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The Vietnam Project, 2025

The Vietnam Project, 2025

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 26, 2024 in The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

I just got great news that the Community Arts Partnership in Ithaca has given me a Strategic Opportunity...

The Swans

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 14, 2024 in Blogh, Poetry | 0 comments

The Swans Invisible nameless foes...

Hodoor

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 2, 2024 in The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

The HodoorThe Winter Spring Hotel, which still comes up in an internet search under the Henry Iris name, had...

Sweedler Preserve

Sweedler Preserve

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 5, 2023 in Fiction | 0 comments

Sweedler PreserveMoss and fungiGlowing after rainThen tunnels scythedIn autumn grassThe seat of Heaven...

The Old Walls Are Gone

The Old Walls Are Gone

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 5, 2023 in Fiction | 0 comments

The Old Walls Are GoneMy eyes open on the worldPain in the eaves pain in the skyIn the words passing out of...

The Night Train

The Night Train

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 5, 2023 in Fiction | 0 comments

The Night Train The night train comes,its sole satellite shining on the planetits iron sea become molten...

METAPHYSICS

Posted by jonfrankel on Nov 23, 2022 in Fiction | 2 comments

Metaphysics Reality is a nasty habit. It keeps on getting worse.Time is an addiction.A cradle and a...

Mary Asked About the Water

Mary Asked About the Water

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 20, 2022 in Poetry | 4 comments

Mary Asked About the Water My dreams of water varyconcrete grey a scum of petroldiving downward East River...

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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE

"Frankel once again produces a thrilling futuristic dystopia which includes white-knuckle action, lots of sex and drugs, and a post-menopausal white-haired research scientist heroine who is trying to save the world from her own mad genius." Buy on Amazon | Buy on Whiskey Tit

GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS

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SPECIMEN TANK

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About Jon Frankel

This website is dedicated to my poetry and fiction. The novels, The Man Who Can't Die, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss and The Isle of Dogs are published by Whiskey Tit Press. Writing as Buzz Callaway, I'm the author of Specimen Tank and The Last Bender. Specimen Tank is published by Manic D Press. The Last Bender is published on this website. Currently I'm working on The Vietnam Project, a travel memoir about Vietnam and its long history. I also write book reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. I live in upstate New York with my family and am a retired stacks manager.