Louis Bourgeois lives, writes, and edits in Oxford, Mississippi. His latest book, Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison, was published by VOX PRESS. Currently, he is completing a Rimbaud translation project entitled The Created Body. The poems in this issue of Cum Punk, are from a forthcoming collection, Collen, to be released by VOX PRESS in the fall of 2025.
Matías Bragagnolo, Argentinian, is the author of the novels Petite Mort, El brujo, La balada de Constanza y Valentino, El destino de las cosas últimas, Dormiré cuando esté muerto, and Cloacina. He’s a scholar of the work of William S. Burroughs and the cut-up technique, and a researcher and essayist on matters related to rock, literature and cinema. His short story Your Body as an Assembly Line for Public Humiliations is being published by Anxiety Press in the anthology Tormented Flesh.
“Ain’t it fun when you get so high that you just can’t cum? Or worse, too drunk to fuck. And then an unrequited wet dream.” –Matías Bragagnolo
Jennifer Browne was once described as “a hellcat in the sack [with] the nicest social demeanor.” Like other pronouncements of the 1990s, it hasn’t held up. Her written work can be found at linktr.ee/jenniferabrowne.
John Burroughs is a recent U.S. Beat Poet Laureate and if he were able to beat any poet living or dead it might be Allen Ginsberg, though the late Allen’s stiffness is at this point more hindrance than help. Find John at crisischronicles.com or linktr.ee/johnburroughs.
Karina Bush is an Irish/Roman poet, playwright and novelist. She is the FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SLUT and CEO of the only ethical AI company on the planet, DeepSNAKES. For more, visit karinax.com
“Cum punk means harnessing THE superpower.” –Karina Bush
Kirsten Noelle Craig is another tortured millennial who enjoys consuming way too much caffeine and sad poetry. She is passionate about literacy, nature, and education. You can usually find her writing something, yapping about books, or lifting heavy at the gym. Check her out on all socials with the handle @thespineofmotherhood!
“When I saw ‘Cum Punk’ I immediately thought of pleasure and pain. Rebelling against the softness of the body with all the sharp edges. Naturally, for me that meant horror erotica.” –Kristen Noelle Craig
Cletus Crow is mostly a poet. Jesus Freak and Phallic Symbols are available from Pig Roast Publishing.
Anton Cumcre is an idiot and an asshole who desperately wants to find something positive in the world to hold onto. Generally speaking, they fail. Luckily, they look pretty cute while screaming and ranting a desire to burn everything to the ground and hugging all of you. Their luddite website is antoncancre.blogspot.com. Pronouns: Any/All/Just Not Late For Dinner.
“Cum Punk is what happens when you put Wendy O. Williams and Seth Putnam in the same room.” –Anton Cumcre
C.U.Morgenrede, or Morgenrede, is a Mid-Southern man who takes care of two cats and plays pinball in his off time. He has two self-published collections, Eyes Impaled by Spikes and USING YOUR HAND TO BLOCK OUT THE SUN, and one book of poetry titled ABUSER that is published with Pig Roast Publishing. Selected pieces from these collections have been published at Misery Tourism, DON’T SUBMIT, BRUISER Mag, and elsewhere.
Cock E. Cuntsmart is OG of the full-body thong, making the hideous timeless and eating all of the latest pussy—no trick unturned, no ass unfucked! Cock E. Cuntsmart, histrionic bone collector, purveyor of the disembodied weenie roast, is an alias of Kum V.
Gitane Demone is best known for her vocals in Christian Death (’83-’89), her solo work and bands Crystelles, Gitane Demone Quartet, and a multitude of collaborations. She writes and illustrates, releasing small chapbooks of poetry and prose (The Blood, Vexata Quaestio). Listen at: gitanedemone.bandcamp.com and darkvinylrecords.bandcamp.com
“Cum Punk = Epic freedom.” – Gitane Demone
R.J. Dent is a poet, novelist, translator and short story writer. As a renowned translator of European literature, he has published modern English versions of The Songs of Maldoror (Lautréamont); Speculations (Alfred Jarry); Capital of Pain (Paul Ėluard); Her Three Daughters (Pierre Louӱs); The Surrealist Manifesto and Soluble Fish (André Breton); The Dead Man (Georges Bataille); Stories, Tales, and Fables (Marquis de Sade); The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire); and major works by Louis Aragon, Maurice Rollinat, Rene Crevel and Antonin Artaud. Official website: www.rjdent.com
Charlene Elsby is a philosophy doctor and former professor whose books include Hexis, The Devil Thinks I’m Pretty, Violent Faculties, and Red Flags. Her essays and interviews have appeared in Bustle Books, The Chicago Review of Books, The Millions, and the LA Review of Books.
Lisa A. Flowers is a cinephile, ailurophile, and the founding editor of Vulgar Marsala Press. She is a recluse who lives way up in the mountains. Visit her here.
Ivan Genc is a poet from Petrinja, Croatia. He’s just a dude, like a guy, who cums every once in a while.
“Cum Punk is not for market-oriented shills. It is for artists who write because they have to [bust a nut].” –Ivan Genc
Z.H. Gill lives in Hollywood, CA, with his cat Hans.
“Cum Punk means pleasure and welfare, sacrificing neither one for the other.” –Z.H. Gill
Cody Goodfellow has written nine novels and five collections of short stories, and won three Wonderland Book Awards. His comics work has appeared in Mystery Meat, Creepy, Slow Death Zero and Skin Crawl. He works as a fiction pimp for Heavy Metal Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. codygoodfellow.com
Jesse Hilson practices semen retention and regards orgasms as cosmos-shattering disasters, broken mirrors way worse than seven years’ bad luck.
