Tonight I'm thinking, my lucky rabbit's foot wasn't so lucky for the bunny.

But then again, I've been Killing the Rabbit for years. Live. In Stereo.

Just check this blogs motto.

I hope I finish my book before I die.

"I take pills that make everything Orange." --The Invention of The Lie

In honor of February, George Washington, and because I love Caterpillars equipped with Hookas, I can not tell a lie...

Or maybe, I'll save that confession for another day. But we the editors of Calliope Nerve do need your help. We must grow our e-mail list. Like hot Sci-Fi channel Cylons, we have a plan. We want 1000 subscribers ASAP. (And pronto too.) There are projects to announce, books to release, original material to disburse, and acquisitions made.

It's time to tell the world our story, which is really your story too. The story of the artist.

Did you know that all Calliope Nerve writers, artists, and editors have never been compensated one dime for their work? We're here because we love quality "writes." Now, we're working on moving Calliope Nerve up a notch so that we can get more exposure for our weblog, publishing arm, and rare bookstore and most importantly our contributors and authors.

All of you that have email lists, contacts, zines, blogs, please posts links, etc to our website with this message:

"Calliope Nerve: Small Press at it's finest. Dreams at their biggest. Ink makes us beautiful! Subscribe to Electric Hookah the free Calliope Nerve e-mail newsletter."

Carbon emails and/or email your links, etc to CalliopeNerve AT gmail.com. We'll randomly choose three winners on March 1st, 2010 to receive a copy of any book out of our catalog.

Word of mouth works too. :) Much blessings and a heartfelt thank you for everything.

You know the rest folks...

Peace, Love, Death-Metal,

Nobius

Out

More fodder for Calliope Nerve:



Should the Cheshire Cat's grin make us reconsider the nature of reality?

Can Humpty Dumpty make words mean whatever he says they mean?

Can drugs take us down the rabbit-hole?

Is Alice a feminist icon?

"All children, except one, grow up." -- J.M. Barrie

Here's another opportunity to purchase one of the fine original books from Calliope Nerve Media and save money. Check out our newest offering Michael Mc Aloran's chap The Rapacious Night.

Enter coupon code: WASHINGTON and take 15% up to $25.00 off on all LULU.com orders through 2/15/2010.

Inspiration for the biggest Calliope Nerve project to date. More details to come.

I don't have the words tonight.

Again.

The music will talk while the poet gnashes teeth.

Calliope Nerve Media is proud to add the second chapbook to our slate: The Rapacious Night by Michael Mc Aloran. It's a vital, important collection written in Mc Aloran's unique style and includes a beautiful cover called 'After-Birth' painted by the author himself. As with all of our previous books, the download remains free and the book is being sold at our cost of $5.50 u.s. (a small price to pay for real culture in a fake world.)

The Rapacious Night

Joy joy in the teeth baring

A fading sun streaks light upon the

Surface of bare lips, parted


Settled words, a drift of newspaper like silk

Stockings jaggered by the breeze a trace of blood


Wasted words, a breaking of bone shatter-snapped

The bootheels dig fresh graves


The light vibrates upon the vomit-soaked sands of

The tide, like a blade cutting into flesh a violent fuck


Pale moon of vile death, the pupil of death

Illumines the ocean


I observe in wonderment

Eat of the marrow of the beauty of it, a dissected animal


The rapacious night burns, and I, too, burn with it


I close my eyes to the silver dawn, wondering where speech may

Once have tread, in this hollow silence


--Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast-born, his family moved to the south of Ireland due to 'The Troubles'. He spent a brief spell studying Fine Art & Design, but left after one disillusioned year. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, living for short spells in both Holland and Italy. His work has been published by Poetry Monthly International, Calliope Nerve, Lines Written W/A Razor, The Gloom Cupboard, Counterexample Poetics, Full of Crow, Gutter Eloquence, The Delinquent, Writing Raw, The Recusant, Eviscerator Heaven, and The Plebian Rag. His first published book, In The Black Cadaver Light was published by Poetry Monthly Press, (U.K-2009).
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Can you help us promote the chap? Would you like to interview the author? Can you review it or post a preview at your website? Want to trade links, promotions, etc--contact the Publisher by email: Calliope Nerve AT gmail.com.

Much blessings and thanks to all of our writers, artists, editors, and readers who keep this dream alive. We're in this together.

We are Art.

Keep fighting the good fight.

Never surrender.

Never give up. Ink makes us beautiful.

Seth Godin: iPad app of my dreams: the digital talking pad.

My money says, we'll see this before year's end.

"Tears that filled my bong... Years expended gone." --Alice In Chains

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