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Madison Murray is always a delight. Exciting delivery. Sexy vibes. Poets that know what it means to come (and how to format a tercet and project their voice) is a welcome change to the monotone drone of those that only know how to snipe online.

Hosted by: Dr. Kasey Calebaugh and Koda Mehalba. Special Guest: Writer, Artist & Creative Force (and author of 'My Gaping Masshole'): Madison Murray.

A tart is born: Announcing Madison Murray’s fiction, poems, collages. The collection is replete with references to Boston (especially North Shore, Massachusetts). You know, Dunkin Donuts, clam chowdah, the Red Sox Big Green Monstah, Paul Revere, etc. My Gaping Masshole is one unholy, whole, big-ass jam on the concept. Murray’s lewd charm stains every page. My fave parts are Murray’s stories, with real laff-per-paragraph settings, characters, dialog. Of today’s several new writers who are also sex workers (or sex worker-adjacent), Murray is the raunchiest… and funniest.

"My Gaping Masshole" is a coffee table book for people who don't have coffee table books. It's for regular people. This is where it differs from the insular world of poetry (complimentary). It's art for guys that like roast beef sandwiches. Girls who like plumbers. Tech bros with fetishes they don't talk about.

5 books I read recently & loved: Victoria Brooks Silicone God, Madison Murray My Gaping Masshole, Margaret Ross Saturday, Arreshy Young CODON, Chris Kelso On Melting: Essays Against the Body

MY GAPING MASSHOLE is a townie manifesto, a founding fathers full-spread, and a bedtime story collection for sugar daddies written with the seductive impunity of a whore-anthropologist.

The world has a new folk hero, and no, we don’t mean Luigi Mangione. We’re talking about Madison Murray: When her spoof of the Market Basket logo to promote her erotic art and poetry book prompted a cease-and-desist from the beloved local supermarket, she wound up ceasing-and-desisting her way right into our hearts.

Cult-favorite grocer Market Basket has found itself at odds with a North Shore artist and writer whose racy play on the chain’s logo and “More For Your Dollar” slogan prompted a cease-and-desist letter last week.

The huge New England grocery store chain Market Basket hasn’t taken too kindly to the author of a “comically perverted” art book on Massachusetts’ North Shore — it’s issued a cease and desist order for her use of its logo as the template for her decidedly profane own logo.