Category: Poems

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 …

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. …

Crow Jane I’ll Dog-Ear the Death Card So You Get It Every Time(Crow Jane: Manifesto Anonyme) On September 12th of the signal year 2001, having …

Jim Jenkins All this noise below us All this noise below us And all this sky watching The bottles broken and The police car flashing …

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 …