the wild frontier

he was haunted by the war

2012-01-30T10:42:00.000-05:00

kerosene

2012-01-27T10:50:00.000-05:00

more than once

you were hospitalized

because of it

pretty common, i hear

during the navy years

those chemicals and paints

used on the trawlers

the last time

you laid on the beach

drank saltwater

flushed your system

it poured from your pores

you held my hand so tightly

some kind of desperate effort

i swear

had i lit a match

you'd have exploded

2012-01-26T09:12:00.001-05:00

2012-01-25T11:25:00.001-05:00

2012-01-24T13:35:00.001-05:00

2012-01-23T09:01:00.000-05:00

2012-01-21T16:39:00.000-05:00

2012-01-20T15:13:00.001-05:00

2012-01-19T15:15:00.001-05:00

2012-01-17T12:11:00.001-05:00

happy to announce that volume one/issue one of the heavy feather review is available via kindle. it includes work from the following follx: Alex Austin, Nick Barr, Anhvu Buchanan, Seth Berg, J. Bradley, Chloe Caldwell, Karen Craigo, Lori D’Angelo, Rick D’Elia, Larry O. Dean, Elizabeth Ellen, Nicolle Elizabeth, Ricky Garni, Roxane Gay, Amy Glasenapp, Howie Good, David Greenspan, Len Kuntz, Thomas Patrick Levy, D.W. Lichtenberg, Meg Pokrass, Molly Prentiss, Andrew Rihn, Paul Arrand Rodgers, Steve Roggenbuck, Matthew Savoca, Bradley Sands, Peter Schwartz, Gregory Sherl, Zulema Renee Summerfield, J.A. Tyler, James Valvis, Robert Vaughan, John Dermot Woods, Jake Wrenn, Joshua Young and mee too.

swanky cover art by Steve Roggenbuck. get your copy here. do something.

2012-01-13T12:10:00.000-05:00

between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting

2012-01-12T10:42:00.000-05:00

HST

2012-01-11T08:52:00.001-05:00

2012-01-10T08:38:00.000-05:00

2012-01-09T10:15:00.001-05:00

2011-12-29T08:59:00.000-05:00

new short @ dogzplot. checkout other new works from Carol Deminski, Lohel Hochberg, Caroline Kepnes, Elizabeth Ellen, Kevin O' Cuinn, Marcus Speh. thanks to Barry Graham! read HERE.

every time

2011-12-21T22:58:00.000-05:00

i go to the museum of natural history
and see the skeleton of the dodo
i can't help but wonder
what it tasted like

2011-12-21T19:33:00.001-05:00

2011-12-21T09:55:00.004-05:00

trickhouse #14 is live and crazy. the issue was complied by curators Laynie Browne, Eric Jordan, Jessica Eichman, Tama Baldwin, Charles Alexander, Kristen Nelson, and TC Tolbert and includes work from Andrew Levy, James Yeary & Jennifer Bartlett, Marty Ehrlich & Erica Hunt, Maryrose Larkin, Tenney Nathanson, Samuel Ace, Tre Natro, j/j Hastain, D'Lo, Trace Peterson, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Our Lady J, and Nathaniël.

Sherri Lynn Wood's Spaghetti Junction

Alexis Myre's Strength in Small Things

i have a short piece behind "door ten". read it here. thanks to Noah Saterstrom and the rest of trickhouse curators. i'm really pleased to be looped into this warp of expression.

2011-12-20T09:38:00.000-05:00

new story @ untoward magazine titled "utsayantha" ---Utsayantha is a mountain that, "got its name from the legend of a local Indian maiden, Utsayantha – which means "beautiful spring." She was said to have borne a child whose father was white, something that made her father, the chief, so furious he buried a tomahawk in the white man's skull and rowed with the baby to the center of a nearby lake and drowned it. Utsayantha followed her father to the lake and in her despair, drowned herself too. Upon discovering what she had done, the legend says the chief recovered her body and carried her up the mountain, where he buried her. Her grave site was believed to have been discovered in 1862, and although many doubt its authenticity, a monument was placed at the site in 1936" (%).but this story isn't about that. special thanks to matt rowan and untoward. read her here.

2011-12-19T09:22:00.002-05:00

The Chapbook (Volume 1) is now here to be had. It's an anthology of chapbooks by Theodore Worozybt, Nicole Cooley, Drea Kato, Monica Mody, C. J. Waterman, Dana Curtis, Carey Scott Wilkerson, and myself, as well as a review of Joyelle McSweeney's The Necropastoral by Amy Wright. thanks to Alan May for compiling & including me in this project. order your copy here.

easy one.

