Our first volume of VOICES FROM THE FIRE for 2022 has been released! Dumpster Fire Press enters 2022 with our latest eclectic volume of VOICES FROM THE FIRE assembled from the official VOICES FROM THE FIRE blog via dumpsterfirepress.com featuring: poets, writers, and artists from here, there, and everywhere in-between going to places familiar andContinue reading “THE FIRE KEEPS GOING”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rick Christiansen
Tinder Anachronism I imagine Herman Hesse and Anaïs Nin Both swiping right They would meet in a small Paris coffee bar Anaïs would flick the whip cream from her cup Using just the tip of her tongue as punctuation Herman would watch her carefully And finger the Nobel he wears as a cravat Clearing hisContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rick Christiansen”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Johann Van Der Walt
Guilt comes in our silences I tell myself that I am a far flung ideal, my thoughts love to attract anything worth regret, no company more loved by misery than the graveyard in which my mind sleeps. I look in the mirror and brush my teeth, routines somehow scratching too far under my skin. IsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Johann Van Der Walt”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: J.J Campbell
no one was ever meant to sometimes the loneliness will distort even the best memories beat you down until you understand that no one was ever meant to love you there goes another bottle of scotch soon, you’ll be looking at a bottle of pills and thinking of one of your musical heroes these areContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: J.J Campbell”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Milenko Županovic
The son God In the light of shadow prayer on the hill Golgotha the heart of the city Jerusalem is bleeding saints in tears. Mother Hide your believers with prayer in arms heart new life at dusk demons in the fire missing. Blood Traces of blood holy Grail verses of solitude faith by poetry hidden.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Milenko Županovic”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Tony Brewer
Morning Pages Every time I type your name it’s different like forms of snow that don’t matter while shoveling I can hear your punctuation written out how to breathe where to stop and start over and over A million notes without music typed too fast transposing letters & saying things wrong edited later toward strangeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Tony Brewer”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Giovanni Mangiante
on the brink of madness how many glasses of whiskey one must down on an empty stomach before the demons come off the walls at midnight and start making the arrangements? how many before they ask if I need someone to talk to? because I’ve scratched off the painting, left the bare concrete bloody andContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Giovanni Mangiante”
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