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“Two Poets Walk Into a Bar” by Eric Raanan Fischman

Two Poets Walk Into a Bar

Two poets walk into a bar. The first poet orders a blind mountain with elephant tusks. But this isn’t a piano bar, and they are all out of ivories. So the bartender mixes up some gravel and grass into a black mug, and spits in a tooth. The poet swivels on his stool.

The second poet steps up to the bar and orders a yellow speed demon. “What the fuck is a yellow speed…

Alex White interviews Eric Fischman about his recent book, Mordy Gets Enlightened.

Coffeehouses and Fight Clubs An interview with Eric Raanan Fischman, author of Mordy Gets Enlightened Eric Raanan Fischman is a poet, he received his MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where he co-founded Semicolon, a student-run publication utilizing letterpress and DIY technologies. He is co-editor of The Hive, the journal of Innisfree Poetry Bookstore in…