Browsing Category Poetry

  • Image by Stephanie Sicore
    Poetry

    SELF-PORTRAIT BEFORE

    In the split between two boulders behind the blue and orange playground, the children are building nests for when the hurricane comes ...

    On March 20, 2015 / By
  • ScreenShot of Dear Grace, and interactive poem.
    Deep End 0

    Dear Grace: A Poem from the Department of Justice

    Hover your mouse over a line of the poem and the original surrounding text will appear. If you’re using a touchscreen device, touch any line. Click here to ...

    On March 11, 2015 / By
  • Waxing over a Sea of Clouds by Carl Milner
    Poetry

    Istvan

    To feel fully engulfed in the magical, raw nature of place, of strange polyphonic songs, of pigs and cows and chickens and giant puppets in the barns ...

    On March 8, 2015 / By
  • Estuary-feet by Andy Hay
    Poetry

    Pastoral

    Where did it start? In a city of gardens & muck. When I held someone close, in watery light. We drank & I bled all the way home. ...

    On February 14, 2015 / By
  • The Pianist by Xavier Ceccaldi
    Poetry

    A Borrowed Copy of Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters

    A flutter in the governing hand, and an eleventh finger extending from the other, uncovering an upper register, automatic and after, apex plus, A flat, A flat, E. ...

    On January 27, 2015 / By
  • Poetry

    Young Man Afraid of His Horses

    What will keep you from telling it to everyone. What will prevent you from perpetual disclosure: shame or privacy—words or the sense that once said you cannot snatch ...

    On January 14, 2015 / By
  • Poetry

    Poem in Film

    This cocktail you sniffed cost 12 bucks but did make you clairvoyant on your birthday.   We sure were sure, weren’t we, your new girl would fall for ...

    On December 26, 2014 / By
  • Couple on a Fence
    Poetry

    Motion Harmony #3

    He undresses her jewel-hard mind ...

    On November 30, 2014 / By
  • Arts 1

    Allen Ginsberg: An Encounter

    When I interviewed Allen Ginsberg I said something right off that startled him, though what I said was simple and not raunchy in the least, as if raunchy ...

    On November 24, 2014 / By
  • Office chair in field
    Poetry

    Away from my Dream Desk

    The machine powers up bad. Time to grow summer, hours of green and forgetting. ...

    On November 23, 2014 / By
  • Poetry

    Crime Shows

    I watch crime shows from Norway and Sweden. Wallander and Salamander and others with names I can’t pronounce. I watch crime shows from England with American actors. There are guys who ...

    On November 8, 2014 / By
  • Photo: “Lone Tree”
    Poetry

    The Pain Scale

    Today is a good day so I can offer or try to offer connective parts like connective tissue, invisible: what extends between us. So it isn’t so much offering as pointing out: ...

    On October 24, 2014 / By