IN THE MARCH ISSUE OF ASININEPOETRY.COM: Vague references to St. Patrick’s day gingerly tie together this issue’s offers.

poems

An Irish Lad Named O’Bama by Glenna Sweeney
Tiger in the Woodshed by Rick Blum
Hal-Ku No. 13 by Hal Sirowitz
The Girls of Vancouver 2010 by Daniel Thomas Moran
Rushmore Plus 2 by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Cat Tips by Euretha Maki
I Favor Three-Toed Sloths by Richard Peake
Ring a Ding Ding by Richie Narvaez
Zen by Carlos Hiraldo
He Will Never Get It by Alex Galper

prose
Corporate Gag Gift by Marybeth Niederkorn, Poet Extraordinaire

classic asinine
Stella’s Birthday March 13, 1719 by Jonathan Swift

Due out this June from Akashic Books: ”Brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O’Neil De Noux, A.A. Hedge Coke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martinez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi. With a foreword by Richard B. Williams, president & CEO of the American Indian College Fund.” Edited by the wonderful Sarah Cortez and amazing Liz Martinez.

2010: The year we make contact

2010: The year we make contact

After many, many meetings in bars, we finally sobered up and launched the reincarnation of Asinine Poetry. The first issue went up precisely at 12:00 a.m., January 1, 2010.

poems
Year-View Mirror: The Year 2009 in Rhyme by Scott Emmons
When YOU Die by Colonel Drunky Bob
On the Death of Arnold Stang by ern modern
Dark Matters by Roger Unrequited
Haunted Toilet 2 by Elizabeth Swados
Nancy Grace by Albert Van Hoogmoed
Lunch by Bill Jansen
The Charge for the Purchase You Made by Jon Wesick
Bob Balaban and the Taliban by Gordon Stanley
Politiku #1 and #2 by Michael Ceraolo

prose
Letter from My Girlfriend Who Works in Marketing by Steve Blackburn

classic asinine
Hymn to the Belly by Ben Jonson

New issue for December 2009.

Asinine Christmas Poem No. 6” by Fenway Parker
Up on the Rooftop” by Albert Van Hoogmoed
An Obsessive-Compulsive’s Christmas Tree Decorating Guide” by Eileen Budd
Winter Asides” by Jessica L. Kleinman
Hold That, Tiger!” by Scott Emmons
A Recent Study” by Katharine Showalter
Gender Wars” by Graham Everett
Mean Old Buzzard Song” by Russ Brickey
The Man Who Saved the Whole Country” by Gary Lehmann
Do You Have a Kindle ” by Gregory Lawrence Stewart
for a literary agent” by James Fabris

Graham Everett came by the casa and filmed me in my natural environment.

Check out the poems for November 2009.

Returning My Love” by Hal Sirowitz
Asinine Thanksgiving Poem No. 10” by Fenway Parker
Big Shiny Balloon” by Richard Cairo
Balloon Boy in the Fifth Dimension” by Joe ”King” Lee
The Governors” by Graham Everett
Chefs Go Cheap” by Katharine Showalter
I Love Ogden” by Euretha Maki
Familiar Voices” by Gary Lehmann
Good Morning” by Barry Secretagent
Thintherity” by Randy Koch

And our latest podcast, “Episode 64: Ninja Asinine.”

It’s about that time.

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Plus: The latest podcast, in which I dismember Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

My story “In the Kitchen with Johnny Albino” from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery is featured on the scholar and gentleman Seth Harwood’s crime short story podcast CrimeWAV. Very big thank you to Seth. I hope you all enjoy the show.

lineup2-fcover-sA good crowd last night. Not quite a fire hazard, but still every seat was taken. I read works from The Lineup series last night at KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York City. Other readers included contributors Jennifer L. Knox, Carol Novack, and Karen Petersen  as well as two of my fellow Lineup editors Anthony Rainone and Gerald So. We sold a few copies. I also stripped and showed off The Lineup t-shirt I was wearing. I was told by several audience members that there was no need to take off my pants to show off a t-shirt, but you get into the spirit of things and . . . . Well, I even sold a copy of my chapbook “Childhood’s Smell.”

Thanks to all who attended! And thanks to Jim, for the drink!

Read the October 2009 issue of AsininePoetry.com.

The Dog with A Muddy Bottom” by Hal Sirowitz
Asinine Halloween Poem No. 3” by Fenway Parker
Williamsburg, Brooklyn” by Aardvark Bascombe
She Cried Herpes” by Barry Secretagent
My Friend Stephen Turned Himself into this Title” by Chrissy Rye-Rye
Snorkeling in the Tub” by Albert Van Hoogmoed
Nekkid Snails” by Chrissie Faupel
Enchanted” by Gerald So
Leaves of Leaves” by Richie Narvaez
Dear Stoney: A Subtle Rebuttal” by Dana Esau Larsen

Also, check out the asinine prose contest entry that came in second:
A Woman and Her Secrets” by Ed Kornfeld

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