Category: Poetry
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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.
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‘sweet relief’ by Stephen House
silence now fortunately breathing calm gathering own direction clear
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The Art of Creativity: Nolcha Fox interviews John Yamrus
JY: Why did I START writing? It was pretty much the only way to meet girls.
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‘Log, Lead, Latitude, Lookout’ by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
With a trite, redundant, and yet undeniably true aphorism Professor Stout begins his third Sea Poem, writing again as Mister Heustis.
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‘Dark Stripping’ and 2 more by R. Gerry Fabian
The slow sobbing woman sings the song of the hoop snake.
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The Theme of the Week is Mad Scientist Clones Man Puppet
The real monster in this week’s theme in the Mad Scientist.
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‘I Age’ and 2 more by Michael Lee Johnson (text + audio)
Alone, most of my time, but never on Sundays
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Scandoval pieces by Alexander Carrigan
We don’t live our lives by logic, but hopefully when we’re older, we can tell our grandkids about how we were once TV stars
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‘Synonyms for Pe#*$ in a Variety of Settings’ by Yash Seyedbagheri
it’s a Stonehenge that needs rebuilding
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‘A Time Gone By’ and ‘Full Moon’ by Ileana Collazo
Frozen like statues; too late to run, too tired to crawl, too spent to fight.
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‘F’ing Freddie’ by Doug Jacquier
fossicked through files on pharmacology, / sought to distill a phial of foul poison to fix Freddie’s fate
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‘The Kingdom of Home’ by Professor Stout (writing as Mr. Heustis)
Perhaps there is a clever code embedded in this line whose meaning the intervening years have obscured.
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‘A Ghost of Her’ and ‘Always Like it when It’s Grey’ by Ileana Collazo
Lemony sting, purple lip, black eye, bleeding heart.
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‘The big city devoured my heart’: Words and art by Irina Tall
I looked around in a strange way and my neck hung down the blue-red tiger bed, I looked up and slipped.
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‘In the Early Twentieth Century’ and 3 more by Peter J. Dellolio
An all black outfit always makes a dramatic statement. / The waves are very rough along the New Jersey shore.
