RC Edrington

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RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 8:21 pm
I have a non-fiction piece coming up in the March issue of Underground Voices. Some of my best pieces have been published in UV over the years, so it's always good to send stuff there. To check them out: Underground Voices  Coming up in Zygote In My Coffee #10, I will have 5 pieces included, along...
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Flesh Wounds

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 6:46 am
Free PDF download Published 2012 by Ten Page PressThis e-chapbook contains 10 of what I believe are some of my best pieces. To view and download: Flesh Wounds by RC Edrington RC Edrington
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Apocalypse Generation

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 5:57 am
$6.00 Published 2011 by Tainted Coffee PressAvailable at Zygote in my CoffeeRC Edrington
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Portraits from a Barrio Toilet Stall

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 5:42 am
$2.99 eBook / $6.00 printRepublished 2012 Sun Pig PressAvailable at Barnes & Noble, iBook Store, & LuLuRC Edrington
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Use Once & Destroy

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 5:09 am
$9.00Published 2005 by bluechromepress UK(out of print)May be available used at The Book DepositoryRC Edrington
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Review 2 of Use Once & Destroy

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 5:03 am
Use Once & Destroy Review 2  Edrington takes no prisoners. Everything here is raw reality, written in technicolour. Often the language is shocking, sensual and serious. I don't give full marks to much work I review, but there again, Edrington's work is seriously good. Of the 35 poems, I marked 18 a...
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Reviews of Use Once & Destroy

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 5:00 am
Use Once & Destroy Review  RC Edrington, a bartender from Arizona, provides a different type of gritty, urban realism, one more in the tradition of Chas Bukowski and Bill Burroughs where life has a toxicological centre. But, pastiche it is not. Though perhaps being heard from the same direction, Ed...
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Review of Nicotine Dreams

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 4:55 am
Nicotine Dreams Review (out of print)  Believe me when I say I've done a lot of looking. As of this writing, I have not found a satisfying, definitive definition for a poem or poetry. For me, poems are words under fire, experiences, compressed affirmations. My definition changes in subtle ways depe...
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Review of Lipstick Bruise

RC Edrington posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 4:27 am
Lipstick Bruise Review (out of print)  Lipstick Bruise is a small (10-poems), downloadable e-Chapbook which was originally published as a conventional print chapbook. Edrington's own Spent Angel Press has been experimenting with 'virtually' releasing his previously hardcopied chapbooks. Spent Angel...
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Bitter Comes Out Better On A Stolen Guitar (2012)

RC Edrington posted an article on - Jan 10, 2012, 5:35 pm
I am not sure who I have a stronger distaste for, interent Readers or internet Authors. With the wide spread popularity of the net, suddenly hacks everywhere had something to say and a vehicle to get it in front of an audience. I am not certain this is a good thing. While I champion free speech, I a...
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Hypocrisy is Policy In The 2012 Election

RC Edrington posted an article on - Jan 8, 2012, 12:20 am
Even though I have given up on the political system in this country, I feel the need to point out a few items. There's an old adage that says: “You are allowed to your opinion but you are not allowed to YOUR facts”. So regardless of your political affiliation, no one can deny the FACT that Obama...
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Zygote In My Coffee #9

RC Edrington posted an article on - Dec 19, 2011, 11:36 am
Zygote In My Coffee #9 is now available for pre-order. By pre-ordering you save $2 off the $10 cover price (shipping is included). This is issue includes a great cover by Cheryl Townsend. Some of the authors included are Ross T. Runfola, Doug Draime, Bradley Mason Hamlin, J.J. Campbell, Carl Miller ...
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Where Did The Poetry Go?

