David Perry, Part One
by: David Perry ((Header art by Monika Lin, Balance Boy #1 detail, 2010.)) David Perry’s poems are charged, feverish meditations…
Poetry
Paul Maziar, Part Two
by: Paul Maziar Elevating disjunctive play to the level of jagged music, inviting us to jam along, Paul Maziar’s poetry…
Paul Maziar, Part One
by: Paul Maziar Paul Maziar’s poems are exercises in shambolic precision and grace, paeans to the certainty of awe and surprise….
A Selection from The End of America, Book 11
by: Mark Wallace Mark Wallace’s revelatory poetry trenchantly captures what it feels like to be an awake self dealing…
Three Poems by C.C. Russell
by: C.C. Russell For C.C. Russell, poems are incantations. Utilizing both keen description and contemplative distance, they enact the pathos and wonder…
Four Poems by Kostas Anagnopoulos
by: Kostas Anagnopoulos These poems by Kostas Anagnopoulos open us to our capricious impermanence, the way it’s always one thing…
Three Poems by Allison Cobb
by: Allison Cobb Allison Cobb’s poems proceed with a meditative caution, calling out the soporific forgetfulness that constantly threatens our…
Three Poems by Pat Smith
by: Pat Smith Reading Pat Smith’s poetry is like overhearing an uncomfortable chat between our hypnagogic consciousnesses and our…
Letter to Olson
by: Cole Heinowitz Cole Heinowitz’s magisterial “Letter to Olson” is a “ritual to banish silences.” Part seance, part dream,…
Two Poems by Dawn Potter
by: Dawn Potter ((Header art by the phenomenally talented artist Rita Ackermann.)) These poems by Dawn Potter dare to…
Three Poems by Adam Deutsch
by: Adam Deutsch Adam Deutsch’s poetry revels in a lush, louche nonchalance that belies its incisive emotional and spiritual…
Three Poems by Rodney Koeneke
by: Rodney Koeneke These three poems by Rodney Koeneke are densely buoyant travelogues where what moves is thoughtful consideration, a…