The Humor Writing of Robert Criss

Introducing the Inventive, Offbeat, Dark, Perverse Humor of Robert Criss         I met Robert Criss, at the MET, like a little biatch heh heh heh ho ho ho heh heh heh yah

Night Shades

Night Shades An excerpt from Fugitive Dreams, a literary supernatural thriller in progress by Matthew Murphy           When his eyes opened he found himself curled into a crescent against the corrugated

Andy Clausen – 5 New Poems

New poems by the renowned Beat / post-Beat poet on the state of affairs & the state of the heart in the later years       Is It True   Is it true a

On the End of Every Fork: What the Pandemic Has Uncovered

      A thoughtful, informed reflection by inveterate world traveler and intentional community proponent Martin Dixon-Tyrer on what the pandemic has momentarily revealed to our blinded perceptions, unearthed both of the noble and base,

Man in the Age of Consumerism (A Humorous Review of Jolly Rancher Cereal) – Chris O’Bray

Made off-the-cuff in the midst of Covid lockdown by naturally humorous actor Chris O’Bray, the apathy, clunkiness, and deadpan delivery, coupled with enervation both from months of lockdown and the undiminished zeitgeist of late Capitalism,

The Last Take – Michel Meurisse (Op-ed)

Philosopher Michel Meurisse on how New Media and Social Media have decimated attention spans, discrimination between Deep & Shallow, intellectual rigor, real connectedness, and general appreciation… and what might be done to escape being a

Dream Vignettes – Costas Despiniadis

The following vignettes are from Nights Redolent Of Death, a collection of dreamlike prose by Greek writer Costas Despiniadis, translated by Konstantina Georganta           The Room    Night. Cold. I am

Babe I’m Gonna Leave You on Sitar (in tribute to Led Zeppelin) – Anand Vyas

  A beautiful, poignant rendition of Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, in tribute to Led Zeppelin, by sitarist Anand Vyas          —About the musician, Anand Vyas

Bill’s Epiphany

The following is an excerpt from Bill’s Quest, a novel-in-progress by Jared Daniel         Bill’s Epiphany ( or When Our Naive Hero Gets Drunk On Mezcal and Assaults A Statue Of Tom

Stefan Zeniuk – ‘Down, Down, Down’ Stop-motion Video

    An intricate, flamboyant new stop-motion music video from prolific jazz musician and animator Stefan Zeniuk for the song ‘Down, Down, Down’ by the Hoodoo Loungers, a New Orleans Mardi Gras style band, about

Marianne Lorthiois – 3 Poems (en Français et un peu d’Anglais)

          nous souhaitions vous informer   nous souhaitions vous informer qu’une décision a été prise la monnaie « santé » vaudra à présent 58% de la monnaie « shampoing » et

Werda Shermeen Zia – 4 Poems

The Fire He said he knew how to play with fire and fed tinder to a shy little spark, coaxing her into a blue and gold flame that lit up his murky dark He said

That Doubling Is Always Observed { Author’s Cut } – Robert Leonard Reid

  This is the definitive author’s cut, published with permission of the author, of the titular story that appeared in Harper’s Magazine and was edited down due to length considerations therein. This version reflects the

Gato Loco – Cumbia Call

    A new music video from Stefan Zeniuk and the prodigious NYC latin, rock, and jazz fusion band Gato Loco. Video by Stefan Zeniuk. 

My Grandparents – John Guzlowski

My Grandparents     There are no photographs of who they were what they did   One was beautiful with hair like the sun setting in late August but more pale   Another was slow,

It Is All Undone – S.W. Whelan

 It Is All Undone            “Many and splendid are the works I have wrought”                 —Adonai     I.    A solitary bird traverses the

Corona – Paul Celan

A new translation of the poem Corona by Paul Celan— haunted examiner of the Holocaust, and one of the most renowned poets  to emerge post World War II— from the German by Matthew Saks         Corona

Andrey Zimin – Improvisation to the Flatlands & the Scattered Sun

    A poignant, plangent, exhilarating, Spanish, Eastern European, gypsy, folk, classical influenced improvisation on guitar by Andrey Zimin, which I recorded on my phone when it was happening, and spontaneously gave the somewhat ponderous