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Revisiting A City Lights Classic

Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia – 1943-1966: Pocket Poets No. 20. Philip Lamantia. Edited by Garrett Caples. City Lights Books. I am returning to my original sources – like an … Continue reading →

April 14, 2025 · Leave a comment

Four New Poems

A Castle On the Cliffs of Nowhere (who) Is poem (sings) The dead awake (framed) In your Brand new Lullaby mask Of meat And murder (who) Is poem (sings) Until … Continue reading →

November 5, 2024 · Leave a comment

“A Bull In the Garden”

If your life is burning, well then poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen Words.  God, I love them.  Unpredictable.  Knotted.  Liquid.  Percussive. Baked and flat.  Round.  Grainy.  Leached and … Continue reading →

September 20, 2024 · Leave a comment

“Steeple Street”

(who) Is poem (lives) On the Holy outskirts Of Steeple Street (where) All my Tears form Eyeball ice (formed) By the Twisting sound Of crystal peaks by John Aiello April … Continue reading →

May 10, 2024 · Leave a comment

“Blood Shine”

Blood Shine (who) Is poem (I) Look in Your eyes And see The rusty wide Electric Sheen (of) God’s suffering by John Aiello April 2023

April 3, 2023 · Leave a comment

“Music Man”

Music Man On Dylan’s The Philosophy of Song (who) Is poet (sifts) To sort (sorting) These stillborn pledges Of memory (in) To the  Actual voice Of a life by John … Continue reading →

November 11, 2022 · Leave a comment

Life, Death & Poetry

HYMNS TO THE NIGHT ROAD (Poems For Dead Parents). John Aiello. Electric Review Press. “(and)I wonder whatYou’re thinking today(as)Your eyesDart aroundThe roomLike dank mirrored spears(wondering)Where theMind goes(fecund)In clots(& waiting)To die…” … Continue reading →

January 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

John Aiello’s First Book of Poems Now On Sale

HYMNS TO THE NIGHT ROAD (Poems For Dead Parents). John Aiello. Electric Review Press. With original art work by Eric Ward.  John Aiello and Electric Review Press announce the release of Hymns To the … Continue reading →

January 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

“First Cure”

First Cure For Allen Ginsberg’s Ghost (this)Morning I heardYou writingYour epic KaddishAll over again (there)At theKitchen tableIn the pale(mid)Night lamplight(writing)In twin rainbowsOf inkOn onionSkin parchment (these)Tear-stained websOf wordsIn linenBlue pools(out)Line … Continue reading →

January 3, 2022 · Leave a comment

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