Category: Poems

Fani Papageorgiou Two Poems Road Trip Pick an exit, you say gas stations in your eyes, the impact of the camel on the volume of …

Jeff Pearson Two Poems Night Games Like Relieval Pastoral baptismal fonts have dried, slurped up by sun beams, who want to be a— Why didn’t …

Simon Perchik Two Poems Its arms still around her, this dirt clings between what’s left behind and the rain —its stones stare back can’t make …

Peach Power Seventeen golden tortured, figure fortuned, backalley, orchard. Behind the garden shed, I remember that mom cried over mud and blooms There’s some bougainvillea-creeping …

Joshua Johnston Contributor Notes Kristin Beck serves as poetry editor for Short Stilt Review.  She has been vividly reminded of the humble pageantry of rural …

George Kalamaras Two Poems With What Bird Might the Blood of Jorge Teillier Be Named?          He spent his years talking to …

Jami Kali Three Poems Elephant Wish I take boys to stormy canals to swallow the rain in their blood. Shadows spread beneath our forest and …

Britta Kallevang what pigeons see explosions produced by brains smaller than subatomic particle waves lull children to sand as fortress sways the sand crunches. anyway …

rex leonowicz if we don’t tell someone,       don’t tell the poem even, that we were here, no one can ever know; the bodies …

Michael Levell Three Poems Found Postcard I am an American West and at the end of this line I will lose you loose you at …

Kyle Harvey Two Poems Hyacinth The soil is soiled by the blood of a child, the soil is soiled the soil is soiled by blood, …

Martian Hiatt Two Poems four deem door die facials, die out of the felled tower, fraying       mash after the ruck to come. …