2011-12-16T17:30:00.000-05:00

first to comment wins one of these:

2011-12-15T10:37:00.001-05:00

2011-12-13T09:30:00.000-05:00

Drunk on grandma’s vodka.

I am getting big
so much.

No toothbrush.
No phone charger.

This is sweet.

Might have torn a rotator cuff.

2011-12-12T11:10:00.001-05:00

2011-12-09T09:49:00.001-05:00

2011-12-08T09:44:00.009-05:00

my dad is in the newspaper.

a nevada find: ahoyalaska.wordpress.com

misc. things & nightmares

2011-12-07T09:22:00.005-05:00

yesterday plain wrap asked me some questions in english.

the bearodactyl smokes clove from a cigarette holder.

nightmare soda.

phosgene nightmare.

morocco.

exclusive/autobiographical story

2011-12-05T22:05:00.007-05:00

{written in illicit pictograph}

'order number: 874'

the end

...

copywrite © adam moorad, 2011

bklyn, ny

...

2011-12-05T08:54:00.002-05:00

the fall 2011 issue of the lower east side review is online and i didn't even know it. conspirators include Juan Lamata Peter Marra Christine Reilly David Riley Len Kuntz Valentina Cano Hal Sirowitz Anicee Gaddis William Doreski & Kenneth Kesner. i have two poemz therein. i'm the

2011-12-02T09:41:00.006-05:00

vol. 2 of the corduroy mountain is available. it contains work from Charles Lennox, Jason Fraley, Troy Urquhart, Patrick Lucy, Howard Good, Jennifer Pieroni, Patrick Lamothe, Brian Alan Ellis, Drew Kalbach, D.C. Porder, Evelyn Hampton, Donald Dunbar, Tomas Weber, Adam Robinson, J.A. Tyler and myself.

35.1 of the cream city review is out. i'm really please to have a five-part poem inside--- fellow contributors include roxane gay, carrie shipers, adam krause, bethany carlson, takken bush and a host of others.
went to chicago. bought a t-shirt. wore it. took a picture.
fashion.

2011-12-01T10:00:00.001-05:00

2011-11-30T11:49:00.000-05:00

turkey, etcetera

2011-11-22T09:48:00.001-05:00

2011-11-18T09:14:00.009-05:00

2011-11-17T12:18:00.001-05:00

2011-11-16T12:07:00.000-05:00

True to THE2NDHAND form, All Hands On begins with a section of new, as-yet unpublished work representing the full range of the magazine’s 10+-year local presence in Chicago (with new work by Chicagoans Patrick Somerville, Michael Zapata and Fred Sasaki), Birmingham, Ala. (Nadria Tucker) and Nashville, Tenn. (Matt Cahan), as well as its far-flung influence in the world of new literary writing the nation over.

Contributors to the front, new-work section of the book represent regions from New England to the West Coast, and the large majority of the collection is devoted to special sections highlighting short fiction by the magazine’s best repeat contributors, from Joe Meno (The Great Perhaps), first published in THE2NDHAND in its third issue in its first year, 2000, to more recent contributors like Chicagoan Heather Palmer, whose novella “Charlie’s Train” was serialized at THE2NDHAND.com as its 11th year began in February of 2010. Visit for more.

some work in progress

2011-11-15T08:42:00.001-05:00

2011-11-14T12:27:00.001-05:00

2011-11-11T09:16:00.003-05:00

johnny america 9 is available courtesy of the moon rabbit drinking club & benevolence society.

i’m happy to have a story included along with several others, and some art and comics. thanks to emily lawton and jonathan holley. get your issue here. it's only $4. or if you're a chintzy bastard, you can read it online here. and good riddance.

2011-11-09T21:14:00.003-05:00

πεντάγραμμος

πεντέγραμμος

πέντε

γραμμή

trnsfr 5 coming soon.

2011-11-08T15:43:00.003-05:00

that and i have a new poem here. not much invention.

2011-11-08T10:06:00.001-05:00

2011-11-07T09:01:00.011-05:00

australia is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the australian continent, the island of tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the indian and pacific oceans grappling with chronic kangaroo infestation.

i have a story in the lifted brow's food issue, australia's #1 lit rag. fellow contributors include Lilli Carre, Sophie Langley Romy Ash Chad Parkhill Sam Cooney Michaela McGuire Pete Garrow Lorelei Vashti Lia Steele Luke B. Goebel Rajiv Thind Luise Toma Anna Barnes Alice Pung Roxane Gay Ben Merriman Thomas Benjamin Guerney Michael DeForge and many/much more.

please stimulate the economy of the commonwealth. get your copy/back copy/subscription here.

salutations.

