VOICES FROM THE FIRE VOL. 11 is availabe right now! Collected the poems, stories and illustrations from offical VOICES FROM THE FIRE blog via the Dumpster Fire Press website…covering September through November 5th (fittingly enough) We’ve doing this two years now and will be running Volume 12 daily until we reach hiatus stage where weContinue reading “VOICES AND VISIONS”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Matthew McGuirk
Coins Between Bed Sheets A jingling between sheets at 1am, 2am, 3am. Coins caught in coverlets, trapped to tink off each other as the clock wears time thin until pinks and oranges light eastern skies and the alarm clock sounds trumpets for a new day. Jousting in the Dark Turning words in my head likeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Matthew McGuirk”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Gayle Bell
Buddy And The King Of I-35 If you see us camped on a busy street a sign that says nee foo Spare some change A dollar for a smile a can of dogfood for the king of I35 May the Lord serve you well He says to all who pass I was a mutt escapingContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Gayle Bell”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: George Schaefer
THE DRUNKENING The drunkening is underway and I’ll say it wasn’t my fault but I know it was fully an occurrence of my own choosing I’ll heartily swallow the rotgut whiskey and without memory stumble back to the train station avoiding law enforcement on auto pilot I’ll catch the right train; sip an extra largeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: George Schaefer”
THE SELFISH CITY: A REVIEW
*every so often at DFP we spotlight a title we haven’t released. As Editor in-Chief I usually end the year spotlighting several books from different publishers featuring authors that may or may not have contributed to Dumpster Fire Press. Bhoj Kumar Dhamala’s THE SELFISH CITY was going to be one of those works, however sometimesContinue reading “THE SELFISH CITY: A REVIEW”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Nathan Graziano
Manson’s Child When I was in the tenth grade, splattered with acne, I decided that I’d had enough of Catholicism and its steady stab of guilt. The next logical step was to devote myself to Lord Satan and master black magic. So I borrowed a book from the library on Aleister Crowley, hoping to learn Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE:Nathan Graziano”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Milenko Županović
Baptized In the holy river baptized on the land of fire in the womb of mystery a world without hope fear without chandeliers.
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Laundry List The days get lost in reality on the hospital grounds where men and women die as death takes no days off. In the laundry room the sheets of the afternoon are washed. They are to be used again in all areas of the hospital. Death and cleaning go on as waste gets disposed.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Gary Maxwell
A Meditation for Monday Morning Proud, lifelong members of a mediocracy – they plan to die here. A quiet harbor. All that fills the air’s the scent of dead fish, stinking. Managed by seagulls screeching high above our heads, the daily droppings are their directives. In the belly of THIS beast I envy Jonah. AmericanContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Gary Maxwell”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Emalisa Rose
The pipedream of permanence These rocks wear our names in a pipedream of permanence. Yet somewhere we’ve buried our cabernet moon, our clinking of glasses, rhyme over reason. The sun steals our shadow. I sent you two poems, penned in the frenzy of midnight and madness; our signatures linked in the marquise’s italics. Turnaround/turnaround. TheContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Emalisa Rose”
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