Author: Liz Axelrod

  • My “Go Ask Alice” Interview at Luna Luna!

    http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/interview-with-poet-liz-axelrod-on-go-ask-alice     →

  • Feminist Round Up and 5 Must Reads

    Many more wonderful articles at http://www.lunalunamagazine.com This article is here:  https://goo.gl/bFqMD7 February 25, 2016 BY LIZ AXELROD For months I’ve been following the blogs, the posts, the lists, the rants, the raves and the ravishings. I’ve been horrified, dumfounded, hysterical and generally nauseated by what I see as the breaking-down of women’s rights and liberties.… →

  • My LunaLuna Review for Joanna Fuhrman’s Year of Yellow Butterflies

    http://www.lunalunamag.com/2015/03/06/femme-phenoms-joanna-fuhrmans-year-yellow-butterflies/ →

  • Weekended

    Friday mourning slit-eyed at my hollow desk Seven hours sleep beats three the night before nothing beats your torso wrapped on mine Braced my face deep inhale curling chest hairs tracing brown and blond locked in clocked in alarm set: 2:15am Cold cab harsh to warm cave moments dark and eyes pasted to the bridge… →

  • Why should you want to profit from my experiences?

    I tossed them in the pyre to roast and boil. I don’t need to visit that place again. The pain and blisters do no good, so why shouldn’t I just face the wall and slam my head up on it. That might be safer than reliving life’s tribulations. Why do I write this side by… →

  • Shore Leave

    Electric pulse turns sand to glass. Salt erodes the break-line. Our unchecked heat devours clean white sand now spotted with refuse– needles, condoms, plastic bags, blackened oily shells. I gave you depth. You dredged up garbage. Storms give weight to water. While crests lap up this silent coast pulling in upon its shelf. *Published in… →

  • The Stuart Sherman Spectacle – Brooklyn Rail

     Beginningless Thought/Endless Seeing: The Works of Stuart Sherman (NYU Steinhardt, 2011) Stuart Sherman’s friends—Yolanda Hawkins, John Hagan, and John Matturri—spent countless hours reading, cataloguing, viewing, and organizing the plays, writings, paintings, line drawings, and sculptures piled into the front closet of his sublet apartment on West 22nd Street. Going through that mountain was a labor… →

  • Jaded Ibis Press – Brooklyn Rail Interview

    Published Here DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod Jaded Ibis Press holds an odd shaped, polished and engraved stone in a hand-carved painted slingshot. Like David, they are poised with ready aim to hit the big publishing houses dead square in the eye. Their creativity and innovation push the… →

  • Valentine’s Day Reviews at LunaLunaMag.com

    Published Here Valentine’s Day Books: Love, With Side Of Snow & Literature Posted on February 13, 2014 by Liz Axelrod Leave a comment Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ve got chocolate hearts on the brain and vanilla scented candles burning as I try to melt into the freezing cold of my sweet love’s arms after he so… →

  • The Past, the Present and the Process: Patrick McGrath

    Published in 12th Street Journal #4 and Here By Liz Axelrod  Patrick McGrath is the author of two short story collections, Blood and Water and Other Tales and Ghost Town, and seven previous novels including Asylum, Martha Peake, Dr. Haggard’s Disease and Port Mungo. His novel, Spider, was filmed in 2001 by acclaimed director David… →