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Poet Brent Short Releases New Collection – Review – A+

by Tony Shea June 14, 2015

Brent Short has released a new collection of poems entitled The Properties of Light and it’s fantastic. For more than twenty years Short has quietly been going about the business of becoming one of America’s finest poets, honing and refining his craft. You won’t hear his name mentioned in the same breath as Robert Hass […]

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The Picasso of Song – Bob Dylan Turns 74

by Tony Shea May 24, 2015

Bob Dylan turns 74 today. The Picasso of songwriters, Dylan is number 1 on the list, the greatest song writer of them all, living or dead, a highly prolific virtuoso who has evolved and deepened with age, a rare artist who has remained relevant with the passage of time. Using all of humanity as his […]

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This Charming Man – Morrissey Turns 56

by Tony Shea May 22, 2015

Miserable Steven Patrick Morrissey turns 56 today. Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Morrissey is a true original, a celibate rock star blessed with a croon to make the girls swoon, singing about heartache and death. Lead singer of the Smiths as well as on 11 solo albums over the last thirty […]

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Charles Bukowski READING – The State of World Affairs from a 3rd Floor Window

by Tony Shea August 17, 2014

Happy Birthday to Charles Bukowski, who would have been 94 this year. Here he reads his poem “The State of World Affairs from a 3rd Floor Window.” **You should follow Shea Magazine on Twitter HERE!**

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Charles Bukowski – READING – To the Whore Who Took My Poems

by Tony Shea August 17, 2014

We’re celebrating Charles Bukowski’s birthday. Here he reads a poem entitled “To the Whore Who Took My Poems.” **You should follow Shea Magazine on Twitter HERE!**

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Charles Bukowski – Last Poetry Reading – 1980

by Tony Shea August 17, 2014

Read the opening scroll of this video and you will understand all. The last poetry reading from the great Charles Bukowski occurred on March 31, 1980 in Redondo Beach, CA ( though Bukowski would continue to write for another 14 years) and it’s an absolute corker that finds Bukowski in hilarious form. http://youtu.be/QB6IyLTvB7M **You should […]

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You’ve Got Me on a SeeSaw Baby! – POEM

by Tony Shea April 4, 2014

I’m sorry but I will not be able to look at any more pictures of dogs drowning in the heavy rains or bleeding and abused stabbed and tortured with their sad up-turned eyes waiting in the kill shelters for their executions.

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Detective Work – POEM

by Brent Short April 2, 2014

“Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed. “ –Newton’s First Law all artwork by Brittany Rathbone 1. Police work was both tedious and boring, plodding. Determining motives, examining all the mechanisms for revenge […]

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On the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Charles Bukowski – 1994 (POEM)

by Tony Shea March 9, 2014

image via I was 23 when Charles Bukowski died. I was in New York City,

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POEM – Zeus

by Tony Shea January 8, 2014

image via www.thegrumpyowl.com When I was a kid there was a gorilla at the zoo who smoked cigarettes for the public amusement, like an act from the old time medicine shows, beside the woman with the accessory breast and the man who could fit inside a bread box.

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POEM – Christina’s World

by Brent Short October 18, 2013

For Andrew Wyeth’s painting of Christina Olson, who, although undiagnosed, most likely suffered from polio.   Christina panning up at that vast rise— bleak, weathered buildings delineated by a flinty sky, from the edge of a sea of brown grass and field rising, a great divide, an ocean of sepia bending forward. Lying twisted in […]

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Poem – Humbled

by Dennis Gogarty October 16, 2013

It’s hard to be humble. Humility requires self confidence. Fearlessness. The definition seems simple: The quality or state of not thinking you are better than other people. What is a quality? What is a state of not thinking? Are they conditions of mind? Fixed in time? My mind is never fixed in time. My mind […]

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What Mother Warned You About – Ian Dury

by Tony Shea May 13, 2013

Fittingly perhaps, Ian Dury’s birthday coincided with Mother’s Day this year, since Dury was the kind of bloke that my mother always warned me about – a free spirit. The purveyor of “Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll,” Ian Dury was the kind of person who gave my mother nightmares. As the frontman of […]

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