Julia Klatt Singer is the poet-in-residence at Grace Neighborhood Nursery School and works as a visiting writer to the school. She is coauthor of Twelve Branches: Stories From St. Paul (Coffee House Press, 2003) and author of a chapbook, In the Dreamed of Places (Naissance Press 2011) and, most recently, A Tangled Path to Heaven (North Star Press 2013). She […]
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Last poem of the year
Christopher Roe’s most recent poem to appear here was Fugue (July 2013). Last poem of the yearBy Christopher Roe Another day another poem another yearwhittled off a lifegrowing thinner.I feel the emptinessof hungerI feel the chillof thin bloodand I live in the momentof partingand for the momentof love. Another day another poem […]
Contains Seed
Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia is the author of This Sentimental Education and Enter the After-Garde. He was raised in Brooklyn NY and was a cook for many years. He has a degree in linguistics and has studied several living and dead languages. Currently he spends his nights putting boxes on shelves and by day runs altpoetics. Visit […]
Lawyers
John Kaniecki has written this poem and he hopes you enjoy reading it. LawyersBy John Kaniecki Lawyers are a funny breedFull of vanity abounding in greedThey write the laws of the landWith language a common man can’t understandMultiplying words not very excitingThey insist on putting everything in writingA man’s fate is changed for bad or […]
Sunday Ride at Dusk
Lynn Ciesielski’s poem Longest Light appeared here in June (2013). Sunday Ride at DuskBy Lynn Ciesielski With hopes of viewing short-eared owls,we drive to Iroquois Preserve.You see a bin tumbling from a truck onto the road.We swerve to miss it but our words collide instead.I want to pick the radio station, though yours just playedmy favorite song.Our […]
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