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Two Poems [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Checkout Line Death is not like the checkout line because People at death do not want to look at the National Enquirer which many people do Want to look at it in the…
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Sweet Chariot [a riddle from Donald Justice]
<<<Mine to give, mine to offerNo resistance. MineTo receive you, mine to keepThe shape of our nights." — Donald Justice>>> What is it? Take a Valium, do the canine-inspired Yoga move. And then rest…
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Dramaturgy [poem by Jason Schneiderman]
Dramaturgy I’m writing a play about a Kommandant at Auschwitzwho recognizes one of the Jewish prisonersas a famous poet, and as the Kommandanthas poetic aspirations himself, he pulls the prisoneraway from the work detail…
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“tidemark” by Jane Gibian [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Jane Gibian is a Sydney poet and librarian, who recently published her fifth collection of poems, Beneath the Tree Line (2021). Gibian's poetry chronicles the internal landscapes of modern city life, and is marked by…
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Hymns to Hymnself [by Tom Disch]
Hymns to Hymnself 1. He had his haiku too, as who does not.Where there are compounds there will bemolecules, thence atoms and apothegems. Eagleswill appear high overheadscreaming unheard in the ecstasy of sexand Walt,…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Twenty-Three): Donald Revell [by Angela Ball]
SENESCO SED AMO “Starlight is almost flesh.”—Basil Bunting One life, not one amongA thousand others of quailLike tipsy mandarins crowdingThe cold of a low wallAlong a line of trees, the angelPromised me and…
