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AUTO-DIDACTITUDE

AUTO-DIDACTITUDE

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 1, 2010 in Blogh, other poets | 7 comments

The serious scholarly activity of PhD poets, sane and measured as it is, or purports to be, is simply...

Retards In Name Only

Retards In Name Only

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 30, 2010 in Blogh | 0 comments

First off, I apologize to mentally retarded people, developmentally disabled people, mentally-challenged...

Wedding Pics

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 26, 2010 in Blogh | 1 comment

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Wedding Poem

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 24, 2010 in Poetry | 3 comments

I wrote this poem for my daughter Elizabeth and her husband, Scott, and read it at their wedding last...

Moldy Preachers

Moldy Preachers

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 19, 2010 in other poets, Poetry | 0 comments

On False Naivete Not long ago i sent my curmudgeonly friend Philip a Kimya Dawson song I like, and he sent...

Posted by jonfrankel on Aug 12, 2010 in Poetry | 0 comments

Day 1 i have loved lies the Iâ€™s of deception remote and infinite there is no gesture that can brink it and...

journal poem

Posted by jonfrankel on Jul 2, 2010 in Poetry | 0 comments

5.22.96 framed by the shirt she cannot kiss back his bad groping taste between them like a bloom of ocean...

Adventures in Good Clean Living

Adventures in Good Clean Living

Posted by jonfrankel on Jul 1, 2010 in Blogh | 0 comments

My friend and saviour Stacey has a new blogh, about homesteading with her friend Scott in in remote regions...

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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.