Category: Poetry

Coretta Scott King as a Young Girl

Marianne Kunkel   They tease about the fact that when I was growing up… I used to fight them, but then I would be the one who would become involved with the nonviolent movement. It feels good...

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Benth*OS

Joe Pan   After failed attempts to temper the course set upon by man in nature, following violent earthquakes & floods, the great city sank beneath the ocean waves in a single day &...

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Swans Reflecting Elephants

Matthew Gilbert “We resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections.” -Salvador Dali, on his brother I was making the masks for your exorcism. Working on your face...

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YEAR OF THE POSSUM

S.Marie Clay   Your stature suggests the sleep of a museum, fifty coffins piled into a single room; waxen figures with mouths furiously cut open, hair from possum’s shield, eyes sliced from...

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A FORKED BRANCH WILL DIP WHEN IT PASSES OVER WATER

S.Marie Clay   Let us talk about the blackness of heaven and winged bats. It is the back then I am after. Even though the past is a pregnant stove burning mutton, I want it. My daughter screams,...

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Soraya

Anis Shivani   1. I believe in licking riot grrrl power beads. I believe in ring-around-a-rosy to move the Mensheviks’ frozen mercury. I believe, Soraya, in Roman candles whose eidetic...

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Metro Tepito

Stephen Brown To view a .PDF version of this poem, click here.  Stephen Brown was born in 1976.  He attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Athabasca University in Western Canada....

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The Rogue Translation



Karen An-hwei Lee   Bird is niao in the original Mandarin.   Un oiseau avec la bicyclette jaune — The word oiseau is French for bird. Translation:  A bird with a yellow bicycle....

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Shooting Script

Karyna McGlynn   I like to yank necklaces from women’s throats. I am unconcerned whether I break the clasps or the women. A spray of pearls in the sunlight. No comment. I smoke in the same...

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Calle Regina

Stephen Brown To view a .PDF version of this poem, click here.  Stephen Brown was born in 1976.  He attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Athabasca University in Western Canada....

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