RC Edrington posted an article on - Dec 16, 2011, 2:31 pm
For those who have yet to notice, I have removed all my original poetry from this blog. The free ride is over. If you wish to read my stuff, please feel free to frequent the numerous online e-zines and journals that publish it. My stuff also appears in numerous print journals, anthologies, and books...
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Ten Page Press Reader - Vol. 3

RC Edrington posted an article on - Dec 9, 2011, 12:02 pm
Ten Page Reader - Vol. 3 is now published and available for free download in pdf format. Authors include David McLean, Kyle Hemmings, Andrew Taylor, Mamta Madhavan, Craig Scott, Kevin Ridgeway, RC Edrington, Mickael Dickel, and Catfish McDaris.   Check it out while it's still fresh: Ten Page Pres...
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MUST Microzine

RC Edrington posted an article on - Nov 30, 2011, 11:45 am
MUST Street Zine is a small microzine with a lo-tech aesthetic, easy to copy, easy to spread. The goal is to share the written words of talented writers and artists in an easy format. If you have questions about MUST, get in touch with me, Lynn Alexander.  Issue #17 features poetry by Frankie Met...
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Flesh Wounds

RC Edrington posted an article on - Nov 28, 2011, 1:18 pm
My new e-chapbook, Flesh Wounds, is now available from Ten Page Press. You can download it as a free PDF file. Please feel free to leave comments. This e-chapbook contains 10 of what I believe are some of my best pieces. To view and download:  Flesh Wounds by RC EdringtonRC Edrington
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Kerouac's Dog Magazine

RC Edrington posted an article on - Nov 24, 2011, 12:13 pm
It’s a bold and exciting platform for new writing, design, illustration, photography, architecture, fashion, and creativity in general. Bound together with overarching themes of freedom; truth; beauty; love; travel; wanderlust; sex; taboo; and fringe. It’s an opportunity for established and aspi...
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Use Once & Destroy Review 2

RC Edrington posted an article on - Nov 8, 2011, 4:54 am
Edrington takes no prisoners. Everything here is raw reality, written in technicolour. Often the language is shocking, sensual and serious. I don't give full marks to much work I review, but there again, Edrington's work is seriously good. Of the 35 poems, I marked 18 as five star — if, however, y...
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Use Once & Destroy Review

RC Edrington posted an article on - Nov 8, 2011, 4:43 am
RC Edrington, a bartender from Arizona, provides a different type of gritty, urban realism, one more in the tradition of Chas Bukowski and Bill Burroughs where life has a toxicological centre. But, pastiche it is not. Though perhaps being heard from the same direction, Edrington's is a distinct voic...
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Ocotillo

RC Edrington posted an article on - Oct 13, 2011, 3:29 am
hot oil bleeds from the rusted gut of a junked motorcycle like mascara down a bruised cheek in the dust beer bottles scatter shanks of gold teeth into the sun flowers I remember the bloody bloom of ocotillo hemorrhaging against a cement gray monsoon sky & your face almost forgotten now like some sac...
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Broken Romeo

RC Edrington posted an article on - Oct 2, 2011, 10:32 pm
you wielded the skeleton key to my center tho it were a silver crucifix blessed by magic to still your heartbeat against these dope addled & corrupted nights, but when you found boredom & frustration in the demon I failed to tame daily & nightly in this rundown studio apartment with t...
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Pornographic Novel

RC Edrington posted an article on - Oct 2, 2011, 10:25 pm
The way a drunken cock sadly begs for penetration, she pokes the syringe up and down the worn veins in her frail tattooed arm. From the bedroom window, I am left alone to witness the whispering wound of moonlight bleed shadows thru cottonwood branches clinging like black fishnet stockings ...
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Tattooed Beat Messiah

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 24, 2011, 2:25 am
She sucks a Marlboro then huffs the smoke thru her flared nostrils reminding me of the tattooed basilisk guarding her left breast. Pretends to be reading when she's only flipping thru the pages of "On the Road". I toss back another shot of Cuervo, then suck a lemon wishing we were making love instea...
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NIght

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 19, 2011, 5:52 pm
frailty planned & careful like first kiss lost I listen please whisper my name the tremble of fingers day a bitter rival lost words so sudden? silence birds... not even permitted a shotgunRC Edrington
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Stay

