Four poems from Das Auge des Entdeckers (The Discoverer?s Eye)Nicolas Born Translated by Eric Torgersen “according to reliable sources”* I’m already far away from myself but I still feel me lying here ... >> more |
Greece: From the Future #6Mark SargentEntomed in periodicals, with hands moisturized by goat shit, Mark gazes at us from the future where the streets are full of addicts and it's the sober people who live on skid row.
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Even the Dog Won't Touch MeJim ChaffeeThe argument that to get the best and brightest one must pay exorbitant sums leads to some stunningly logical questions. Such as, Einstein didn't get paid shit, so does that mean he was not a particularly sharp tack? Worse even for such as Kurt Gödel or Elie Cartan or James Clerk Maxwell... >> more |
San Francisco: Cabby, or Shots from the HipJann Burner I was driving. I was very feeling low. It had been a rough day. It had been a rough month. Hell, it had been a rough life! It was very late at night, and the streets were... >> more |
Help Writers in PrisonPENDear Friend,
For many years PEN has published a Handbook for Writers in Prison, which is sent free to any prisoner who wants one. This year, we are facing a budget challenge and must raise $20,000 in order to receive a $20,000 matching grant that has... >> more |
| The Birth of Liquid DesiresRuxandra Cesereanu The Birth of Liquid Desires by Ruxandra Cesereanu translated from the Romanian by ALISTAIR BLYTH ... >> more |
Salmon Rushdie: from The Corpse Cookbook: recipe by jj phillipsjj phillipsThe Corpse Cookbook is proud to present our first recipe from jj phillips! >> more |
Untitled (true)Steve Dolan My experiences were far greater then I realized at the time. >> more |
The BrazilianMarcus BalesIf you have a specimen of Phthiris pubis you'd like to donate to science, or know someone who has, please bring them to one of the events. -- Marc Abrahams, in The Guardian, Tuesday March 4, 2008 >> more |
The Ouroboros & Other PoemsDave Brinks with men as with caterpillars nothing was chanced >> more |
Art Kills One, Injures Two! Special to the Corpse Direct from CampusRandy F. NelsonThen the art descended. Now that was a cold day!
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Barry Miles and Allen Ginsberg In the KitchenDave Breithaupt(click read more to see pic) In Allen's kitchen on East 12th Street. I have a great memory of Miles typing at the kitchen table while Allen looked over his shoulder. Great working conditions! I don't know how he did it. Its a heart warming patriotic shot. >> more |
Mario Melendez translated by Ron HudsonMario Melendez Mario Melendez translated by Ron Hudson >> more |
The Dog Pound of DaddiesDinty W. Moore?The dog pound of daddies, which is the political arena, gives us a President, then we put him on a platform and start punishing him and screaming at him because Daddy can't do miracles.? ? John Lennon >> more |
THE PAST: BUCHAREST: Labyrinth by Florin Ion FirimitFlorin Ion Firimit It was in the winter of 1982 when I moved to the Bucharest Municipal Hospital at the recommendation of a friend of the family who happened to be the director of the facility. >> more |
Akim, Zappy and the Green Eye by Pierre JorisPierre Jorisfrom Pierre's ongoing memoir >> more |
Janaki Challa's Lunch with Cioran (and more)Janaki ChallaJanaki Challa is one of the new people who can have lunch with anyone in history or in the future >> more |
Could I Be A Cannibal-in-Training?David BerriganOur scientist-in-residence finds his love for meat is endless. >> more |
BURROUGHS SPEAKSSimone EllisBeginning now Exquisite Corpse will serialize Simone Ellis’s fabulous interview with the Master.
