Category: Poetry
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New collages and poetry by Irina Tall
Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator.
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THE GORKO’S 2025 BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS!
The Gorko’s 2025 BotN nominations are here! Read all eleven pieces here.
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‘the cheesesteak rationale’ and 3 more by Neil Flory
burning over said membrane notion, shitcan probabilities
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Poems by M.P. Powers
for that chilly spring morning when dionysus pulls into the harbor in a cigarette boat and calls me aboard all my life
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‘mexican parties’ and 2 others by Ken Kakareka
is not actually for the person it’s supposed to be for.
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‘After I Read Anne Carson I Know My Life is Wrecked’ by Damon Hubbs
I fall for a derby girl at the Delaware County Fair Her father owns a yogurt empire
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The Theme of the Week is Missing: Lost At The Zoo
Little David Greener, of course, generally goes missing in the Snake House.
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2 poems by Matt Dennison
Stripped to the waist, sweating, curse-working the levers in the dark bath—there!
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3 poems by Cheryl Caesar
bearing the smells that live on hands that held them, backed them into holes, their heads out, passive.
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‘The chicken or the egg?’ by Nolcha Fox
They crashed the party. In a truck. The egg claimed it wasn’t his fault.
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‘Our Ritual’ and 2 more by James Croal Jackson
scrape the wings off my heart and wait wait sixty-five to eighty
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‘Machine Gun Kelly’ by Tempest Miller
and it’s all No and it’s never yes and buddy I know, it’s the law
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The Theme of the Week is UAPs
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (U.A.P.) is the Pentagon’s latest working acronym for ‘submerged and trans-medium objects,’ replacing the antiquated term Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O.).
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‘The Reverie Of Rene Magritte’ by Lynn White
It was the hands that turned it into a nightmare, those pale fragile hands reaching out
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Was Professor Stout in fact the famous modernist poet Gulliver S. Gulliver?
Had GSG been hiding out in California, pretending to be a dumpy, down-and-out literature professor?
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2 new poems by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
the sun turns salt shaker upside down and it rains white smog
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‘Raymond’ and ‘The Shop’ by Bruce Gee
A quiet man of few words. B’Gosh overalls, squat, broad, And loyal.
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‘A Photograph I Want To Paint’ and 2 more by William Taylor Jr.
It’s as good a church as any a temporary haven from the meaner things
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‘Street Work (Forced to Move My Car)’ and 2 more by Hayden Finkelshtain
and take the lawn chair out of the trunk winnie the pooh style no pants just shirt
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‘Palm Sunday’ and 2 more by Bruce Gee
His old man was a GI / War II / Brought home a pretty English bride / Not a happy marriage on Moore Street.
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‘Hot Rod’ and one more by Strider Marcus Jones
fast and furious archangel in paint and chrome brings me home
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8 short pieces by Mykyta Ryzhykh
I will look at my dead phone and believe that Оne day Jack Bass will respond to my message in messenger
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The Theme of the Week is Tessellation Nation
This hurly-burly can best be described by this week’s Theme: we have in effect become a Tessellation Nation.
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‘new york city poem #2’ and 3 more by John Grochalski
frank says, i just turned seventy, man can you believe that horseshit?
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‘AN ODE TO JERKIN AND JERKIN OFF, A JADED JOURNEY SPENT JERKIN OFF, OR JUST ‘JERKIN OFF’, IF THAT’S YOUR THING’ by G.M.H. Thompson
He is home, takin his jerkin off, in the parlor, after he came in.
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‘That Stranger Could Have Been Him’ and 1 more by Kushal Poddar
‘Old’, a keyword in this place, browns away on a wooden plaque on some shop front.
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‘End Rhyme’ by Allan Lake
Common sense superseded by nasty non- sense queueing like so many mosquitoes
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‘moon shot mortuary’ and 4 others by Peter Magliocco
my ebony cockatoo awakens gross-splendor in a formidable lunar module gasping in cheesy release
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The Theme of the Week is Ragamuffins
If you haven’t thought about Ragamuffins in some time, you shouldn’t feel alone.
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‘A Life History in Miniature’ first 3 parts by Bruce Gee
At twenty one a friend of mine said I’m not making as many mistakes as I did last year.
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‘Confessions of a Sea Cucumber’ and 1 more by Gene Goldfarb
You might think we cats dream of mice or balls of yarn and you’d be wrong, it’s not all
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THIS IS WHAT LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI IS WEARING TODAY
GORKO RETREAD! NO NOT REREAD, RETARD, RETREAD. BECAUSE SOME OF THE CLASSIC GORKO ARTICLES ARE OUR FAVORITES. ‘THIS IS WHAT LITERARY CRITIC AND ASSHOLE DON MARKENBALDI IS WEARING TODAY’ FIRST PUBLISHED 17 JULY 2021 17 July 2021 So the three-time…
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‘I’M JUST LUCKY I GUESS’ and 2 more by John Grey
If svelte is style’s first commandment then you obey.
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2 poems by Tauwan Patterson
The shirt accents the chest. Works overtime to pump up the biceps forever trying.
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‘Friday Mornings’ by Lynn White
‘Don’t matter’ the boy said. ‘Don’t go anyway, except for Friday mornings.’
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‘Nostalgia’ by Bhanusree S. Kumar
I Was Just Doing Fine For The First 3 Days / Yet That Was Neither An Escape Nor Solution
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what the poets are doin’: 5 poems by dirt hogg sauvage respectfully
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3 poems by John Zedolik
For the greater portion of the seven-day / span down at the shore, I determined to stay
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2 poems by Sreekanth Kopuri
strings nerve-knotted to the spider’s net glowing on the handy screen that can make love with us