2011-11-04T09:34:00.002-04:00

2011-11-03T12:22:00.000-04:00

2011-11-02T09:58:00.003-04:00

new story at NONTRUE today. it’s from a drunks/drifters/hustlers/all-around malfeasant short story collection i’ve been working on. this one is about glue sniffers in coastal maine. read it here. big thanks to mike lynch.
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my friend tyler flowers plays guitar. watch him scrape together funds for his EP:

my brother in law's brother plays the bald man.

2011-10-31T09:36:00.002-04:00

i drew a character from one of the stories i've been working on.

i find that this exercise helps me see the character better, however unsightly he/she be.

2011-10-27T08:54:00.004-04:00

soooooooooo much good stuff today.

a new issue dark sky magazine is live.

i want sarah pater to paint my apartment.

get the whole caboodle here.

///

NOÖ 13 is also up & good GOD people. it’s loaded.

contributors include Lauren Cohen Jamie Iredell Wendy Breuer Jon Cotner Andy Fitch G reg Gerke Jen Gann Mathias Svalina Chris Haven Brennen Wysong Michael J. Martin Jay Snodgrass Melissa Broder Matt Mauch Lauren Ireland Bianca Stone Feliz Molina Halie Theoharides Ally Harris Sarah Bartlett Arlene Ang Drew Kalbach Steve Subrizi Jerimee Bloemeke Daniel D'Angelo Ben Roylance Mark Leidner and adam ant.

mike young also reviews one of my favorite books this year - Hunters & Gamblers by Ryan Ridge.

thanks to mike for an awesome issue.

///

last but not least jason jordan’s the dying horse is available for preorder @ main street rag. i love jason's writing for it's imaginative, midwestern vibe. i preordered my copy & at $6 you have no excuse not to.

2011-10-26T13:34:00.002-04:00

agyness

2011-10-25T09:53:00.003-04:00

2011-10-24T10:11:00.001-04:00

thanks for the memories

2011-10-21T09:27:00.001-04:00

adam moorad by tyler torti

2011-10-20T11:57:00.004-04:00

2011-10-18T10:59:00.003-04:00

the hale weightlifter
turned meteorologist
begged in the street
please help, he said
my wife is pregnant

2011-10-17T11:28:00.001-04:00

saw melancholia last weekend. it was good but not as good as antichrist.

i think i will never like kirsten dunst. i will always love charlotte gainsbourg. kiefer sutherland will always be jack bauer.

2011-10-13T08:35:00.000-04:00

"Does nobody understand?"

~ James Joyce, final words, 1941.

2011-10-12T10:07:00.002-04:00

WANT

2011-10-11T10:01:00.001-04:00

2011-10-10T08:54:00.001-04:00

2011-10-07T09:18:00.006-04:00

i'm behind on two new/excellent/beautiful publications that i'm quite happy to be a part of...

barge press #1 is now available. shawn maddey put together a fine issue (cover designed by Jacob Campbell). get your copy here.

EXPERIENCED: Rock Music Tales of Fact & Fiction, edited by Roland Goity and John Ottey, is now available from vagabondage press.

contributors include JIM DEROGATIS FRED de VRIES SEAN ENNIS LAUREL GILBERT BRIAN GOETZ JAMES GREER ED HAMILTON HAROLD JAFFE BRAD KAVA DAVID MENCONI COREY MESLER SCOTT NICHOLSON CARL PEEL J. T. TOWNLEY TIM WEED. would you like to get some mail? order your copy here.

if anyone buys/bought a copy of either pub email me. i will send you a copy of my poorly edited novella oikos.

2011-10-06T09:29:00.001-04:00

2011-10-05T09:34:00.004-04:00

Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

2011-10-04T08:59:00.001-04:00

2011-10-03T08:55:00.003-04:00

2011-09-30T14:31:00.000-04:00

2011-09-30T09:00:00.002-04:00

2011-09-29T08:54:00.002-04:00

diana salier's chapbook WIKIPEDIA SAYS IT WILL PASS is now available from Deadly Chaps Press. you can read the ebook here and buy a hard copy here and hear me read an excerpt in brostache here:

i didn’t cry at the end of titanic - diana salier ((brostache version)) from Adam Moorad on Vimeo.

