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Dancing in December

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Before Divorce

Eliot Jacobson -
Poetry

Hiding from the sun

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Toby, Tobias Dog

Doug Flaherty -
Poetry

A Man, a Banana, Panama!

Edmund Conti -
Poetry

You’re Fired, Psycho

Lawrence George -
Poetry

u&me

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Last Note

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Hidden Riddles

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

in Wait of Return

silent lotus -
Poetry

Stubble

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

After the coquilles Saint Jacques

silent lotus -
Poetry

Erasures

Joan Colby -
Poetry

This fierce year paces

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Jennifer Harley

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Brain dead fuckwits everywhere

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”

Miya Ko -
Poetry

The Minister’s Daughter

Dale Patterson -
Poetry

Chef vs. Waiter

Lawrence George -
Poetry

After Crossing Bobtail Creek

Doug Flaherty -
Poetry

It’s been a half century since the fair

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Artificial Intelligence

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry

A Train Whistle Announcing the Arrival of Cousin Harrietta

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Meaning

Michael Acker -
Poetry

First we release the horses

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

How to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad

Eliot Jacobson -
Poetry

Yugen

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Uncomposed

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry

Another Friday Night II

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

peep show politics

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Everybody Swims/Lino Cut

george roesch johnson -
Poetry

The Gardener

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

Shutters

Martin Slavin -
Poetry

no reminders

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

Life Supplies

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

The curve of tenderness

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

Ageless

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Poem for Bobby

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Pain Scale in the ER

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Last Days at Acme

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Swamp Thing

alan catlin -
Poetry

Snapback

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

I’m Heading South

John Austin -
Poetry

Softer Truths in City Parks

Tara Hagen -
Poetry

after the reading,

Poetry

The Atom of Language

Michael Acker -
Showcase

Some Men

Lyn Lifshin -
Poetry

Suicidal in Tuscany

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Void

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

OFFICE THIEF

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Those who look straight forward

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Untitled

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Heart Attack

Randi Cramer -
Poetry

The state of things

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Abstract Art Is Better in the Abstract

David E. Matthews -
Poetry

Visionaries

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Apocalypsis

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

Tax Returns

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Let’s have sex on my birthday

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

The Hawk

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

Lunch Date

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

A Cowboy in Therapy

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Neither Nature nor Nurture

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Just Rest

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Swan Diver

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

Quiet Baby

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

Skinny Legs

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

The House of the Children

Margarita Serafimova -
Poetry

The air conditioner repairman left his sweaty towel on my dishwasher

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

A Boat Called Isabelle

Margarita Serafimova -
Art

Using again …

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

The Dark

Susan Peters -
Poetry

haphazard

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Jazz Tuba

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Bonds

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Shadow Existence and other poems

Cheryl Leverette -
Readings

Me and my zine

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

separation

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

Buddha Man Blues

RC James -
Poetry

Catastrophic thinking

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Beneath These Boards

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

My friend has

Sara Riley -
Poetry

Return Policy

Megan Merchant -
Poetry

A Tennessee Fainting Goat in Texas

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Gravity

Miya Ko -
Poetry

It’s About to Get Awkward

Bruce Alford -
Poetry

Pre-linguistic

Bruce Alford -
Poetry

Interior Decorating for the Autistic Mistress

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

Loose Change

Ian Badcoe -
Poetry

River Rock

Nancy Johnson James -
Poetry

In Guadalupe’s Bed

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Zombies Bless America

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

Impact of War

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry

New Year’s Day

Starr -
Poetry

Woken by a dove tapping

David Belcher -
Showcase

Horsefly Don’t Bother Me

Gerald Locklin -
Poetry

Against Poe

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

A Flurry of Wings

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Sabbath

Bruce Alford -
Poetry

The 12 beers of Christmas

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

A Christmas Card from Charles Bukowski *

Charles Bukowski -
Poetry

Schrödinger’s Kitten

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Another Blue Room

David A Estringel -
Poetry

I Fucked the Poet

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

one of my first

Poetry

I try not to depend on anyone

Cheryl Leverette -
Poetry

The Shearer

John Austin -
Poetry

Koan #5378 (Extended Version)

Dick Holmes -
Poetry

No Carp in the Park

silent lotus -
Poetry

What Do You Call This? Bubba Ganish?

