Category: Poetry
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‘Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram’ by Karol Nielsen
It may not have been what my friend imagined but I was prolific.
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‘Trying to Sleep’ by Bo Ransom
But the beers aren’t Hitting the system yet, which Might be why this poem blows.
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‘brigid’ and 2 more by Sadie Kromm
it was time that made me realize characters and instances are not inclusively assigned.
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‘The Wedding I Attended This Weekend’ by H.L. Dowless
Big enough from which the nude bride to climb, / Yet remaining neatly tucked away inside.
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Poetry for sale by Alannah Guevara
screen lit watch buzz frantic anxious eyes adjust. pause, let the mind catch up.
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‘Kierkegaard’s Submission Guidelines’ by Jon Doughboy
Read the tedious or cutesy or idiotic submission guidelines, and you will regret it; ignore said stupid guidelines and you will also regret it.
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‘Time & Rockets & Opposites’ and 2 more by Bob King
Something less / personal here means the still surface / of a puddle-filled pothole.
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The Theme of the Week is Leprechauns Jump Up In My Belfry
Rude and naughty are these Leprechauns Up In My Belfry.
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‘Summer is Dying’ and 3 more by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
Outside, summer is dying into fall, and blue daddy petunias sprout ears
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‘The Town’s Secrets’ and 3 more by Kushal Poddar
She eloped with her invisible friend, fiend. The pond was bearable, green.
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‘please publish this poem so i can eat’ and 1 more by Alannah Guevara
written, revised, submitted, rejected, set aside, rerevised, resubmitted, rerejected, scrapped, found, rererevised, reresubmitted, rererejected, rescrapped, refound, rerererevised, reset aside, rererererevised, rerereresubmitted, rerererejected, rererereresubmitted, accepted, edited, rerererererevised
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‘Burning Birds & Fiery Jets: Mayday Mayday Mayday is French for Help Me’ by Bob King
Unlike the old people & the ducks, us left here in Ohio in January think we’re too smart to follow migration’s roadmap
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Was Professor Stout in fact the ‘On the Dog’ poet?
This is essentially the kind of poem that would mention flowers.
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‘BIRD POO ON THE LAWN CHAIR’ by Antoine Bargel
she was Ms. Patterson from 10th grade, a busty, jovial and too young to be true math teacher
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OFFICIAL RETRACTION: ‘Gazelle of unfended Láatsi’ by John Kucera
The only authorized English translation, by our own Tark Mackintosh, was also published in The Gorko in February 2022. We so stupid!
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‘Summer, 1975, Speedway, Indiana’ and 3 more by Grant Vecera
From across Moller Road, neighbors gawked and joked about the idiot lovebirds
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The Theme of the Week is Super Bowl XXXI
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Desmond Howard set a kickoff return yard record of 99 yards, And so did not you!
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FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: ‘Holes in the Outer Banks’ by Damon Hubbs
A non-stop to New Guinea Via the Einstein-Rosen bridge.
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‘In A Station of the Metro’ by John Kucera
John Kucera (aka Mister Siepkes) is a serial plagiarist best known for ripping off ‘In the Fifth Month of Lockdown I Plant Clematis’ by John Minczeski.
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New Tark Mackintosh commentary ‘Gazelle of Unfended Láatsi’ now available
Huge congratulations to sometime Gorko contributor Tark on his new Gulliver S. Gulliver commentary. Always amazing to see Gorko contributors having success out there!!
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Poems by Benjamin Drevlow
I name them One’r and Two’ser and Trey. / I am not the dog whisperer, I am the dog cult Jesus.
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‘Haunted Pt 1’ and 2 more by Believer Waterson
I Was Just Doing Fine For The First 3 Days / Yet That Was Neither An Escape Nor Solution
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‘LULU’S ROCKER’ and 2 more by Bruce Gee
An evil fabric craftsman had sawn off orbed finials at arms’ ends at back posts
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FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: ‘Promise Adventure’ by Bob King
or heck / even Amelia Earhart on an island / in the South Pacific, with her / flight jacket & aw shucks wave
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‘My Advice’ and 3 more by Jeffrey Zable
These few will dictate policy for what the rest of us can do, and if anyone doesn’t do it, they will get crushed like a bug.
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‘The Flower Beside Me’ by H.L. Dowless
The day was hot And the events moved somewhat slow, But time is all I’ve got,
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FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: ‘The Found Poems of Amelia Earhart’ by Barbara Leonhard
No dates or context clues Private flights of fancy charred by a house fire
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‘Cedarville’ and 2 others by James Croal Jackson
Several thousand dollars / to become fancy. I wish / (upon wishes) I had / a muted suit
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‘A Prison Run by Love’ and 2 more by Gene Goldfarb
it enchanted / me and I wondered what would it be like
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PIERRE MASTERS: SELECT TWITTER LOG OF A TWIT
Wrote PIERRE MASTERS: Poignant, moving, troubling, depth of expression in P.F. MASTERS’ latest poem ‘Caoutchouc’, up at Split Chest Lit.
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‘He strutted his stuff’ by Nolcha Fox, Ken Tomaro, and Barbara Leonhard
Collaborative poem by authors Nolcha Fox, Ken Tomaro, and Barbara Leonhard.
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SHINY BOOTS & BOOZE: COLLABORATION POETICS WITH NOLCHA FOX, KEN TOMARO, AND BARBARA LEONHARD (video)
Exclusive talk with authors Nolcha Fox, Ken Tomaro, and Barbara Leonhard about their collaboration on works of poetry.
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AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL: SNEAK PREVIEW
Ameliasploitation, as defined by dictionaries, is a reaction by artists to the prompt Who was Amelia Earhart?
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AMELIA EARHART TEASER: AMELIASPLOITATION
Ameliasploitation, as defined by dictionaries, is a reaction by artists to the prompt Who was Amelia Earhart?
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‘Have You Been to Alaska?’ and 2 more by Peter Mladinic
I strongly suspect you’re not a follower, / you go your own way.