2011-09-28T08:42:00.004-04:00

i started posting rumors a couple months ago. i kept @ it until i hit 100. 100 rumors seemed like a good place to stop. some are true. some i made up. some i heard through the grapevine y'all. i have assembled all of them together today/forever for you/your pleasure/despair:

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1. marilyn manson auditioned for the karate kid

2. bill gates bought out the hobby lobby

3. john travolta never proved anybody wrong

4. eric clapton dated nancy kerrigan

5. ryan gosling wears prosthetic testicles

6. murphy brown bruised madonna in a catfight

7. wolf blitzer knows how to handstand

8. linsey lohan has a fred flinstone fetish

9. alicia keys scored a 1600 on her SATs

10. johnny depp runs a kangroo farm

11. gene hackman is a born-again christian

12. tom brokaw is three-quarters choctaw

13. dolly parton maintains a cactus garden

14. carson dailey is addicted to glue sniffing

15. al bundy and ted bundy are distant relatives

16. joaquin phoenix has never been to arizona

17. sean penn suffers with arthritis & bone spurs

18. dakota fanning is a habitual bedwetter

19. gwen stefani delivered little caesars pizzas

20. owen wilson conquered juvenile diabetes

21. tom brady's twin sister is morbidly obese

22. cameron diaz had a baby with bo jackson

23. tom cruises’ wedding was b.y.o.b.

24. harrison ford wears a retainer at night

25. celine dion is an accomplished sou chef

26. frank sinatra spread bedbugs in hoboken

27. aaron neville had his stomach stapled

28. justin bieber gave the clap to miley cyrus

29. wade boggs is a devout latter day saint

30. zach morris struggles with halitosis

31. paul mccartney has mature cataracts

32. bono wears blood diamonds

33. mark wahlberg has lupus

34. stevie wonder can dunk a basketball

35. heath ledger was allergic to wheat

36. luke perry hates sweating

37. george michael has stretch-marks

38. bruce hornsby shot tupac

39. paula cole caught rabies from a beaver

40. shirley temple [censored]

41. jack black is a certified wet-nurse

42. kathy griffin polyurethanes her checkles

43. ryan phillippe claims he's a kennedy

44. the rock has gout & alopecia

45. val kilmer is an icelandic citizen

46. tony hawke played drums in hoobastank

48. snookie is barren

49. the baldwin brothers [censored]

50. bonnie raitt dated michael eisner

51. jason bateman shops at jcpenny

52. sarah michelle gellar is a blackbelt

53. steve urkel contracted lyme disease

54. john denver married a sherpa queen

55. dustin hoffman is related to thomas edison

56. ben affleck has west nile

57. the kardashians can't swim

58. jenny mccarthy lost her sex drive

59. ke$ha waterboarded her mother's tabby

60. hugh jackman has dyslexia

61. vince vaughn can pirouette 720 degrees

62. john stamos tried out for the vikings

63. bruce willis gargles viles of strychnine

64. shaquille o'neal is afraid of heights

65. clint eastwood collects asian antiques

66. tara reid screws minor league pitchers

67. juels verne had a rapture phobia

68. ellen degeneres was hooked on dope

69. chelsea clinton has a club foot

70. jay cutler plays the two-bit fiddle

71. megan fox had a stillborn baby in cancun

72. nick cage's real name is nolan dolan

73. steven spielburg lives in a cabin on a lake

74. haley joel osment turned thirty-seven

75. oprah reduced her heart attack risk by 30%

76. tyrese was conceived in a kmart dressing room

77. chelsea handler ribbits in her sleep

78. blake lively contracted poison ivy

79. halle berry has a venezuelan chauffeur

80. orlando bloom is allergic to tree pollen

81. gwyneth paltrow likes scratchy pajamas

82. angelina jolie farted in africa

83. ryan renyolds survived polio

84. rob lowe wears a sharktooth necklace

85. leann rimes is tone-deaf

86. shoeless joe jackson trained in reeboks

87. bing crosby owned a tattoo parlor

88. bill cosby is obsessed with croquet

89. susan sarandon loves the feel of sandpaper

90. patrick dempsey never says 'thank you'

91. macaulay culkin is a lesbian

92. anne hathaway had a blood transfusion

93. don cheadle eats grubs and boll weevils

94. jon voight butt-dialed spike lee

95. seal hunts bison with a spear

96. kristy alley hates kelly kowpiski

97. fergie armwrestles like a hogan

98. kate hudson maced her husband

99. mila kunis is a rare venereal disease

100. flea hotboxed a police checkpoint

'self portrait cursing'

2011-09-27T09:41:00.000-04:00

2011-09-26T16:03:00.001-04:00

wiredness

2011-09-23T10:38:00.001-04:00

2011-09-22T08:45:00.001-04:00

Co SPRING / SUMMER 2012 directed by Thomas Bangalter from Co Collections on Vimeo.

