CROSS POLLINATION IS JUST A EUPHEMISM

Apiary Magazine has rolled out  CrossPollinate, new feature exploring the connections between Philly artists. 

First up is Maggie 18's response to my short piece, 'And Now I am the Loveliest.'

Eat it up. And submit to Apiary before our deadline closes.

FROM THE AFRO-FUTURIST AFFAIR 2011

I have provided a case study of one of the girls, *Lissa (name changed), whom I met around 3 years after the incident:

Lissa was an attractive young Puerto Rican-American woman who was working as a recreation assistant in an extended living community down the street from her house. She expressed deep satisfaction from her work, as well as the desire to one day perform extensions herself after finishing school. Lissa is the oldest of two children, and maintained close ties with her mother, grandmother, and younger brother. She had been hospitalized twice since the incident, both times for hysterical pregnancy and psychosis.

Lissa was very reluctant to speak about the abduction that occurred when she was 16. She admitted that she could not remember much leading up to the incident, except that she and her friends had wandered from a concert to throw bottles into the river. Suddenly, she said, she found herself in a darkened room, unable to move and nude. She described the Others as having vague facial features, “like if they were dipped in wax”. She said they peered at her from these veiled faces as she stood in the room, paralyzed.  She noted that sound seemed blunted by  low hum, and that she maintained some somatic feeling, though accompanied by a strange tingling in her lower limbs. The following is an excerpt from the interview as she recounts the insemination:

“I knew they wanted a baby from me. I could tell by how they were staring. Like they wanted to me to swell. They wanted to fill me with something. They all went into a corner, where it was dark and they were opening something, like a cabinet. I heard it then, like a wet sliding, like someone dragging a mop. The air was all dead so sound was funny, but I heard it coming. They had a rope around it. I was hoping for a dog maybe, but instead…

It was on a leash and it was as tall as me.  It was [inaudible]. It was like the things you fish with. The grubs. Real plump and you could see its sections. I could see its insides moving against its outsides, inside of the gray was the purple, pumping towards me. I was so scared but all I could think of was that its body looked like an aquarium. I could watch it move all day. And they had it come up to me. It had a little head at the end of its body, a brown head, like a nut. And tiny black eyes. Antenna, they felt for me, and when I felt them tickling my neck and my chest, I knew that it wasn’t a dream and that this grub would fill me with something. And it did.”

[From the Afrofuturist Affair 2011]

UP has Landed.

With kissing Argentinians and homemade fleshlights.

I'm planking on some awe and gratitude from these amazing authors:

cecilia pavón

jacob steinberg
spencer madsen
xtx
jordan castro
erica yeager
benjamin king
michael hessel-mial
daniel knowlton
meghan lamb
mallory whitten
by derek lessard
jackson nieuwland
dewitt brinson
 michael hessel-mial

Who helped make the first issue of UP possible, along with Miguel Raul and of course Carolyn DeCarlo.

can you take me hiiiiighyuugh?

UP can. It is the literary project cooked up by Carolyn DeCarlo and myself and its first issue launches soon. Submissions are open for issue 2: BESTIALITY. 

Stay tuned for our bodies and the bodies of our peers.

We love you.

[this whole post is a big ass link]

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Last month I joined the staff of the 

bizziest lit mag this side of the delaware. 

Tonight, we launch issue 3 with a 

night of dancing boozey eating beat 

poetry slamming live music jamming 

ass fucking fun shit.

So. swing by.

[Issue 3 is FREEE!!!!!!!!!!!]

Blackening YOUR FUTUREERU

Tonight, I perform here. We gonna speculate so haard. 

get yer tix here

Glistening Vaginae

DJ Berndt's Pangur Ban Party has released 


Very Beautiful Women, 


a collection of lady works of which 
I am included. 


Pretty things trickling EVERYWHERE.