I sleep on futon by Hirotoshi Kimura
Hirotoshi Kimura is a Japanese poet. Almost drowned in the creative struggles of past poets and every once in a while delightfully buoyed by their densely condensed poetic and literary energies,
Continue reading1956 by Ray Stiefvater
I am 14 or 15 here
I am at the local swimming pool
on Overlook Drive in Schenley Park
Summer by Dr. Pavol Janik
Dr. Janik is has been President of the Slovak Writers’ Society, Secretary-General of the Slovak Writers’ Society and Editor-in-Chief of the literary weekly of the Slovak Writers’ Society Literarny tyzdennik.
Continue readingAfternoon in February by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is rare for us to publish a classic poem these days. We would like to more often. Being the end of February and just coming out of a very cold spell, we are happy to see the sun. Longfellow was born in February, so it just seemed like a good idea.
Continue readingMessages by R. Bremner
R. Bremner has worked as a cab driver, a truck unloader, a computer programmer, and a bank vice-president. He has published in International Poetry Review, Inclement, Turbulence, Screech, Poets Online
Continue readingA Little Less by Paul Strohm
Paul Strohm is a free lance journalist working in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in the Berkeley Poets Cooperative, Green’s Magazine, WIND, Deep Water Literary Journal and other literary journals.
Continue readingSign of the adverb by Michael D. Brown
Award winning poet, Author of 18 books, including 7 volumes of poetry, recipient of the New York State Senator’s award for poetry, Michael D. Brown currently teaches English
Continue readingHe Sits by Sy Roth
He Sits by Sy Roth He sits in his garage, Dressed in black jogging pants, Black nylon jacket striped
Continue readingStranger into Friend by Ivan Jenson
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
Continue readingMonday by Doug Draime
Monday by Doug Draime I take off my boots and place them on the floor in front of me. My feet
Continue readingNew 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
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThis 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
Continue readingDay 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.