17 Seconds, Four Doors DownYour mother cannot watch. | ...
   by Sarah Crewe

AnaSwish out maroon and black and swallow | red and kalamata, our food matched | uniform. Art factory ...
   by Sarah Crewe

Best Bitchleaps from the truck | nose lowered and sniffing, | finds the perfect patch of grass, | squats, takes ...
   by Travis Blair

Dream of the HausefrauI am out of | Bobby pins, | and my hat | has slumped forward, | fallen asleep on my head | while I frost ...
   by Melanie Browne

Family Truths and Other PlaguesBad times get a good grip on us, | likewise the pessimist and his stories | handed down through ...
   by John Grey

ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥit is cold in Paris, | I count out Euros | for the cab ride, | a woman is | sitting on the street | ...
   by Melanie Browne

like Denver or whereverI. | Went West | with dust of haunted dreams | in my blood | stopped just short of where | white caps ...
   by Brian J Eckert

OvernightsThe horizon drowned the sun | hours ago, when he leaves for work. | It's not quite the witching ...
   by Katie Moore

Pemican Flavored BubblegumStreaking thru downtown Jakarta | drunk as hell in yer birthday suit | swinging a samurai sword | ...
   - (A Birthday Poem for Matt Ronquillo) -
   by Quasimofo Snyder

Rock Candy Manna in Gin Clear WatersWaiting for the release | of the fish dream | as my shoelaces are tied | to the 11 MPH limo bumper | ...
   by Mark James Andrews

RoodhouseI went back to Roodhouse, | with my husband and my kids. | It was a bombed-out Beruit of a place, | ...
   by Karen Lockett Warinsky

SpiesButterflies don’t live | in Abu Dhabi | but dragonflies fill the air. | Their many colors blend | ...
   by Amy Stone

TablespoonIn a dream I confronted my wife. | You seem to think I have lost all my appeal, | I say, and yet I ...
   by Mike Finley

The Machine HandsMore than machinery we need humanity. | --Charles Chaplin | | [ID card number 021 3658 42 ...
   - Three-stroke [and one-pause] Circumlocution on T.S. Elliot’s "The Hollow Men" -
   by Carol P.

Things my Mother told Me(It’s bad luck to put a hat on the bed) | but no fedora he owned could bring a bend of fate ...
   by Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas

When We Really Want The Truth, We Look To Our Prodigal PoetsYou rise against injustice, | thus, blowing Napoleon’s bone-aparts to tiny bits. | | You wilt (and ...
   by Alan Britt

Where's Reliefshe wore purple plastic tokens on her tits, | the size of two quarters and stamped | 1 Month. | | they ...
   by Joseph M. Gant

Woolen Shapesshe knitted in the same | place as always | close to a window | light attraction | settled right, | ...
   by Chris Lawrence

Worlds ApartBallistics was all there in New Year and | shots killed hustlers last night. Hookers | danced and ...
   by Sarah Gamutan

A Free TicketI HAD JUST HELPED THE GIRLS out of my car when I saw an old fellow heading in our direction. Ashley ...
   by Dick Reynolds

An Eye Fer An Eye | YOU'RE SERIOUS. You really wanna kill him. | | | Lonnie flicked his dying cigarette onto the gravel ...
   by David Weston

Comanche KillerTHE LETHALITY OF EACH DAY: Every sixteen hour length of light since I quit the Irish Republican ...
   by David S. Pointer

Grouse RidgeAmid lightning strikes and peyote dreams, | Gary | and | Jack | reunite at a 1970s Sierra fire ...
   by Bill Pieper

Heroin WingsWHEN YOU NEED HEROIN, you can’t sleep, you can’t eat or drink. Your teeth shatter and ...
   by Zarina Zabrisky

Just a BucketTHERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON I ever knew who really used the word “yon,” and it was that guy named ...
   by Tom Andrews

LakshmiI HAVE BEEN THINKING OF YOU. I see your name on buses, store fronts, and doorways. I hear your name ...
   by Ashwin Parulkar

MarinateI ADMIT, I WAS SLIGHTLY HUNGOVER, myself, but I didn’t feel as though I looked the part, unlike ...
   by Josh Olsen

Pumpkin BonesMY GRANDFATHER SHOWED SIGNS OF SEVERE DEMENTIA after grandma died. It took about eight years, but ...
   by Dan Morin

SegueMY COUSIN IMOGENE scrapes back her chair onto the pock-marked linoleum and simultaneously lights ...
   by Peg Steiner

A Baboon in the BluegrassA PILGRIMAGE IS A JOURNEY undertaken in the light of a story. A great event has happened; the ...
   by Mick Parsons

Dispatches from Atlantis #14I was introduced to Bukowski�s ex, Linda King, in early 2006 by Neeli Cherkovski, before she moved ...
   - The Night I Saved "Lydia Vance" -
   by Paul Corman-Roberts

Good and Hard to DefineThis book is a paper-back collection of poetry, with an evocative cover that made me think of Clive ...
   - a review of Josh Olsen's Six Months -
   by Nescher Pyscher

My Kid's A Pain In The AssYOU CAN'T LOOK INTO THEIR little blue eyes and tell them to piss off. | | Even when they are ranting ...
   by Lynn Alexander

The Last Days of Los Angeles #6ON A REGULAR AND UNSEEMING NEW YORK DAY IN SEPTEMBER IN THE CITY'S (AND NATION'S) FINANCIAL ...
   - Once Upon an Occupy -
   by Luis Rivas

The Left-Handed Smoker | | | | | THE I-CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES: The Richard Wilhelm Translation rendered into English ...
   - VOL. III: ... yielding nature ... -
   by Frankie Metro

Visiting With Oliver StoneOLIVER STONE PULLED UP TO THE CURB in front of my house at three in the morning in a limo facing ...
   by John Bennett

In The Palm Of One HandThis poem came to me in the mail. It is a matchbox-sized poem, printed on carefully-stapled white ...
   - a review of Chad Redden's Poems From Other Years -
   by Nescher Pyscher

Remote Control FlickeringTHIS BOOK came to me in the mail. It is a blue pamphlet cum chap book. The outer cover looks ...
   - a review of J. D. Nelson's When The Sea Dies -
   by Nescher Pyscher

After Work...
   by Ryan Dodd

        

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   by Jim Wittenberg

      

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   by Bruno Souto

                    

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   by Christopher Barnes

          

Eighteen Slash StainlessStarring Russell Carter | | Music by Dyani Douze | Narration by Alexandra ...
   - for the people that are awake when everyone else is asleep -
   by Seb Som