Tag: poems
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An Interview with Konstantin Kulakov by Aubrey King
Konstantin and I first met in Boulder, Colorado during our MFA program at the Jack Kerouac School. Our friendship, however, blossomed during the pandemic, after Konstantin had moved back east and I stayed mountainside. We would have hours-long phone calls about our lives and current events, but Konstantin isn’t much interested in small talk—he dives…
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Brooding by James Penha
Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him🌈) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in journals and anthologies. His newest chapbook of poems, American Daguerreotypes, is available for Kindle. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits The New Verse…
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Everything’s Temporary by Joan Mazza
A friend turned eighty last month.Thinking of her, how time sweeps us out,the way birch brooms clear away mouse nests,cobwebs. No different from our ancestorsbeating rag rugs in spring sunlight, watchinga weathervane, patterns of clouds, fluffy whitebefore layering like slate tiles. Slip into a longburlap apron and tie the knot behind the back,three times for…
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Year of the Sad Robot by Kris Huelgas
Kris Huelgas (he/ him) is a Filipino-American poet living in Los Angeles, CA. Kris writes poetry about robots and dinosaurs. His work is published or forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys, Sweet Tooth Poetry, Alternative Milk Magazine, and others. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @krswellgs
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II Poems by Heikki Huotari
Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published poems in numerous journals and in five poetry collections. His manuscript, To Justify the Butterfly, won second prize, and publication, in the 2022 James Tate Chapbook Competition.
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Book Collecting/Ongoing Longing by Tiago Duarte Dias
Tyra woke up with a reasonably warm and satisfying feeling about life in general on a warm February day. The sky was an uncannily soothing shade of light blue, permeated by long and thin clouds; an oneiric tiger she must have dreamt once or twice. The sun shone, and it was one of those winter…
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“Cold Pitch” by Bradon Matthews
Email dragged from brain,Dropped into the inbox of someUncaring face illuminatedIn blue, probably exhausted, This is career advancement, we’ve returnedTo begging lords,The peasants grew potatoes, I growBored of staring at a screen,The sun beamsStifling themselves, by the timeI go outsideIt’s raining and windy, it feels likeSomething’s happeningBut I know better, Inside the quiet humOf the…
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A Triptych by Kyle Brosnihan
Kyle Seamus Brosnihan is a Filipino-American poet and playwright. Raised in Nebraska, he now lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 2022. His poetry has been published in Electric Literature, Apogee, Gordon Square Review, Beautiful Days Press, and elsewhere. He has poetry forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, The Margins,…
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II Poems by Jack Greer
Synopsis Reel flickers byof a flashing off-whitelike mucus.A great bigediting errorof a man standsfor a single frame. Fill in the blanks,the features of his face.Who placed him there,was it on purpose? The film slows and groans down,he steps onto the cutting room floor,then the moviemoves on to the next station. Industrial Estate Allsorts Low-set layerings…
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“Flight” by Paul Hostovsky
Have you noticedthat birds on the ground usually walk or hopinstead of fly?But they will fly if you get inside theirflight initiation path,which is just a fancy way of sayingtoo close for comfort.Humans like to say things in fancy waysthat can usually be said simpler.This is used to distance other humans.Birds, like humans, will keep…