Mrs. Podolski – Two Poems by Robert Wexelblatt
These are the latest in a series of poems about a tough, and smart, sometimes acerbic old lady, Mrs. Podolski, all monologues addressed to...
3 Poems by Adithya Patil
Countable
How many sunsets have you let pass
without watching, by yourself, the sun sink?
How many rooms have you stood in,
hour after hour, facing different...
Dublin Is Us – An Epic Poem – By Gavin Bourke
Dublin Is Us
(For My Friend Jim Kelly)
Cold October Saturdays and endless grey
what if it was all an illusion to begin with anyway?
Oh Glorious...
Two Ancient Sumerian Elegies in English – By Tikva Hecht
Author's Note:
These elegies were originally written in Sumerian and are dated circa 1700 BC, making them among the oldest known written texts in the...
Poems by Michael G. Smith
During the fall of 2019 Michael G. Smith was a writing resident at Gullkistan Center for Creativity (http://gullkistan.is/). Gullkistan is located in the Icelandic...
Two Poems by Amrita Valan
When Mother Is No More
On the road to forever.
By the way of stars.
Cluster of constellations
Gateways to her.
Our journeys begin and end on different...
Poems by Gavin Bourke
The Lighthouse, On the Green
Thomas Taylor’s, phenomenal gift,
to his father, a mock lighthouse,
not facing, seas, or oceans, but
endless, fertile, green fields,
hunts, races, grazing sheep
and...
Poems by Christopher Nye
Cat Convention
On the boardwalk outside the cat convention
promenaded marmalades and tigers,
Manx and Siamese, longhairs,
shorthairs, pampered ones
and moth-eaten urban survivors.
Many cat tails seemed to...
The Anti-Poetry of Salvador Villanueva
By Gustavo Rivera
There is a sliver of truth when Josefina Rivera de Álvarez, in her book Literatura Puertorriquena: Su proceso en el tiempo (Puerto Rican...
Tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 9
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1.
and for no reason
people danced the whole day long
a joy to behold
and one...
