Tag: Poetry

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

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

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  • “Irony Serves Whatever Purpose You Need It To”: Zach Savich Interviews Mark Leidner

    “Irony Serves Whatever Purpose You Need It To”: Zach Savich Interviews Mark Leidner

    Mark Leidner’s first full-length collection of poems, Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me, was released ten years ago by Factory Hollow Press. Leidner has been busy since then: among other projects, he’s published a collection of short stories, Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), and written the feature films Jammed (2014) and Empathy,…

  • Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Shrimpboat Captain” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

    Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Shrimpboat Captain” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

    on the island of if,the shrimpboat captain dreams of geckosclimbing up cave walls,catching them & setting them free. when he wakes up in the middle of the night,& stares out into a sea of dwarf foxes on the dock,their eyes glowing from the light of his lantern,he climbs back into his bunk and asks himself,how to…

  • Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Bloated Whale & The Barfly” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

    Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Bloated Whale & The Barfly” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

    we was sittin along the bywater drinkin white wine spritzers,when a dead whale washed up on the shore all bloated & swollen. so we carried our glasses down to where the sand met the shore& poked the mammal with a stick, till water shot out of the blowhole into our faces,& anchovies slid out of…

  • “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…

  • Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Animal Garden” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

    Flavor Town USA Poetry: “The Animal Garden” from THE DUST THAT SINGS by Alex Gregor

    follow the bagpipes into the animal garden,where the poet sharpens his pencils& scratches flea dog with a fire poker,where the bass fiddle player stokes his flames with a horsehair bow,where, in the salvage yard, the junkman turns over hubcaps for frogs & asks: ya wanna frolic in the hedges?ya wanna tickle the keys of an organ with…

  • 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…