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 19, 2011, 5:44 pm
in absence of my chest ablaze in a fiery tangle of your teased red hair, you sleepily exale a kaleidoscope of dreams and promises left unfilled while this drunken hero splashes brandy into a plastic cup, inhales the butt of night for its last hit of smoke, then grinds it away into the bedpost. I kno...
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A Moment of Clarity

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 19, 2011, 5:38 pm
A 5th of Johnny Walker Red shatters on the black and white tiled bathroom floor. 3 a.m. begins to slide between my fingers like a partial birth abortion splashing down the leg of an antique, porcelain tub. This is not the romantic piece you wanted me to write. Nor am I the glorified, drunk poet sing...
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Red Fez September 2011

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 15, 2011, 8:31 am
The new Red Fez is out with a fresh coat of paint and new design. Chock full of great poetry and fiction, this is a must read issue. I have a piece entitled "Melissa Sometimes" included. Support the small press publishers and writers! Red Fez.RC Edrington
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Open Wide Magazine Issue 25

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 22, 2011, 4:04 pm
Open Wide Magazine issue twenty-five (ISSN 1745-4390), our special tenth anniversary print edition, out now! This glossy paperback is filled with ninety-four pages of writing from forty-three of our favourite contributors of the last ten years. Featuring poetry from: Rebecca Schumejda, William Tayl...
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End of Year Update 2010

RC Edrington posted an article on - Dec 23, 2010, 7:24 am
Polluto 7 has been published, and is now available for purchase: £7.99 + £3 P&P, from the UK. It contains a wide selection of my stuff. From the publisher: "From bone-crushing lovers to a cross-dressing hitman, the night-soil man of the gods and sex conditioning on squids, the dangerous desires of...
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Home

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 18, 2010, 8:50 pm
After spending around 5 years in Arkansas getting my head put squarely on my shoulders and feet solidly under me, it's time to say good bye to the Bible Belt. At the end of October I will be returning home to Tucson, Arizona. During this time I have written, what I believe to be, some of my better "...
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Fragment 3:47 a.m.

RC Edrington posted an article on - Sep 14, 2010, 12:51 pm
sirens rise then melt like butter into jazz blue note sky & now words only stagger like drunken dancers across a page yellow & crumpled into a black trash can like a rose whose meaning's left forgot to ants that zigzag the browning petalsRC Edrington
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The End?

RC Edrington posted an article on - Aug 18, 2010, 12:34 pm
I am giving serious and clear thought to shutting down this blog for good. I think it has pretty much played out its purpose. Haven't reached a final decision yet, but should you come here and find it gone then you'll know what happened. Those wishing to remain in contact who I do not talk to on a r...
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Black Dub - the debut album featuring "I Believe In You" - out 11/2/10

RC Edrington posted an article on - Aug 7, 2010, 11:50 pm
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Autobiographic Ramblings

RC Edrington posted an article on - Aug 6, 2010, 10:37 pm
"When they tell you what you do for a living tell them you're a truck diver." Thank you, Mark Weber. A very wise writer, for taking the time to type me those lines after reading my very first chapbook published close to, god, what? 20 years ago? I had just discovered what a chapbook was. I had just ...
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You People Aren't For Real. You Watch...Television.

RC Edrington posted an article on - Aug 6, 2010, 10:26 pm
Last thing anyone wanted, or needed was another political rant from RC. So, I'll give you one...Not that anyone tunes in anyway. Don't worry folks, This isn't CNN or Fox News. I promise not to scare the kiddies. I may sell them dope...but I'll leave the brainwashing to the experts. Better writers...
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August Update:

RC Edrington posted an article on - Aug 3, 2010, 3:31 pm
* I will taking some time from listing entries in this blog. * I will be moving back home to Arizona sometime in March 2011. * I have several projects going on that look promising, so I felt it was a good idea to ignore this blog for a bit. * I will post any breaking news I deem worthy concerning pu...
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Wreckage: CD

RC Edrington posted an article on - Jul 22, 2010, 12:59 am
I have decided to act on numerous suggestions I have received over the years. I am currently putting together an audio collection of my writings spanning the twenty year period  between 1990-2010. It will be a healthy dose of the older stuff and the newer stuff, read by yours truly...along with wha...
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Note From The Chameleon