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On the Egyptian Hieroglyphic symbol of the Ejaculating Phallus >> more |
Our PastJim HarrisonIce. Air. Heads fall. Red snow, half eaten cows. Crawling horses. >> more |
Target ShooterSimone Ellis First thought I had today, was that I would Buy a gun Tomorrow I’ve picked out a tree on the hillside Outside my window Under which to shoot... >> more |
Eddie Woods InterviewedMichalis LimniosAmerican poet, writer, editor Eddie Woods talks about poetry, music, the Beats and “Ins & Outs”
Reposted from: Michalis Limnios BLUES >> more |
Three Poems by Braden BellBraden BellBraden Bell rings with more and more clarity. >> more |
commute to quarter centuriesCalin-Andrei Mihailescuold canadian taxpaying narcissist pets self in mirror >> more |
Water on WaterClark Lunberry >> more |
| The Japan of the MindKane X. Faucher An Evening with Tom Bradley or The Japan of the Mind
The Berlitz phrase book meant to throw a linguistic bridge... >> more |
Five Poems by Michael SalcmanMichael Salcmanplace your bets >> more |
REMEMBERING HAROLD NORSEEddie Woods "Hello, I'm home!" It was Harold, calling so loudly from just inside the front door of the Ins & Outs Press building, his voice ringing... >> more |
| In The Dust Zone: Part 5Maggie Dubris & Scott Gillis |
The End of the World WeatherGale Renee WaldenAt the end of the world the weather in the Midwest is surprisingly breezy. >> more |
| The Gratuitous Trashing of a Literary GiantEinar Moos The Gratuitous Trashing of a Literary Giant
In The New York Times of 29 January 2012, Jeanette Winterson published a... >> more |
A True Wherever MessageMark SargentMark Sargent hits universal vein! >> more |
Three New Stories by Willie SmithWillie SmithOur own Willie Smith showing his immortal chops anew! >> more |
| Life of Crime: Black Bart Rides Again, AssholesPat Nolan MORE POETRY ASSHOLES
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They Call It A Broken Heart For A ReasonSteven WolfeA little later she was lying on her back with her head in my lap. “You’re the only one who didn’t,” she said. “The only one ever. Why didn’t you?” >> more |
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf ExpoundedYusuf al ShirbiniJ.J. Phillips brought this remarkable text to our attention. Here is an excerpt from her letter:
Andrei, I’m sending you a few brief excerpts from the 17th century Egyptian satirist Yusuf al Shirbini’s Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (pub. by Peeters, a... >> more |
& Rats DanceElizabeth Kate Switaj weep for marbled red weep for ivory weep for eleph/ants/ >> more |
| WITCHES AND GHOSTSHariette Surovell SERIAL! SPECIAL TO THE CORPSE! |
Two PoemsAnna Maria HongGeometry and the Moon creatures chased a beautiful orange. His round mounded lips eclipsed all reminiscences of home. >> more |
No Bullshit ReviewsChristian ProzakOur reviewer is seized by the gods & reviews (occasionally) in verse! New reviews every month!
NEW: Maddox, Alleman, CÈline, Bukowski, Kerouac & Burroughs >> more |
Cobbler by Willie SmithWillie SmithPoured pureed liver into a coffee cup. Drank off the room-temperature goo. He was famished after a long night of nightmares. >> more |
YES MEN HONCHO SPRUNG FROM CLINKThe Yes MenFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2009
The Yes Men: http://www.theyesmen.org Andy Bichlbaum, co-founder of activist group the Yes Men, emerged after 26 hours in New York City's central lockup with all charges... >> more |
| from: The Science of ForgettingBernadette Mayer and Dave Brinks 
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| Peter for Peter OrlovskyHerbert Huncke Peter by Herbert Huncke
I just finished eating Peter and washed him down with beer--lager beer. He was tender and... >> more |
Ted's Music by David BerriganDavid BerriganTed Berrigan's son, David, has all his dad's early music. I (Codrescu, editor) once visited Ted in 1967 at 101 St. Marks' Place in New York City and he played an LP of Kerouac reading. He loved "the music" of Kerouac's phrasing. Years later, Eileen Myles,... >> more |
CodeLaura MullenSee underwater and also under Under. >> more |
four (t)hexagrams from (r)i-chingJoseph Makkoshere are only ways to move >> more |
Seattle: Aimez-vous Pearl Jam? (a tale of Old Seattle)David Fewster(From the Diary of Nanette Jenkins, NOVEMBER 1993) Yesterday was my 39th birthday, as depressing a personal milestone as any I’ve experienced, with the possible exception of my wedding day with Stanley. Maybe this one was... >> more |
from The True Life Adventures of Dr. SendroiuIonut SendroiuSpecial to the Corpse from the High Seas, with links to Dr. Sendroiu's Romanian language dispatches >> more |
The Gorilla My MotorPaul Tillema“What do you mean my gorilla motor?” Sanji asks. “It’s what it sounds like, my motor is my gorilla.” Nan smugly replies. He twists some fuzzy pills that have formed around the waist of his khaki sweater and stirs some non dairy creamer into designer coffee.... >> more |
Letter from Greece 8 from Mark SargentAndrei CodrescuLucky Dog report! >> more |
Five PoemsAdam PettetBut what the fuck would a man with a silly name like Ouspensky fuckin know huh. >> more |
I PAID FOR WOODSTOCKSusan Silas“Governor Nelson Rockefeller declares Woodstock a national disaster area.” Woodstock was on the front page of the New York Times for days. My mother, who had allowed her barely 16 year old daughter to go to this rock concert, was appalled. But to her it wasn’t the lack of... >> more |
Narlan Matos translated by Sally PerretNarlan MatosTranslation is, ideally, a buddhist exercise in ego-shedding. Practically, it's ego-boosting from a dead writer. Sometimes it's a mix. And sometimes it's about what it's about. Which in the case of poetry is never the case.
