THE DECADENT REVIEW

Poetry

of a world

by Steve Fay

…as the bridge came down / following the song. – Michael…

Metafiction

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 5)

by Jones Irwin

Poetry

Good Manners

by David Kirby

Essays March 28, 2023

Rags of Time: Studies in Fictional Travels in Time

by Robert McKean

Poetry July 24, 2023

Insurmountable

by Stan Sanvel Rubin

Poetry July 24, 2023

Thesis Paper

by Caleb Nelson

Criticism

Can Artificial Intelligence Really Write Poetry?

by Charles Upton

After Apocalypse Tristesse

by Johnny Payne

On Bringing Philip Larkin Back from the Dead

by Johnny Payne

Poetry Is Just Fine, Thank You

by Christopher Honey

Dérives on Letters

by Zane Perdue

Oedipus and the Other Two Sphinxes

by Daniel Barbiero

The Banker’s Clerk and the Hippopotamus

by Tim Morris

Donne: Soul, Size, and Scale

by Sarah Butkovic

On Cuteness

by David Capps

Voice: A Postliterary Disintegration in Four Modern Classics

by John Oliver Hodges

Literary Topoi

by Kimmo Rosenthal

The Death of The Critic: Barthes’ Royal Treatment in Pale Fire

by Domenic Cregan

Eight Remarks on Style and Fashion

by Zane Perdue

The Vice of Banality

by Donald Short

Subjects Hinder Talk

by Caroline Fernelius

The Hidden Dreamscape of Claude Tousignant’s Violence Lucide

by Margaryta Golovchenko

Traces

by Robert Stone

Melville’s Descent into the Maelstrom

by Tom Whalen

A Lurker’s Guide to Breathing Women and Men

by Alex Checkovich

Author Morsels

by Bill Yarrow

Criticism, Confusion, and Lies

by Donald Short

Char(Lotte in Weimar)’s Web

by Florina Nastase

Increasing Convergence Between Time and Abstraction

by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

Two Cardinal Points

by Hind Berji

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Reviews

Consider This New Order: Dan Beachy-Quick’s “Wind-Mountain-Oak: The Poems of Sappho”

by Karin Falcone Krieger

I Pray This Letter Reaches You In Time: The Poetry of Thomas Townsley

by James M. Magrini

Between Melville’s Masterwork and Aronofsky’s The Whale

by R. Russell Magee

Faggoting an Ars Poetica: Jon Riccio’s Agoreography

by Devon Balwit

Can we, should we, read The N***** of The Narcissus?

by Arabella von Arx

Sti, Bro; Sti, Sis: a Re-View of Katie Mack’s The End of Everything

by Alex Checkovich

Fake Accounts

by Michael McCarthy

Kieslowski’s Judgement in “Red”

by Greggory Moore

Dualism’s Categorical Mistake

by Hind Berji

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Essays

Rags of Time: Studies in Fictional Travels in Time

by Robert McKean

Poiētic Truth (Alētheia) in Archaic Greece: Comparative Anthropology / Heideggerian Intimations

by James M. Magrini

La Femme Cachée: Searching for Francesca Woodman

by Kimmo Rosenthal

A Tangled Web of Relationships – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, by Dmitri Shostakovich

by Nancy Chapple

Inscribing the “Disaster”

by James M. Magrini

Timeless Lessons from the Socratic Classroom

by Paul Graseck

Jack Shit: Williams’ Wheelbarrow and Meaning in Poetry

by C.B. Wamble

All of the Above

by Dimitri Kaufman

Entrance Stage Left: Introducing Characters to a Narrative

by Robert McKean

Never Never

by H.C. Gildfind

Sisters Around the Cauldron – Mary Barnard and Her Sappho

by Casey Bush

Pious Snuff, Lot’s Wife to Burden’s Eclipse

by Benjamin Robinson

On lists

by Teresa Soto

Will and Imagination

by Zane Perdue

Caroline of Clandeboye

by Kat Meads

If I Am Out of My Mind, It’s All Right with Me: Lines to Someday Write

by Robert McKean

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Poetry

of a world

by Steve Fay

Good Manners

by David Kirby

Insurmountable

by Stan Sanvel Rubin

Thesis Paper

by Caleb Nelson

AFTERNOONS WITH ALBERTINE

by DB Jonas

Icons

by William Welch

Drawing a Blank

by D. R. James

Judith Contemplates Drunken Holofernes

by Kevin Grauke

Constantinople, 531

by Kevin Hart

Porch Talk with the Lord

by Daniel Edward Moore

Unamused

by Mark DeCarteret

Color Wheel

by Michael Yost

Tapioca Verdigris

by Thomas Townsley

James Unexpurgated

by Michael Taormina

MAGGID

by Joseph Harms

The Saint of Unbelievers

by George Franklin

Learned

by Joseph Hardy

Tanja Ramm Under a Bell Jar

by Ruth Towne

Shiny Surfaces

by Jason M. Thornberry

Recluse

by Craig Kirchner

Geology

by Kevin Canfield

May Snow

by James Reidel

and as the water runs through the sewage

by Alex Isbell

My Data

by Daniel Adler

Spontaneous Synchronization

by Samuel Louis Spencer

Fists and Windows

by Betsy Johnson

from “The Second Book of Job” (LVI)

by J.T. Whitehead

Correlations

by Ian C. Smith

Trilling, trilling: Idolores

by C.B. Wamble

Archives of Spring

by Bradley J. Fest

Doing the Work, Happy with the Imagery

by Karin Falcone Krieger

On Poetry

by William Heath

Danse Macabre

by Johnny Payne

Digging & Diving After Heaney & Rich

by Rebbecca Brown

The Fountain

by David Hosford

WAKING UP IS OUR DAMNATION

by Peter J. Dellolio

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Metafiction

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 5)

by Jones Irwin

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 4)

by Jones Irwin

… And They Kept Walking

by Eric v.d. Luft

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 3)

by Jones Irwin

Who Killed Gilles Deleuze? (Episode 2)

by Jones Irwin

Plays

PlaysMarch 26, 2023<March 26, 2023

Director Peron Directs

by Kat Meads

Director Peron Directs was staged by Alumnae Theatre Company (Toronto,…

PlaysMay 12, 2020<August 16, 2021

Quarto

by RD Bolam

I Doubleyew Banton CHARACTER DOUBLEYEW Blind, Braille-literate, Jamaican Londoner. In…

PlaysJanuary 5, 2019<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART IV: THE PROPER TASK

by RD Bolam

The following play The Proper Task – W.I.P., is the…

PlaysFebruary 3, 2018<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART III: EVENINGS ILLUMINED BY THE ARDOUR OF COAL

by RD Bolam

The following play Evenings Illuminated by the Ardour of Coal…

PlaysJanuary 1, 2018<August 15, 2021

CON FORZA, PART I: HAMMERKLAVIER

by RD Bolam

The following play Hammerklavier – fantasia quasi una biografia, is the…

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