BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT The Big Smoke From Denver to Dover, from Delhi to DelftFrom Dublin to Dar es Salaam—There’s a need that I feelAt the end of each mealAnd I sate it wherever I am. For some chaps it’s tea, and for others, a pee,But my own post-prandial itchIs a thing that I’ve […]
BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT Identity My mother called herself EnglishSome forty or fifty years back.Her tummy would feel all tinglishWhen she looked at the Union Jack,And she’d cry when she heard bagpipesDroning out on Remembrance DayAnd think of the British ArmyAnd the Empire gone away.But in spite of her British passportAnd her doll with […]
Featured PoetAlex Steelsmith Spotlight: Alex Steelsmithby Julia Griffin Book Reviewsby Barbara Egel Poems by…Gilbert AllenClyde AlwaysAlex BarrBruce BennettJerome BettsHilary BiehlJane BlanchardLaura J. BobrowDan CampionJ.P. CeliaMary CookPat D’AmicoTerri Kirby EricksonAndrew FrisardiDaniel GalefDavid GalefNicole Caruso GarciaClaudia GaryStephen GoldJulia GriffinDavid HedgesMichael HeydLily Jarman-ReischDerek KannemeyerSteven KentJean L. KreilingSeth LererKathleen McClungBruce McGuffinBob McKentyEd MeekMike Mesterton-GibbonsTimothy MurphyJames B. NicolaChris O’CarrollJames PenhaD.A. […]
BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT Cain My father was born witha silver spoon in his mouth.Mother too. They had no ideajust how good they had it.A couple of bad decisionsand it was gone. My brother and I went to work.Commodities. Wheat, rice,livestock. Whatever. What can I tell you?One day he justdoesn’t show up. It was […]
BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT The Hat A doll-size boater, trimmed with plastic flowers,its forward tilt elastic-fixed, just right(but not too tight) for sitting out the hours.His master’s busking lasts until it’s night.The dog is bored but knows he has to sithatted and winsome, tempting people’s cash;that on its own the accordion isn’t it,nor has […]
Featured PoetCatherine Chandler Spotlight: Catherine Chandlerby Alfred Nicol Book Reviewsby Barbara Egel Poems by…Felicia Nimue AckermanBrian AllgarClyde AlwaysAnna J. ArredondoBruce BennettJerome BettsLaura J. BobrowAnne Marie BrownDan CampionMonica CarlyJ.P. CeliaMaryann CorbettCheryl CoreyAlfred CornPat D’AmicoToby DevensKatherine EdgrenDaniel GalefLewis M. GedimanJulia GriffinMia Schilling GroganMax GutmannAnthony HarringtonJohn HarrisBrittany HauseRobert JacksonHank JohnsonStephen KampaJohanna KellerSteven KentJenna LeBruce McGuffinBob McKentySusan McLeanMike Mesterton-GibbonsDiane […]
BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT Faint Hopes (with apologies to Kipling) If you could listen and not aim to wrangle— Remember that to tango it takes two; If you could see things, sometimes, from my angle, A little more of me and less of you; If you had sometimes been a little kinder, If complimenting […]
BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT Mother, Superior On page 11 of his autobiography, Joe Biden recalls his mother confronting a seventh-grade nun who mocked him for stuttering: She “walked over in front of the nun and said, ‘If you ever speak to my son like that again, I’ll come back and rip that bonnet off […]
Poems of the Week Winter-Spring 2024 Brian Allgar, Wael Almahdi, Bruce Bennett, Jerome Betts, Jane Blanchard, Dan Campion, D.A. Cooper, Barbara Lydecker Crane, Pat D’Amico, Philip Dunkerley, John Tabb DuVal, László Feleki, Kelly Scott Franklin, David Galef, Nicole Caruso Garcia, Claudia Gary, Stephen Gold, Julia Griffin, Max Gutmann, Anthony Harrington, David Hedges, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Bryan […]