Brian Le Lay has spent the past year living in New Jersey, Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Louisville KY. He has recently returned to New Jersey. Denial in a Walk-in Shower Above New York CityBy Brian Le LayOne month after you didn’t come home, All those headlights on the pavement weren’t you, The night before the […]
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Best of the Net 2012 Nominees!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again! So without further ado, here are the vox poetica 2012 Best of the Net nominees: Maureen Donatelli, for Bee Fever Lowell Jaeger, for She’s Wet Her Pants Joanna S Lee, for catching up Clarissa McFairy, for La Mia Musa John J McKenna, for Did I miss a […]
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Anthony Tussi is a man of many talents who lives in Northern New Jersey, speaks a little Italian that he learned from his fluent wife, and farms a variety of nonnative produce. In addition to his two fine sons, he raises rescue dogs. UntitledBy Anthony Tussi Don’t give me a medalDon’t carve me a statueDon’t […]
Starting at Zero (Message to New York)
Nick Hawkins’ most recent poem to appear here was Manic Bear in a Hole(August 2011). Starting at Zero(Message to New York)By Nick Hawkins Branches wave, within streams of shines,in through my living room window,soft-petal double-headed roses nod gently in the breeze,I stare paste this beautyand into melancholia,to where this Sunday meets your pain. Time cannot heal in […]
Writers are wild fruits
Cassie Premo Steele’s most recent poem to appear here was St Francis, the rain(August 2012). Writers are wild fruitsBy Cassie Premo Steele I think writers are wild fruits.They hang on the vine, juicy.They are lonely, longing to bebitten. They have so muchsweet inside, hidden. If youbrought this fruit to your lips, it would spill from yourmouth to […]
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