The Defiantly Large,
Not-So-Petite
Mostly New York Issue
We contain multitudes. A compendium of responses and riffs from The Greatest City in the World.

APOCALYPSE ETERNITY
by Bob Holman
Now more than ever, it is time for the Theater of the Absurd.

HARM'S WAY
by Nicole Blackman
First-hand account. 'Drum Taps' for our times.


YOU AIN'T DONE NOTHIN'
by Chris Stroffolino
A poem-essay of our times.


WHAT IS A WATERSHED?
by Derek Webster
Another poem, essaying.

ZZZZZORO!!!
by Susanna Speier
A performative exegesis of our preëminent Latino superhero
.

DIG THIS SCENE
by Stephen Gaydos
A clan of fools send up even bigger ones in this play extract
.

SIGH NO MORE, LADIES
by Daniel Sonenberg
The Bard set to a jazzy chanteuse. A must.


SOME NIGHTFALLS
by Ethan Paquin
Some dirty words from a not-so-dirty, er, speaker.


ORCHARD
by Jurgen Fauth
Pickin' fruit and product placement. The twain met.


AND THEN? AND THEN
by Michael Farrell
Two essays, high- and lowbrow.


BILL CONLIN: FAT TURD?
by Henry Singer and Bill Geibler
A slice-of-life from Philly sports. Make that two slices, on a bun.

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FOUR NEW YORK POEMS
by Griffin Hansbury
Sensational. Step into a cow, and talk about angels.

FOUR NEW YORK POEMS
by Gregory Pardlo
This bard plans out his beats, because he has to.


NINETIES NOIR PLUS TWO

by Steven Cordova
A noir set in that now-Audenian low decade.


A defiantly large Hot Shot one-shot:
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
by Matthew Zapruder
Brooding and operatic, a grand story reduxified.


BABIES, NO NOT TO YET   AGAIN
by Tony Lacavaro

And they were crying. They were always crying.

THIS POET IS A FRIGGIN' MACHINE
by Christopher Janke
Appropriated title is this editor's blurb.

AN ELSE, A MUSICAL SHUDDER
by Kathryn Rantala
Stevensian overtures from "the melody, beautiful Mobius rotogravure."


NOT SURREAL, FOR REAL
by Maggie Balistreri
What the world needs now is direct statement. There, we said for you.

ABECEDARY AND AUBADE
by Gary Keenan
This man knows his ABCs. Of course that's a gimme
.

DOUGLAS DAY
by Kathryn Lineberger
ALL CAPS INTERIOR DIALOGUE MAKES US LAUGH.

BIRTHDAY PLUS TWO
by Jackie Sheeler
A breakdown of days since WTC and a non-PC one, too.

A coupla more Hot Shot one-shots:
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF
by Bernadette Geyer
Wiser words might never've been enjambed.


ONE WIFE'S INDISCRETION...
by Suzanne Frischkorn
Is another poet's cinema study.


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
KARAOKE + POETRY = FUN II,
DECEMBER 18, 2001, BROOKLYN, NY






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