Mr. Omar King – You’ve seen him on the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly. You can find his frank interviews on Filthy Loot’s Not-Not Famous, Strange Flows, and Adam Lehrer’s Safety Propaganda; his short fictions on Cream Scene Carnival, 100subtexts Magazine, and Elizabeth Ellen’s Hobart. Online, well, he is like a digital nomad; you can find him here, there, everywhere! And now he is the cover boy of the third issue of Beyond the Last Estate. I present to you The Outsider Artist and Writer who resides in Gardena, California. He is the author of An Odyssey of Dingbats! MR. OMAR KING!
Dylan Krieger is a well-hidden house of horrors in the American South. She holds degrees in writing from the University of Notre Dame and Louisiana State University. Her recent work includes Predators Welcome (Limit Zero, 2024) and No One Is Daddy (Saturnalia Books, forthcoming 2026).
Lotte Latham is a professional hedonist with an untidy mind. Author of upcoming chapbooks Maternal Potential (Carrion Press ‘25) and Dear Mr Andrews (Guts Publishing ‘23). When she’s not writing, you’ll find her fucking bottles under the alias: My Babyallgone. Wanna watch?
“Cum Punk feels like baby’s blowing LUV-bubbles at the bukkake party.” –Lotte Latham
Conner Muddiman is a reclusive layabout from Cincinnati, Ohio whose only fuel for his latent narcissism is his talent for gluing words together using sticky mental illness. He hopes his little pieces of upsetting linguistic tomfoolery tickle any receptive parts of your cerebrum with catharsis and aesthetic joy.
Madison Murray is a writer and artist. She is the author of “My Gaping Masshole” (2025), a collection of erotica, poetry, and pornographic collage about North Shore, Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in Stone of Madness Press, dream boy book club, Dirt Child, and BULLSHIT Lit, among others.
“Cum punk—a resourceful pervert who weaponizes ejaculation for world domination.” –Madison Murray
Karter Mycroft is – you know that thing that dogs do, when they start humping an inanimate object because they are stressed out? What’s up with that, anyway?
“Cum Punk = ‘It is possible, in a laboratory setting, to edit the genes of male zebrafish so they produce the sperm of another species. This can result in viable offspring.’” –Karter Mycroft
Hannah/Beaux Neal is a musician, dancer, and poet from Atlanta, GA. Her various projects can be found under the aliases hannahbolecter, lowtown, flea circus, and gunga (forthcoming). Likes: healing power of herbs, sunbathing, cumming. Dislikes: chlorine, small hands, major music festivals.
“Cum Punk is the vital release.” –Beaux Neal
Mark Parsons’ poems have been recently published or are forthcoming in Expat Press, Dreich, Cape Rock, and I-70 Review. His books include, Stills (Southernmost Books in 2023), Lake Tahoe is an Elegy (chapbook, Alien Buddha Press, 2024), Spiral (Anxiety Press, 2025), and The Kingdom of Middle of Children (Southernmost Books, forthcoming, summer 2025). He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Tyler Peterson is a fiction writer from Iowa. His work has appeared in Misery Tourism, Expat Press, Apocalypse Confidential, Back Patio and elsewhere.
“Cum Punk means never having to say, ‘I swear this never happens to me.’” –Tyler Peterson
Jennifer Robin writes smut and transfiguration. Her Cum Punk pieces appear in the excruciatingly autobiographical There Must Be an Invisible Leash, cumming soon on Future Tense Books. Her erotic novel of mad science, Mother Earth’s Avenger, is a hot monster wad about to pop from Oblique Strategies.
“CUM PUNK collapses time. CUM PUNK is every cell an open mouth. CUM PUNK is swan dance, ragtime, acid-flash, perfume-plunge, stalk-taut-shock taut-stalk, tautology fuck-me.” –Jennifer Robin
Alex Rost runs a commercial printing press outside of Buffalo, NY.
“Cum Punk is a reminder to let fucking loose.” –Alex Rost
Jeff Schneider was the guitarist for Arab On Radar and Made in Mexico. He is the author of Psychiatric Tissues (The Arab On Radar Book), Gallons Per Minute, and the novels Therapists Gone Wild and Rockin Out on the Mainline. Jeff is the editor-in-chief of Pig Roast Publishing.
“My band probably was in the Cum Punk genre. I guess, I’m literal lensed, so I’d say that iconic picture of GG Allin in daisy dukes, spread eagle, with his junk visible; a zoom in of said junk probably is what Cum Punk means to me.” –Jeff Schneider
Jack Skelley is the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e)) and Myth Lab (Far West). His band is Lawndale (SST records).
Eric Subpar is a poet from Washington State whose work has appeared in Don’t Submit, Bruiser, and Hobart. His debut novel, GHOULS IN LOVE, is forthcoming from Pig Roast Publishing.
“Cum Punk is the transmission of joy. The transmission of sorrow. The transmission of fluids.” –Eric Subpar
Gina Tron is the author of several poetry collections and memoirs, including Suspect, described by The Rumpus as “a story of trying to fit in and failing.” Her journalism has appeared in The Washington Post, VICE, and more. She’s also a rape survivor-advocate whose work spurred DOJ action.
Kum V invented Cum Punk and is EIC of Cum Punk Editions. She is currently lost in her own funhouse, pursuing a PhD at Pee Wee’s Whorehouse with a concentration in the Esoteric Order of the Cum Cow. She is a free-range dairy farmer of the bovine divine and moonlights as Cock E. Cuntsmart.
