Category: Poems

Bill Berkson Two Poems Appropriation The recording Willem de Kooning wanted played at his funeral — Frank Sinatra singing “Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night …

Alisa Heinzman Two Poems Them Waving at Cameras One headless man is no big deal but ten headless men is a blinding snag. It’s not …

Joshua Butts Retrospective The sound of ancients through modern equipment. The LP a form on the rungs of the 45 to bring an unbroken sequence …

Luke Humphries pond it only ever takes one bravado pebble for the sticklebacks to flirt with the resulting water halos cavorting with water reeds messing …

Todd Colby Two Poems In a Stern Way Maroon crust ripped from my lips a dime of butter dipped in battery juice a plate of …

Alexander Jorgensen Milwaukee Poem (Winter Movement)           Squirrel!—Power line!— Do you see it?!—                 …

Caroline Klocksiem Ridden Looking at us and making that face, like future, black night keeps breaking in through windows it’s already in and always been …

poetry by erica lewis with artwork by Mark Stephen Finein the stone age did not end because we ran out of stones       …

Ian M. McCarty from I Woke Up Early the Morning After the End of the World A’s insomnia is temporarily ended by the temporary end …

Michael Montlack The Hummus Sexual wears sandals but no Birkenstocks, knowing his wardrobe already too closely resembles Peppermint Patty’s. His vintage shirts: garage-sale bargains (not …

Anjali Khosla Mullany Damp House In the morning I wake, ripe with condensation, to the trumpetedness of elephants, non-native & extinct.  Long-necked cranes?  What a …

Cat Tyc from IN PORT. 6. Dear Mt. Rainier, You make good beer and you make me want to give it all up And be …