Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Mix Tape By Andrea Lani Twenty-two songs–sixteen years asleep, lost on a Greyhound bus–wake something up in me, pulse through my earbuds from my work computer just as our bodies pulsed on the dance floor that night, that one night that inspired you to mix a tape to […]

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears After Praise for the Leaving* By Ellen Kline McLeod Notes have their place on a staff or resting, folded neatly on a bed side table telling reasons for leaving words of sad songs sung in the heart hurt and sorrow strummed across pulp fibers delicate pink paper in […]

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Rum Dance By Rosalyn Marhatta I fly to your voice on a dolphin wind, kiss sugar cane notes from your lips, dance to the sway and harmony of your hips, drink too much rum punch, float on mist, catch rainbows of toucans while steel drums carouse with the […]

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears June By Stan Galloway The jazz notes you spur summon Satchmo’s cornet squawk, syncopated yips scatting over beats–syllables of desire bending blue-hot pitches and sliding be-be-bop all around the melody– improvising every next move vocalizing thump and groove to mark the song be-be-bumping inside dizzy spinning tumble-bumble full-score-orchestration, […]

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Furiously listening By Laura Zucca-Scott Furiously listening to her own tune She finds rhymes Unspoken Forgotten Music made sense Once upon a time Before the madness began Yet, she still listens Undefeated Triumphant While tears underscore The silence Laura Zucca-Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was Watermelon at […]