Archives

January 2023

• “iambic pentameter” by Palash Mahmud
• “Dear G” by A.J. Huffman
• “Transformation Within During the Process of Letting Go Without” by Ari Bouse
• “Much like the bat.” by DS Maolalai
• “An End, or Beginning?” by James G. Piatt
• “Crumbling” by Richard M. Ankers
• “Ineffectual Apology Letter” by Chris D’Errico
• “Snow Flakes and Wild Flowers” by Suchoon Mo
• “I Think Too Much” by Bartholomew Barker
• “Paper Cup” by Gina Maria Manchego
• “Another Time, This Same Moon” by D.R. James
• “Button Box” by Lynn White
• “Fluorescent Angels” by Jennifer Klein

November 2022

• “Language” by John Tustin
• “Drowned” by Les Brown
• “Inner Antipathy” by Francis DiClemente
• “Tinder Heart” by Patrick Key

October 2022

• “Cider” by S.F. Wright
• “April Night” by David Dumouriez
• “Mourning Lament” by Diana Raab
• “Aftermath” by Lynn White
• “Autumn’s Poet” by Marius Alexandru

September 2022

• “Go to the Deaf Singers” by Peter Magliocco
• “Kill a Star, Burn a Sacrifice” by Retta Lewis
• “Mirror” by Peter Mladinic
• “Ephemeral Autumn” by Aurora Bishop

August 2022

• “Self-Partnered” by Sanjeev Sethi
• “Hibernal Musing” by Laura Stringfellow
• “After You Left” by James Piatt
• “Getting Over a Man” by John Grey
• “The Mime” by Timothy Resau

July 2022

• “Age of Loss” by Richard Spilman
• “Afghan Rubab” by Palash Mahmud
• “Broken” by Lynn White
• “Lost Love” by Tobias Maxwell

June 2022

• “Recognition Poem” by Ari Bouse
• “Bail” by John Tustin
• “Tag Sale” by Kathryn Sadakierski
• “Lavender” by Jeff Burt

May 2022

• “Grandma Ann” by Arthur Russell
• “The Edge of Deliverance” by Ramzi Albert Rihani
• “All There Is” by Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin
• “Broken Heart” by Marius Alexandru
• “House Sparrow” by John Brantingham

April 2022

• “The Sadness of the Long Night” by James Piatt
• “Two of a Kind” by Tobias Maxwell
• “Menarch” by Stephanie Simpson
• “Big Lorraine” by pd Lyons

March 2022

• “The Breathtaking Winter” by Marius Alexandru
• “Breathing Ballad” by Jodie Baeyens
• “Chemical Spill” by Peter Mladinic
• “Out-Spoken” by Lynn White

February 2022

• “The Keepsake” by Kelly Sargent
• “Bird Song, Early Morning” by John Grey
• “On Ice” by Aurora Bishop
• “The Night Comes Crawling” by John Tustin
• “DEATH (REVERSED)” by Robert Beveridge

January 2022

• “Nothing Hill” by Yash Seyedbagheri
• “Ice Cream” by S.F. Wright
• “thank you. please don’t ever leave me.” by Pearl Button
• “Drifting Aimlessly” by Palash Mahmud
• “Strangers Meeting Again” by pd Lyons

December 2021

• “Magic Words” by Lynn White
• “Death of a Houseplant” by Tobias Maxwell
• “Ballad of a Yellow Flower” by Suchoon Mo
• “Christmas Time” by Marius Alexandru

November 2021

• “A Dead Tree On A Distant Shore” by Suchoon Mo
• “Autumn is Coming” by Marius Alexandru
• “Time’s Thief” by Gloria Buckley
• “Memory of a Girl” by Timothy Resau
• “Molting” by Andrea Festa

October 2021

• “Soul Liberation!” by Ari Bouse
• “Hanged” by John Tustin
• “Sunset Stripped” by D.R. James
• “Interims” by Stephen Mead

September 2021

• “Come to You” by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal
• “We Have to Make a Change” by Marius Alexandru
• “Reset” by Aurora Bishop
• “Amplified Melancholy” by Diana Raab

August 2021

• “Crack in the Ice” by John Grey
• “Affiliations” by Sanjeev Sethi
• “Early Morning Love Song” by D.R. James
• “Self Portrait” by Christina Pan
• “Are We Any Older?” by Lynn White

July 2021

• “Change in the World” by John Grey
• “The Stars are Naked” by John Tustin
• “Strange” by Askold Skalsky
• “If You Are Looking for Something to Read Out There” by Laura Sminchak

