John-Vincent Greco

bad at internet :: interested in language of all forms and new mediums of poetry :: shakespeare on speakerphone

[jv-greco]

(Wishlist)WeAllShineOn

Invisi Bill: you never can remember anything i say or want - drives me crazy!

Glass Jenny: i guess your desires leave a pretty negligible impression on my world

[jv-greco]

The "enemy." One's enemy. Enemy nation. Entire nation against the other entire nation. One people exulting the suffering institutionalized on another. The enemy becomes abstract. The relationship becomes abstract. The nation the enemy the name becomes larger than its own identity. Larger than its own measure. Larger than its own properties. Larger than its own signification. For this people. For the people who is their enemy. For the people who is their ruler's subject and their ruler's victory.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 'Dictee'

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WinterBully ⚖

🕯 🌬🕯 - 'dick' 🕯 🌬🌬🕯 🌬🌬🔫🕯 🌬 🔫🕯 🔫🕯 🕯 🕯🎶

[jv-greco]

RubyClicks

Ruby's mom: ooh Wizard Of Oz is on *eats popcorn* after all these years i still love this movie

Ruby: yeah i love this movie too *flicks unpopped kernel* ...except for the ending when everyone on the farm tries to gaslight dorothy

[wearepioneerspress]

KNOW ANYONE WHO LIKES POETRY BUT IS ALWAYS BUMMED OUT BECAUSE MOST POETRY IS GENERALLY SHITTY?

TORCH BALLADS

by John-Vincent Greco

Tell them about this one.

John-Vincent Greco’s Torch Ballads is one of the best things we’ve read all year. A goddamn riot of ideas and story and life, it kicked our ass and made us rethink a lot of big things. Total stunner. Total rule-breaker. Solid throughout. Unlike a lot of poetry (these are more like urban folk tales as verse), Greco’s work gives you a lot of substance and delivers it in a clean, smart, unpretentious way.

Across these densely-packed 64 pages, no word is wasted and you come away feeling like you’ve just read eleven Great American Novels. Excellent character writing. Big, visual, richly emotional while retaining a good sense of humor.

Here at Pioneers Press we don’t read a lot of poetry. Or more so, we don’t come across a lot of poetry that’s all that satisfying and we most definitely don’t carry much of it in our catalog (almost as a rule). But then something like this comes along that just bowls you over and changes everything. Outstanding

[jv-greco]

"Eleven novels? I don't know about that, but..." - Sheriff Joe, my best friend and 3 time roommate

"Not better than Star Wars will be" - my godson

"I like the match thingy" - his sister

i say check out a copy for yourself over at Pioneers Press. and thanks to everyone who keeps spreading the word on this zine. new stuff coming this year... Jv

[jv-greco]

WayTimBurrrs

northwoods ducks: tide's gonna take ya, tim. better get yr life in order

tim the duck: i go when i wanna go

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SloeTourProcedural

detective: cause of death was 'Segway'? like a crash?

young coroner: no, self-administered acute poisoning brought on by a heavy combination of barbiturate & alcohol consumption upon witnessing tourists on a Segway tour in a major metropolitan city

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LoveGotNoPrecedent(DoopDoopDooWah)

radio: 🎶 who, who wrote the book of love? 🎶

person: and who published such a useless narrow-minded piece of crap?

[jv-greco]

SeeRoy

Roy: i feel so much anxiety with what others expect as masculine and what i feel for myself. fuck cant it all just line up?! like when youre on my side im invincible

one beside Roy: *stirs tea* oh hon youre already invisible

[jv-greco]

Passenger57:TheSequel

Passenger58: *crushes soda can* that was THEE best Diet Coke ive ever had on this airline

Flight Attendant: we poured it special for you because we love your anxiety dog's adorable lil hat

[jv-greco]

um, same

found art on the window of a liquor store in Oakland on Telegraph near Macarthur

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AllEyesInMe

Her: *to the mirror* i feel like if a lion stretched

you would lick his armpit

Her: *in the mirror* maybe you expected more?

some broken thing

wailing in the dark

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Applycant

brother: current job? put has been hehe

other brother: has been Never Was

[godblessgenerica]

[marxaviano]

A poetry festival in Miami is going to provide me with a budget to protest their poetry events, with poetry.  Weird.  I’d love to include as many writer friends of mine in this project.  Consider us co-collaborators if I use your stuff.  Please help spread the word, I plan on putting a good amount of effort into this thing to (hopefully) make it great.

[jv-greco]

EmotiConfessional

*bakes kiwi biscuits* i broke the penguin’s nose & blamed it on the baby, fine 

[jv-greco]

thankful to have a few debtless, lazy, days to finally dig into this. feels like perfect timing

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I was 23. Not a man. Obsessed with personal freedom and unwilling to say yes to anyone and mean it. I would have gnawed my own leg off to get out of promises I made. The only courage I had was facing a 12-foot wave with a surfboard. Braver, and more dumb, if you consider at that point I had spent my entire life in a land-locked state and was now surfing winter swells. But any idiot can drown in the ocean. Being a decent person is much harder to learn.

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No one had done anything yet they couldn’t take back or fix.

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I can tell you what if felt like to live in a place the rest of America is happy to ignore.

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MissionInTheReign

patron: for thanksgiving? oh my family's all coming in from canada for a few weeks. found this guy online that owns whole apartments he just rents out on Air BnB so we got the sweetest deal! how bout you?

barback barista: my grandparents got evicted, so...