Brad Rose: Two Poems

In Media Res Everything on this planet fails fails in the middle even death your life is death’s failure but … More

“Four Poems by a Middle-Aged Woman”: Laura Lee Washburn

After the Surgeon Cuts You or the bone snaps in eight places, the world recognizes you as the vessel for … More

In Defense of Clouds the absence of caterpillar time— / weighted under a weightless sky, / the ibis eyeing a … More

1 Secretary of State Dean Acheson actually greeted the invasion with relief, as it justified massive military appropriations that were … More

the last scientist does not know where the others have gone. he searches the corners of the stone hearth for … More

Down here, spider blue’s sour candy singsong plays out like confession. On my walk home, civilians cleanse into pulpits, … More

—after Craig Santos Perez [ra-ha-meem (womb):] i named my first star on a farmhouse roof in Kafr El Zayat … More

Blame It on a Woman Blame it on a woman. She who argues not for the accuracy, but for the … More

Funny the things you make time for. vodka reruns a million hours sleep the city on a good night ironic … More

In the month following Donald Trump’s election to President of the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center received over … More

They erased me yesterday. After they took up the gavel, hammered the sound block, the wheels set into motion. … More

There’s a Man with a Hemingway Inside His chair is shrinking beneath him on the coffee shop patio. I should … More