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Erik Satie and Me by Ken Been
Poetry

Erik Satie and Me by Ken Been

August 30, 2024August 30, 20240

“Erik Satie and Me”, poetry by Ken Been #TheMetaworker #ForgeFriday

The Metaworker Podcast | 014 In the Willow Garden by Isabel O’Hara Walsh
Podcast

The Metaworker Podcast | 014 In the Willow Garden by Isabel O’Hara Walsh

February 24, 2023March 6, 20240

Episode Description: Matthew, Elena, Mel, and Cerid talk with Isabel O’Hara Walsh about her short fiction piece “In the Willow Garden”. Content Warning: We discuss …

“Dart Away” by Jamie Spenser
Poetry

“Dart Away” by Jamie Spenser

July 25, 2022August 27, 20230

Jamie Spenser‘s poetry has been published in New York Quarterly, Sheila-Na-Gig, and Disappointed Housewife. His outpourings about TV commercial production and the art-rock band Devo …

“A Case for Violins” by Frank William Finney
Poetry

“A Case for Violins” by Frank William Finney

June 3, 2022June 23, 20220

Pulled from  the mouth of the mother  tongue. These words are all I carry now. They bend. They crack. They disappear. They hide inside the …

“In the Willow Garden” by Isabel O’Hara Walsh
Fiction

“In the Willow Garden” by Isabel O’Hara Walsh

February 7, 2022February 13, 20220

Down in the willow garden, where me and my true love did meet,There we sat a-courting, my love fell off to sleep – “Rose Connelly,” …

“A Future Leviathan’s Prodigious Sister” by Mina Rozario
Fiction

“A Future Leviathan’s Prodigious Sister” by Mina Rozario

June 28, 2021June 30, 20211

They called me incandescent. Queens and counts, dukes and earls alike sat enthralled when I performed, swept up in a sea of notes that would …

“Pop” by Benjamin Schmitt
Poetry

“Pop” by Benjamin Schmitt

November 27, 2020November 22, 20200

Getting all the feels with SZA tonight as that rack of wine from yesterday makes its way through my wrists and ankles Sometimes a voice …

“Typical Spring Love Song” by Connie Woodring
Poetry

“Typical Spring Love Song” by Connie Woodring

May 25, 2020August 29, 20200

Connie Woodring is a 75-year-old retired psychotherapist/educator/social activist who is getting back to her true love of writing after 45 years in her real job. …

“Outsider Art” by Joe Bishop
Poetry

“Outsider Art” by Joe Bishop

November 4, 2019September 23, 20200

“as I hunch in gnarly leather, drool, toothless,” #metaworkermonday

“Monograph” by Gary Glauber
Poetry

“Monograph” by Gary Glauber

August 20, 2018August 19, 20200

Home, a major chord, played to sustain. Pattern of wallpaper’s texture ingrained into décor of mind. As chorus hook plays over reminisced wonder, synapses fire …

“untitled” by Darin Milanesio
Editorial / Poetry

“untitled” by Darin Milanesio

May 21, 2018August 19, 20200

Life is supposed to be music But we are the notes not the listeners Maybe we are God’s music Chords being strummed on some cosmic …

“Get Up Get Down Get Outro” by Taylor Han
Poetry

“Get Up Get Down Get Outro” by Taylor Han

November 7, 2016February 22, 20220

I’ve spent the last two years trying to figure out how to pull this trigger finger from my mouth and blast the sour blackness out into …

“Crazy at the Viper” by Ben Nardolilli
Poetry

“Crazy at the Viper” by Ben Nardolilli

August 1, 2016September 22, 20200

I joined the most well-adjusted band in America. My fault for believing. After twenty days and twenty nights I lost my lease on life with …

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