I, Too, at the Beginning I am the early Black Beat I read with some of the Best Beat minds When the Apple was Beat Generating I lived in Greenwich Village I was there Where I read poems and … [Read more...]
2 poems by Mateo Lara
Finally, my hands are glowing For all the transgender warriors’ lives lost in 2017 Chico, hear me out, 25 of my deities have vanished this year. Their colors stain my skin and I want them … [Read more...]
3 poems by Alexis Quinlan
You’re alone in a room you have nothing for (and by) Vito Acconci When I started out as a poet didn’t want abstraction abstraction used by religion politics didn’t want any of that. … [Read more...]
2 poems by Rikki Angelides
No Place I started a project for an isolated tree I know googled “unconventional girdle use” and looked at the girdle section on Amazon I showed that tree a video called “How to Perform a … [Read more...]
Two poems by Trace DePass
attn: you who take us by force, a palindrome i thought about what i would say at your lightning which pierced me, how each he has to forgive him: for this. me running to forgive him; you, boy … [Read more...]
2 poems by Brook Bhagat
I Get Found, 1974 My beloved was born with a pebble in his hand, a red stone burning. He dropped it in the moment between the womb and the catching, the landing in hands, twisted down for just … [Read more...]
2 poems by Zachary Lavoie
early october i have nightmares in the honeysuckle hour between sunrise and when you wakebruises from sleeping with my legs crossed tightly and my arms under … [Read more...]
4 Poems by Larry Beckett
46 Kerouac’s walking in the memory snow, in a short story, over the lost diamond, dusk coming on, he’s got to hurry: after the lover’s sonnets, holy psalms; summers of indulgence, this winter … [Read more...]
A poem by Mohammad Afandideh
we have made the weapons we have devoured the chests do not accuse the words maybe "war" wishes to be the name of a flower. … [Read more...]
Three new poems by Mark Young
A line from Woody Guthrie Real men now care about skincare. They perm their hair, have their eyebrows shaped. It's been going on for over a year, part of a major breakthrough in the … [Read more...]
Two poems by Brittany Helmick
My Self-Care I’ve learned, is to keep my lavender growing. My daughter says she is scared to go to school. Says she is worried because the president hates Mexicans. I pulled the sage … [Read more...]
Lemon Calls to Lemon: The Visual Poetics of D. H. Lawrence, Jack Spicer, and Robert Kroetsch
I’m intrigued by images that recur in an individual poet’s work or across several poets’ works. Rocks, for instance, have a fascinating poetic pedigree in the English language, from Wordsworth’s … [Read more...]
4 poems by Mark Terrill
Ode to the Obvious A road untraveled like a fever unmeasured, the distance vaporizing in the heat of the moment; the representations are no longer visible. The world takes on a hue. … [Read more...]
3 poems by Matthew Woodman
Self-Portrait I’ve fashioned profession out of crow call and graphite, blind stubbing blunt instruments against a blank white sky. Ain’t how fall you far what gets you. It’s the lines you … [Read more...]
No Meaning: 4 poems by Michael Lehman
//// Names cut in aspen wiped out by a bear claw No meaning but this Big Woods A thousand years of stillness No thought but breath out at dawn in at sunset Mist along … [Read more...]
6 found-word collages by J.I. Kleinberg
Part of a series that now numbers in excess of 1500, these pieces are assembled from unaltered magazine text in which each "chunk" is roughly the equivalent of a poetic line and without attributable … [Read more...]
5 Poems by Jeff Bagato
Swimmers on 20th Street Swimmers on 20th weave thru traffic with long strokes, kicking up foam & high, lone spire, wet motion rising & collapsing at the same time, mute … [Read more...]
Poems by Heidi Williamson
The weight of news ‘I had lost not only a place but the past that goes with it, the clues from which to construct a present self.’ Eavan Boland, Object Lessons Until I walked this road … [Read more...]
6 poems by Lucas Margarit, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
piety 1 1 A signal emitted by birds at the coldest moment of night. There is no longer devotion to holy things. Representation outside the borders of a wall-less cemetery. Raised rebuilding of … [Read more...]
3 poems by Kyle Harvey
The World Beyond the Poem for Neeli Cherkovski The pumpkins are almost big enough to carve to let rot on the front porch the death of it the candle wax & mold of it the … [Read more...]