Frankengirl is the pen name of Mary Gulliver, daughter of the famous Modernist poet Gulliver S. Gulliver. Contrary to expectations, she was in fact quite easy on the eye.
Category: Poetry
The Theme of the Week is Ragamuffins
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Ragamuffins. If you haven’t thought about Ragamuffins in some time, you shouldn’t feel alone. Real poets in their […]
The Theme of the Week is Fruit
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Fruit. This week’s Theme has me extremely excited, guys. I don’t know what you think of corned beef […]
THIS IS WHAT LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI IS WEARING TODAY
17 July 2021 So the three-time Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism winner, Harvard Professor Emeritus jackass was volunteering at a Peoria Children’s Fund charity picnic, that does not absolve him of these awful shorts, […]
‘Thunder King Sprinkler at Dawn’ by Jeebs Finzach (Summer 1932)
Thunder King sprinkler at dawnOne foot tippledT’other sawnlogs. Antonio shifted in the outbuildingSkillet spit, phono-graph’s pho-nemePlowed. Rare wind from the southToday. Thunder King on the horizon. Jeebs Finzach (summer 1932) Notes by Tark Mackintosh ‘Thunder […]
BOOK EXCERPT: ‘FRIED GREEN RUTABAGAS’ BY MITCHELL O’HARA
But Margaret would not be consoled, and fell into a heap on the fancy carpeting.
This Week’s Theme is Antibacterial Gel
As more and more poets are vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, many will begin to experience a strange nostalgia for the year that was 2020-21, with its masks, chlorine doormats, oxygen tanks, and of course Antibacterial Gel.
OH, I JUST DIED IN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT
Who would have thought a boy like me could come to this.
BOOK EXCERPT: ‘PRINCESS LEATHERHELM’ BY MITCHELL DARKWING
CHAPTER I “Princess Leatherhelm!” cried the gnome Jerrod, and he held out a small parcel wrapped in rough brown paper tied with a string. “Gnome Jerrod,” smiled the Princess, halting her steed Megalus with a […]
Lemondrop reads poetry: ‘This Fair Oak’ by Maria Steinburg-Piccadilly
Today we will be reading a poem from one of my favorite authors, Maria Steinburg-Piccadilly, an eloquent poetess and Earth Child who spent the gloaming of her life, as she referred to it, right here […]
The Theme of the Week is Muscle Cars
Every week our Theme Expert, Teddy, goes into detail on a new theme. This week’s theme is Muscle Cars. This week’s Theme is extremely important in the work of many modernist and contemporary poets. That’s […]
‘in the sad bin of dusters be’
One of the angriest members of Los Decepcionados, f. f. francés led a truly checkered life as poet, revolutionary, and renegado.