Mail Art: No 1

       © Rafael González         

Art Courtesy: Rafael González

Rafael González is a visual and sound artist and he hails from Spain.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee 

Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee lives in Kolkata and barely survives his insufferable job as an IT professional through poetry, photography and whiskey.

Numbed to the Procedure

                              © Jaya Suberg

Lifeless and limp..

the warm blood

of a bloated body

hangs heavy

in our hands

Animal sacrifice

to be plucked

for a feast

Survival mechanism

necessary to the tongue..

the gods will understand

numb to the grave

numb to the bone

numb in the stomach

numb is the cycle of carnage

-by  Scott Thomas Outlar

Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry and fiction can be found. His chapbook "Songs of A Dissident" is forthcoming in early 2016 through Transcendent Zero Press, and his words have appeared recently in venues such as Words Surfacing, Yellow Chair Review, Section 8 Magazine, Angry Manifesto, and Literary Orphans.

Painting Courtesy: Jaya Suberg

Jaya Suberg was born in 1956 in Hagen, Germany. In 1980 she came to the “walled-in” city of Berlin and immediately felt  at a completely different universe.  Initially she worked the photographs and other materials into a collage diary, then  she started combining her photography with painting, drawing, digital collage and mixed media.  

Sober Again

                           © Miguel Angel Ferreiros

She sings

"Don’t be so reckless"

And at the top of her

Wet soggy shirt

Her old

Pancake

Boob falls out

I leant her 30 cents for the

Pay phone.

She put the money

In the phone,

Hangs up

Moves to the other side of the room

And puts the money in her

Pink dressing gown pocket.

She comes and sits back down on the

Couch and we watch Australian idol

People drink coffee and the pay phone never rings.

-by Ben John Smith

Ben John Smith is the editor of www.horrorsleazetrash.com and lives in Melbourne Australia with his wife and two cats. He is expecting his first child in May and couldn't be more excited.

Painting Courtesy: Miguel Angel Ferreiros

Miguel Angel Ferreiros was born in 1960 and studied in Estudia en Estímulo de Bellas Artes, M.E.E.B.A. ( mutual egresados de Bellas Artes), Argentina. In Chile he studied in La Universidad Católica. His paintings have been showcased since 1980 to the present in galleries and cultural centers. In Recent years, he has been working on Tango and Erotica in Buenos Aires.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Swadesh Misra

Swadesh Misra is a photographer, writer, traveler and an artist. He loves music, nature, divinity, dreams, country, hiking and nothing more. He believes in miracles.

Happiness is Hard

                                    © Janne Karlsson

I want to write but I’m

Too damn happy.

Sure, I’m depressed and

I have a shit job and

I haven’t seen a payrise

Since before we all saw

Kim Kardashian’s cunt

But I’m happy,
And it’s hard

I need to be able to write

Without the dove-shit white

Page gradually turning black

I’ve no way to let the

Beast out.  The madness out.

My condition will remain caged,

Locked up and prowling

Inside of me, eating

Whatever’s left of my soul 

-by David Louden

Belfast native David Louden is the author of the roman á clef neo-beat novels Lost Angeles, Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] and the novella-short story hybrid White Mexicans chronicling the life of his alter-ego Doug Morgan.  His major influences in literature have been cited as Charles Bukowski, John Fante, William S. Burroughs and Brendan Behan. At present Louden is developing a Noir project for television set in Belfast which he hopes will go into pre-production within the year.

Art Courtesy: Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

GUIDED BY REMOTE

the hands are claws,

oyster-cloying genitals of beasts

star-bound.

we are wards of space

like rock’n roll

bound for the unconscious-

destroyers of practical

management.

the hands melt down,

physics scowl,

dreams, molten lava

and music-

given you got

tablature,

can’t match Resurrection or

prepubescent hard-ons, amongst

the awkward dust of the

Tonka truck.        

-by Jay Passer

Jay Passer's work has appeared in print and online since 1988. His most recent chapbook, FLOWER OMELETTE (also including the work of Misti Rainwater-Lites) is available through Lulu. Passer lives and works in San Francisco, the city of his birth.

Painting Courtesy: David Balilty

David Balilty is an Israeli artist with North African roots. He was born in Jerusalem in 1971 to a family of artists and musicians. In his most recent work, David has combined three mediums of  visual artistic experience for his abstract painting.

                                                                                                

Karlsson's Korner: Breakfast at Tiffany's

                                         © Janne Karlsson

                                     Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee

Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee lives in Kolkata and barely survives his insufferable job as an IT professional through poetry, photography and whiskey.

Winter Coverage

The night before the aftermath

I had flurries of my own.

Tasty juices from that labia,

those warm drips

thawing my crave

to rip your flesh with the

tip of my tongue.

The cold winds, howled last night

an extent number of frozen granules

collected in snow drifts,

exhausted shovel fulls.

