September 26, 2024
POETRY
rows and rows
by Lorin Drexler
trash and meth
odors and vowel syllabics
police doing their job
everyone just doing their job
upholding shells...
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August 15, 2024
POETRY
I Love Myself By Falling Into a Well of Sadness
by Ellen Wright
I take Donnie Hathaway with me though I’m going nowhere
on a chilled night late in November, as A Song For You
repeats warming the cold corners of this room and relaxes
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March 14, 2024
POETRY
Bather Drying Her Foot by Degas
by Richard Lufitg
She bends
head to toe
like a ballerina
stretching...
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March 05, 2024
POETRY
An Invocation at the Window
by Melanie Huber
Before it cools off, before the scent flows around the house
into the yard through the long shade of the vacant lilac bushes,
out into the neighborhood tickling the nose of the neighbor’s...
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February 16, 2024
POETRY
Humor Finds Their Marriage
by Maureen Sherbondy
Because of her husband’s hearing loss:
The hall light boobs need changing.
There’s perspiration and meatboats for stutter...
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November 17, 2023
POETRY
Poems
by Sarah A Foote
Starstruck Curious U-Phoric Burgeoning Astronaut (SCUBA)
The sea of salt stars
is a gasping ache of space
Inner and outer, there are flickers
of recognition: each shell a planet...
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September 11, 2023
POETRY
Nightingale Mode
by Jonathan Katz
Do I wake or sleep?
--- John Keats
I have quantified and abstracted everything
that could be measured...
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May 11, 2023
Poems from Scholia
by Bryan Narendorf
Book 2 of The Iliad: The Catalogue of Ships
The south midlanders want
whos and wherefroms. Damn your
contract. Damn commanders
dead or left behind in...
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March 10, 2023
Pastoral With Agroindustry
by Lillian Emerick Valentine
After the branch broke and the old
pig pen split I wasn’t thinking
about James Wright but how hard...
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February 23, 2023
Gare du Nord
by Jeffrey Gray
We stood in the middle of the station.
You would remember
if you were alive:
she was shapeless harrowed shuffling ...
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February 16, 2023
Artifice
by Elia Anie Kim
After I married, I visited my mother and saw that she had placed
a plate underneath the potted plant I gave her. It was the green ...
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December 15, 2022
Children on a Visit
by Anthony Madrid
Some kinds of birds are hoppers.
Their research is mainly archival.
Children on a visit are only...
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December 08, 2022
The Ladder of Abstraction
by Jonathan Duckwortht
As I pack books into cardboard
& shirts into trash bags
& my favorite mug (bubble-wrapped)...
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June 16, 2022
Amaranth and Lily
by Sandie Seeger
I’m crushed that every charm, bottom, top, down,
and strange up, he commanded.
All those quark particles
moving close to the speed of light, were his...
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June 16, 2022
Five Days in April
(I Hear My Mother’s Voice)
by Mary Foulk
Monday
Torrential rain and wind. I wait again, drinking
chardonnay in the dark dining room. The ceiling
needs repainting. Flakes chip and fall...
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June 16, 2022
Ode To A Personal Boundary
by Heikki Huotari
You can't stand behind the president in camo and be
in the space force too. A convex combination of no atrophy, no
rigor mortis and no octopod...
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April 22, 2022
Kaddish
by Marina Weiss
That morning light held
tight to the concrete. We threw
dirt on the feet ...
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April 14, 2022
Oblation
by Tanya Grae
I dreamt I was showing my brother around in Hell.
We started inside the house.
Everything was brown besides the white sheets
in the bedrooms. I let him look...
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April 07, 2022
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud
by Dustin Pearson
TI dreamt I was showing my brother around in Hell.
We started inside the house.
Everything was brown besides the white sheets
in the bedrooms. I let him look...
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March 31, 2022
Canticles
by Philip Fried
Who is this that comes from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with lamb skin and burnt gunpowder?
Behold, thou art fair, my love, behold thou art fair; standing behind the wall like a roe or a young hart, looking out from blast-resistant windows...
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March 24, 2022
The Interview
by Jessica Jewell
Everyone has a fruit story if you grew
up east of the Wall in somewhere Berlin,
Warsaw, Budapest, Subotica.
Every dad every uncle every brother...
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March 10, 2022
That Our Affections Carry Themselves
Beyond Us
by Brandon Lewis
How much longer can this girl run naked
along the shore?
It’s my turn to leave her,
ride the red kayak out until she is a microscopic dash below
my wife’s loose hair...
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March 03, 2022
Advice from a Shrew
by Noel Sloboda
Before you landscape
this spring, upend all
those unseemly stones
strewn through your beds...
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May 07, 2018
Monologue to the Moon
About Austin Sanchez-Moran
Austin Sanchez-Moran received his MFA in Poetry from George Mason University. His poems and short fiction have been published or are forthcoming in RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, and Salamander Magazine, among many others. Also, he had a poem chosen for the anthology, Best New Poets of the Midwest (2017).
Tonight, I can only answer you in large portions.
Do we still need a sitcom laugh track in a world of missing persons?
They said it was a good time for lilac, for plumbing, for urban plight.
This is how I’ll separate day from night...
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March 31, 2016
April: Boro Zebebe
by James Sherry
About James Sherry
James Sherry is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, most recently Oops! Environmental Poetics. He is the founder of Segue Foundation and editor of Roof Books. He lives in NYC.
“Doesn’t know how to Talk,
Doesn't Drink,
Doesn't Smoke,
Doesn't chase Women...
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In Translation
September 10, 2015
Beyond Elsewhere
by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
translated from the French by Hélène Cardona
About Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac is the author of the acclaimed Beyond Elsewhere (Èditions du Cygne, 2013). Publications include Petite anthologie de la jeune poésie française (Éditions Géhess, 2009), Le livre de la prière (Éditions de l’Inférieur, 2013), Les Citadelles, Poésie Directe, Littérales, Polyglotte, Recours au Poème, Testament, 3è Millénaire and L’Opinion indépendante. He contributed to the book Irak, la faute, with Alain Michel and Fabien Voyer (Éditions du Cerf, 2000). He graduated from Sciences Po and holds a Master’s degree (Fondements des Droits de l'Homme). He also studied philosophy and Eastern poetry.
About Hélène Cardona
Hélène Cardona is an award-winning poet, literary translator and actor. She taught at Hamilton College & Loyola Marymount University, and received a Master’s in American Literature from the Sorbonne and fellowships from the Goethe-Institut & Universidad Internacional de Andalucí a. She is the author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013); Beyond Elsewhere (White Pine Press, 2016), her translation of Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac; Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne, 2014), her translation of What We Carry by Dorianne Laux; and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006).
She is notably published in Washington Square, World Literature Today, The Warwick Review, Plume, Poetry International, Dublin Review of Books, Irish Literary Times, Periódico de Poesía, & Recours au Poème.
She co-edits Fulcrum: An Anthology of Poetry and Aestehtics and Levure Litté raire and co-edited Dublin Poetry Review.
Excerpt from Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, forthcoming from White Pine Press in 2016, translated from the French by Hélène Cardona... read more
Photoem
September 24, 2015
Structures in Decline
by Francis DiClemente
For this art project I explored the city of Syracuse, New York, where I reside, as well as my nearby hometown of Rome, discovering buildings and structures in various states of disrepair or decay; most of the buildings in Syracuse stood within walking distance of my apartment building... read more