Wonder Women

Mike Topp: Mother, 3:AM Magazine
Mike Topp: Wonder Women, Word Riot

Hugo Williams

Hugo Williams, Old Boy (From Collected Poems, Faber, 2002), the Poem

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

Textual Politics and the Language Poets (excerpts)
by George Hartley (1989), writing.upenn.edu (Univ. Pennsylvania)

J.H. Prynne (2)

J.H. Prynne: On the Matter of Thermal Packing, Lynx

A.D. Winans (2)

A.D. Winans

A BIT OF ZEN

monks in
meditation
have no need for
explanation

2 Short Poems

I stare into silence
Empty space has no vision
Restless ghosts
Eat my words

11

71 going on 72
A tiger escapes the zoo
One dead two maimed
The moon mocks my shadow
keeps gaining ground on me
like a child playing leap-frog
with an old man and his cane


Copyright by A.D. Winans

Charles Potts

Charles Potts: Poems, Thunder Sandwich #25
Charles Potts: 6 Poems, Thunder Sandwich #16
Charles Potts: The (K) Celtic Triad, ars poetica
Charles Potts: Consumer Imperialism, The Blacklisted Journalist

Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer: Second letter to Federico Garcia Lorca, EPC
Jack Spicer: Three Marxist Essays, EPC
Jack Spicer: Six poems for Poetry Chicago, EPC
A Spicer Chronology, Jacket #7

Briony Bax

Briony Bax: Waiting for Leo, Ambit 164/2001
Briony Bax: Nell Hits Los Angeles, Ambit 164/2001

A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

WINTER POEM

Chill of winter in the air
Misty fog giving way
To a light rain
Cars spewing deadly exhaust fumes
Windshield wipers flapping like the
Wings of birds in migration
Stone faces hidden behind steering wheels
Give no quarter yield only to the
Red traffic stoplights
Pedestrians looking like mannequins
Turn into penguins scurrying
Across the street
On their way to work
Boarding the morning bus
Pressed together like preserved butterflies
Between the pages of an old
And frayed book


THE PERFECT COUPLE

He was a pica
She was elite
He was after
A home run
She liked to stop
At third base
He liked lobster
She liked cracked crab
He played doubles
She played singles
He took showers
She took baths
He ate Chinese
She ate Italian
He saw sex as dessert
She saw it as an appetizer


TENDERLOIN CAFETERIA POEM

I have sat one too many evenings
watching old men and women
eat their last meal
one eye on the desert the
other on the obituary


A.D. Winans' poetry, prose, essays and book reviews have appeared internationally in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Now, Tule Review, City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, The New York Quarterly, and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His poetry has been translated into nine languages. In 2004 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall, New York City. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles award for literary excellence. In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his selected poems The Other Side Of Broadway: Selected Poems 1965-2005.

© Copyright A.D. Winans

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Vol. 1, Issue 65

d.a. levy

The d.a. levy Collection, Cleveland State University Library

Mike Topp: Stuyvesant Bee, Vol. 1, Issue 64

Keith Haring

Keith Haring, An Intimate Conversation (by David Sheff), Rolling Stone 1989

What a Wonderful Feeling

Grzegorz Wroblewski, What a Wonderful Feeling, Magma #34