Category: Poetry
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‘The day fell like a veil’: Words and art by Irina Tall
And there, in the past, there was a big city and towers made of glass and iron remains.
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‘The Short Life of The Spring’ and 2 more by Kushal Poddar
‘Old’, a keyword in this place, browns away on a wooden plaque on some shop front.
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The Theme of the Week is Chickadees Inside Our Damn Bonnet
The Chickadees seem determined to defend their turf, which is the top of our head.
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2 poems by Bob King
but the feeling of hope still feels / most like awe when it’s divorced from shame.
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2 poems by Ivan de Monbrison
once, recently, you walked by a woman, who always sleeps at the very same place in a street, who keeps hiding her face, who was this time busy speaking all alone
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‘Incandescence’: Nolcha Fox Interviews Mehreen Ahmed
MA: It just kept going until one day the story itself decided that it wanted to end. At that moment, the book ended. The characters rested.
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THE GORKO’S 2023 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!
The Gorko’s 2023 BotN nominations are here! Read all eleven pieces here.
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‘Flipper’ by Cheryl Snell
For a moment it believes it will escape to freedom on the mouth’s wave of coughing and spitting, but no such luck.
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FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: ‘Coagulating, with Grace’ by Annabelle Williams
I’ve grown a mustache and my car rattles / on the side of the highway while I heave
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The Theme of the Week is Lucky Breaks
Lucky Breaks always happen when things are looking bleakest, as in your life now.
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SUBMISSION CALL: THE GORKO AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL
SEND US YOUR AMELIASPLOITATION THEORIES, POETRY, FICTION, COMICS, ART, AND OTHER
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Excerpt: ‘Toby’s Heart, It Beats For One’ by Uncle Toby
A girl he loves, his precious sun Her eyes like petals, soft and bright
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‘A Half-Eaten Dead Man Walks into a Night Club’ by Kenneth Mitchell
‘You’re beautiful!’ the half-eaten living man says, / a stream of blood splattering the half-eaten dead / man’s half-eaten face. He doesn’t even flinch.
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The Theme of the Week is When You Realize You Are Wearing Too Much Robe For Taco Bell
JUST GOOD OLD-FASHIONED VANILLA-FLAVORED AMERICANA FOLKS
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‘Unfairness’ by Bruce Reisner
we bought it together at a pawn shop on East Ohio Street a bowery where people don’t know much about violins
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‘Some People’ by Laura Stamps
Her harness buckled over a Christmas sweater. Yorkie-size. Nice and warm.
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FROM THE AMERICAN CHEESE SPECIAL: 4 poems by Bob King
Maybe she knows something about metaphors, survival, & opposites.
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‘Spotted Lanternfly’ and 3 others by Karol Nielsen
My best friend introduced me to Latin American literature. I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez and later discovered Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Bolano.
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‘Baby’s After Me’ and ‘In the Movies…’ by Gene Goldfarb
Baby was always suspicious of me, sniffing and straining
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HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY GORKO!
To celebrate our second birthday here is a look back at a few of our favorite pieces from ’22-23…
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Nolcha Fox interviews Gabriella Garofalo
NF: How does being bilingual help or hinder writing poetry in English?
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2 death poems by Ken Tomaro
one of them jagged and broken I sensed no evil or anger from him, but fear
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Gabriella Garofalo’s ‘Haphazardly, her blue’
The rivals going to crumble you, my light, / Too craven to fight life, or grass-
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Nolcha Fox interviews Alex Carrigan
AC: As someone who parrots back quotes regularly, it was fun to think about how I could do that in a new, artistic context.
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‘Quesarito In Excelsis Deo’ by Tim Moder
and we melt together at this yearly party this ancient yearling party year after year, from now until the last syllable of recorded time…
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NOW OUT: RADDY’S CHAPBOOK ‘FEAR OF SLEEP’ WITH ALIEN BUDDHA
sometimes my mind is small I experience shrinkage
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‘Before You Gave Up Dancing’ by Kyle Hemmings
You’ll sleep with your sweaty clothes stained with orange juice and experimental vodka.
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Buster & Bibi – Episode 1225c – ‘Is Bibi having an affair??’ by Kyle Hemmings
Some guy named LESTER?
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3 Transformative Poems by Alexander Carrigan
Hahahaha FUCK. That was so fun. Now all’s I need is a VCR.
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Buster & Bibi (& Lennon the dog) – ‘Another day in the life’ by Kyle Hemmings
I’M THE BOSS IN THIS HOUSE A MAN IS ALWAYS BOSS
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Buster & Bibi – Episode CVXXIiZ – ‘High Altitude’ by Kyle Hemmings
She was trying to levitate but got stuck
