Open The Gates Of Those Who Exist Beyond Reproach
Nobody is beyond reproach, not even the gay community. Paul Smit explores the darkness of coping mechanisms within the gay community.
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Sep 7, 20222 min read
An Old darkness deepens
In this story... an apple turns its back on the ripening sun.
Aug 19, 20229 min read
Vampire Girl: Chapters 4-6
Is being a predator the new feminism? Find out in Chapters 4-6 of Vampire Girl. At the very least, being a vampire girl is outrageous!
Aug 11, 20224 min read
Another Exhibit at the Museum of Darkness
Cranberry Sin is a guerilla for dignity and likes to combine lovesickness with depraved populist energy.
Aug 10, 20224 min read
Poems By Andrew Levy
Andrew Levy writes on the intersections of class and the ecology of commerce, and experimental music and the digitalization of freedom.
Jul 28, 20226 min read
Dim Bulbs
Gregg Williard's "Dim Bulbs" is an enquiry in words and drawings into right-wing "strategized" or "weaponized" stupidity
Jul 22, 20222 min read
Poems By Robert Beveridge
Three poems by Robert Beveridge that explore the East, divination, and the pursuit of life.
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Letter From The Editor: The Meta Ethics Of Poetry
A new editorial policy practiced here at The GroundUp.
Jun 22, 20224 min read
Burning Books
Steven Pearl Andrews thinks more texts should be bannable. Find out why!
Jun 10, 20221 min read
Adam's Exile
Poem by Kris Green called “Adam’s Exile” wherein our presence in nature ensures that the worlds in which we inhabit remain touched and untou
May 28, 20227 min read
Vampire Girl: Chapters 1-3
In the first three chapters of the satirical novel Vampire Girl, newly minted vampire Mayra navigates online dating and identity politics.
May 26, 20221 min read
Poems By Benjamin Nardolilli
The Empire State, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere," concrete jungle, Ginsberg's Moluch. This is Benjamin Nardolilli's NY.
May 20, 202211 min read
Secondhand Child Abuse: Parental Trust In American Ideologies, An Act Of Neglect
The state doesn't care about you. And it doesn't care about your children. Find out why the u.s. formula shortage is grounds for revolution.
May 19, 202210 min read
When My Grandmother Went to the Moon
A young girl looks for a fairytale in a brutal world. The rodents don't sing to her, but they eat her quesadillas in this short story.
May 18, 20223 min read
The Saints Need Bloom
Poem by Àngel Vàsquez called The Saints Need Bloom, which addresses diaspora, family, love, and Santería ritual.
May 11, 20225 min read
I’d Love to Change the World
Stephen Pearl Andrews, columnist for The Errant Compass, reflects on poets and poetry. Poets as provocateur? Poetry as terror? Read and see.
May 2, 202210 min read
I too am a border woman
A memoir through poetry that explores the Borderlands in spaces mental and physical.
Apr 27, 202214 min read
Movie
If you believe in something enough, things will happen. Such as rips in spacetime.
Apr 20, 20221 min read
Four Tanka Very Much Poems From Ukraine
Four Tanka Poems From Ukraine Very Much Decalogue+ about the war in Ukraine.
Apr 18, 202222 min read
Memoirs Of A Bearcat: Arrestable Girls, Frontline Girls, Oh-How-I-Love-those-Dog-Bitten-Maced-Girls
Part 5 of the Memoirs Of A Bearcat series dealing with the recuperation efforts of Standing Rock organizers and their resistance efforts.
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