< Anemone of the State the sea (all those parts pooled into one) upheaves and twists long rocks like dirty shirts on the beach. i jump over the laundry, balancing on a collar before … [Read more...]
Poems by Conley Lowrance
ARCHITECTURE The stairwell is empty. Her steps ricochet off the cement. Around her, the air is filled with impossible odors: foxglove, traces of some unnamable chemical. “This door leads to … [Read more...]
A Song Which the Artist Inspires: Poems
A SONG WHICH THE ARTIST INSPIRES Angel of my thoughts and dreams! Painter of my dusty soul in earthen portrait. Fire around the darkened coal lit alive by such desire. Love like this comes … [Read more...]
Rain Poem
RAIN POEM the rain beats a rhythm against the windshield the wipers flail helplessly like a fish out of water demons to the left of me demons to the right of me demons in front of … [Read more...]
Poems by Sarah Ghoshal
Bus to Big Band Barn For Drummers Boom, he says. Boom and snap and twiddle and pop and digida, digida, find a pillow, find a pot top, find a table top and a couple of spoons, spatulas, sticks, … [Read more...]
3 poems by George Moore
The Order of Things In the days before temptations, when the boys urged on by their Everclear slip-drive madness, consumed everything in their path, I escaped to here, poet nested amid … [Read more...]
Fairy Poems by Laura Madeline Wiseman
Domesticity with Fairies You keep pulling me to you and wrapping your arms around my waist. I’m standing in the kitchen with coffee as the morning wind shakes the red-gold from the trees and you’re … [Read more...]
“Said God, Scratching His Naked Belly in a Kitchen”: Charles Bukowski to Robert Bly
Unlike any other time in U.S. history, the 1950s and ‘60s saw the emergence of multiple literary movements stoked by a flourishing small-press culture. Popular magazines of the time included the New … [Read more...]
The Light Within the Darkness and two more poems
The Light Within the Darkness Chagall's celebrant Russian folklore foreshadowed somehow the deeper sadder island serenity of your dazzling palms which radiate tears and your portraits of tiny … [Read more...]
Poems by Sarah Stockton
North Beach You are so lonely you chat up the dodgy guy parking cars at the Italian restaurant, the place you could never afford, not even a plate of lusted-after spaghetti but you are so … [Read more...]
Detroit, Airport
I am in Detroit and have not slept in a day It is the first snow of their year and I am thinking about the last words my grandfather said to me That I cannot remember Here there is woman with a … [Read more...]
Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence
Although William Wordsworth once stated that he was “not a critic” and, in fact, “set little value upon the art” (Leitch 556), in his “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” he nevertheless proposed and … [Read more...]
Four poems by Sam Silva
WHEN THE POET SEES These facts appear like magic! Those abstract birds you made with wild paint on a tropical canvass seem to my failing eyes now a nocturne where such colors still keep … [Read more...]
Drift Bottle Prose Poems
A Bottled Message I thought it was strange, the first one, mottled blue, corked, a paper coil that ticked when shook. It looks old, you said. It didn’t look old to me, a pale ale or soy sauce, … [Read more...]
In a Time Under Morning’s Spell: Poems
NATURE Darkness or a flickering computer light within are usually a good shield from mental marauders when the fruit is peeled to the fruit's cold core. And the world is molten ash with a … [Read more...]
Two poems by Nick D’Annunzio Jones
Good Morning, God At breakfast, I launch a small pink quasar into a black hole. Minutes later, receptors blocked, serotonin-flooded, my cosmos collapses; heaven-humming, orbiting hypomania, … [Read more...]
…the clouds looked like they were bought at Target or Walmart and then someone hung them up in the sky
I was walking through an empty parking lot, staring down at the ground as I walked. There were dead galaxies and black holes scattered across the pavement. I liked them and found them … [Read more...]
7 new poems by Sam Silva
MY FRIENDS AND I, WE STOLE THE SUMMER My friends and I, we stole the summer and its rain in stumbling secret conversation about the brilliant ways of the city ...all of its joy and all of … [Read more...]
3 Poems by Nate Maxson
Rocket Science We used to send monkeys Ahead of human test subjects Brief astronauts to test the water, blow on the soup before swallowing Into the substance: an evolving arrow with sudden … [Read more...]
The Best Poetry Books by Duarte Canario
Sometimes when I walk I think of verses. And most times they vanish without trail. But there are days where I don't let them go. I recite them out loud to myself constantly as asking them not … [Read more...]