Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and Interview magazine. His art has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared in Word Riot
Monday by Doug Draime
Monday by Doug Draime I take off my boots and place them on the floor in front of me. My feet burn and sting and my back is in a vase of torment. It’s now 8:30 PM and I’ve been up since 6 AM working two different manual laboring jobs, which barely keep me in the […]
New York Haiku by Ken Gaertner
Ken Gaertner has published poetry in numerous magazines and have eight plays produced in NYC and
elsewhere.
He wore shoes a size too small by Doug Holder
He wore shoes a size too small by Doug Holder They always told him “Contain yourself.” And what surged through him stopped at his feet. The blood bursting through the crooked tributaries of his toes the contours of each foot’s arching vein. It splashed against the leathery walls, the black shoelaces curved like a hunchback’s […]
The Writing of People Who Haven’t Died by Bee Walsh
The Writing of People Who Haven’t Died by Bee Walsh You were at the bottom of my first coffee today. Like yesterday, when you were under the last towel that I pulled up from the basket. At the ends of things, you are. Before you were gone, the curtains moved. They put all the familiar […]
This Knife I Give You by Joseph J. Nagarya
This Knife I Give You by Joseph J. Nagarya In Zen, all that’s left to you is to laugh. In this life, all that’s left to do is kindness. This knife I give you is to cut the meanness out of our hearts. In this life, all that’s left to do is kindness. ### Joseph […]
Day Eighty-Four by Sara Ansary
there was a frequency in the air that sizzled the way telephone wires do
when i picked up the electric buzz your body generated next to mine.
Bankruptcy and Real Estate by Weldon H. Sandusky
Bankruptcy and Real Estate by Weldon H. Sandusky I Failure has such splendor Coaxing you to rationalize Then tossing you a pint of vodka And chalking up a victory When your committed to the State Mental Asylum. II Success, similarly, wears such a deceptive Smile tempting you to light a Big Cigar. Poof! Bankruptcy. Poof! […]
Empires by Mike Ambrose
She is like
a boy
becoming
a man,
21st Century Words by Georgia S. KochVicolo
21st Century Words by Georgia S. KochVicolo Walking around naked Walking around blind Blind to danger Blind to reason Reason to wander Reason to question Question the people Question the times Times are coming Times are passing Passing through life Passing through woods Woods of triumph Woods of greatness Greatness of soul Greatness of creation Creation […]
Belonging by Fiona Marshall
Belonging by Fiona Marshall When I leave this place You will see shreds of my heart Dangling from the trees ### I emigrated to Northern Alberta, Canada, six years ago with my husband and two sons after living my entire life in the North West of England. Since then, I have joined the Slave Lake […]
Skin is, My by Tamarah Rockwood
Tamarah Rockwood is a stay-at-home, homeschooling mother of five and has been married for the past 15 years. She received her BA in Literature from CSUH.
Ode to the Christmas Tree by Grace Curtis
Grace Curtis’ chapbook, The Surly Bonds of Earth was selected by Stephen Dunn as the 2010 winner of the Lettre Sauvage chapbook contest. Grace’s work
A Harry Nilsson Poem by Raymond Stiefvater
A Harry Nilsson Poem by Raymond Stiefvater Back then I saw Harry as a comet that you knew just had to burn out. Nothing — not anything or anyone — lasts forever, least of all flying rocks through space or earthbound troubadours.
Mia Mango by Brandon Ward
Brandon Ward is from Northern California.