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Can Mister Miracle Escape a Flawed Premise Scot-Free?

August 13, 2017 By David Fairbanks Leave a Comment

Content Warning: Any substantial discussion of Mister Miracle will involve the subjects of depression, suicide, and self-harm. Mister Miracle has been available for less than a week and already CBR has positioned it as the second coming to save comics from itself and Tucker Stone has knocked them down a peg or ten; that comics […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry, Reviews Tagged With: Big Barda, comics, Darkseid, DC, Depression, Jack Kirby, Mister Miracle, Mitch Gerads, Orion, Poetry, Suicide, Tom King

Poetry: My God, My World

December 14, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

My God, My World Ben Boruff I like to spend my time on long car rides repurposing pop lyrics as evangelical sermons imagining every “baby” in a manger and every “I love you” as a prayer. my Synthpop God pulsing under my skin to the beats of top-charted idols tempts me to worship, tells me […]

Filed Under: Art, Features, Poetry Tagged With: Ben Boruff, Poetry

I Want to Fuck a Trump Voter by Andy Segeral

November 11, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Fuck a Trump Voter

I want to fuck a Trump voter. I want to rustle his thick brown hair through my fingers and I want to nibble on his ears. I want to run the back of my hand across his face and I want him to feel loved. I want to fuck a Trump voter. I want to […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry Tagged With: fiction, Poetry, politics, satire, Trump

Poetry: The Balcony by Kayleigh Hughes

October 14, 2016 By Kayleigh Hughes Leave a Comment

The Balcony

He said it was my fault. What the hell was I doing, looking at him that way. With those eyes. What did I expect.   Oh, didn’t you know, This sort of thing is human nature. Uncontrollable—a growl in the stomach or saliva on the lips. The bloody burn of red cheeks.   What’s a […]

Filed Under: Features, Poetry Tagged With: Poetry

Poetry Magazine Rattle Expects Cover Artists to Work on Spec

March 18, 2015 By David Fairbanks Leave a Comment

Update and a response from Rattle at the bottom.   Poetry isn’t the big money game it once was, but there are still a few magazines that command a bit of respect, paying their contributors for poems and running contests that could help fund the lifestyle of a writer alongside adjunct teaching gigs or copywriting. […]

Filed Under: Features, News, Poetry Tagged With: art, Artist, Poetry, Rattle, Spec, Spec Work

Poetry: Moebius Strip by Shea Hennum

January 29, 2015 By David Fairbanks Leave a Comment

This week has seen a column on superhero-inspired poetry and a review of a comics poetry anthology, so Shea Hennum’s “Moebius Strip” felt like the perfect addition to the mix.   Moebius Strip Shea Hennum She was my two-page splash, My panel one, My gutter, my caption. My bombastic exposition and overwritten fiction. She was my […]

Filed Under: Art, Features Tagged With: comics, Poetry, Shea Hennum

Between the Panels there is Light and there is Music: A Review of INK BRICK No. 2

January 27, 2015 By David Fairbanks Leave a Comment

INK BRICK is an anthology of comics poetry; if you’re curious about poetry inspired by/written about comics, consider checking out our latest Split 7-Inch feature examining Missing You, Metropolis and MultiVerse. DANIEL ELKIN: The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley defined poetry as “a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” Later, T. S. Eliot said of the […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Comics Poetry, Daniel Elkin, David Fairbanks, Ink Brick, Keith Silva, Poetry

Split Seven Inch: Missing You, Metropolis and MultiVerse

January 26, 2015 By David Fairbanks Leave a Comment

Welcome to Split Seven-Inch, a new feature of Loser City wherein we examine two pieces of media that are not necessarily closely related with each other yet still have something interesting in common. This time up, we’re looking at the twin superhero poetry collections Missing You, Metropolis and MultiVerse.   Side A: Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Gary Jackson, Missing You Metropolis, Multiverse, Poetry, Split Seven-Inch, superheroes, Write Bloody

Poem for David Lynch’s Hair Dashed Off While Binge Watching the First Season of Twin Peaks

July 29, 2014 By Daniel Elkin Leave a Comment

Poem for David Lynch’s Hair Dashed Off While Binge Watching the First Season of Twin Peaks by Daniel Elkin Harry, I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange. Cascade a waterfall by the Mill there on top of his […]

Filed Under: Art, Features Tagged With: Daniel Elkin, David Lynch, Poetry, Twin Peaks

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