How Continue Now Saying
By Philip Kienholz
How continue now saying we are separate from the storm
when it envelops our entire being,
sweeping away our vehicles, carries them off
down the torrent of the … Continue reading→
By Erika Jahneke
Part Two
I didn’t tell him that what I know about prison came from the summer I mainlined five seasons of Oz, or that I’d read lots of articles about … Continue reading→
There Are So Many Poems For Black Boys in America
For Tanaka
By Caits Meissner
And this is for you, black boy, blue seed of my heart
that planted when I fell in love with your … Continue reading→
By Erika Jahneke
Part One
I waited in the back of the bookstore as the expectant noises of an intelligent crowd rose and fell around me. Being in front of a hometown crowd reading from a new book with my … Continue reading→
Five Poems
By Simon Perchik
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This school bus learned nothing about aging
slows down in both directions at once
– stars never seen this early
stop then stop again the way hillsides
take their place … Continue reading→