Riding Further Off into the Human Zoo

The almost Fall…Fall anthology…Fall of the press for now culminates in our final (for now) fall anthology GUNS GODS GLORY & GREED encompassing both the western pulp HONKY-TONK ANGELS and the cultish ANIMAL MASKS No we’re not cowboys but we are going off in the sunset a bit to interact with the rest of theContinue reading “Riding Further Off into the Human Zoo”

EYE SCREAMS

RQF! DFP! Dumpster Fire Press is proud to present our first August release Ryan’s Quinn Flanagan’s latest poetry collection EYE FLUSHER A new RQF collection! Dumpster Fire Press! That’s all you need to know! Powerhouse poet Ryan Quinn Flanagan like a machete wielding cross between Bukowski and BB King does not bow down before theContinue reading “EYE SCREAMS”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Warren

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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Joseph Farley

Better Lies Tomorrow I will tell better lies, ones that are fit to wrap around the truth. You can’t serve up just the facts. That would be too cold. No, you must warm it up, add spice, distort it, so not even you can recognize exactly what you are talking about. Practice Every day IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Joseph Farley”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R.P. Verlaine

Crack Vials  A song for the eighties  Users  use once  then useless,  Gutted,  open like a wound,  or junkies’ vein,  or treatment center doors  for rich boys with cash.  Visiting Harlem,  doing the stop and go  to cop and blow, then  drive near slo-mo  back to Jer-Z  at 55.  But users  don’t stay tourists long Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R.P. Verlaine”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: James Maj

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Harry McNabb

The Hope-Crusher When you go from being a boy to being a young man, you start to find girls very interesting. I was thinking this as I walked around the Brick Gardens student apartments on Halloween. I had selected Brick Gardens before the semester because I thought that sharing an apartment with 3 other studentsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Harry McNabb”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R. P. Verlaine

The Accomplice and I  This journey of crimes  imagined yet incomplete  we’ve chosen to call love   dares us to improvise  traversing the unknown  taking terminal risks.  Hope slandered to ruins  between purloined kisses  the strangers we corrupt  until desire’s arson cools  with passage of time  and endless repetition.   All counterfeit truths  we exchange in language Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R. P. Verlaine”