Poetry

Finally Seeing the Light by Taylor Dibbert (Feb 23, 2026)

"...who he's become..."

Number Twenty-Two by Jim Bates (Feb 23, 2026)

"...He was many things..."

Rumble in the Jungle by Scott Waters (Feb 23, 2026)

Scott Waters is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Oakland, California. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

A Trail of Loot and Soot by Ndaba Sibanda (Feb 23, 2026)

"...Can crude chaos be noblest?..."

Fish Stink by Bruce Morton (Feb 16, 2026)

"...on the scale of competitive stink..."

Growing Potatoes by Charlotte Cosgrove (Feb 16, 2026)

"Soil trickles through fingertips..."

Solitude by Nisha Raviprasad (Feb 16, 2026)

"...the wind is only a whisper in my ear..."

Line Dance in Hard Winters by Jeff Burt (Feb 16, 2026)

"...faces warmed five degrees by sunshine..."

In Media Res by Mark J. Mitchell (Feb 16, 2026)

"Your television lies to you..."

Where were you last night? by Frederick Foote (Feb 16, 2026)

"...I was back in Gaza..."

Some Lights Beamed As Land Rights Were Granted by Ndaba Sibanda (Feb 16, 2026)

"...Indigenous groups have been finally granted land rights..."

Anaphora of This City by Gopal Lahiri (Feb 9, 2026)

"This city walks on barefoot..."

Salut d’Amore by Cheryl Heineman (Feb 9, 2026)

"...the artist’s tears are dammed for all he understands..."

Tide of Names by Amit Parmessur (Feb 9, 2026)

"...The sea, insatiable, has known many like her..."

For Beauty Again by Rp Verlaine (Feb 9, 2026)

"...I'm left a dancer who can't hear the music..."

Réalisant mon espoir by Charles Rammelkamp (Feb 9, 2026)

"...mesmerizing us with Afro-Cuban songs..."

Sunlight by Dharmpal Mahendra Jain (Feb 9, 2026)

"...it plays hide-and-seek..."

Bite by DS Maolalaí (Feb 9, 2026)

"...I say it so carefully..."

Soul-less Onald, You Slump, They Dump by Ndaba Sibanda (Feb 9, 2026)

Who is going to stop this madness?

Dark River by Michael Minassian (Feb 2, 2026)

"You asked me to write a poem..."

Alexithymia by Jim Murdoch (Feb 2, 2026)

"Sad, like, red, is a conveniencism..."

Hospital Corners by Peter Mladinic (Feb 2, 2026)

"This is a letter to the man who lashed out..."

Morbid Hope by Richard LeDue (Feb 2, 2026)

"...gravestones are metaphysical name tags..."

Interment by Sanjeev Sethi (Feb 2, 2026)

"...that must have been another me..."

My Sister Never Rests by John Dorroh (Feb 2, 2026)

"My sister’s a chair..."

Expedition to the Plague Planet by John Grey (Feb 2, 2026)

"...That insidious virus hasn’t gone anywhere..."

Difficult Breathing by Ndaba Sibanda (Feb 2, 2026)

Strains. Pains. Cheerless.

The Gift by Jiel Narvekar (Jan 26, 2026)

"...A million fragments scatter..."

Break Through by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal (Jan 26, 2026)

"...Slow traffic for miles and miles..."

OK Google, Is It OK to Cry After LASIK? by James Croal Jackson (Jan 26, 2026)

"...Society rains hate on men who cry..."