
Smells like fall today, good day for shopping. I fill an oyster-shell purse with one dollar bills and take the 6 train to Chinatown. The children are bright as melons and their parents look weary from a day of selling slippers, handbags, and wristwatches...

"Don't ever start a story by talking about the weather," Oscar told me one particularly cold and drizzly day. We were all sitting around in Washington Square Park's mostly empty fountain...

Here's the story as compiled from the scantest of clues: The writing on the back of a stall door in the restroom of a twenty-four hour restaurant under the Gowanus Expressway...

Spindle Magazine: A New York State of Mind just posted new poetry and micro-fiction from Erica Miriam Fabri, James Bezerra and Dominic Preziosi.

When Robert met Audrey, his hands didn't shake. Weeks later, he would notice her hands, small and seemingly fragile. He remembered a story that escaped from her. She had told Robert how a lover choked her, how she reciprocated, how they played until an ambulance took him away...

On the twelfth floor, Viv lay in a darkened room, her bed propped up to face a window that looked south over the nighttime city, over what appeared to be thousands of jeweled boxes thrown together in a heap.She was little more than the skeleton; the purple splotched legs that extended from the...

Poem Written in a Café After Reading an Article About How to Sit in a Cafe and Write a Poem for New Yorker Magazine and Ignoring It Four terrace tables over A dog wears a collar, Though not a dog collar. He wears a high white plastic collar, For he has been Read more......

Spindle Magazine: A New York State of Mind
Spindle is partnering with louderARTS to celebrate the Shadow (11th!) Anniversary of "a little bit louder" -- the reading series where it ALL started -- with a special open mic and after-party on Monday, March 9th!
That's right, your favorite reading series from back in the day is bringing your new favorite ONLINE liter...ary journal live onstage, AND we'll be videotaping it all for a special Spindle online video project.
Hosted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez & Maureen Meade, with special guests TBA.
NOTE: Come early for the MartyParty @ 7pm, stay to the end for the complete celebration.
Spindle: http://spindlezine.com
louderARTS: http://louderarts.com
a little bit louder: http://aptowicz.com/books/WIYF.htmRead More
That's right, your favorite reading series from back in the day is bringing your new favorite ONLINE liter...ary journal live onstage, AND we'll be videotaping it all for a special Spindle online video project.
Hosted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez & Maureen Meade, with special guests TBA.
NOTE: Come early for the MartyParty @ 7pm, stay to the end for the complete celebration.
Spindle: http://spindlezine.com
louderARTS: http://louderarts.com
a little bit louder: http://aptowicz.com/books/WIYF.htmRead More
Spindle Magazine goes LIVE at louderARTS
Time:10:00PM Monday, March 9th
Location:13 Bar Lounge

Dear Sarah,This is to inform youThat I will be setting up my gmail accountTo automatically respondWith this poemevery time you email meSpitting stupid small talkInto my inbox.So to answer the questions you weren't really asking:I'm fine, my mom is fine and yeah,New York is great.And Read more.....

The new century was young and green, internet IPOs were the bees' knees, and the radical Islamists had not yet reinvented the smart bomb.I was living in Brooklyn at the time...

Dear Sarah,This is to inform youThat I will be setting up my gmail accountTo automatically respondWith this poemevery time you email meSpitting stupid small talkInto my inbox.So to answer the questions you weren't really asking:I'm fine, my mom is fine and yeah,New York is great.And Read more.....
RECENT ACTIVITY

Spindle Magazine: A New York State of Mind discussed Favorite poems, stories, articles and photos on the Spindle Magazine: A New York State of Mind discussion board.











