Poetry from Hailey Spencer
Photo: Martha Dominguez de Gouveia What To Write in Your Journal To Move On ….1. A description of what happened. To transmogrify biography to story, certain details must be omitted for the sake of time. Do I drown out my lover’s unbrushed hair, the day I picked blackberries when all he wanted to do was […]
Poetry from J.I. Kleinberg
Hannah the way . . Twice nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, where she tears words out of magazines and posts occasionally on Instagram […]
Poetry from Gretchen Rockwell
Photo: Tyler Lastovich ‘Pay Attention,’ She Says, And I Try after Mary Oliver I never liked nature poems, and I laughed at whoever said I might one day learn to love the woods. Then came you and your soft wings and scattered grasses, the redfern where you are resting, where I am quieted despite myself. […]
Poetry from Daryl Sznyter
Photo: Alexandru Acea first date i left my heart in my car my heart was a car my car was exhausted my heart was exhaust my heart was a pipe bomb i wore sweatpants that day […]
Poetry from Darren C. Demaree
Photo by PDPics/Pixabay ODE TO THE CORNER OF THE DRUG HOUSE DOWN THE GRAVEL ROAD OFF THE TWO-LANE HIGHWAY #14 I smell mint. I smell mint. Have I been eating mints for meals this week? How shallow the non-rattle of my pockets. . . Darren C. Demaree is the author of six poetry collections, most […]
Poetry from Kate DeBolt
Editor’s Note: The following ekphrastic poems are responses to artist Barton Lidice Beneš’ “Lethal Weapons” series—specifically, the pieces “Silencer” (1993) and “Molotov Cocktail” (1995)—in which the artist filled various vessels with his own HIV-positive blood. To see each poem’s corresponding artwork, click on its title. . . Silencer i wouldn’t really kill you but if i did […]
Three Cross-Genre Pieces from Jessy Randall and Briget Heidmous
Editor’s Note: The following are from the Mapping Project, a collaborative work by Jessy Randall and Briget Heidmous which includes images with text, texts made of images, animated gifs, and more. We’re delighted to share these selections. . . Message in a Bottle — Enough — Fair to Say . . Jessy Randall, 47, has had […]
Two Poems from E. Kristin Anderson
Subaudible Please, not poison— small, trashy, the hanging leaves mother knew, these toy hundreds floating yellow school buses, the party in the destination, windows opened out. If you hear— shadows joined hands and tumbled down breathing, out all night, out all night, panic […]
Poetry by Deya Mukherjee
Cough She coughed a lot in a green coat. That green on most the frightened throb of alcopops, on her an itchy kind of hallucination. Hair fat with the lusty nausea of leaves and petrol, lips the colour of a child’s shoes. The child’s shoes dig the dirt when asked her age. “I’m […]
Poetry from Greg Hill
GENESIS, Initial Chapter (pattern plainly bearing seventh longest lingual figures) 1 Opening: Firstly, CREATOR created heavens astride planets. 2 Terrain existed without pattern: chaotic, lacking. Shadows colored hellish seaways. 3 CREATOR thought: Observe! Visible shining swiftly emerged. 4 CREATOR noticed visible shining, thought: Radiant! CREATOR divided shining against dimness. 5 CREATOR labeled shining Daytime. Dimness […]
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