Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt | Meta/Phor(e)/Play

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