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I Needed a Viking by Alfa
epub |eng | | Author:Alfa

YOU ARE A HERO If you pen a list of everything you have conquered in your life, are you any less a warrior than those you revere? We tend to ...
( Category: Love Poems February 23,2023 )
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud by Dustin Pearson
epub |eng | | Author:Dustin Pearson

IV Fossil Fuel Moments after Hell’s ocean allows you to reach its surface, the world turns over. You dart through the boiling waters like a rocket straight into one of ...
( Category: Poetry February 23,2023 )
Wound Is the Origin of Wonder by Maya C. Popa
epub |eng | | Author:Maya C. Popa

MILTON VISITS GALILEO IN FLORENCE Hard to say if what they saw was geometry or God, galaxies roiling wordlessly each night, a summary of light painted fresh across the firmament. ...
( Category: Women Authors February 22,2023 )
Flutter, Kick by Anna V.Q. Ross
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Anna V.Q. Ross

Pastoral Alarm call of gull in the Ikea parking garage, and I turn, expecting claws, to find only beams and ceiling pipes. Then a starling screams by the red-lit E ...
( Category: Hispanic American February 22,2023 )
Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Elisa Gabbert

Now there are far more dystopias than utopias. Now we think of both the past and future as dystopias. Now, a study showed, we have more pop songs in minor ...
( Category: Women Authors February 22,2023 )
Liliane by Ntozake Shange
epub |eng | 1994-02-15 | Author:Ntozake Shange

——— Yes, Lili…What do you make of that? ——— Oh, there’s a bit more…. ——— Okay. ——— We went all the way back to the apartment and Hyacinthe was going ...
( Category: Anthologies February 22,2023 )
Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay [Millay, Edna St. Vincent]

SONG OF A SECOND APRIL April this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago, Is full of whispers, full of sighs, Of dazzling mud and dingy snow; Hepaticas ...
( Category: Love Poems February 22,2023 )
Divine Blue Light (For John Coltrane) by Will Alexander
epub |eng | | Author:Will Alexander

& these symbols hover & increase their own electricity as curious electrical charisma as gnostic tutoring of themselves listening to vapour electrically extending itself not as quotidian measurement but as ...
( Category: Black & African American February 22,2023 )
Diwata by Barbara Jane Reyes
epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Barbara Jane Reyes

This place before him was not a void but a crawl space, a tunnel he carved for himself inside his mother’s body dying all around him. He broke right through ...
( Category: Hispanic American February 22,2023 )
Say Uncle by Kay Ryan
epub |eng | 1991-02-15 | Author:Kay Ryan

DON’T LOOK BACK This is not a problem for the neckless. Fish cannot recklessly swivel their heads to check on their fry; no one expects this. They are torpedoes of ...
( Category: Contemporary February 22,2023 )
The Porcupinity of the Stars by Gary Barwin
epub |eng | 2010-10-13 | Author:Gary Barwin

PROVERBS 1:20 In the city of voices, she throws her voice and the multitudinous ears of the crowd catch. Wisdom she preaches by the gates of reproach, and in the ...
( Category: Poetry February 22,2023 )
The Names by Tim Lilburn
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Tim Lilburn [Lilburn, Tim]

2 The young man has seen something And refuses to speak. He hides in the wounds of the mountain, Its gorings And won’t come down below the snow to calls. ...
( Category: Poetry February 22,2023 )
Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe
epub |eng | | Author:Ama Codjoe

I’m fourteen and the smell of singed hair circles me like the halo of a pre-Renaissance Madonna. Loss already on my face. A summer crush holds out his fingers for ...
( Category: Black & African American February 22,2023 )
Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line by Sean Thomas Dougherty
epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Sean Thomas Dougherty

X on the sidewalk where bleeding Billy Montgomery laid down and said, “Please walk my dog.” X sleepwalkers listening to Slovenian Polka as Wittgenstein Scholars pass out pamphlets, Xtra Xtra ...
( Category: Russian & Soviet February 22,2023 )
Wisdom Teeth by Derrick Weston Brown
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Derrick Weston Brown [Brown, Derrick Weston]

Bonita Applebum be the pentatonic scale squeezed into form fitting denim overalls. Bonita Applebum be Coltrane’s “Naima” at 88 bpms riding an Ali Shaheed Muhummad break beat bare back. Bonita ...
( Category: Poetry February 22,2023 )

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