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The Literary Party

by James Schwartz

Marsden Hartley.
Robert Duncan.
W.H. Auden.
Chester Kallman.
Yukio Mishima.
Lord Byron.
Charles “Badger” King.
Ian Young.
John Wieners.
William Cory.
Stan Persky.
Langston Hughes.
Pindar.
Horatio Forbes Brown.
Benjamin Musser.
F.W.H Meyers.
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Michelangelo Buonaroti.
Friedrich Holderlin.
Joe Brainard.
Torquato Tasso.
James Merrill.
John Moray Stuart-Young.
Paul Verlaine.
Tennessee Williams.
Oscar Wilde.
Alfred Douglas.
Walt Whitman.
Allen Ginsberg.
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Charles Baudelaire.
John Wilmont (Earl of Rochester).
C.V. Cavafy.
James Kirkup.
Theocritus.
Countee Cullen.
George E. Woodberry.
Alexander Pope.
Michael Lally.
John Lehmann.
Edward Perry Warren.
Frank O’Hara.
Paul Mariah.
Federico Garcia [...]

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Literary Sleaze

by James Schwartz

Lavender lightning.
Vodka supper.
Last supper.
Insomniac journals.
Shakespeare in the park.
Shakespeare after dark.
Leather studded shadows.
Basement bass.
Smoke tricks.
Denim.
Unzipped.
Concrete tundras.
Toll roads.
Steel girders.
Mesh corridors.
M2M / MEMBERS ONLY!
Industrial vistas.
Ambient machines.
Knowing mirrors.
Quest.
Factories.
Tattooed spirituality.
Literary sleaze.
Jungle heat.
Panther silent.
Philosophy.
Graffiti.
Leather jackets.
Liquid skin fuse.
Metro mirage.
Shakespeare in the park.
Library nightcaps.
Lido whitecaps.
Volcanic smiles.
Lava and tonic.

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Night Violence / Remixed Emotions

by James Schwartz
NIGHT VIOLENCE
Once upon a night.
Fubar fable syrup.
February theatre.
Bed of midnight.
Exhaling.
Egg nog snow.
Blanketed breakers crash.
Seascapes. Ripped lace.
Capsize baptize sonnetize.
Rave soundscapes.
Literary clubbers.
Star cold eyes.
Impale commands.
Masculine gravel.
Thirsting.
Riding unparted, unquenched.
Javelin takes all.
Out of bounds.
Out of blue.
Lunar sanctum.
Submission.
Sweet violence.
Night violence.
REMIXED EMOTIONS
Black ink.
Black ice.
Reflection pools.
Remixed emotions.
On the rocks.
Disco nights, sleeping.
Tropical fruit.
Black ice symphonies.
Last call.
Jungle trance.
Deep freeze.
Thank you, sequins.

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The Kimchi Struggle

[lang_en] My first encounter with “kimchi” was when my brother-in-law brought three containers of this dish from Manila ten years ago. Kimchi is actually this traditional Korean dish made of vegetables, like cabbage, that was fermented with a variety of seasoning. So the moment my brother-in-law opened the plastic containers, it nearly knocked me out [...]

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Bill & Tony

William S. Burroughs and Anthony Balch collaborate for this slice of weirdness. See the video here.
- Rudy Carrera.

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