In 1981, the poet Latif Harris was working at — and living above — Browser Books in its former location a block up from the current store on Fillmore Street. Harris was behind the front counter when, … [Read more...]
Readings and Book Release: Latif Harris’ Barter Within the Bark of Trees
Latif Harris' new poetry collection, Barter Within the Bark of Trees, is newly released by Duende Press. About Latif Harris Harris grew up in Los Angeles but relocated to San Francisco in 1958 … [Read more...]
Todd Clouser: five poems from the Forest in Hidalgo
DRUNK DREAM It has been 5 years since I quit the drugs that were skinning my heart They, I, still make me dream about them That I was stone tongued and the Cause of laughter and awoke Shadowed … [Read more...]
A Stranger’s Education in the Arts: Poems
A STRANGER'S EDUCATION IN THE ARTS A brain with its echoes finds constancy in classical romantic serenade and a mirror in the later centuries' leap into expressionism dancing close to … [Read more...]
Bread and Circus – a poem by Todd Clouser
South of the imaginary lines where the uniformed and ironed men and and women that look like boys and girls, skin on the face still soft, wear their gloves and glasses bad men are winning the … [Read more...]
Four Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte
PULVERIZED I pulverized your jaw with a knuckle sandwich but you fought back blossoming your hyacinth. Then I shattered a quart of Colt 45 on the ivory lingam of your skull but you exfoliated … [Read more...]
4 spring poems
Ache Awakening In a moment where the yard explodes in air about infested with sky blue expanse in twigs straining to bud near left over winter mud and cars rip by in dense exhaust ...mirrored … [Read more...]
‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
Artist's statement: Weather reports rarely come true. Sometimes people changes their mind like sudden rain. They are falling and laughing like the sun-shower of letters. … [Read more...]
The Poetry of Walking
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the … [Read more...]
Stars, Salt & Sparrows: A Review of Ted Kooser’s “Splitting An Order”
Splitting An Order by Ted Kooser / Copper Canyon Press / 2014 / 84 pages / 978-1556594694 Overview The light of Ted Kooser is the everyday. To most of us these moments disappear, without … [Read more...]
Moon Songs: two poems by Matthew Woodman
Salving the Tidewrack How to carve a driftwood lover: Begin by conjuring contours and proportions. Find a blank that speaks promise and between from among the other tangled flotsam populating … [Read more...]
A dozen collages by hiromi suzuki
Artist's statement: I think the collages are poetry without words. Sometimes I contribute my collages with my poems to poetry magazines, or publish on my site. My collages are made by … [Read more...]
Five poems by Sam Silva
MUSICAL STILL LIFE WITH COMPUTER Guitar serenade ...the plucked harp of my soul lingers as well in the cave I made of my heart with its hole echoing through computer wires with their … [Read more...]
Where The Hell is Shafi Hadi?*
(*Saxophone player Shafi Hadi, born Curtis Porter, is best-known for his association with jazz legend Charles Mingus, and played on the seminal recording Mingus Ah Um, from 1959. He dropped out of the … [Read more...]
Poems by Doc Burkard
Out in Stoughton, a few ghosts illuminated by chorus of flickering jack-o-lanterns that edge the windows. I'm on stage, trying to move my fingers over the strings just a little … [Read more...]
Three poems from Burma
WASO LAPYAE This morning Waso Lapyae Brings blue skies And a giant crow Perched upon the sill Of my squat toilet window This afternoon The heavy rain Gives me a headache … [Read more...]
Poems by Ana Maria Caballero
The Stories of Bedtime I am the only mother And you are the only son Your father He too is the only father The only man His father and my father Are past fathers Stories to tell … [Read more...]
Forgiving Time
He calls me kid I’m almost 34 now And have forgiven myself for getting older I walked past and hopped down to the crooked street Where the short man with baby dark skin sells balloons And blue … [Read more...]
Poems by Michael Bernicchi
sideshow heart all the prettyprizes wait in light all secondhand and shunned but stitched / stuck on tongues just the same we dance alike and you a little girl … [Read more...]
Two poems by Michael Julian
Darjeeling Through My Window Maybe you're eating lunch now, a plate of jasmine rice and naan. I can taste the chai you slowly sip and feel the mountain breeze on my arms. How deep in the … [Read more...]