2011-09-21T08:25:00.003-04:00

the dude who was a surfer

was a tragic galvanizing douche

he surfed on every continent

he didn't believe in karma

one day he caught a 10-foot peeler

& his board washed over the reef

they found his body a week later

face down in a pile of fish eggs

they said he had shat his wetsuit

& his mother filed a lawsuit

she was a sassy puerto rican

who wore too much lipstick

2011-09-20T11:07:00.001-04:00

2011-09-15T10:43:00.001-04:00

2011-09-14T09:14:00.003-04:00

new story @ smalldoggies today. big thanks to matty byloos. past contributors include Lauren Becker Riley Michael Parker xTx Kevin Sampsell & Ben Tanzer.read it HERE. lay in the bedlam. life is a good life.

2011-09-13T11:06:00.001-04:00

you

i would like to ask you out

we’ll go on a hot date downtown

& eat at a popular restaurant

& it’ll be crowded & loud

& we won't be able hear one another speak

our waiter's name will sound like “humphrey”

& you will not enjoy the date at all

you will text someone else throughout

& we'll walk home through a park

& we'll pass a retarded person

& we'll go back to mine for a drink

& you'll watch me scratch

& we will watch cheers on dvd

all 11 seasons

all 270 episodes

you'll think the date was a disaster

& you won't return any of my calls

& later i will hear from someone

who heard from someone else

that you moved to kansas city

2011-09-12T09:19:00.001-04:00

2011-09-09T08:59:00.001-04:00

2011-09-08T10:16:00.002-04:00

2011-09-07T09:32:00.001-04:00

2011-09-06T09:32:00.001-04:00

5150

2011-09-01T15:26:00.008-04:00

the september issue of bluestem is live & it's loaded & the cast includes Ann Wahlman Sam Katz Christine Fadden Meghan Lamb Leesa Cross-Smith V Jo Hsu David Frederick Thomas Jen Knox Daniel Davis Jim Meirose Jessica Hollander Faith Gardner Cynthia Atkins Karen Pickell Peter LaBerge Susan Johnson Claudia Serea Amorak Huey Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Jim Davis Rose Hunter Mather Schneider Priyanka Joseph Carolyn Zaikowski Gary Percesepe Gary Presley William Henderson Tyler Lacoma and Krista Franklin. i make an appearance. the story is from another collection of whatever. thank you roxane gay airing out my head. again.

[sic]

2011-09-01T09:57:00.002-04:00

(credit: byron hotmilk stithem, esq.)

2011-08-31T10:22:00.001-04:00

ISSN 2152-1069

2011-08-30T09:18:00.004-04:00

wtf pwm 3.2 is live with work from meghan lamb seth seppala m.g. martin tim lane joshua young sarah cunningham & ne skinner. thanks to TPL (who has a new book out) for another great issue. i have a poem included. it comes from my forthcoming collection. details on that to follow.

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r.i.p. david 'honeyboy' edwards.

2011-08-29T10:46:00.001-04:00

2011-08-28T09:57:00.001-04:00

Bon Iver- "Lisbon, OH" from Trevor Silverstein on Vimeo.

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

2011-08-27T12:05:00.001-04:00

i'll see you in my dream.

play all @ once.

2011-08-26T10:05:00.002-04:00

somnambulist

2011-08-25T10:20:00.006-04:00

i have this elaborate fantasy

where i approach someone from behind

& snap their neck like steven seagal

& afterwards we become incompatible lovers

communicating by body language alone

& i feel an extreme sense of regret

like the ultimate goal of physical intimacy

is extremely far away and unattainable

and then i think

i’m just not getting

what i actually mean

2011-08-24T08:37:00.001-04:00

2011-08-23T09:33:00.002-04:00

new poems in stoked II. thanks to tyler gobble for putting together a great issue with the following contributors: Matt Hart Daniela Olszewska & Carol Guess Nate Pritts Joshua Helms Thomas Patrick Levy Christopher Newgent xTx Len Kuntz Parker Tettleton Nick Ripatrazone Ryan Rader and Ashley Farmer.

read the issue here. or there.

Open publication - Free publishing - More adam moorad

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another in subliminal interiors.

and another.

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started blood meridian today. seriously questioning why i even try.

2011-08-21T20:03:00.002-04:00

i dunno

but maybe i should sell myself

like the aflac duck

in the television commercials

2011-08-19T08:55:00.000-04:00

2011-08-18T09:05:00.001-04:00

2011-08-17T12:01:00.001-04:00

i saw a sad bear in idaho

2011-08-16T10:14:00.000-04:00

2011-08-15T09:21:00.000-04:00

jackson hole bikini

tank top

blue jean cutoffs

hiking boots