A Taste of Digging

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Poetry No. 29 - Sergio A. Ortiz

Poetry No. 29 - Sergio A. Ortiz #Poetry #litmag

Two Poems: THEN THERE IS YOU and THE EXIT DOOR BEHIND THE BATHROOM by Sergio A. Ortiz

Then there is you

―contained noise, Acrobatic. I fell, you hurt. I oscillated, you healed.

  The Exit Door Behind the Bathroom

A sigh rising like a giant wave as if not real. We walked in & he closed the door. Chair, bed, crowded around me. He ran the curtain; the bed gave way to reveal the chair. It held my…

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Poetry No. 27 - Antonio Lopez

Poetry No. 27 - COYOLXAUHQUI DA LUZ A ADÁN by Antonio Lopez

COYOLXAUHQUI DA LUZ A ADÁN by Antonio Lopez

—–Her mantle hips steal light from Huitzilopotchli, to feed the moon beating inside la diosa, but she remains in drowsy deadlock with the white nurses who will administer the epidural. She cries in her eternal accent, “No nurs-” to honor the remedio of clenched teeth that elder mothers wore at their birthing. But with each tear of the fleshy fabric,…

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Cultural Omnivore No. 9

Cultural Omnivore No. 9 - A Weekly Listing for Cultural Omnivores

A Weekly Listing for Cultural Omnivores

NINA CHANEL ABNEY SEIZED THE IMAGINATION “Combining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney’s paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works  eschew linear storytelling in lieu of disjointed narratives. The effect is information…

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Poetry No. 26 - Mark Schmidt

Poetry No. 26 - PARTISAN POLITICS by Mark Schmidt

PARTISAN POLITICS by Mark Schmidt

Take a cloth, preferably coarse Tie it around your eyes Hear a dissenting opinion, and you will cry ——Let it soak through ——Until it’s bright blue Hang it up outside

Tear it off the clothesline and stomp on it ——Leave it there ——Forget about it for one week

Find it and stuff it with raw meat Set one corner ablaze and throw this at a wall ——Forget it for one more…

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Poetry No. 25 - Domenic Scopa

Poetry No. 25 - Domenic Scopa #Poetry #litmag @DiggingPress

WHEN THE PILLS STOP WORKING by Domenic Scopa The words that highways make speak mostly to desperate hitchhikers. Further out the sky is screaming, and you are somewhere, waiting, plotting your night. Maybe you’ll go drinking I, myself, was fifteen when I murdered. If someone asks, say I’m looking for a buried body. The car windows are luminous and warm, but I’m in the murky aquarium of my mind,…

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Cultural Omnivore No. 8

Cultural Omnivore No. 8 - A Weekly Listing for Cultural Omnivores #litmag @diggingpress

A Weekly Listing for Cultural Omnivores

JA’TOVIA GARY, AN ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE You can catch her phenomenal short film, An Ecstatic Experience, at The Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Her images of blackness and femininity are beautifully edited and comprised of archival footage and iconic imagery. Her mastery of cinematic forms disrupts the flawed and limited visual representations of…

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Poetry No. 24 - Linda M. Crate

Poetry No. 24 - Linda M. Crate #litmag @diggingpress #poetry

the wounds of clouds by Linda M. Crate

white is painful mournful and alone despite the fact it is all colors it is pain trying to push itself through the chords of purity insisting that it is content, but i’m not so sure;

it is white wall and white words & white hands and white noise that have always bruised me—

i only wear white when i am melancholy or sad because my colors feel so muted and dead

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Poetry No. 23 - Michael Salcman

Poetry No. 23 - PICTURES AT THE CENTURY BAR By Michael Salcman by Michael Salcman

PICTURES AT THE CENTURY BAR by Michael Salcman

In this room, its ceiling half-timbered by ebony ribbons like Mondrian ribs, John La Farge’s portrait of the young Henry James subtends the far-off corner of the bar. He’s seen in profile, his shoulders draped in New York gray, lips part-way opened, cheeks monoxide red with youth or death, all things to him the same, resolvable in words. He presumes…

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Cultural Omnivore No. 7

Cultural Omnivore No. 7 - A Weekly Listing of What We Love #litmag #film #arts #music #books