RC Edrington posted an article on - Jul 11, 2010, 10:58 am
I have enjoyed my relative rest and relaxation in the Ozark Mountains. I needed a break from the hustle and bustle of people and their petty self serving bullshit that stripped true meaning from everything. It gave me a chance to reflect on the impossible absurdity of day to day existence and focus ...
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Tainted Coffee Press: No More

RC Edrington posted an article on - Jun 16, 2010, 6:41 am
For those looking to order my latest chapbook Apocalypse Generation, it has run its print cycle and is no longer available. Readers were given plenty of time to pre-order and plenty of notice to order once the book made print. In addition, all personally signed editions are sold out. There is simply...
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The Process of Whoring Out

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 26, 2010, 10:49 am
When this blog began in 2006, I was reaching out to an audience of one: myself. I had lost that person during my time on the barrio streets of 2005 and earlier. Abandoned him like the house I ended up living in and the friends I had left behind. But all that is well documented. Not only here in thi...
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Dope Magazine #2

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 23, 2010, 12:04 pm
That's right kids, Debbie Kirk is up to what has now become her yearly madness...publishing Dope Magazine. New to the shooting gallery? Grab a rig and read this great review of Dope Magazine Issue # 1 by M. K. Chavez over at Cherry Bleeds online Journal: Virgin Eyes. I was honored to be in invited ...
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Congratulations Kate Class 0f 2010

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 21, 2010, 8:29 am
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101 Constitutional Questions To Ask Candidates

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 20, 2010, 2:30 pm
Identifying Constitutional Candidates But how can you tell when a candidate for political office is really a Constitutionalist?" If the candidate is already in office he will have a voting record which will clearly show whether or not he is a Constitutionalist. Several organizations monitor the Cong...
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Writing & Stuff Like That...

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 20, 2010, 4:54 am
Spent most of the evening in high scribble mode compiling a submission package for the UK magazine Polluto, and got them sent off for next issue. In just 7 quarterly issues, Polluto has become one of the top literary and art journals in the UK publishing top quality writers in a top quality format. ...
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Musings Before My Morning Swim

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 19, 2010, 11:31 am
Getting ready for my morning swim. Beats getting ready for my morning fix or morning snort. Survival is a good thing and I have often said what I have lacked in initial knowledge, time and age has finally blessed me with wisdom. I have learned to accept and worship the flaw. That is what makes us wh...
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for Mark Weber, Ron Androla & CAT

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 17, 2010, 1:59 pm
"When they ask you what you do for a living tell them you're a truck diver." Thank you, Mark Weber. A very wise writer, for taking the time to type me those lines after reading my very first chapbook published close to, god, what? 20 years ago? I had just discovered what a chapbook was. I had just s...
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Fred Brooklyn Show 5/16/2010 | RIP DIO

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 17, 2010, 12:39 am
From time to time I will bring the readers of my blog a treat. That's right free of charge! The Fred from Brooklyn Podcast originating from the basement of one Mr Fred from where else, Brooklyn. Enjoy! Feedback is welcome through email. Fred rants on various topics from politics, Weird But True, Ask...
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Quote of the Day

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 16, 2010, 3:46 pm
You wanta antagonize me? Antagonize me motherfucker. Get in the ring motherfucker. And I'll kick your bitchy little ass. Punk. -- A. RoseRC Edrington
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.357 Chrome: Art vs Truth

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 16, 2010, 1:18 pm
A few years back I wrote this short story based on a real life incident. I went for humor and left out the tough guy machismo to get a funny point across. It's called literature. Poetic license. I use it a lot. One day my best friend and partner in crime came across it in an online journal and decid...
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Soul Clearing

RC Edrington posted an article on - May 16, 2010, 8:10 am
I went for a morning jog to clear the head. It does wonders these days. I've decided that those who wish to dwell in the past are welcome to dwell there and rot. Instead, I have places to go and people to see. I continue my journey. My sole justification for doing what I do has, is and will always b...
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