Poem
DANCING ON A WING OF BREATH
Agneta Falk
The wind brought me here
into a hidden corner
on a rocky beach
something about the light
the sky and sea melting
into one, into me
the pounding waves
feeling like I look inside
and there she is, my mother
and ...
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Podcasts
Episode 13 – Jack Hirschman
Bernard Meisler
Jack Hirschman in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Jack Hirschman
Jack Hirschman, Poet Laureate emeritus of San Francisco, author of over 100 books in nine languages, essayist and painter, is a living legend. We me...
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Poem
Cold Sky
Kelly Cowan
maneuvered
these roads
in February -
sister’s memorial service -
car sheathed in ice
winds swelling
mile after mile
see only
railroad tracks &
low wood
utility poles
burrowed in the dirt
pushing up
††â...
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Poem
Immunization
Genevieve Legacy
Today you are a paper husband—
torn envelopes, bill stubs, a refund check for $5.68
scatter-piled on the wormwood table.
I’ve imagined in this way before,
divined absence with hot, brackish tears—
a homeopath...
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Poem
Myrtle
William Considine
I want all the flowers
that thrive right away at the start of spring,
that stand alone in the cool noon and the long, chilly
shadows of dawn & dusk and through cold nights.
They take the first chance
opening of light ...
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Poem
I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW IT WAS
Dorothy Friedman
because this is the only chance I'm going to get--
It was an ordinary day except no one had taken out the garbage.
It had been snowing since noon and there were piles of snow
on the front lawn and on t...
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Poem
SATORI IN MANHATTAN
Joel Allegretti
———on the platform at the 175th Street subway station,
Washington Heights———I find myself thinking I’m
Vladimir in Calvin Klein black lambskin and Estragon
in Tommy Hilfiger dim-gray chinos———sittingâ...
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Poem
FOR HERE THERE IS NO PLACE
Anton Yakovlev
You’ve figured out the colonization of Mars
and the need to live in caves for five hundred years.
You’ve predicted private nuclear weapons,
deciphered symbols of bigotry on some trump cards.
You’ve held cookout...
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Podcasts
Episode 12 – Norman Douglas
Bernard Meisler
Norman Douglas in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Norman Douglas, Bernard Meisler and Tina Carstensen, relaxing in her Avenue D apartment, 1986
Norman Douglas is a writer (though he says he's not) and a poet (though...
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Poem
HOW TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
There are only two sins—banality and venality.
They are not like revenge, hot red pokers.
Jealousy, with its long snoot.
Sloth, killing me softly with its lips.
Vanity—dynamite in a vise.
Lust racing across the mud...
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Poem
Strawberry
Suzi Kaplan Olmsted
Spring bursting in strawberry juice down my chin
While on the TV reality jail show a blond with a model’s bone structure
And over-plucked brows is released from men’s jail to the streets
Early dawn with no money and...
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Poem
the dead wife
Carl Watson
The dirt floor had to be leveled
And all the stones raked out,
Carried out in buckets and piled
In the yard as ballast against
The bowed foundation of the south wall.
There were boulders and bluestone
Slabs, some big ...
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Poem
NATURE
Bonny Finberg
We can rewrite the narrative.
Eve eats the apple and leaves the Garden
fortified by knowledge and multiplied by wisdom,
leaves the comfort of the first mirage,.
to find the greater world
where good and evil
make thin...
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Poem
An End-of-the-World Cult of My Own
Jose Padua
One day I will have my own end-of-the-world cult.
We will believe that the end of the world
is coming tomorrow,
and that we had better be prepared.
If the end doesn’t come tomorrow,
we will admit our mistake, and post...
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Poem
The End of the World
Patricia Carragon
In her dream,
her parents’ wedding photo
burned slowly.
Their ashen marriage
vaporized in life and death.
A grayish puddle formed a stain
on the chest of drawers.
She woke up
and went about her day,
listened to ...
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