Winter 2025
Eidolon Acres 2: First Day of School
(part 2 of Eidolon Acres) The smell of wet dog and burning fungus can mean only one thing: the Emissary Doll has entered your waking dream. Wakey wakey, eggs and…
Apparition Jesus
Jesus sits beside me at the bar. It’s not really a bar, it’s a “social club,” so smoking rules don’t apply. I pop a Newport between my lips, and look…
Carolyn Kizer’s Pro Femina: an interview with Marian Janssen
“I wish my goddamned life would quit trying to resemble a rather large, lousy novel . . .”
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Mark Gewiss
Three Sisters Susquehanna River in August Saturday Afternoon rehearsal lovers anthroposophical design antebellum
Part Two of Anna Akmatova’s “Evening”
You’re so much fun when you’re drunk,
even though your stories don’t make any sense.
The elm trees’ leaves turned early:
autumn’s yellow pennants.
Squiggle Blue
reddit — The heart of the internetr/creepy u/TanayasBriarPatchThis RIDICULOSO eBay monstrosity. Twisted doesn’t begin to describe it. Would you pay $222 for such heinousness? eBay — Where people come together, find…
Four Dada Women
Four Dada Women About two years ago I taught a class on Dada for some kids at a summer camp. I usually teach hands-on art techniques so I was a…
The Place Felt Wrong
Don’t Say Her Name When the baby was born, Addison and Maggie Savannah named her Minnie Katherine. When they discovered a tiny blemish on her foot, they nicknamed her Minnie…
Meryl Gross: A Word from Our Sponsor
Miss Century City 2003 Backyard Frolic Number 1 On Route 17 Eve of Rochester Pizza Squirrel: The Beginning Backyard Frolic Number 2 Loneliness of the Long Distance Diner The Shopping…
Spider
I get up in the middle of the night and shuffle to the bathroom. To avoid waking up fully, I don’t turn on the light. On the way back to…
Christmas With Cthulhu
(and Elvis) 1. An easy seven minute walk takes me to the great silver maple which comes back to life as the winter solstice looms. By the time of this…
Radio 96: DJ Meryl Gross
Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches Cold, Cold, Cold by Cage the Elephant Squirrels in My Pants, from Phineas and Ferb Shake Ya Boogie by Mocean Worker Cult Boyfriend by Jeffrey…
The Song of Deborah
The man of war was felled where he lay,
between a woman’s triumphant legs.
Goya and The Witches
Jacob Rabinowitz made a series of mathematical and art history videos as part of an educational YouTube channel called “Online Renaissance.” The channel has been renovated as 96th of October…