BRUISER

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