Two Poems by Mary Shanley
Rilke
Rene continuously rearranged himself.
As he shed layers of historical definition
he eventually received glimpses of the beauty
of his inner world and his larger connection
to...
Poems by James Croal Jackson
How my mind functions on a given day dictates the way my poems are presented. Sometimes I'm scatterbrained and my poems are jarring. Other...
Poems by Yuan Changming
Accident
Fiction hit
The fact hard, and ran
With truth per se
Being the only witness
Listening to the Wind
You left there...
Malayalam Poetry : Bindu Krishnan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 12
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on...
Poems by Ana Nikvul
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Apricot
When you come back from lunch
honey
come to see
apricot has blossomed
my father planted it when I was a kid
thunder halved it once
but...
Poems by Drew Hansen
midnight brain
My brain behaves a bit differently as I lay it down to rest.
Ideas hatch, grow wings and mature into challenges.
Limitations—they melt and lose...
Poems by Michael G. Smith
During the fall of 2019 Michael G. Smith was a writing resident at Gullkistan Center for Creativity (http://gullkistan.is/). Gullkistan is located in the Icelandic...
“Severance” – Poems by Gary Beck
Severance - a poetry collection that looks at how connections are cut for and against our will.
Who Rules…
The eternal struggle
between the common people
and their...
Five Poems by Simon Perchik
1.
Before this field blossomed
it was already scented
from fingers side by side
darkening the lines in your palm
the way glowing coals
once filled it with breasts
and everything...
Five Poems By David Lohrey
A Good Paddling
Yes, it was better back then, far better to be alive.
They put the groceries on a conveyer belt at the A &...
