Category: Poems

Rae Armantrout Two Poems The Elect I want to explore the post-hope zeitgeist. I don’t like the option of zero wiggle room. I might mean …

Dodie Bellamy Family Jewels Mardi is a suspense sex mystery.  She stops before a poster stapled to the trunk of a palm tree.  It reads:  …

Melissa Benham Civilian Life I. No longer an excuse for farmer or pedestrian A redistribution of the Citizen- Industrialist         Citizen-Artisan The Citizen-Individual …

Erik Šimšík Five Poems return to SHAMPOO 41   

Jesse Tangen-Mills Two Poems Thank You Letters Notes to Self return to SHAMPOO 41   

J. A. Tyler Variations of a Brother War ( Lines Tryptych ) Of Soldiers Gideon and Miller stand in line but in different lines and …

Diana Magallón Three Works of Visual Art el pan de cada día la mujer dormida Los Ángelos return to SHAMPOO 41   

R/B Mertz Two Poems return to SHAMPOO 41   

B.Z. Niditch Two Poems The Visitor A fresh breath of half-light by a dazzling stream of frozen patrons coming out quickly and boisterous from the …

Erin O’Brien Three Poems Hippocampus I went driving along lakeshore at dawn    My brain’s seahorse a thumb with eyes Roaming in two directions at …

Lola Olinsky Wednesday stepgrandmother astronomy kimberly currency puffin return to SHAMPOO 41   

Emily O’Neill Two Poems Wage Slave My paycheck is a pittance.  I try not to cry until after work.  I spend the afternoon face down …