From The Bureau of Naval Personnel Manual (1942):
“In time of war or other emergency, or when directed by competent authority, individual identification tags shall be prepared and worn by all persons in the naval service.”
In the 55th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by John Mancini.
The muse informs me she is well aware
Of all the current modern nonsense riding
The media’s congested thoroughfare.
She says she has no interest in providing
Sensation for the sake of the sensational.
And that her “freakish” tale is “progestational…”
“A poet mustn’t overlook this donnée
That you’ve been graciously bestowed by fate.
A vintner offers you a rich Chardonnay
Or Baune, perhaps a Volnay’98,
And you reject it? No, you sniff and swill it,
Then drink! Your one concern is not to spill it.”
An extract from Ben Borek‘s Sissy, our first Republic of Consciousness Book of the Month.
The central aim is to examine whether ideas can be communicated – in the pure form they exist before being anchored by words, which inevitably corrupt the idea in trying to define it with an imperfect mode of communication.
In the 54th edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Dovydas Laurinaitis.
I left my notes on their sources in there, as I thought that might be a more interesting way of noting where they’re from than typing it up, and more fitting with the series. The process was to cut up newspaper articles about Donald Trump’s American presidency and reform them into moss-like shapes—a smallness, instead of a blustering bigness.
In the 53rd of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Dennis Sweeney.
Inside are the poetic
effluvia of the ideal
repository of which turned
out to be the backs
of crumpled receipts.
To what may be your annoyance
– and for this I apologise in advance
– I have not merged the scans.
The line at the very top of ‘The Perfume Sample’ is meant to be its last.
In the 52nd edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Puck Khalaf.
The several hundred marker pen compositions I’ve done over the years were influenced by graffiti tags & all sorts of signs & symbols, from Vinča script to Chinese tortoise shell characters to concrete poetry. Unlike graffiti tags, which repeat the same word or glyph, each of mine is improvised, & therefore usually quite different to anything I’ve written before.
In the 51st of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Tim Gaze.
I haven’t done much publishing or any kind of shows, etc.
Mostly, I’ve been teaching.
I always go by Whiskey Radish,
but you’re welcome to add my real name.
In the 50th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Constance Lane.
Over the past thirty-five years, there has been an explosive increase in scientists’ ability to explain the structure and functioning of the human brain. While psychology has advanced our understanding of human behavior, various other sciences, such as anatomy, physiology, and biology, have determined the critical importance of synapses and, through the use of advanced technology, made it possible actually to see brain cells at work within the skull’s walls.
In the 49th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Peter Surkov.
Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”, or “without the smallest unit of meaning”.
po·lem·ic
/pəˈlemik/Submit
noun
1.
a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
In the 48th edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset.
Unos, Govole and Wads.
These poem-drawings are taken from a broader ongoing collaborative writing/transcription project entitled Entonnoir de nous (Les amitiés pliantes) with Montréal composer Alexandre St-Onge.
In the 47th edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Simon Brown.
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