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Tag: Poetry
New Poem from Nazli Karabiyikoglu: “Hymn: A Coffin at the Gates of Topkapi”
The head, decapitated,it sits on a shore, at some corner of the world.Desperation is what they feel as blood g…
New Poetry from Jacqlyn Cope: “Mission 376: Patient X,” “Prolonged Exposure Therapy,” “Doxies and Rum”
MISSION 376: PATIENT X There’s dirt in his mouth now &nbs…
Poetry from Dennis Etzel: “The War in Coming Out,” “The War in Men,” “The War in their Duties”
The War in Coming Out Today we honor those soldiers who fought for our country against oppressing forces. It was a ma…
New Poetry from Mbizo Chirasha: “Casava Republics,” “Sad Revolutionary Lullabies,” “Rhetorics”
CASAVA REPUBLICS Juba Child of lost sperm in sunsets of political masturbation Wagadugu Deadline of our revolutions D…
New Poetry from D.A. Gray: “Mosul Reflections,” “St. Martin in the City,” “The Rearview Has Two Faces”
Mosul Reflections Ten years and the place is not the same. Memory of green hills in a dry land,cratered by what fell …
“What Is The Name Of Your Dead Horse”
We start again:With promises made for silver pass, platinum deferment,tithing calls go out to the faithful wealthy,su…
New Poetry from Chad Corrigan: “Hidden Mountain Tops”
The top of the mountain is hidden.It looks like a cloud of smoke.But it’s a snow filled cloud.The map says it&#…
Two Poems by henry 7. reneau, jr: “watch what they mouth say, but listen what they hands do” and “The Book of Hours”
watch what they mouth say, but listen what they hands do i grew up hearing certain accents & vocabularies & s…
New Poetry from Eric Chandler: “The Things You Leave Out”
The Things You Leave Out after Yamamoto Jōchō, Jim Morrison, and Robert Frost You quote One c…
Poetry Review of Jabari Asim’s STOP AND FRISK
1. They say Stop-and-friskIs a brief and non-intrusive stop of a suspect.Which can be deadly in America where Statist…
New Poetry from Matt Armstrong: “Covid Night”
Paris sirensPewter skyThe white laceOf a dogwood boughAt midnight Reach upClutch and huffHungry before bedFor the swe…
Poetry by Stephen Mead: Remembering Beirut, Halloween ’83; Map Pins; Forced Labor
Remembering Beirut, Halloween ‘83 The ground beds a stuffed effigy with bulging leaves.Through peculiar affinity it r…
Hostile Threat Detected: Adrian Bonenberger Reviews Joe Pan’s “Operating Systems”
Joe Pan popped up on many veteran writers’ radars in 2014. He had recently written the first great poem about what le…
Three Poems from Suzanne Rancourt
The Shoes That Bore Us It is a dream of kind slippers that coddle bunions appeasedby hands mittened as the same kind …
Poetry Review: “The Light Outside” by George Kovach
George Kovach’s poetry collection, The Light Outside, begins with a narrator who’s stuck holding open a window. He’s …
New Poem from Olivia Garard: “Hurry Up”
Hurry up – Halt. And quiet, Marines sleep. – Covers askew necks cocked weighted by the waiting. Dozing so…
Poetry Review: Graham Barnhart’s THE WAR MAKES EVERYONE LONELY
1. The book arrives. By mail and on the cover. There are clouds. Gray clumped in altostratus heaps. A military helico…
New Poetry from Paul Lomax
Faces oak branches reach &n…
Poetry from Bryan Blanchard: “Pillar of Salt” and “The Mannequin”
Pillar of Salt Raining fire, burning steel …And now I see haunted Images of headlessBodies bathed in bloodstained San…
Forgive Me
I have confused the bombs that were in the desert with those birth control devices implanted in the uterus Forgive me…
Landslide / For Byron Who Was Separated From His Father At The US-Mexico Border
When you left Guatemala. Crossed the border Into Mexico. With your father or How there was a smuggler. Who Too…
New Poetry from Aaron Graham
PIXELATED WOMAN, WEBCAM SHADE Pixelated woman, even your shadowI know as my lover.It whispered.Ash-white dry-erase li…
Happy Birthday, Afghanistan
