On Reading Boccaccio During Our Pandemic

My essay about reading Boccaccio during our pandemic, "Let's Wake Up," now at

SPLICE TODAY:

Social Poetics by Mark Novak—book review

My book review of Mark Novak's Social Poetics, titled "Workers Don't Go To Workshops," now up at SPLICE TODAY.

Get Drunk! by Charles Baudelaire

Get Drunk!

 

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters;

that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's

horrible burden, one which breaks your shoulders and bows

you down, you must get drunk without stopping.

 

But with what?

With wine, poetry, or virtue

as you choose.

But get drunk.

 

And if, at some time, on the steps of a palace,

in the green grass of a ditch,

in the bleak solitude of your room,

you are waking and the drunkenness has already abated,

ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock,

all that which flees,

all that which groans,

all that which rolls,

all that which sings,

all that which speaks,

ask them, what time it is;

and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock,

they will all reply:

 

"It is time to get drunk!

 

So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time,

get drunk, get drunk,

and never pause to rest!

With wine, poetry, or virtue,

as you choose!”

 

by Charles Baudelaire

The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal

Now up at SPLICE TODAY, "Blind Liberation,"  my book review of Max Blumenthal's The Management of Savagery, in which he details how U.S. foreign policy under both Republicans and Democrats led to the rise of Trump:

Mrs. White—flash fiction at Right Hand Pointing

My flash fiction, "Mrs. White," now up at RIGHT HAND POINTING #141, "Plan"! The navigation is a little funky: follow the pointing hands, mine's towards the end.

Letters To Michael—essay

My 'hermit crab' #essay, "Letters To Michael," now out in the new South Dakota Review! I'm really proud of this one. You can order here: