Category: Poetry

  • Side A Poem: “My Breakdown Is Like Buster Keaton Trying to Smile” by Jessie Janeshek

    Side A Poem: “My Breakdown Is Like Buster Keaton Trying to Smile” by Jessie Janeshek

    My Breakdown Is Like Buster Keaton Trying to Smile I keep looking through binocularsover and out toward the rivercalories are negotiablebut in every rendition I have a black eye. It’s all about pratfallsmy globe-sized stomachgarroted or garrulousand/or love before breakfast. Oct/Nov adjust the knobit always rains in my dreamseven the one where I’m swallowed into…

  • “Plexiglass Poetry,” a Side A feature by massimo magee

    “Plexiglass Poetry,” a Side A feature by massimo magee

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  • “Hands”: Poetry by Tam Nguyen

    “Hands”: Poetry by Tam Nguyen

    On March 16, 2021, a white gunman committed mass shootings in the Northern suburbs of Atlanta, United States, resulting in the deaths of 8 people, 6 of whom are Asian women.   Show me your hands. Should you know there’re Ways to make the world tender? —More than the pairs of hands That corked a…

  • Four Poems by Sarah Cavar

    Four Poems by Sarah Cavar

    POV: Asking my clinician what he will get me (free) My doctor foots an opening too small for me.A catholic chamber, tabernacle tight. Beast-abreastIn steady follow.Satan’s like a tabby fat these days, a six of furringpounds and ribs and ounces. A pussynot the coward-kind or catBut like the act of snatching. eating poem dishes on…

  • Two Poems from Vol. 10 by Michael Russell

    Two Poems from Vol. 10 by Michael Russell

    i’ve never seen the ocean nightly, i dream itas open sore.my entire self, plummeting.an infection. the moon,scimitarof borrowed lightcutsinto the bruise— cerulean-wound,blood-saltmouthfuls. i am drowning in an inhumangalaxy. my lungs,unfit,this world—breathless. i’m not a fish.i hate to swim,this body—finless & withoutshark. my great white hearttornlike a scissored fin. love chums the waterwith rogue arms.my best…

  • Bards & Brews Reader, a 2016-17 anthology of series performers

    Bards & Brews Reader, a 2016-17 anthology of series performers

    BNB logo designed by Emily Weddle   Table of Contents FICTION “Shangri La Dee Da” Dan Mancilla “Bigfoot’s Overcoat” Matthew Fogarty   NONFICTION “Staff Meeting” “Rescue” “Scorpio, Born in the Year of the Cock” “Go, Jim Dandy” Ginny MacDonald Broadside Excerpt from “Field Notes” Josh MacIvor-Andersen   POETRY “How to Skin a Rabbit” “Assembly Instructions for…

  • Seafaring Split, 2016 poetry chapbooks by Jessica Q. Stark and Kiley McLaughlin

    Seafaring Split, 2016 poetry chapbooks by Jessica Q. Stark and Kiley McLaughlin

    Image: Josh Dorman, “Night Fishing II”   Table of Contents \\\Side A///Jessica Q. StarkThe Liminal Parade “Strange Beasts”“Tissue Cultures in Auckland”“Epileptic Release Hounds”“Gizzard Stones”“Re: Pls Fwd All Future Arrangements” 2015 WinnerDouble Take Poetry PrizeSelected by Dorothea Lasky   *   \\\Side B///Kiley McLaughlinACTION PRAISE PRAISE “Action”“And Praise and Praise” 2015 Runner Up Double Take Poetry…

  • Shirts or Skins, a 2014 poetry chapbook by Jim Redmond

    Shirts or Skins, a 2014 poetry chapbook by Jim Redmond

    Image: Cristina Troufa   Winner of the 2014 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Noah Eli Gordon, author of The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom: “Jim Redmond’s poems are situated between the palm at the end of the mind and the parking lot of a now-gutted Midwestern Denny’s. Like the twisted portraiture of Francis Bacon or…

  • Facts about Snakes & Hearts, a 2015 poetry chapbook by Flower Conroy

    Facts about Snakes & Hearts, a 2015 poetry chapbook by Flower Conroy

    Image: Michael McConnell   Winner of the 2015 Heavy Feather Chapbook AwardJudge Kristina Marie Darling, author of Dark Horse: “Formally dexterous and luminous in its imagery, Flower Conroy’s Facts about Snakes & Hearts skillfully situates the age-old tradition of the love lyric in a postmodern literary landscape. Presenting us with ‘flames,’ ‘a wishing bell,’ and…