October 08, 2019 The war in Afghanistan is now old enough to go to war in Afghanistan. Yesterday the war in Afghanist…
Poetry Review: Aaron Graham’s BLOOD STRIPES
1. I’m reading Aaron Graham’s war poetry. And I think violence is a volcano. How pressure builds. Between layers of r…
New Poetry from Michael Chang
the secret life of simon & the whale the boy inches close to the water &…
New Poetry from Edison Jennings
A Letter to Greta “…so pitying and yet so distant,” Cecil Beaton Among my father’s posthumous flotsam recently …
New Poetry from Abby E. Murray
Gwen Stefani Knows How to Get Everything I Want It takes a misdelivered Cosmo to finally understand what I want and h…
New Poetry from John Milas
Parade the Beef “I declare this meat tasty and fit for human consumption.” – President of the Mess, CLR-27, Lan…
New Poetry by Antonio Addessi
You’d caught
the big one they said, you’d hooked a willow and
sank thigh deep into the muck. They hung up…
New Poetry from Liam Corley
In Which I Serve as Outside Reader on General Petraeus’s Dissertation [The current version of the Army’s Field …
New Poetry by Denise Jarrott
manhunt will I always be poor always a slowing of small pittings where roots were milkweed meadowsweet rue or …
New Poetry from Shana Youngdahl
After the Maine Tin Min Company Prospectus, 1880 The earth has veins we can open with our hammers. Follow the cassite…
HOMEBOY: New Fiction from Mark Galarrita
I went home to Jersey only once since the enlistment. I had to see my Ma. Back in the summer of 2011 I finished Basic…
New Poem by Eric Chandler: “The Path Through Security”
my family lived there before it was Maine before this was a even a country they still live there so we visit we fly i…
New Poetry from Frank Blake
We came home And had nothing to do and nowhere to go and too much freedom and money and space and women and cars and …
New Poetry by Amalie Flynn for the WWI Centennial
Zone Rouge (for the centennial) 1. When the land was. 2. Full of bodies dead. And twisted. 3. When the fighting was. …
New Poetry from Randy Brown
victory conditions My father taught me to say I love you every time you stood in the door left for school went to wor…
Our Personal Community by Curtis J. Graham
It was in the news. On a bright summer day in Helmand Province, Lance Corporal Wickie did his duty and killed an insu…
Shining Light on the Darkness: An Interview with Patrick Hicks
Andria Williams: Patrick, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me. I’ve just finished reading “Into the…
“All. art. is. political:” An interview with Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales
Our two featured poems for the month are selections from Roy G. Guzmán and Miguel M. Morales’s anthology, Pulse…
New Poetry from Nicole Oquendo and James A.H. White
The following poems are reprinted with permission from the anthology Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando (Damaged …
New Poetry from Janaya Martin
More Than Twice She said you better hush before he comes back in here like she knew who she was talking to but didn&#…
New Poem from Jacob Siegel: The Old Gods
The Old Gods (No. 9, 2003) I. The towers bloomed up in the dark Like nails scrolling from dead fingers While around t…
New Poetry from JD Duff
Night Flash You’ve been having nightmares again. The cruel shaking of a body resisting slumber. Hands twitching, ches…
New Poetry from Yuan Changming
[anagrammed variations of the american dream] A ram cairned me In a crammed era [where] Cameramen raid A dire camera…
New Poetry by Sherrie Fernandez-Williams
she be like, damn she be all tired. she be like a flattened house shoe she be full of compunction she be remembering …
New Poetry by Liam Corley
A VETERAN OBSERVES THE REPUBLIC AND REMEMBERS GINSBERG America, I’ve given you all, and now I’m le…
New Poetry by Lynn Houston
You Leave for Afghanistan If I’m writing this, it means I can’t sleep and that the rain outside my window drops blind…