A Weekly Listing of What We Love

JOSÉ LEONILSON: EMPTY MAN “Focusing on Leonilson’s production as a mature artist, the show will feature approximately fifty paintings, drawings, and intimate embroideries made between the mid-1980s until 1993, when the artist died of AIDS. This short yet prolific period showcases the artist’s fully developed language, connecting Leonilson’s oeuvre with…

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Poetry No. 22 - Christina Kallery

BURNOUTS by Christina Kallery

Downriver Detroit, 1987

“There’s enough burnouts out there to go hands across America” —Heavy Metal Parking Lot

You’d see them rolling joints in class, textbook propped to hide the task, feathered hair fringing their eyes, a starter mustache shadowing their upper lips. Always a few hanging out on empty bleachers, trading swigs from something bottom shelf in a paper…

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Cultural Omnivore No. 6

Cultural Omnivore No. 6: A Weekly Listing of What We Love #litmag #DiggingPress

A Weekly Listing of What We Love

uptown: nasty women/bad hombres Artists included: Elan Cadiz, Vladimir Cybil Charlier, Pepe Coronado, COCO144/Roberto Gualtieri, Jaime Davidovich, Carlos De Jesus, Rene De Los Santos, Francisco Donoso FEEGZ/Carlos Jesús Martínez Domínguez, Sandra Fernández, Marquita Flowers, Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Alex Guerrero, Leslie Jiménez, Lauren Kelley, Rejin Leys,…

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Cultural Omnivore No. 5

Cultural Omnivore No. 5: A Weekly Listing of What We Love #culture #litmag

A Weekly Listing of What We Love

  VAGINAL DAVIS & LOUISE NEVELSON Chimera INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is proud to present, Chimera, a two-person show featuring two grandstanding, iconoclastic, and spectacular women. Through October 22, 2017 Invisible-Exports, 89 ELDRIDGE STREET, NYC

  THERE ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAN BEYONCÉ Author: Morgan Parker Published: February 2017 Tin House Books, 80 pages Buy…

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Poetry No. 21 - Kristin Garth

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BUTTER by Kristin Garth

On set, they’d had the baguette which, of course, necessitated butter. Golden foil, a stick, the men, the two of them, endorse with just their eyes. Surprise they will not spoil obtaining consent from a teenage girl. The script had called for rape, they’d simulate, contracted, acted, staged but all a world away from real humiliation, hate and rage. Their secret makes her…

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Book Review No. 8 - Poet in Andalucía by Nathalie Handal

Book Review No. 8 - Poet in Andalucía by Nathalie Handal #litmag #bookreview

As the Traveling Poet / Como el poeta viajero Book Review by Ernesto L. Abeytia

Poet in Andalucía by Nathalie Handal Pitt Poetry Series University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 144 pages, $15.11 ($16.95 Kindle)

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I am seven it is the day before our departure, the day my father gives me a notebook, and I tell him, this is where I’ll keep my country. —Nathalie Handal, “The Thing about Feathers”

When…

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Poetry No. 20 - Billy Malanga

Poetry No. 20 - One Thing In One World by Billy Malanga #poetry #litmag

One Thing In One World by Billy Malanga

There’s a voice that gets pulled through the screen door, on a late afternoon breeze as I sip my wine. It retells of punctuality, anger and unbending burden. It retells of a time when being busy meant pushing hard things further down as normal. The screw-ups and successes, making it through the deadline years for better or worse, then and now. My steel…

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Poetry No. 19 - Nikol Roubidoux

Poetry No. 19 - Nikol Roubidoux #litmag @DiggingPress

In The Gorge by Nikol Roubidoux

Packed tent pole to tent pole, Marijuana thick in the wind The young and once young Live the Woodstock life For a weekend.

Tonight’s headliner: Tom Petty. The outdoor amphitheater Heavy with drink, drunks and smoke. A variety of herb-laden clouds Drift above The Gorge.

A hipster storm front meets a has-been haze, Alcohol flows like floodwater As playlists blare…

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Community No. 24

Check out these links works by our community! @DiggingPress

In this Community, we proudly present works by Jon Jackson, Mitchell Toews, Bruce Robinson, Andrea Rogers, Lisa Beere, Alex Clermont, Amy Leigh Wicks, Dominic Bond, Janey Skinner, and Anita Haas. Congrats to all!   Jon Jackson Child Soldiers Litro, June 2, 2016 – Lambda Visual Verse, March 2017 Mitchell Toews Nothing to Lose  Fiction on the Web, July 8, 2016 – Heavy Artillery  Fiction on the Web,…

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