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  • How to Live Under Fascism A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz Too Late for Nightmares Miracle and Catastrophe Visul Diacritic Metroul F No Time Like Now Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn In Praise of Sleep Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition The Art of Forgetting: new poems Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes) So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments The Poetry Lesson The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat Jealous Witness Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968 Wakefield: a novel It Was Today: New Poems Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards) The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978 Messiah, a novel Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium Ay, Cuba! The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays The Blood Countess, a novel Zombification The Repentance of Lorraine Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century Belligerence, poems The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories Comrade Past & Mister Present The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape A Craving for Swan In America's Shoes Selected Poems 1970-1980 Necrocorrida For the Love of a Coat The Lady Painter The Marriage of Insult and Injury The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN A Serious Morning Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone license to carry a gun
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    • No Time Like Now
    • Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
    • In Praise of Sleep
    • Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition
    • The Art of Forgetting: new poems
    • Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)
    • So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
    • Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
    • The Poetry Lesson
    • The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat
    • Jealous Witness
    • Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti
    • New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City
    • Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968
    • Wakefield: a novel
    • It Was Today: New Poems
    • Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia
    • An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
    • The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays
    • Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese
    • A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
    • Messiah, a novel
    • Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
    • Ay, Cuba!
    • The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere
    • Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995
    • Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
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    • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays
    • The Blood Countess, a novel
    • Zombification
    • The Repentance of Lorraine
    • Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century
    • Belligerence, poems
    • The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
    • At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
    • Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research
    • Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories
    • Comrade Past & Mister Present
    • The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape
    • A Craving for Swan
    • In America's Shoes
    • Selected Poems 1970-1980
    • Necrocorrida
    • For the Love of a Coat
    • The Lady Painter
    • The Marriage of Insult and Injury
    • The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius
    • The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN
    • A Serious Morning
    • Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
    • license to carry a gun
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    • A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz
    • Too Late for Nightmares
    • Miracle and Catastrophe
    • Visul Diacritic
    • Metroul F
    • No Time Like Now
    • Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
    • In Praise of Sleep
    • Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition
    • The Art of Forgetting: new poems
    • Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)
    • So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
    • Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
    • The Poetry Lesson
    • The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat
    • Jealous Witness
    • Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti
    • New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City
    • Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968
    • Wakefield: a novel
    • It Was Today: New Poems
    • Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia
    • An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
    • The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays
    • Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese
    • A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
    • Messiah, a novel
    • Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
    • Ay, Cuba!
    • The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere
    • Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995
    • Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • Books: 1970-1995/
    • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays
    • The Blood Countess, a novel
    • Zombification
    • The Repentance of Lorraine
    • Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century
    • Belligerence, poems
    • The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
    • At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
    • Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research
    • Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories
    • Comrade Past & Mister Present
    • The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape
    • A Craving for Swan
    • In America's Shoes
    • Selected Poems 1970-1980
    • Necrocorrida
    • For the Love of a Coat
    • The Lady Painter
    • The Marriage of Insult and Injury
    • The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius
    • The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN
    • A Serious Morning
    • Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
    • license to carry a gun
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Walls and Curtains

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The following mystery involves walls and curtains the narrator parts to uncover terrifying & marvelous secrets

From the 20th century’s Iron Curtain, to the Fall of the Wall, to the Pandemic prison–discover, Escape!

July 16, 2020

Plague Diary: we are being murdered

July 16, 2020/ Andrei Codrescu
Plague Diary: we are being murdered The tRump administration has ordered health data be delivered to his gang instead of the CDC and the American people. You will die without knowing why.
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    • How to Live Under Fascism
    • A Possible Epic of Care: A Collaborative Poem Between Andrei Codrescu and Vincent Katz
    • Too Late for Nightmares
    • Miracle and Catastrophe
    • Visul Diacritic
    • Metroul F
    • No Time Like Now
    • Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
    • In Praise of Sleep
    • Submarinul Iertat Anniversary Edition
    • The Art of Forgetting: new poems
    • Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes)
    • So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
    • Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
    • The Poetry Lesson
    • The Forgiven Submarine/Submarinul Iertat
    • Jealous Witness
    • Femeia neagra a unui cucus de hoti
    • New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City
    • Instrumentul Negru: Poezii 1965-1968
    • Wakefield: a novel
    • It Was Today: New Poems
    • Casanova in Bohemia/Casanova in Boemia
    • An Involuntary Genius in America's Shoes (and What Happened Afterwards)
    • The Devil Never Sleeps & Other Essays
    • Selected Poetry/Poezii Alese
    • A Bar in Brooklyn: Novellas & Stories, 1970-1978
    • Messiah, a novel
    • Hail Babylon! In Search of the American City at the End of the Millennium
    • Ay, Cuba!
    • The Dog With the Chip in His Neck: Essays from NPR & Elsewhere
    • Alien Candor: Selected Poems, 1970-1995
    • Scandal of Genius: How Salvador Dali Smuggled Baudelaire into the Science Fair
  • Books: 1970-1995/
    • The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans: and Other Essays
    • The Blood Countess, a novel
    • Zombification
    • The Repentance of Lorraine
    • Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century
    • Belligerence, poems
    • The Hole in the Flag: a Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
    • At the Court of Yearning: Poems by Lucian Blaga
    • Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research
    • Monsieur Teste in America & Other Instances of Realism, stories
    • Comrade Past & Mister Present
    • The Disappearance of the Outside: a Manifesto for Escape
    • A Craving for Swan
    • In America's Shoes
    • Selected Poems 1970-1980
    • Necrocorrida
    • For the Love of a Coat
    • The Lady Painter
    • The Marriage of Insult and Injury
    • The Life & Times of an Involuntary Genius
    • The HISTORY of the GROWTH of HEAVEN
    • A Serious Morning
    • Why I Can't Talk on the Telephone
    • license to carry a gun
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Reading – Pushcart Prize Awarded Poem Reading – LiVE Mag!

Feb 18 2026

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What I’m Reading

HYPERREALISM

Mircea Cărtărescu SOLENOID Deep Vellum Press 2024

Georgi Gospodinov THE PHYSICS OF SORROW Liveright

Aristotle POETICS a new translation by Anthony Kenny