NO INVENTES by Julián Martinez Mar 21, 2025 Fiction My father, I’m told, was an engineer at a nuclear power plant. One night, my pregnant mother came home from the hotel, fingernails blue with Two poems by Marco Bauer Mar 20, 2025 Poetry LULLABY (SLEEPING COUPLE, 1909) & TREMOLO REVIEW: MASSIVE by John Trefry Mar 20, 2025 Fiction & Criticism Lucas Mancini takes on Trefry's impossible doorstopper of a novel HERE IN MY CAR by John Kidwell Mar 19, 2025 Nonfiction I love to drive, and I hate that. The automobile has done untold damage. Cars kill. Cars pollute. Cars create unnecessary noise—horns, car alarms, AN EVENING AT THE HOUSE OF CHIEFS [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 18, 2025 Columns A hardcore show? On a Tuesday night? Tim investigates. Three poems by Bradley K Meyer Mar 17, 2025 Poetry SOME RESTRAINT, SOME RESTRAINT II, HOSTELWORLD DOT COM HENRY MILLER EATS AN ORANGE by Dani Shoemaker Mar 14, 2025 Fiction Henry Miller is going to eat an orange. He is going to prove that it is his orange and that everyone who has said otherwise is wrong because it is A NIGHT OF NEW WORKS [Film Dispatch] Mar 14, 2025 Film Jess Bither reports on the latest from Baltimore’s independent filmmakers ORANGES by Damon Hubbs Mar 13, 2025 Poetry Valencia, Spain. And I’m not thinking about oranges, or the color of it or even the twelve poems that Frank O’Hara calls ORANGES. No, I’m not A LIFETIME OF STUBBED TOES by Anna MP Mar 12, 2025 Poetry smarter strangers than me have calloused hands but I’m mostly untouched these days loup-mouthed and riveted by east village erotica salsa night has ON THE PERILS AND PLEASURES OF THE ARCHIVE [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 11, 2025 Columns My dad died in June of 2023. As proceedings can take some time after that fact, my family spent this past weekend beginning the process of OUTLAW MUDSHOW: THE ONLY AWP OFFSITE THAT MATTERS Mar 10, 2025 BRUISER TAKES LOS ANGELES JEFF SAYS by Daniel Miller Mar 7, 2025 Fiction Jeff says this knife is his favorite, his everyday carry. When he flicks it, the loose, chipped blade snaps open. Jeff says he has more knives at Three poems by Tom Snarsky Mar 6, 2025 Poetry POEM, HUNTING WILD LIFE WITH CAMERA AND FLASHLIGHT & SPLIT STITCH WHAT DO WE DO NOW? [Anything for a Weird Life] Mar 4, 2025 Columns Tim's notes on some recent Baltimore Happenings SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER by Lily Herman Mar 3, 2025 Poetry This is why we have drills. If for some reason the occasion came, if I was called to the foot of the inscrutable structure as the cloth and all the PET ROCK by John Waddy Bullion Feb 28, 2025 Nonfiction Katy Perry owns a cat named Kitty Purry. Kelly Clarkson’s dogs are named Joplin and Security. Mick Jagger owns a black cat named Nero. Lady Gaga FOUR TRANSLATIONS OF AUDEN by Bryan Thomas Daly Feb 27, 2025 Poetry Bluesky LEFT OUT by Romy Rhoads Ewing Feb 26, 2025 Poetry I get hungry for old food — I can’t help it. Cornbread becomes stale becomes stuffing. Wine. Kimchi. Rot and waiting and waiting and waiting. FURTHER READING: "Dystopia" (2008) & "Life is Abuse" (2023 reissue) by Dystopia [Anything for a Weird Life] Feb 25, 2025 Columns Tim fills in some gaps in his punk CV