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”
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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
Manequincide
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”