You might be surprised by the similarities, but not in the way you might expect.
This Tendency Is Now Familiar to Us: Poem by Emily Kendal Frey
February 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We define ourselves by what we believe
She’s Going to Do Something Amazing: Poem by Lynn Melnick
February 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
She’s choking on the inspirational music / from the nurse tech’s radio, something about running and fire
At Night I Fly: The Good Life Introduces Spoon Jackson, a Poet Behind Bars
February 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Spoon Jackson writes from prison of the freedom he enjoys as he flies: ‘My heart pounds behind no chest.’
Coming Unhinged [A Poem About Old Love]
February 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Wood planks joining steps to porch marry, like ‘a kind of same-sexed couple’ at the front of an ancient farmhouse.
Poem: Epitaph … for Skip
January 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
Daniel Lee Fee’s elegy for a young man describes the feelings “neither one of us guys / was brave enough, / simple enough, / to say, / to say out loud.”
Travel Poems From My Dad: Zen River Memories
January 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Josh Bowman is sharing his father’s poetry all week. Today, Zen River Memories.
What You Gonna Spend Your One Wild, Precious, Free Life On?
December 31, 2012 by 7 Comments
Looking ahead to a new year and asking that timeless question once again.
last trip to the doll house
December 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
The holidays can leave us desperate for human connection.
I said What and she said Cheating: Poetry by Sasha Fletcher
November 4, 2012 by 4 Comments
let us hold hands as we walk through the fire
Ventriloquism. Poems by Melissa Broder
October 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
Melissa Broder is the author of two collections of poems, most recently MEAT HEART. Poems appear in Guernica, Redivider, The Missouri Review, Court Green, et al. She edits La Petite Zine.
5 Days Before His 14-Gun Salute at Arlington National Cemetery
May 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
“I never knew who he killed all those years, but I knew who he tried to save…”
Discarding and Infinite: A Father, a Son, and Everything
January 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
A poem for raising a boy.
“Caregiver day is a wonderful idea, becase when you love your children, every day is a day you get to be with and celebrate them.”
This is a comment by CJ on the post “What to the Child of Domestic Violence is Father’s Day?”