The Editors Write: There’s a swirling energy in Daphne Gottlieb’s writing that’s extremely difficult to pin down. There’s anger, yes – any sensible person would look at the world and find reasons for anger – but there are also …
The Editors Write: There’s a swirling energy in Daphne Gottlieb’s writing that’s extremely difficult to pin down. There’s anger, yes – any sensible person would look at the world and find reasons for anger – but there are also … Continue reading→
Poem for impending rapture perhaps —
By Kazim Ali
What I want to know is: of all the people preparing to be taken in the rapture why is no one as brave as my current heroine, the wife of … Continue reading→
By Lenore Weiss
I discovered the poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh on a flight from Oakland to New York. Prepared for the six-hour trip to visit my family, I had brought along a number of magazines from my dining room table. … Continue reading→
Compiled by G. Murray Thomas
Next … Magazine covered the Southern California poetry scene on monthly basis from 1994 through 1998. In the process, it provided a ground-level view of a transitional period in poetry, in SoCal and nationally. “From … Continue reading→
End Time
By Paula J. Lambert
Poets fall from the sky
as suddenly, as tragically,
as red-winged black birds.
We don’t question the end
of our world, only theirs,
sometimes weeping,
sometimes cursing, … Continue reading→