Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of July 3, 2023

12 articles in this issue.


Strays, Surrenders, Seniors: a review of <span class="text-italic">Addicted to Dog Magazines </span>by Laura Stamps by Peter Mladinic — Book review

Strays, Surrenders, Seniors: a review of <span class="text-italic">Addicted to Dog Magazines </span>by Laura Stamps.

The Day I Remembered My Soul by Nolo Segundo — Cover story essay memoir
Heroine by Harvey Silverman — Essay memoir

Love, loyalty, and commitment...

New on the Market by Terry Petersen — Fiction humor

Going like hotcakes, too...

Mungana by Harlan Yarbrough — Fiction life

Exploration...and discovery!

A Day in the Hay Fields by H.L. Dowless — Poem unrhymed

The author is a thirty-five-year veteran writer. He enjoys traveling and living life on the edge.

Backing Up by Robert Paul Allen — Poem unrhymed

"...He watched a U-tube video which instructed him..."

I Need To Learn Who Is in Charge of My Life by Michael H. Brownstein — Poem unrhymed

"...yet the rain falls in wind and shadow..."

Life Rain by Vern Fein — Poem unrhymed

"...turn it over so you can look at all sides..."

On an Earth Day Like Today by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

Sibanda is a Zimbabwean-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who has a passion for themes and topics around conservation, nature, development and justice. He believes that he is a poet in prose, and hence he has never looked back since building and marching into the very first poetry pharmacy in the world, where poetry … and poetry and poetics are the most tonic threesome prescriptions!

One day I'll die and sometimes I want to by Gale Acuff — Poem unrhymed

"...and maybe that's the Big Question..."

Where the Fallen Leaves Land by George Gad Economou — Poem unrhymed

"...a lone sparrow cries on a windowsill..."

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