Tag Archives: sex

Black Pearl book launch reading

Watch and listen to Albert DeGenova’s entire 20 minute reading of selected poems from Black Pearl, November 4, 2016, at the Actors Garden in Oak Park, IL.  Standing room only at an event that included the film “Sojourn” by Max DeGenova, music by Cole DeGenova and Courtney Cintron, and a dramatic reading of Anne Sexton’s […]

Black Pearl

Albert DeGenova’s Black Pearl, poems of love, sex and regret is available now from Purple Flag Press. Review by Jennifer Finstrom for Eclectica magazine. Click here to read the online review. I find it difficult to think of a book that is more intimate than Albert DeGenova’s Black Pearl: Poems of Love, Sex and Regret and […]

BloodLotus Online Literary Journal

Click this link to BloodLotus #4 Go to page 45.

The night the wind

The night the wind left you on my doorstep drenched, shivering with rain and tears you carried a small brown paper bag stuffed with toothbrush, underwear, white silk nightgown hasty luggage, narrow escape night flight from a hospital. Prison you called it where they put you because you bought a dog and maybe a dog […]