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Reverse Rumi

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

Oldies but Goodies

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

I’m Not Saying They Are Liars

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

orbit of a sacrifice

Amanda Villafranco -
Poetry

Gottfried and Klarissa

Dick Holmes -
Poetry

When I die don’t post it on Facebook

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

lemme say this while ain’t nobody lookin’

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Fidelity

Bethany Lim -
Poetry

Such a Worm as I

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry

my-Tune

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

You Are Here

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

The Familiar

Greg Grummer -
Poetry

Bad Habits

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

I’d like to avoid dementia

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

The Day Before Departure

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Stinson Beach

Claire Mora Parsons -
Poetry

Fistfirst

Albert Lee -
Poetry

Similarities I Share With Jesus

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Packing Up the House

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Flight

Nancy Johnson James -
Poetry

I Suffer Fools

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Unhurried

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry

Pills

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

One Month After

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

aristotle’s ant

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

The Selfie

Michael Acker -
Poetry

How to Be the Happy One at House Parties

Andrew Rogers -
Poetry

What I should have told her

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

America America

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Melon Man

Gerard Sarnat -
Poetry

Coyotes

Steve Klepetar -
Poetry

Pantoum for Changsha

Brendan Christopher -
Poetry

Good Germans

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

If I Could Paint

Michael Rollain -
Poetry

rather not

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Phonetics

Bethany Lim -
Poetry

A Short Tribute To The Word Quiver

Michael Thomas Ellis -
Poetry

even

Poetry

No Solace for Bastards

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

The Last Time in the Hospital

Mary McCarthy -
Poetry

a sparrow in the fist, an eagle on Everest

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

Border Reflections

Steve Klepetar -
Poetry

Before and After the Blast

Jay Dougherty -
Poetry

Sonnet

Allan Johnston -
Poetry

Moving Day

Kani Basami -
Poetry

moths under bar light

Michael Rollain -
Poetry

never scrub saffron in a metal mortar

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

bukowski

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Old Glory

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Actual Persons, Living or Dead

Michelle Brooks -
Poetry

Sheep

Allan Johnston -
Poetry

approaching 70…

Poetry

the world would split open

Jess Kangas -
Showcase

Poems from “An American Score”

Eric Elshtain -
Poetry

Missing

Claire Mora Parsons -
Showcase

The Miki Collection

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

the Zebra Crossing was under water

silent lotus -
Poetry

Odorous

Michael Acker -
Poetry

all natural zero calorie existence

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Eutrema and Other Poems

Anastasia Jill -
Poetry

A Great Fuck

Tom Riordan -
Poetry

Skin The

Paul Brookes -
Readings

Reprise

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

Simone Weil and the ugly piano

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Calibrations

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

Giants

James Spears -
Poetry

Everyone Wears Black

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Commuting: the Sentence

Edmund Conti -
It’s been so long
Poetry

It’s been so long

Lyn Lifshin -
Poetry

The Bird Outside Our Kitchen

Lance Jencks -
Readings

Melinda, things I used to know 

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Why I have weaponized the thistledown

Ian Badcoe -
Poetry

Now that you’re asleep

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

How to Become Invisible

Mary McCarthy -
Poetry

Wild-Flower Picker in a Straitjacket

Nigel Lofthouse -
Poetry

Ahmed’s Sparrow

Starr -
Poetry

Maria

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

Assassination of a Critic

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Less Tomorrow

James Spears -
Poetry

Most times though we’d sit

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Daffodil Spikes and Tulip Skewers

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Unit 6

Starr -
Poetry

The astronaut

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

Scooter

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

Their thoughts move out of their bodies

David Belcher -
Poetry

Karin Dreijer Andersson

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

The Arena of Aesthetic Elaboration

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Last Year’s Census

James Spears -
Poetry

Heating up the car

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Bliss

Michael Ashley -
Poetry

Haikuesquecuses

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

survivors

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

Tony The Lip

Poetry

A Messiah Morning

silent lotus -
Poetry

Curating Dust in Digital Times

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Pale Yellow with Self-Doubt

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

#Metoo Today

Maria Mazzenga -
Poetry

TIMOTHY

Thomas Yarbrough -
Poetry

CLOUD BUKOWSKI

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Don’t ask me

Jess Kangas -
Poetry

I disappeared

Jess Kangas -
Poetry

my apartment burned down last night

Jess Kangas -
Poetry

DOOR MAT

Lyn Lifshin -
Poetry

After

Steve Richmond -
Poetry

Message from my mother

Julia Schott -
Readings

The Bird

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Lo-Fi

Jenn Zed -
Poetry

Hangman

Thomas Yarbrough -
Poetry

OMAHA

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Jimmy

Anthony Hughes -
Poetry

Moving Day

Anthony Hughes -
Poetry

April’s rent

Daniel J. Flore III -
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