Poetry

Two Poems by Jake Romm

by Jake Romm In these poems, the promise of America and the promise of poetry become one and the…

Three Poems by Alexandra Mattraw

by: Alexandra Mattraw The power of Alexandra Mattraw’s poetry comes from its concision and compression. These poems have been whittled…

Two Poems by Anne Babson

by: Anne Babson In these poems by Anne Babson, the speaker doesn’t overlay the landscape with meaning and narrative;…

Two Poems by Rizwan Akhtar

Two Poems by Rizwan Akhtar

by: Rizwan Akhtar These poems by Pakistani poet Rizwan Akhtar explore how the natural world impacts our connections to…

Three Poems by Natalie Crick

Three Poems by Natalie Crick

by: Natalie Crick With their subtle, graceful music, Natalie Crick’s poems sing with slow and patient melancholy of how…

24 Cut Lits

24 Cut Lits

by: Noah Eli Gordon Surreal self-help poetry? Aphorisms that question rather than teach? Epigrams that remind us to look in…

From “The American Myths”

From “The American Myths”

by John Amen ((Header art by Vanessa Katz.)) By combining individual character moments and memories with shadow narratives and…

Two Poems by Rob Cook

Two Poems by Rob Cook

by: Rob Cook Rob Cook offers up two stunning poems full of acute and surreal observations about how the…

Two Poems by Loriana Kolb

by: Loriana Kolb These two poems by Loriana Kolb offer the reader a fierce engagement with the way the…

Tom Mandel, Part Two

by: Tom Mandel Header art, entitled “Guilty Feet Have Got no Rhythm,” by: Jim Flahaven Instructions for reading these…

Tom Mandel, Part One

Tom Mandel, Part One

by: Tom Mandel Header art, entitled “Rudie Can’t Fail,” by: Jim Flahaven About the disconnections that plague our current…