Two Poems by Michael Caylo-Baradi
These two poems by Michael Caylo-Baradi toe the line between rapture and rupture, the faultline in any city sanctioned by mythmakers as a factory for dreams…
Poetry
And here’s the naked stem of thorns…
A gothic tale inspired by the real life story of Dante Rossetti’s exhumation of his wife and pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, in order to…
Philip Guston
A poetic ode to famed, and currently controversial, artist Philip Guston, who consistently tried to put himself in other people’s shoes, a notion that Paul…
Three Poems by Sarah Lilius
These three poems by Sarah Lilius explore the anguish often endured by women who are trapped, either by their own doing or another’s, and yearn to be set…
Three Poems by Peter Lilly
These three poems by Peter Lilly invite the reader to intimately experience the uneven passage of time. Looking back, “Legacy” expresses gratitude for the wonder…
Three Poems by Phillip Shabazz
These three poems by Phillip Shabazz explore memory haunted by national tragedy and the personal consequences of human acts in search of tenderness and regeneration….
Three Poems by Terence Winch
These three poems by Terence Winch have a radiating grade of dialectical energy in which opposing forces are synthesized, by the poems themselves… by: Terence…
Three Poems by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
The first of these three poems by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens dances down the aisle of a paint store as colors come alive at night, while the…
Three Poems by Jacob Grossfeld
These three poems by Jacob Grossfeld exist somewhere between the destructive editing of a turpentine burn and an improvisatory cut-up technique. Playing with sound, permutation,…
Book Review: Charles Rammelkamp’s Catastroika
A celebration of master storyteller Charles Rammelkamp’s latest release, Catastroika, a poetic exploration of a century of Russian history from the late Nineteenth to the late…
Two Poems by Hibah Shabkhez
These two poems by Hibah Shabkhez are attempts to assuage a guilty conscience that will never cease to lament the many betrayals-by-silence and niggling moral…
Two Poems by D.R. James
Sonic play and existential angst pull these two poems by D. R. James toward their exploration of “tongue-tied” uncertainty. Is the speaker in each talking…