June 2021

• “Dust” by Tobias Maxwell
• “I Need You” by Marius Alexandru
• “Every Surface Green” by DS Maolalai
• “Dearly My Sighs are Hanging” by Palash Mahmud

May 2021

• “Ode to Memory” by Diana Raab
• “The Weight of Death” by Fabrice Poussin
• “Invisible” by Lynn White
• “Mound” by Robert Beveridge
• “Addiction” by Leon Stevens

April 2021

• “By Reason’s Fright and Firelight” by George Rawlins
• “We Shall Meet Again” by Suchoon Moon
• “I Dream of a New Land” by Marius Alexandru
• “Verities 2” by Sanjeev Sethi

February 2021

• “Expectations” by Lynn White
• “Lost Without You” by Marius Alexandru
• “Omnipresent” by Aida Bode
• “Mission San Juan Capistrano” by Brian Glaser
• “Poetry of the Body” by Constance Bourg
• “Trial” by Sanjeev Sethi
• “The Dark Place” by John Tustin
• “Those Who Dance Are Thought Mad By Those Who Do Not Hear the Music” by KD Williams
• “Pandemics” by Tobias Maxwell

January 2021

• “My Words” by Lavita Saikia
• “Else” by Gale Acuff
• “Sparrow” by Catherine Zickgraf
• “Inoculated Love” by R. Gerry Fabian
• “Still the Dark Night Walks in Sunlight” by Ari Bouse
• “California Modern” by Steve Wittkoff
• “The Black Hole” by C.F. Leach
• “Together” by Jodie Baeyens
• “Descent” by Sanjeev Sethi
• “I Apologize” by Yash Seyedbagheri
• “When You’re Gone” by John Grey
• “Ratio” by Tobias Maxwell
• “You Can Call it a Monet” by Mitch Worden

December 2020

• “Then” by Lynn White
• “The Windmills Tilted Me” by John Tustin
• “A Kiss in Providence” by Meg Smith
• “Taking Another Road” by Tori Campbell
• “Hope” by Coco Kiju
• “Safeword” by John Hulme
• “I’m Not Pretty Anymore” by John Dorroh
• “Remnants of Memories” by Robin McNamara
• “Move Closer to Me” by Milton Ehrlich
• “Drowning” by Jodie Baeyens
• “Isolated” by Marysa Storm
• “Last Drink” by Yash Seyedbagheri
• “Info” by Sanjeev Sethi

November 2020

• “Water Under the Bridge” by Lynn White
• “Unattainable” by Andrea Festa
• “Invisible” by Fabrice Poussin
• “Diminishing” by John D. Robinson
• “These Memories are a Pavement” by John Tustin
• “Father Cell, Daughter Cell” by Meg Smith
• “Indicant” by Sanjeev Sethi
• “Dyslexia” by Tori Campbell
• “Elenora Singleton” by Tobias Maxwell
• “In the Woods of Acceptance” by Robin McNamara
• “Somebody Give Me a Mountain” by John Hulme
• “Gustavo’s Rite” by Ed Ahern
• “Things Come in Threes” by Wesley Moore

October 2020

• “Desert Wind” by Cara Feral
• “Bury Me Deep” by Lynn White
• “All My Failures” by J.J. Campbell
• “Habibi” by Andrea Festa
• “Building Blocks” by Fabrice Poussin
• “Uneasy in the Town of Your Body” by Bruce Hodder
• “Vestiges” by Laura Stringfellow
• “Indigo” by Eric Persaud
• “There are Some Things” by John D. Robinson
• “And Sadness” by John Tustin
• “Night Air” by Tobias Maxwell
• “Checkmate” by Bartholomew Barker
• “Death and Scaling” by Ed Ahern

September 2020

• “September’s Here” by John Grey
• “Haiku Quartet” by Thomas Zimmerman
• “Island of Misfit Kids” by Cara Feral
• “Beauty is a Compromise” by Retta Lewis
• “Acoustics” by Alan Cohen
• “In Mind” by Ellie Onka
• “Rendering” by Prarthana Vijayakumar
• “Memento Mori” by Saharsh Satheesh
• “Poppie” by Tony Pena
• “Books” by Meysa Addeh
• “Horoscopes for the Unbalanced Libra” by Aurora Bishop
• “A Brief Moment in Time” by Wayne Russell
• “Where I’m From” by Anannya Choudhury

