Saturday, July 11, 2026

The Kafka Virus

"The madness of each ordinary day versus / the language of someone raised by history / versus someone raised by a virgin, / I'm mostly interested in the devil's story, // because I know there's some devil in me."

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Friday, July 10, 2026

fast friends

 

Conor and Mai's Loser I and Loser II with newbie Deadbeat Poets Society's Volume I: Maximiliano Guzmán. L.U.S.K.'s novelist-in-residence has placed short pieces in each of these.

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Thursday, July 9, 2026

metaphor

"Who does not love metaphor? Its quickness / That gives us the world to taste with our common senses. / I'll tell you what terrifies me: it is the idea that 'this is like that / Is like this is like that' could be all of the story, endlessly / Repeated, the poor human imagination having evolved into this / Brilliant swiftness of perception and then been stuck there, / Like a hamster in a cage, groping in the endless turnstiles / Of resemblance. We are to celebrate this?"

~~ from "An Argument About Poetics Imagined At Squaw Valley After a Night Walk Under the Mountain" included in Summer Snow by Robert Hass

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

cancer at fifty

"The clapping sound is the new crew boss / keeping time. Jane Kenyon, cancer at forty-seven. / Larry Levis, heart at forty-nine. Ray Carver / who had met Tess and beat alcohol which / was going to kill him, cancer at fifty."

~~ from "Harvest: Those Who Die Early in the Middle Years" included in Summer Snow by Robert Hass


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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Loser II

Mai Bell and Conor Hultman's Loser II includes Alex Kudera, Oliver Land, Nora Rawn, and many more.

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Deadbeat Anti Lit Mag: Volume I

"Conversation Slam" by Alex Kudera and other Joycean masterpieces are printed in Volume I: Maximiliano Guzman from the Deadbeat Poets' Society.


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