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Author: Alex Custodio

Chelene Knight: from Braided Skin
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Chelene Knight: from Braided Skin

  • Posted on April 13, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

UGANDA 1972 A once promising land—evaporating. The people abolished, divided and shaken by the expulsion, the elimination. The threat of an ethnic cleansing of the Indian minority hovered over Asian…

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Wanda Praamsma: from a thin line between
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Wanda Praamsma: from a thin line between

  • Posted on April 8, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

EXCERPTS FROM A THIN LINE BETWEEN   it wasn’t intended for me to see but I did (in the subject of an email) the invisible mom on a hill in…

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Chelsea Rooney: from Pedal
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Chelsea Rooney: from Pedal

  • Posted on April 3, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

I twisted a cap off a bottle and threw it into the fire. We watched the sparks. The beer went down like water. The firelight pumped like a red heart…

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Tanis MacDonald: Two Poems
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Tanis MacDonald: Two Poems

  • Posted on March 30, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

CHERISH: A CENTO Dear friend, you have excited crowds with your example.1 I speak to judge crimes of filiation.2 Consider that the thing died before we ever proved it lived,3…

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Kelly Shepherd: Self Portrait in Fur
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Kelly Shepherd: Self Portrait in Fur

  • Posted on March 20, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

SELF PORTRAIT IN FUR The bear says to the gathered performance artists who are attempting a sound poem that emulates the sounds of a bear I never know when it’s…

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Ali Znaidi: The Doxa of the Wind

  • Posted on March 18, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

THE DOXA OF THE WIND The dust is biting the leaves. A chrysanthemum is blooming in a salty dry swamp. Sécheresse is everywhere. I’m searching for a mystery amidst the…

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Concetta Principe: from Perversions
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Concetta Principe: from Perversions

  • Posted on March 16, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

THIS DON JUAN FISHBOWL to reach and stop. to want and keep going. to want to reach the limit. to want to take and justify the taking. to reach the…

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Taryn Hubbard: Two Poems
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Taryn Hubbard: Two Poems

  • Posted on March 13, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

ON ROLLING THE DICE I tried to explain non-sequitur username perfect punch line a secret combination what’s the point of baited wish down at the avatar hall? tight cued lemon…

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Annick MacAskill: Woman as Riot
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Annick MacAskill: Woman as Riot

  • Posted on March 9, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

WOMAN AS RIOT “Then come curtain-lectures in the live-long night.” –St Jerome Our best shot was to ignore it—like a group of dignified mute let gravity herd our cries, take…

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Sanjeev Sethi: Rigmarole
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Sanjeev Sethi: Rigmarole

  • Posted on March 2, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

RIGMAROLE After the drill of social punctilios, when curtains are drawn, the blah blah of bovarism lies peeled in hearts willing to eavesdrop on themselves. The therapy of truth unveils…

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C. Kubasta: The Prurient I
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C. Kubasta: The Prurient I

  • Posted on February 23, 2015July 11, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

THE PRURIENT I i much of the language of this section lifted from Gray’s Anatomy ii language lifted from Gray’s Anatomy iii language lifted from The Malleus Malificarum _____ C. Kubasta attended Wells…

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Erín Moure: Кaпycтa / Kapusta
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Erín Moure: Кaпycтa / Kapusta

  • Posted on February 20, 2015November 22, 2017
  • by Alex Custodio

КAПYCТA / KAPUSTA _____ Erín Moure writes in English and Galician and translates poetry from French, Galician, Spanish and Portuguese into English by, among others, Nicole Brossard, Chus Pato and…

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