Michael McInnis “Travelogue of Australia”
Michael McInnis Travelogue of Australia From Circular Quay to King’s Cross, sailors traffic in lies and tattoo the sky with debauchery. While in the Navy, Michael McInnis chased white whales and Soviet...
View ArticleJ. R. Solonche “I Learned How to Write Poetry”
J. R. Solonche I Learned How to Write Poetry I learned how to write poetry the day I opened the rejection from the editor of the prestigious university quarterly who wrote, “This is BS.” JR Solonche...
View ArticleJames LaMontagne “Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida)”
James LaMontagne Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) 84 brown tongues aflame from below, glossolalia spilling from their serotinous cones seeds from hell. James LaMontagne studied creative writing and forestry...
View ArticleJames LaMontagne “Hemlock (Tsuga candensis)”
James LaMontagne Hemlock (Tsuga candensis) 200 years took its toll, broke inside from shake twisting back into the ground. James LaMontagne studied creative writing and forestry at the University of...
View ArticleRon. Lavalette “Mercy”
Ron. Lavalette Mercy He takes a breath feels the switch hears the click and almost instantly all the numbers disappear forever. Ron. Lavalette collects his many published works at EGGS OVER TOKYO.
View ArticleBill Yarrow “People Who Go to Poems for Truth”
Bill Yarrow People Who Go to Poems for Truth What is wrong with you? Bill Yarrow is the author of The Vig of Love (Glass Lyre Press 2016), Blasphemer (Lit Fest...
View ArticleBill Yarrow “Tomorrow”
Bill Yarrow Tomorrow On the febrile edge of consternation, I hear the howling vowels of aspiration. Bill Yarrow is the author of The Vig of Love (Glass Lyre Press 2016), Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press...
View ArticleDevon Balwit: “In the Darkroom”
Devon Balwit In the Darkroom You clamped the negative and the blank sheet into the enlarger, mysterious with dials, right hand working the wands that let just enough light fall on the naked page for...
View ArticleC. G. Vowles “Tunnel Visionary”
C. G. Vowles Tunnel Visionary After three straight years of reading surrealist poetry on the tiled platforms of the London underground, the mind can shrink from you, squidquick, into the dark (in the...
View ArticleTrevor Pyle “Television Set”
Trevor Pyle Television Set I pushed it out the window to the loamy garden beneath, but the next morning it’d sprung up on roots and now it tapped at the window, asking if I’d heard the latest about...
View ArticleKeith Nunes “It’s not you I’m afraid of”
Keith Nunes It’s not you I’m afraid of This guy comes around to visit and always wears wrap-around dark glasses so I finally say to him “if you don’t want to make eye contact why don’t you just ring...
View ArticleKeith Nunes “Out of tune”
Keith Nunes Out of tune Two 20-something guys sitting behind me on the bus talking about music and one says that he’d like to get into classical music “but really it’s all just covers isn’t it”. Keith...
View ArticleKate Gallagher “I know you don’t care”
Kate Gallagher I know you don’t care First cold December Sunday morning in New York, on the Hudson, so the cat goes to her spot where heat rises from the floor, and the door to the boiler room is and...
View ArticleMark Young “Flight Design”
Mark Young Flight Design He is lead forward by their announcing wings. —William Carlos Williams: Paterson He turned to designing air- planes after a line from a WCW poem soared from the page, wrapped...
View ArticleSteve Klepetar “Stone Cutter and Cloud”
Steve Klepetar Stone Cutter and Cloud Tonight I am stone cutter and cloud, a man with empty hands, who stands before you spinning with sleep, wearing the ropes of day, dressed in thin, ragged shreds of...
View ArticleRobert J. W.
Robert J. W. Long ago we replaced our teeth with katanas and on the day we established a connection, we severed it in our broken hunger. Robert J. W. is an author of dark poetry from Morgantown, WV.
View ArticleRon. Lavalette “The Sad Truth”
Ron. Lavalette The Sad Truth You never know it until the door closes behind her and you think. Ron. Lavalette collects his many published works at EGGS OVER TOKYO.
View ArticleAlan Walowitz “Ars Poetica”
Alan Walowitz Ars Poetica Just cause you got a way with words, mister, don’t mean you gotta push ‘em around. Though he doesn’t have much sway with them, Alan Walowitz pushes words around, especially in...
View ArticleKara Knickerbocker “Truth be Told, It’s Inevitable “
Kara Knickerbocker Truth be Told, It’s Inevitable We will drift apart to find sleep in different rooms with a fan humming against your ear, a waning sun still holding me. Kara Knickerbocker is a...
View ArticleKen Gosse “Epitaffy for an Author”
Ken Gosse Epitaffy for an Author His final work, a watershed, highly acclaimed and widely read, was kept for years beside his bed, then posthumously published (ed). To quote an old-timer who’s a...
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