My Father the Mixologist by Mara Lee Grayson If you’d met him on a Greyhound bus in 1962 he’d have asked you to look out for Kerouac on every corner or find Mickey Mouse beneath a pal […]

Love Not Cheaply by Giancarlo Malchiodi Nonna tends Dad and Auntie in three room railroad flat; Bathtub in kitchen, 3′ x 5′ plywood tabletop, fridge at foot of bed, toilet in outside […]

Avocado by Christopher Dungey In the century most recently expired, pigments to suggest certain fruits and vegetables were infused into the metal of appliances, plastic […]

Framework by Susan Shea I pattern through my day first thing, I walk across the green geometry of my rug telling myself I will stay on course, breathe […]

Portrait with Amulets by Alison Hicks I wore a turquoise donkey bead on a thong around my neck— choker, bead and knot resting in the space between collarbones. Glass eye facing o […]

Shadows of their Bones by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah Yesterday, I ate a lion for free, an elephant for the asking; and a leopard for my pleasure. I ate when I was not hungry, hunger stitched me into […]

At the Concourse-End of the Sky Bridge and Can I Pay Next Month What I Owe This Month?, 2 poems by Ben Sloan At the Concourse End of the Sky Bridge Discombobulated by my inability to sleep on a plane arcing across the wind-tossed top edge of Europe, the […]

Finding Isabella by Sharon Perkins Ackerman It is two weeks past Mother’s Day, late afternoon, when I see a doe on the neighboring pasture. Light slices across the grass from its peach h […]

Space Junk by Claire Scott ……………………………………………..Collision risks are growing every year ……………………………………………..as […]

running like water by Maggie Rue Hess for Caitlin Daughtered with the dogwood’s dirge, we expect love to have seasons, ceaseless in its business of change, inconsistency its o […]

Ars Poetica, Forbidden Fruit by Gary D. Grossman One mile into my daily jog, New Yorker poetry podcast in my ear, hoping for insights and hardware to Sherpa me up poetic Himalayas, and Mary Karr […]

The Radiant Reach of Heat by Ken Holland As if to be human is to seek the warmth of another body, ……………………………………………..skin and the course of blood […]

A Place to Hold Us by Sharon Perkins Ackerman I ready myself to read poetry for a group of graduate students. They’ve had the ingenuity to find an old, abandoned chapel near campus and turn it i […]

Keeping Time and Awake in the Night, 2 poems by Patricia Hemminger Keeping Time The mayfly lives two days, a swallowtail butterfly two weeks. The last generation of monarchs born each year endure for months […]

Ignorance by Michael Penny When I encounter a word I don’t know I check the books and screens. Even after that, there remain words I cannot find the meaning of. Some a […]

The Composer by Anne Whitehouse …………………………for John Kander Music plays in my head, and I listen. Sounds and rhythms, echoes and vibrations. This is how I […]

Equal Opportunity by Claire Scott I just bought an eight-pack of bony Jesuses, an Amazon special, to be sure Jesus remembers this little lamb if I run a red light or ease through a […]

How Pain Matters by Mark Simpson Not thinking about it doesn’t make it go away. Recollection makes sense of it, invents details from the misremembered: as with open carry and its f […]

New Year by Sharon Perkins Ackerman Autumn is officially over, leaves finally cleared, trees naked, winter sky a show of planets that begins early with Venus glazing the western sky. […]

Stealing Japanese Poetry by Robert Harlow Stealing Japanese poetry requires great skill, almost Ninja-like stealth, especially at night when there are so many poets out viewing the […]