Category: Spring 2017 Poetry

“Plausible Sounding Names and Addresses”
by Michael Bove Was what the ghost of Emily Dickinson provided to the men who tried to reach her through a Ouija board sometime in the early

Berdyaev
by Roger Hickin among philosophers I love the turbulent Berdyaev with his aristocratic habits & alarming facial tic a thinker who conceded

Like Monk, Like Lacy
by Roger Hickin i. don’t say too much like Monk’s notes words need silence stop breathe dig check out spaces in between ii. honks peeps pops Lacy

Leaf Rain Marble
by Roger Hickin i. (after Spiridon Drozhzhin) a leaf blown from its native branch you drift with no road of your own ii. Valdicastello in

Hamlet
by Carlos Martínez Rivas Hamlet a monologue I What a worry. It’s Saturday. I’ve nothing to drink. It’s not a plan or a

The Spanish Painter
by Carlos Martínez Rivas — I want to paint a man with a lantern. — Do it. But what will you put around him to make him stand out? — Night, of

The Masterpiece Project
by Carlos Martínez Rivas BUT things should be as bad as they can get. No jute mattress no water jug. Hanging head down. Ankles bound

Ars Poetica
by Carlos Martínez Rivas You’re opposed to Love, its mania for eternity frightens you, its insistent nightingale whistle drives you mad? You only

Como Las Oscuridades Cueva De Platón
by Leymen Pérez Todo lo que conozco es una puerta a la oscuridad. — Seamus Heaney Entras a la noche que

Dateline Sasabe, AZ: US-Mexico Border
by Joe Richey At the international line high–noon cool 100 degree day east of Sasabe, Arizona, pissing in the sizzling sand I burned hand