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From the Border: A CorridoSal Salasin De Monterrey a linares salieron una manana un grupo de federales in Spanish by the composer in English by Sal Salasin >> more |
Inner Departure and Art SwapStina Pehrsdotter and Niclas HallbergInner Departure 8 October-23 November 2008
Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg exhibits at the artist-run gallery Garageprojektet/GREASE in... >> more |
Braden's mysterious paper airplaneBraden BellThis came in the window from Braden Bell >> more |
Megan Volpert's freshly alphabetized pets!Megan Volpertany secrets can keep to infinity as long as they aren't my own >> more |
GigoloScott BaileyI surely succeeded, some life in New Orleans, August heat, dancing on a bar, men fucking on the pool table, balls on balls in every corner. With Oh yea, daddy, harder daddy, harder, fuck my hole, pop my brown cherry, it’s hard to determine who wants... >> more |
Thomas Laird's Meditation of the CorpseThomas LairdThe book of meditation has fourteen chapters. >> more |
Report from the Future: Brian's GirlGarrett CookThe Corpse has been receiving dispatches from the Future! Since we have no category for it, because we are, like Tristan Tzara, "against the future," we placed this dispatch in our Bureau sections, making the Future a place. Prepare for Brian's Girl! From Garrett Cook! She's... >> more |
Belated Homage to Hariette Surrovell by Tom SilvestriTom Silvestria fond farewell to our darling Hariette
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New Orleans: Black and White, with Brown Water All OverJames NolanThe summer before Katrina, New Orleans was spinning out of control in a boozy maelstrom of guns and drugs, murder and corruption. Flush with tourist dollars, the sweltering city felt overripe and frantic, like some blowzy hooker who, late into besotted middle-age, sinks to new... >> more |
The Semiotics of Coitus by Max CafardMax CafardWe think that Max Cafard should get laid more. The semiotics of coitus would then be no more earth-shaking than the coitus of semiotics. >> more |
EXTRA! An unknown text by Urmuz! In Search of Urmuz by Florina KostuliasFlorina KostuliasFlorina Kostulias has been hot on the trail of Urmuz, the Romanian writer considered by many to be the founder of the absurdist strain of 20th century art and literature, a strain that included most of the avantgardes, including the Dada movement and the Theatre of the Absurd. The search for Urmuz,... >> more |
CRACK REPORT: Guerrilla Nut Twist & The Peripheral Bullet: Daisy Pulling in the JungleJim LopezTwo able crackies stood outside my motel room attempting to convince me that there was only one able cracky knocking on my door. But I could hear two crackies whispering to one another. A few days prior cracky number one, whose name was Abel, had noticed my out-of-state plates and... >> more |
New Poetick by Simon PerchikSimon Perchikwhen k ends your name g is not far >> more |
THE NEWS FROM HOMEBeth BosworthEvery time I jumped in, I shouted, "Heavens to Mergetroyd!" and my older brother laughed so his freckles stood out. I must have jumped for him a thousand times. Later he took too many drugs. >> more |
Three New Works by Joel DaileyJoel Daileyman elusive like his magazine >> more |
The Hariette Surovell AnthologyHariette Surrovell Chapter One: Witches and Ghosts
I spent my childhood expecting my father, Abe Surovell, to die. He was 50 and I was 16 when his third coronary finally... >> more |
Friendship: The Brain (Of a Fascist) & The Heart (Of a Jew): Mircea Eliade & Mihail SebastianAndrei Oisteanu CHRONICLE OF A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP* The “paradisiacal” period (1932-1933) In the National Museum of Romanian Literature’s archive there is a set of photographs remarkably interesting . They depict a group of youngsters, about... >> more |
| THE SELLING OF THE AMERICANS, part oneHariette Surovell INSIDIOUS MOVIE PRODUCT PLACEMENT TRENDS Television shows are sponsored by advertisers who really get bangs for their... >> more |
Insomnia SplatterJ.C. HallmanIf everything behaves as if a sign had meaning, then it does have meaning.>> more |
A poem by Marc VincenzAndrei Codrescu
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Bulgaria: Topolovgrad, July 2006Desislava StoevaA radioactive cloud swept across Europe after the disaster in Ukraine. On April 25, 1986, ironically, while a new safety system was being installed, the core of Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor #4 exploded. Central and Eastern Europe received high amounts of radiation. >> more |
Sheherezade?s VentriloquistsTegan RaleighAlthough many classics have undergone profound metamorphoses over time, nothing compares to the variety of the Nights. >> more |
Two PoemsNik De Dominicit is probably too late for apologies – but here goes. >> more |
Ten PoemsGrzegorz Wr?blewskitranslated from the Polish by Adam Zdrodowski
The rose demands a poem sensitive to a lizard’s tongue, crooked cumulus clouds or the gesticulation of deranged children. >> more |