The erupt shuddering,

took us by storm.

Our calls for an end, go unheard.

Echoing throughout this globe,

of winter coverage.

-by Donald Armfield

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Donald Armfield. When his minds decides to leak out words, they sometimes make interesting poems, stories, or whatever. He is a coffee fueled family man with a passion for reading and writing. He has been published by Rooster Republic, James Ward Kirk, Dynatox Ministries, and more to come.

Painting Courtesy: Ekaterina Grechani

Ekaterina Grechani  was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and graduated from Higher Arts Industry Mukhina Academy in Monumental Arts and  Painting. Her works are also found in private collections in Russia, Europe, and America.

To The Editor Who Asked For A Poem

                                                 © Henry Denander

Haven't you heard?  I moved to Utah and died.

No...no...I don't think I died

Well maybe I did die

I am not sure

Leaving for Arches tomorrow

If you still want poems

In five days

I will send

I will leave your

Face up

To remind me

Or maybe this

Is a poem

If you can tell

Use it

One never knows

Now days

- by Linda King  7/6/15

Linda King, rasied in the wild country of Boulder, Utah.  The last place in USA where mail was delivered on horseback. Author of Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski, a humorous and wild record of women's lib and romance in the 70's. Author of numerous poetry books and a novel Mad Ouija. Lives in St. George, Utah.

Henry Denander was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an artist and a poet and his latest book “The Accidental Navigator” was published by Lummox Press. 

He has a website with poetry and art at www.henrydenander.com.

pain and mistakes

   

© Rafael González                                                                              © Rafael González

I am recovering from this open surgery

I am recovering from this pain and mistakes

people make even at the cost of a life

to them we are just fucking numbers.

They almost got me by pushing insulin

when i never had a history of diabetics

and I started shouting when I realized.

Soon they stopped and got so angry that

they threw me out of the ICU.

I was lucky not to get into that

insulin-induced coma from which

many people could never return,

hanging midway like Artaud

during his last few months

between living and the dead.

-by Subhankar Das

                                                                                  
Subhankar das is a poet, bookstore owner, and publisher of Bangla experimental materials. He produced six short films that have been honored at international film festivals, and has translated the works of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski in Bengali.

Art Courtesy: Rafael González

Rafael González is a visual and sound artist and he hails from Spain.

Beware! Mad Bulls are around.

Cancelmysubscriptions Return my submissions Hold your rejections Forget the directions Ignore my instructions T H I S I S T H E E N D

R O A D S

I remember times

When love and sex went hand-in-hand

When love and sax played counterpoint

When sax and sex blew crazy hot

I remember times

When Lady Jazz reached in my chest

And squeezed til joyous music played

Squeezed til music filled the void

I remember too

When love and hate both clashed and fought

When discord spun unwanted webs

The clash and crash of broken souls

Yet still all roads lead back to you

- by Bryn Fortey

First Night

It’s cold in here.

Is there a party outside?

I wonder what my sister’s doing?

It’s my first night.

My head is shaved and

I’m wearing orange overalls.

It’s dark.

Cold.

No sound.  

-by Gary Cummiskey

Photo Courtesy: David Balilty

Header Lines: Adrian Manning

Cartoon Art: Sub and Nil

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David Balilty is an Israeli artist with North African roots. He was born in Jerusalem in 1971 to a family of artists and musicians. In his most recent work, David has combined three mediums of  visual artistic experience for his abstract painting.

'Merry-Go-Round', Bryn Fortey's mixed fiction and poetry collection, was published by The Alchemy Press in 2014. His work has appeared in a variety of print and online sources over the years.

Adrian Manning writes from Leicester, England. He is also editor of Concrete Meat Press. He can be reached at www.concretemeatpress.co.uk.

Gary Cummiskey lives in Johannesburg. He is a poet, writer and publisher. He has had several chapbooks of poetry published over the past 20 years. His short fiction collection Off-ramp has been nominated for the Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award 2014.

Subhankar das is a poet, bookstore owner, and publisher of Bangla experimental materials. He produced six short films that have been honored at international film festivals, and has translated the works of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski in Bengali.

Nilimesh Dutta lives in Kolkata. He writes very seldom, and writes in Bengali alternative little magazines.

Karlsson's Korner: Coffee

                              © Janne Karlsson

                           Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

Little Sister

     © Arturs Akopjans

Little sister with your face full of lashes and your raspberry lips, you’re growing up too quickly in that house i left. Already you’re reading in my old uniforms, from a decade ago, yes you’re a clever little cookie still some things you should know. you’ll need to use those eyes of yours-- half moons to see when daddys coming after you. Haunt him, tame that wolf. you do not deserve that flavor of affection. laugh innocent, leave him be, reeling in the garden where i spent the night with Jesus and those stars, that moon will be counting you among those precious stones no man can throw, (you’ll know no ceiling).

