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Inst to Light 7-Falling Heavily Up Into Light (c)    Copyright 2016 by Q R Quasar Q.R. Quasar is a poet, playwright, novelist, scholar and translator of Arabic & Persian poetry, with work in Poetry, Hawaii Review, Al-Arabiyya. His seven books … Continue reading →

Many of you have told me that you would like to participate in this year’s 30 for 30 but do now have any poems on the theme of The Artifice of Politics. Therefore, since there are still some slots open, … Continue reading →

I’ve had issues with my email in the last week or so and everything has been tagged as spam. If you have recently sent an email indicating your interest in participating in this year’s 30 for 30 and have not … Continue reading →

Call for Poets Please join me for our third annual month-long celebration of National Poetry Month. Once again, I will be hosting 30 for 30 on my website where, each day during the month of April, a new poem by … Continue reading →

Marianne Szlyk, whose poems have appeared on this site, has recently published a  chapbook called I Dream of Empathy.  I recently had the opportunity to review this fine collection of poems for the The Midwest Review which has just been … Continue reading →

Here is the poem that is included in No, Achilles, the new anti-war anthology edited by James Adams: on killing were the Kirkuk Disor iented Nine on Tuesday Lt.- ant Musab said the operation is serious: while voters under stand … Continue reading →

This just surfaced: my reading of the Poe poem on Halloween. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v4DmyqzJQA&feature=share Lhasa Club, Hollywood, CA

Grace Cavalieri has chosen The Vivisection Mambo, edited by Lolita Lark, as one of her poetry publication exemplars in her October 2015 list in the latest edition of The Washington Independent Review of Books. In the short review, she calls … Continue reading →

Back in the 80’s, I was a proud member (participant?  co-conspirator?) of the Los Angeles Surrealist Alliance. My tenure, so to speak, got cut short so i could go on my Middle Eastern adventure (a surrealist happening in it’s own … Continue reading →

If you’ve read Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are bound to like The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud’s response to Camus. You can read my recent review of this new classic in the Washington Independent Review of Books and you can … Continue reading →