The Barbariansthe EditorsRomanian poetry, like Romanian film, is quite the rage these days, in translation or written directly in (interstitial) English. “Foreign” or vernacular-interstitial-creole poetries are gangbusting the well-manicured lawns, the faux-romantic hollows, and the fractured dictionaries of... >> more |
In The Dust ZoneMaggie Dubris & Scott GillisIN THE DUST ZONE written by Maggie Dubris drawings by Scott Gillis
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In August of 2001, New York City writer Maggie Dubris was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Three weeks later, on September 11th, she responded as a 911 paramedic to the World... >> more |
| Kindle 2: Out of Amazon and Into the Frying PanDeWitt Brinson>> more |
Pat Nolan, after Philippe SoupaultPat Nolan Everything’s gray and stupid books are dying in store windows >> more |
New Poems by Elinor NauenElinor Nauencher chez la femme behind the house is a woman nothing is behind the house I am the house & twice as safe
or take Italian cinema red wine & guns, space & money-- every day when the sun comes up I dress in my potbellied two-tit stove >> more |
Fragments from ?The Salt Diaries? (1990-2007)Florin Ion Firimita I am terrified by the idea of writing in a language that is not my own. How could I think or write in English? Which part of myself do I have to give up? Is thinking and feeling in a different language a type of prostitution? >> more |
Floating with AliceTom LutzWhen I brought home yet another slightly substandard report card at fifteen, my father discussed it with me in the way that had become his wont. He grabbed me by the hair, which was getting longish, since the Summer of Love had already gone by, and banged my head against a wall until I... >> more |
| FROM THENETHERWORLD Special to the Corpse from JJ PhillipsJ.J. Phillips Brautigan’s Brains Brains blasted there upon the page gray matter gobbed blood of the poet... >> more |
FIFTY/FIFTYLee Meitzen Gruenow that s he s having this affair with Rose, her name appears everywhere: Rose owns the street. Overnight Rose has bought the woman out. >> more |
BURROUGHS SPEAKS IISimone Ellis Part Two of Simone Ellis’s fabulous interview with the Master.
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In this segment (recorded shortly after the first in our series, Ejaculating Phallus Hieroglyphic Lesson), WSB and SE are looking at a series of WSB’s paintings. William is... >> more |
The Sound of JazzYakov LotovskiTranslated from Russian by Dimitri Lotovski.
Special to the Corpse: Jazz conquers Russian poetry! >> more |
| New Poems by Grzegorz Wr?blewskGrzegorz Wr?blewski Translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Pokojska
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The Zilchers by Utahna FaithUtahna Faitha story from the milennial Chronicles of Decatur >> more |
Sal Salasin's Blues in English And SpanishSal Salasin“Hello,” she lied. She was dressed in black with enough piercing to swing a compass needle at five paces, some real Mexican prison tatoos and a voracious appetite for an astonishing variety of extremely dangerous drugs.
Cariño, tu... >> more |
THE POSTHUMAN DADA GUIDE: TZARA AND LENIN PLAY CHESSAndrei Codrescu See a video interview about my new book is The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, from ... >> more |
Four PoemsCharles Vermontfrom the Cabinet of Dr. Vermont >> more |
From the Book of GodTerrance Jacobus THAT HUGE PARANOIA
This is my beloved son in Whom I am well pleased
Search Him! >> more |
Ruxandra Cesereanu Dance-Harvests Poetry in Armenia (in Romanian and English)Ruxandra CesereanuRuxandra Cesereanu at Armenian Bacchanalia! >> more |
| Two poems by Athena Kashyap Athena Kashyap Until early this century, Hindus believed that if you crossed the oceans, the “black waters,” by leaving the physical boundaries of India, you would lose your identity and become... >> more |
SECOND ODE TO MARGARET SANGER MOTHER OF A TRILLION ORGASMSSam Abramsborn September 14, 1879 >> more |
Three WorksDean BrinkAs you become your friends your furniture must become you, stand for the real you, and something on each shelf and wall so the friends feel friendliness. >> more |
+loveBrad M. Elliottresting quietly i expose myself in the grocery store isle to christians who make me uncomfortable and listen and hear nobody only the wind through the leaves in the evening i think of crab cakes the wood the pensive hill the rippling nipple the rude step >> more |
School BusMs. Su Zi Belleview High School Instructor of English >> more |
Conversations with Dave BrinksDave BrinksBERNADETTE MAYER, BILL ZAVATSKY ON VALERY LARBAUD, JOHN SINCLAIR IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVE... >> more |
Ode to MeDave BreithauptSpecial to the Corpse: Ohio Poet Makes Peace With self! >> more |
| Selected Poems by Juan GelmanJuan Gelman |
SentenciasDaniel LiebertTwo fat & lazy nickels can't equal the nervous intensity of a dime. >> more |
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