And please remember me the way i will remember your face full of lashes, cheeks of rosehips. I had to had to save myself, grant me this wish, little sister.

-by Bree

Bree is founder of Green Panda Press (Cleveland, OH) which publishes poetry and art paperbacks, chaps and sundry of the small press. Her work appears in little mags. She is the author of three memoirs.

Painting Courtesy: Arturs Akopjans

Arturs Akopjans, born October 31, 1969 in Armenia is residing and working in Riga, Latvia. In 1996 graduated Arturs Akopjans from "The Latvian Academy of Arts." Since then he has exhibited in the best galleries in the Baltic countries, Germany and Austria as well as group exhibitions in Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia and Denmark. His paintings can be seen in private collections from Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, USA, UK, Norway, Germany, Armenia and Austria.

Street Art in Germany : I

      Happy Rizzi House in Braunschweig, Germany

      Photo Courtesy: Urban Street Art

Karlsson's Korner

     © Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

KOLKATA : Street Calligraphy I

In this electric zombieland, this beaten land of wishful indulgence, the deathroll of the bureaucratic juggernaut buries the hungry body and mind. The writing here, is always on the wall.

Photo Courtesy: Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee

Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee lives in Kolkata and barely survives his insufferable job as an IT professional through poetry, photography and whiskey.

No Mercy DD or A Piece Of Shit

      © Shota Voskanyan


I party hard and dance ‘til three

drink fine champagne as if it’s tea.

I fill my flute and gulp it whole -

may God have mercy on my soul.

I drink to keep the ghosts at bay

or else they’d haunt me night and day.

When you need bread I offer coal -

may God have mercy on my soul.

You know I’m just a piece of shit

with torrent words of stinging wit

and matrimony’s not my goal -

may God have mercy on my soul.

-by  Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Mercedes Webb-Pullman graduated from IIML Victoria University Wellington New Zealand with her MA in Creative Writing 2011. Her work appears online and in print (Danse Macabre, Turbine, 4th Floor, Swamp, Reconfigurations, The Electronic Bridge, poetryrepairs, Connotations Press, The Red Room, many anthologies, and her books  Ono, Looking for Kerouac, After the Danse, Numeralla Dreaming, Food 4 Thought, Tasseography and Bravo Charlie Foxtrot) She lives on the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.

Painting Courtesy: Shota Voskanyan

Shota Voskanyan was born in 1960 in Yerevan, Armenia.  He Studied at the Moscow University of Arts and he is a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia since 1995. He did his personal  and collective exhibitions all over the world.

Playing The Game: Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson

H&P: Why did you take cartoon/comical form of art as your medium of expression? who inspired you ?

JK: It just came naturally, I think. It´s a convenient medium. Just grabbing a pen and a paper and getting on with the job. I´ve tried painting too, but I´ll never be good at it. I don´t like the process of blending, mixing, waiting and cleaning. I´m too impatient.

H&P:  Your four favourite writers  you dream to work with?

JK: I already work with the best writers. Can´t really think of any other. Ace Frehley, maybe? He´s a musician though. I´d love to design his next album ha ha ha.

H&P: Someday you see that all your arts are on fire – your reactions?

JK: I never save any of my drawings. They´re all made on cheap printing paper and wouldn´t last more than a couple of years. I throw everything away. I´d welcome the flames. They would save me the work of disposing them myself.

H&P: As a cartoonist/comic writer/artist, do you get proper space from people around you to express your views  to the extent you want? If not, how do you handle your social affairs?

JK: I´m a hermit. Though I consider myself to be a fairly social person I don´t really "hang around" with people. I prefer to be alone.

I get my social needs satisfied from day jobs, like the one I currently have, teacher´s assistant at an asperger school.

H&P:  The artists you follow.

JK: I don´t follow any artists, but I love J.J campbell´s blog "Evil Delights". He´s a great and under appreciated poet.

H&P:  Do you suggest a newcomer to take art as a full time art job for living?

JK: I don´t know really. I can´t live off my art full time myself even though I live under simple conditions. Occasionally I make it a month or two, but then I´m forced to take odd jobs and temps. I guess it´d be easier for someone who doesn´t have kids to support.

H&P: Where do you hone your knife when  it gets blunt?

JK: In a bottle of wine/beer/jägermeister or between the legs of the woman I love.

H&P: Can you create art if you are completely broke?

JK: Yes, I´ve been doing that since I was born.

I don´t know if I´d be able to create art if I had lots of money though....

H&P: When will you stop doing art?

JK: Probably the day when I experience perpetual happiness or the day I die.

H&P: Briefly let us meet your family

JK: Two sons aged 15 and 18.

H&P: What are your further suggestions for Hash n’ Pumpkins!!

JK: Keep doing what you´re doing. You´re supporting the underground and for that you deserve many readers and appreciation.