Year: 2011

With the passing of Steve Jobs we have more to fear than fear itself … Dr. Johnny Wow! explains.

Good day, boys and ghouls. October is here and we’re kicking the month off with a steel toed boot. Mary Slocum explores “the new normal economy” in two intense, defiant poems.

Feel like another cog in the machine? Pavel Ruben probably won’t help you with that.

This week an experimental psychology student, Tim W. Boiteau, shares his fictional alter-world where folks take non-vacations.

Get away from the runts and visit the barber shop with Brandon Bell.

Day one of year three! We have a doozy of a piece this week by Judith Arcana. # I want to thank you for reading, submitting, thinking and sharing. I can admit that some days I wonder why I keep WORKing. …

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Timothy Dyson has clanking precision  in three excellent poems. Feel the grit! Next week we enter year three of WORK.  The past year of Sunday publications was fun, but starting next week WORK returns to Monday editions.

Teaching fully explored through two poems by Lauren Henley.

This week Al Simmons wows in his poem One Day During The Riots. P.S. Mr. Simmons has a fabulous collection of poems ready for publishing … someone oughta contact him. Let us know and we’ll hook you up.

This week features the return of Adam Matcho with two radical poems which are included in a soon-to-be-published collection called Six Dollars an Hour: Confessions of a Gemini Writer. Guess what?! Matcho’s collection won Nerve Cowboy’s chapbook contest. Look for …

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In national and state parks, in garbage bins of all colors and sizes, in barrooms and demi-whore houses, at car washes and seafood restaurants, Louis Bourgeois collected cans.