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

Poetry

Poems published in Piker Press, a weekly journal of arts and literature.

4,206 articles — page 1 of 141

The Joke by Bruce Morton

"...Mindless, reciprocal Mistake...."

The Coming-of-age Vision by Ndaba Sibanda

"...Africa, haven’t you been shaken out of inertia?..."

A 1978 punk concert in Seattle by Rp Verlaine

"...made my way to a theater sized hall..."

Deficit by Jeff Burt

"I watch the little newts..."

Silent Vow by Mark J. Mitchell

"...three clocks that speak time..."

See Me by Frederick Foote

"...under full sail, skipping across the waves..."

Listening to Nakai by Sterling Warner

"... falling into Dawn’s cupped hands..."

Flight to Destin, FL by Wayne F. Burke

"...slow-mo with snowy landscape below..."

Forgotten Childhood by Gopal Lahiri

"...A piece of cloud and the color of dusk are riddles..."

Outfitted by Cheryl Heineman

"...like sarsaparilla and champagne..."

Unanchored by Amit Parmessur

"...echoes of childhood on fading winds..."

Alice's Restaurant by Charles Rammelkamp

"... it always makes me think of Alice..."

A Good Dream by Dharmpal Mahendra Jain

"...no one ever possessed the right to dream...."

Lights and islands by DS Maolalaí

"... and afterward a walk along the dock..."

The Bionic Man by Robert Paul Allen

"...his heart had gotten lazy..."

Joint Ends by Bradford Middleton

"...my ashtray is verging on the overflowing..."

Of Power, Palms and Whims by Ndaba Sibanda

"...They have stashes, yet they leave behind ashes..."

Pain Scale by Jim Murdoch

"...a certain disparity made itself manifest..."

Hoping by Richard LeDue

"...my paperless silence rustles too loudly with my despair..."

Illation by Sanjeev Sethi

"...how free is the press?.."

Flight Risks by John Dorroh

"...of birds of every feather that flock together..."

Theft by Supatra Sen

"...ink that shone mighty and lustrous..."

line breaks by Jerome Berglund

A sedoka is a form of Japanese poetry that consists of six lines.

Fake Life by John Grey

"...you can taste the bubbling laboratory..."

The Boogeyman Is Real by Charles Cicirella

"...We’re better than this..."

Why We Are Economic Dwarfs by Ndaba Sibanda

A poem with commentaries.

Stuck with March by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal

"If only it was July..."

Returning Home to Pittsburgh by James Croal Jackson

"...returned to the elms and eastern hemlocks..."

Liminal by Stephen Kingsnorth

"...soliloquy as commentary..."

And My Hollow Eyes Closed by Dan Holt

"...trying to find their way..."