August 2020

• “Childless” by David Spicer
• “Resentment” by Yves K. Morrow
• “Spare Parts” by Aurora Bishop
• “Man” by Meysa Addeh
• “Mermaids” by Joan Colby
• “The Fox in Me” by Cara Feral
• “Wings” by Alan Cohen
• “Tears of Circumstance & Self-Concept” by Connor Orrico
• “Forbidden Planet” by Tony Pena
• “Tears of Ash” by Prarthana Vijayakumar
• “The Angels Provoked” by Retta Lewis
• “Dearly Departed” by Wayne Russell
• “First Love” by Jessica Holzhausen

July 2020

• “Burned Bridges” by David Spicer
• “A Year Ago Today” by Tobias Maxwell
• “Trying, Very Trying” by a.d. matthias
• “I Remember My Father” by Lynn White
• “Trigger” by Yves K. Morrow
• “The Oak” by Thomas Zimmerman
• “Wilderness” by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
• “Lineup” by Sanjeev Sethi
• “Too Much” by Joan Colby
• “Good News” by Connor Orrico
• “A Night From the World” by Yash Seyedbagheri
• “I Will Leave None of Myself” by Retta Lewis
• “There is a Hole” by John Tustin
• “Belong” by Prarthana Vijaya Kumar

June 2020

• “Blue Swan” by Clarice Hare
• “Staying at Home” by David Spicer
• “A Family Business” by Joseph Reilly
• “Unintended Consequences” by Tobias Maxwell
• “After the End” by Lynn White
• “Nobody’s Ghost” by Yves K. Morrow
• “Staring at a Mirror’s Back” by Thomas Zimmerman
• “Half a Glass of Water” by R. Gerry Fabian
• “The News” by Catherine Zickgraf
• “My Old Man’s Breakdown” by Dan Provost
• “My Way Out” by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
• “Putting the Dog Down” by Jason Fisk
• “Dehiscence” by Sanjeev Sethi

May 2020

• “Fidelity” by Brian Rihlmann
• “(Not) You” by Edward Lee
• “On the Outskirts” by Gloria Buckley
• “Brand New” by Holly Day
• “Bath Time” by Lynn White
• “Waiting in San Francisco” by Carla Sarett
• “Widower’s Summer Project” by Mark J. Mitchell
• “Animate” by Tyler Wettig
• “The Point of Poetry” by DS Maolalai 
• “A Language of Sorrow” by Laura Stringfellow
• “Thin Disguise” by Michael Igoe
• “Neighborhoods After Midnight” by Jamie Brian
• “A Funeral in Spring” by John Grey

April 2020

• “The Dark, Insistent Waves” by Colette Tennant
• “Aubade” by Ron Lavalette
• “Runaway” by Leila Greiss
• “Requiem for a Boy-Girl” by Tobias Maxwell
• “Lee, July 5, 1990” by Robert Beveridge
• “Adding Up” by Rae Rozman
• “The Character Actor” by Joseph Reilly
• “Motherings” by Amy Soricelli
• “I Remember” by B.C. Mcvay
• “Amputated Parts” by John Tustin
• “Virginia” by Jessica Holzhausen
• “Rain” by M. Taggart
• “My Sister Maud” by Lynn White

March 2020

• “Empty Plate” by Tom Zimmerman
• “The Girl Who Stays One Day” by Jeri Thompson
• “Special Offer on the World’s Fare” by Ben Nardolilli
• “Calling in Silence” by Fabrice Poussin
• “Deep Feel” by Yuan Changming
• “Drink Down the Moon” by Barbara Meier
• “The Former Famines” by Lauren Hancock
• “The Golden Rule Revisited” by R. Gerry Fabian
• “Something Like Prehistoric Stonework” by William Doreski
• “Getting Ready to Confess” by Yuan Changming
• “Hand-Me-Downs” by Barbara Meier
• “Dear Dusk” by Yash Seyedbagheri
• “Love and Loss” by Arthur Lamar Mitchell

February 2020

• “Face My Daemon” by Tosin Morakinyo
• “Matured Mettle: Busy Being Born or Dying” by Gerard Sarnat
• “My White Dove” by John Grey
• “Just for a Moment” by Jeri Thompson
• “Crysta’s Lullaby” by Gloria Buckley
• “Hourglass” by Tom Zimmerman
• “My Uncle’s Ashes” by David Spicer
• “Ground Floor and Below” by R. Gerry Fabian

January 2020