TJ: Do you actually sit down to write a sonnet, ghazal, or villanelle? Or is it a […]
Ryan Gunn
The boy in the labyrinth is wrapped deep within the tendrils of myth. The sleeping beast’s face, […]
Labyrinth 85 by Oliver de la Paz
After a conversation overheard at the Bagram Air Base DFAC […]
You Take the Diaphragm Out and the Body Opens Like ...
To learn about negative space in art class, you started with a surface dark enough to […]
Caesura by Albert Abonado
You thought you knew everything about the road. You drove down every one of them, past playgrounds […]
Does the Road Run East or West by Karen Craigo
a junkyard, a loose feather, relief. As in good—thank god I’ve ditched this stark sepulchre for light. […]
Riddance by Megan Peak
M is for Machiavelli, Marilyn Monroe, the market price of madness, and icons or monopolistic despots so […]
Excerpts from Vox Populi, an abecedarian chapbook (M, N, S, ...
They go for her arms first but it’s her mouth that’s screaming Help me as people crowd […]
San Francisco Centre by Kevin Simmonds
planted a heel/ against his chest, wrenched the spear from his wound/ and the midriff came with […]
Morgan: A Lyric by Boyer Rickel
Steven D. Stark is the author of four books of non-fiction, one new poetry chapbook, […]
Farey’s Lament by Steven D. Stark
Three years before his death in 1987 at the age of sixty three, James Baldwin recounted in an […]
The Unusual Door: Preliminary Notes on James Baldwin and Pedagogy ...
They say this land was once an ocean, but I have not found the shells to […]