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Poem by Lenore Weiss
Song for Guns & License Paper mill town closed down. Sporting goods store the big draw. Hunters shop for camouflage, a new barrel gauge. Deer season. Six months here, I’m in a red chair with a red number, clutch a … Continue reading
Going Up? Going Down?: Getting Stuck Between Floors in Melissa Culbertson’s ‘Elevator Love Song’
By Jean Macpherson I like a poem with bullshit. And flowers. I purchased several journals at AWP Boston and, oddly enough, I submitted to most of them in the past as well as recently. Rejection, rejection, rejection! But never mind … Continue reading
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Notes in the Margin: Poetry in the Information Age
By Lenore Weiss Working as a writer in the computer industry suited me fine. First I contracted at engineering companies. I moved on to other positions. My role required me to interview software engineers, marketing and business analysts, and to … Continue reading
Saturday Night Electric Shock at Napa State
By Lenore Weiss What language do you think I’m talking? Yes, give me a cigarette. I’m feeling about as shitty as yesterday when they brought me in and my hand hurts. It’s bandaged. Busted it through the glass when I … Continue reading
An Informal Look at Invented Forms
By Robert Wynne Thank you for joining me! Over the past year or so, I’ve sporadically published some invented forms in this fine online journal, and I have decided to try to focus on churning out one new such column … Continue reading
Poem in translation by Kumar Ambuj
Opposition to Solitary by Kumar Ambuj He is a pebble In the comfort of your sleep A tiny thought A word in your shining language that Makes you stutter A pothole in your way A deterrence to your fast pace … Continue reading
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Tagged Bharatbhooshan Tiwari, Kumar Ambuj, Looking East, political poems
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Poem by Lenore Weiss
In Istanbul: Faith Has No Name By Lenore Weiss 1. Old men talking on park benches sound the same in every country, a soft humming of the same tune, witnesses to toppled governments, news of sickness, grinding bad business or … Continue reading
How to Be a Good Poet, a Successful Performer, and a Girl, All at the Same Time
by Jade Sylvan A couple months ago I was performing at a spoken word venue with a strong youth scene. My friend, the adult slammaster who was also one of the youth team coaches, asked me to come talk to … Continue reading
Four Poems by Robert Bohm
Port Washington song By Robert Bohm The crows’ ascent begins in grass at the gravestone’s edge as it flaps its wings, then in silence flies above an untrimmed hedge. A tiny Jeremiah, I sat in church with my parents and … Continue reading
Poem by Lenore Weiss
Mother Courage By Lenore Weiss She sits on a bench wearing a carved tree resin rose black garbage bag filled with acorns, eucalyptus leaves, her bandages of flesh. Whatever she finds she stuffs into her hotch-potch pot, plastic water bottles … Continue reading