Allan Britt

As long as we're here, we're here for each other: Einstein, Derrida, Stan the stall mucker, Silvia Plath all alive at the Golden Globes, Marilyn staying with a friend that night, George not smoking so much, & Federico with an atom bomb in his pocket; we're here for each other. Otherwise, plunge your phallus into any available alien reproductive sliver, you hope, but an alien, nonetheless; although the alien you plunder might resemble Great Aunt Hazel or a severe matron breastfeeding your greatest grandfather. Anyway, go back further than that & all you'll hear is the shiver of bananabitten fronds on a volcanic moonless October night.

Allan Britt: In August 2015, Alan Britt was invited by the Ecuadorian House of Culture Benjamín Carrión in Quito, Ecuador as part of the first cultural exchange of poets between Ecuador and the United States. In 2013, he served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. He has published 15 books of poetry, his latest being Violin Smoke (Translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar and published in Romania: 2015). He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.