Abbie Johnson Taylor’s most recent poem to appear here was Bill’s Hands (February 2013). Escape By Abbie Johnson Taylor I used to dream of flying up, up, up, away to a land where problems didn’t exist where all lived in peace and harmony. Hands raised skyward, I jumped, flapped legs and arms, propelled myself higher, […]
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Ethereal Morning Awakening
Gregory Gunn’s most recent poem to appear here was Summer Redundancy With Added Pleonasm (July 2013). Ethereal Morning Awakening By Gregory Gunn Today the flock of clouds have somehow sheared me fleecily off from the assembly of sheep in the city below. Feathered am I at 29 thousand feet, like an imagined deity far above […]
The Other Boys of Summer
John McKenna’s most recent poem to appear here was The White Horse (New Amsterdam on Hudson) (December 2012). The Other Boys of Summer By John J McKenna Buk, like Hemingway, was a big personality and machismo one from the LA Bowery the other, from wished and wandered Pamplona one, in ill-fitting baggy boxers, chinos, and […]
In a Diner in America Circa 1956
Stephanie Nikolopoulos’ writing has appeared in BOMBlog, The Brooklyn Rail, Burnside Writers Collective, Gothamist, The Literary Traveler, The Millions, and other publications. She has also written introductions to classic reissues of Teddy Roosevelt’s Hunting the Grisly and Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, as well as the Magna Graecia section for Benet’s […]
Numerology
Frieda Landau’s most recent poem to appear here was Entropy (January 2013). Numerology By Frieda Landau I Faded purple ink Outward sign of inward scars Badge of survival II Faded purple ink on desiccated forearms Overheated rooms and untouched bowls of fruit Scraps of Yiddish pieced into conversations Of past times and past people of […]
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