Category: Poetry

  • Chris Holdaway: Excerpt from CODE: Equinox, a poetry hybrid

    Chris Holdaway: Excerpt from CODE: Equinox, a poetry hybrid

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Chris Holdaway is a poet/editor/linguist from New Zealand, where he directs Compound Press (compoundpress.org). He is the author of HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost, 2017), with recent work in Cream City Review, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.

  • Nathan Wade Carter: Two Poems

    Nathan Wade Carter: Two Poems

    Impossibly Large Horn I am parrots together.We telepath to concrete veins.We cross the black when told.We don’t like to practice.But that’s what water do. Weather spits and pisses on the grooves of canyons. What noise would this make, A right-size needle and an impossibly large horn? Coin toss into well. There’s a man down there…

  • Poetry by merrit k: “What I Meant When I Handed You the Key”

    Poetry by merrit k: “What I Meant When I Handed You the Key”

    i’m tired of giving.i want you to takeeverything about meand crumple it into atidy heap besidethe hissing radiator. later we cando the work of unfoldingtogether, smoothing outnew lines with sure hands. for now, inward pressure,compression, andthe tense promiseof a spring. merritt k is a Canadian writer whose work investigates the conditions of intimacy in precarious…

  • “Election Year,” a poetry comic by Catherine Bresner (published in the empty season)

    “Election Year,” a poetry comic by Catherine Bresner (published in the empty season)

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Catherine Bresner’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Offing, Passages North, The Pinch, H_NGM_N, Cream City Review, Burntdistrict, Handsome, and elsewhere. She has been the coordinating editor for The Seattle Review, an intern at Wave Books, and is currently the managing editor for BOAAT Press.…

  • Poetry by Kamden Hilliard: “Goat Theory”

    Poetry by Kamden Hilliard: “Goat Theory”

    is gruff and tumble. started from the bottom andit’s here. present. accounted for. the Greatestof All Time don’t do their own accounting. they don’tadd up. Icarus flew too close to the sun. Icarusis not a GOAT ‘cause GOATs hear too closeand wonder what the fuck yall’s talkin’ ‘bout.i mean, who hasn’t fantasized abt James Deanand…

  • Anne Champion Poetry: “Anne Sexton Prepares for the End”

    Anne Champion Poetry: “Anne Sexton Prepares for the End”

    After the shoulder heave of a garage door, my body weighs heavy in my shoes,a little slack, a little sagging— it’s no secret time is erasing me, and only vodka can wet my throat.I inhale its pungent punch, the scent familiar in its knock-out discomfort, just as my body is onlyfamiliar when the knots squeeze…

  • Emily O’Neill: “Preparing My Own Death,” a poem

    Emily O’Neill: “Preparing My Own Death,” a poem

    there’s an obvious difference between Hawthorne & julep strainers, an obvious reason why some people can’t eat pineapple. an obvious recipe for property. for help. for solitude. I can’t stop me from horsehide / can’t suntan the virgin out. I’m shy & nobody believes me. the memorized proof: what’s loud can’t call itself afraid /…

  • Three Poems by David Wojciechowski

    Three Poems by David Wojciechowski

    [In this dream I’m running a dream farm] In this dream I’m running a dream farm and glue factory. Dreams run everywhere. Even into the glue factory. One dream is on fire. This dream burns down the farm, the factory. The whole site is smoldering. People smell it from miles away. They wander wafting air.…

  • Sara Adams: Three Erasures

    Sara Adams: Three Erasures

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Head Librarian Erasure from Stephen King’s It Love Poem Erasure from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea His Heart Was Shit Erasure from Stephen King’s It Sara Adams is the author of three chapbooks: Think Like a B (SOd Press), Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press)…