Category: Poetry
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Lovers on a Grass Rooftop and 1 more by Nikola J Milosavljevic
The horse’s head is speared. The night lit white in lightning flashes.
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The Theme of the Week is Challenging Dinosaurs
The guide to this week’s Theme is designed to eliminate fear of Challenging Dinosaurs. So spread your Cearadactylus wings and make like a Ramphorhynchus!
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A still life and 2 more by DS Maolalai
though the wine was just terrible – warm as a broken refrigerator. bitterly chardonnay and fruitily malbec
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The kapok tree at the edge of the plaza by Nas Jolaade
It remembers a scuffed football swallowing the last of the light
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THE INFLUENCE OF FIFTEEN ANXIETIES by J.R. Solonche
For a moment, I thought I was going to bleed to death.
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Vagrant Mermaid in a Drained Swimming Pool by Darrell Epp
the light won’t change, the meme won’t load, and the true song is stillborn, smothered under static.
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I Won’t Write a Poem About Us by Mileva Anastasiadou
about how we met on a plane years ago, and we talked for a couple hours
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3 poems by Ben Macnair
If anyone else had accepted her call, I would have been none the wiser, but that is the way of these things.
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EARLY ENGLISH by J.R. Solonche
Today I learned that two of the earliest words in English are town and priest
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By the Time You Get Home by Kenneth Nichols
Helps the Ilitches Feed the Tigers and Fuel the Red Wings.
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The One in Which I Punch Ocean Vuong in the Face by Damon Hubbs
because we’re in Amherst before I punched Ocean Vuong in the face we ran into Robert Frost.
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A Real Porker and 2 more by Tim Kahl
Think of all those culinary delights headed for the heartland: Abgoosht, Tevapi, Dalcha, Jamalah, Khorkhog, Macon, Mixiote, Drob, Pinnekjøff, Paomo, Sajji, Navarin, Wazwan.
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The Theme of the Week is 404 Not Found
Ask yourself, is Melanie the kind of poet who would be permalinking where she shouldn’t have been a-permalinking?
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3 new poems by Donna Dallas
what became of her guitar her marigold sweater with the deep pockets that held her Marlboros
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The New Ninety by Carla Sarett
We ate the usual Peking Duck and flew all over and then we were seventy and in-between.
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Woman smoking a pipe and 2 more visual poems by Laszlo Aranyi
Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, visual poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary.
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4 Poems by Mirvat Manal
I’ll throw my hat in this worldly race once more. Penniless & bold I’ll bare it all.
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4 new poems by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
Moonshine murders of the past, dead bodies hidden behind blue walls
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Timmy the Cutter by JD Clapp
He got a job at the local mill, the only place that would hire him, cutting lumber.
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First Sight and some more of the story by Karol Nielsen
My mother was fourteen and my father was sixteen when he first saw her at a Keen Time dance.
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IN THE HOUSE OF SALT, EVERY WINDOW IS AN OPEN WOUND by J.R. Solonche
In the house of courage, there is no need for fathers. In the house of books, there is no need for doors.
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Rhubarb by Gulliver S. Gulliver
Don Rococo knew exactly who Tammy Henson was, and had had her in his sights for some time.
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2 poems by Jason Ryberg
from a sunset that looks like the next county is on fire, through a forest of leafless trees, cracking and rattling all of its limbs
