Walking Among Tombstones in the Fog by Alan Catlin / Presa Press / Perfectbound Paperback / ISBN: 978-0-9965026-4-1 / 72 pages Alan Catlin's latest collection of poetry reflects both the … [Read more...]
Three Poems by Andrew Galan
Ventures in hidden corners The park is empty green the day a pretty blue cold she graces grey strapless tulle couture while floating Parc des Buttes Chaumont with 50 meters underfoot in … [Read more...]
Back Principles: Poems by Stephen Bett
Back Principles (1) : you have my back You have my back, will teach me buddhist principles for non-fretting If you have my back, nothing to fret about (non?) But seriously, even … [Read more...]
Two poems by Ojo Taiye
after sunset i am listing everything I know legwork becomes the popularity of the sun spelling your name backwards means going into a trance the sky is falling from my mouth and stars baking … [Read more...]
Dan Wilcox’s “Inauguration Raga” poem now available from A.P.D.
A.P.D. (a presidential disaster) announces the publication of Inauguration Raga, by Dan Wilcox, a 16-page chapbook of a poem improvised on January 20, 2017. The poem was written from 10:00am to … [Read more...]
Six poems by Alfred K. LaMotte
ELECTION I voted. I voted for the rainbow. I voted for the cry of a loon. I voted for my grandfather's bones that feed beetles now. I voted for a singing brook that sparkles under a … [Read more...]
Three poems by Nate Maxson
The New Year The cinema show behind us rages like a storm to static Silhouettes for the voyeurs, flashing documentation of bruises shaped like butterflies Sown to shadow and the ticking of … [Read more...]
Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai
MAGNIFYING The period during which God is still able to undo the creation is an average life expectancy. As the average age increases year by year, it’s all the more obvious that God becomes … [Read more...]
eye the beholder
“eye the beholder” is a mixed media digitally manipulated project that presents visual experiences through layering. The layered pieces are composed of both opaques and transparencies, colours, … [Read more...]
I am Born of Nobility
I am born of nobility, of noble parents, of the streets of Highbridge aged in the tract homes of Levittown. I am their son, they could have done better. I am of the nobility of kitchens and car … [Read more...]
Poems by Michael S. Begnal
Homage to Yoko Ono 1. Be it ones unjustly reviled who become atavistic avatars bringing out the marvelous mellifluistic magnum opera (opus plural) in all her musicians plumbing the … [Read more...]
Prayers Made Out of Christmas: Poems
PRAYERS MADE OUT OF CHRISTMAS Bach fugues and silence! That organ within my mind exhales the snapped note toward darkness ...and outside the days lean and wait for snow or drizzle to … [Read more...]
An Old Near Abandoned Kitchen: Poems
AN OLD NEAR ABANDONED KITCHEN In that crypt where dead thoughts are stashed these classical notes wander my brain and peel off the scents of musty numb and muted pain born of the music of the … [Read more...]
footnotes from history — the debord variations
these variations are based on guy debord's footnotes to his essay comments on the society of the spectacle written in 1988 * Guilt - culbabilite - colpa - schuld Otherwise no results … [Read more...]
Six poems by Gloria Avner
Away friends write home from Myanmar Havana Tiruvanamallai Upsalla like scents of sandalwood and spices for authentic alu ghosh exotic place names conjure memory and saliva make me want … [Read more...]
Poems of Place
The Arches of Isfahan When we recited poetry in Isfahan, the Bridge of Thirty-Three Arcs stretched to embrace the firmament. The songs you brought to life were meteorites, detonating in … [Read more...]
A Different Inspiration: Poems
A Different Inspiration Flashes of epileptic light induce the brains of the spiritually dead to turn their thoughts from blood-drunk Hades and the muddy rivers of their sleep ...and to inch … [Read more...]
Poem for a Lady Boy
First, I must clarify I know nothing about you How could I understand How the German man’s lips taste between cigarettes Second, I would like to sing you a song I will pay you, colored papers … [Read more...]
Taking the Poet at his Word: Editing the Poems of T. S. Eliot
When T. S. Eliot summed up his life’s work in 1963, two years before he died, it was in a Collected Poems of fewer than 250 pages. But when Christopher Ricks and I published The Poems of T. S. Eliot … [Read more...]
Into Jazz: Five Poems
1. FALLUJAH Training in the woods at Fort Lewis, Washington, on patrol and for a moment quite alone, you happen upon a trillium, moon-silver secret revelation piercing fern green … [Read more...]