Let's fight the fash.

I Want to Be Your Radio by Sheila E. Murphy is HERE!

Get ready for the New Orleans Poetry Festival in April!

"A Limited Number of Miracles" book release party

with Laura Mattingly, Carolyn Hembree, Skye Jackson, and Jonathan Penton

"sea gooseberry," "winter solstice memory," and "sunset"

by Karl Kempton

page one of sea gooseberry, a visual poem

"Grounding a Beef" and "Standing Wet in the Random"

by Vernon Frazer

Thirteen Photographs, October 2025

by Pat Jolly

One Night on Live at Five

by David E. Matthews

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"Spells for the Wicked" virtual book release party

with Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, Tara Campbell, and Marc Vincenz

Francis re-enters the room, tears streaming down his cheeks – an image that will forever haunt Bobby, who’s never seen his father so vulnerable. Francis wipes his eyes with his shirt sleeve, composes himself, then fixes Bobby with a stone-cold stare.

"Up front," "Many battles," and "The village"

by Tony Beyer

after the massacre
bicycles the dead no longer need
rust where they were left
leaning against the drystone wall

"How You Transform Women's Stories," "The Sparrows Know," and "The Nightmare of the Sky"

by M. Weigel

She married the prince, and then we announced her death.
The nuns guarded a casket of glass with a beautiful maiden appearing to sleep.
The King came and wept. He did not repent, and
he accepted the poisoned apple slices I offered him.

Make Poetry Fun Again—Listen to the Music

by dan raphael

Words and music are always with us, whether we’re conscious of them or not, and we can take their presence and their abilities for granted. In Dreaming to a Click, Steve and Chris throw open the doors and windows of the complex where music lives.

The Reckoning

by A Sardine on Vacation

The Sardine is getting impatient. Dexter’s right. Are they real persons or not? Are they viable entities outside their given settings? Now the Pope saunters in and throws the discussion off the tracks.

"Making It Up As I Go Along 2," "Since You Asked," and "The Coming Storm"

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

shades drawn, lights out, blanket beneath me, letting Keith Jarret’s Köln Concert enter me like a lover’s touch, orchestrating along grooves of pleasure

"Fire Elegy" and "Force and Beauty"

by Leonore Wilson

If a woman hadn’t been out walking her dog,
they might never have found the body
among the miner’s lettuce and jimson weed,
the young nurse may have lain at the base of the creek
invisible to the naked eye for months, years—

Jerome Takes Control

by Michael Somes

The movement in question had been Jerome standing up on his couch cushions and standing squarely toward the camera. He wore nothing but a silk bathrobe, which he untied as he began to gyrate his hips in a circular motion.

Photo Shoot Day

by Peter Cherches

The photo shoot was a semi-annual event. As I was still very much a growing boy, sometimes the suit would fit too tightly, and when she noticed this she’d call me a little guttersnipe, as if it were my fault.

A Review of "Signs Preceding the End of the World" by Yuri Herrera

by dan raphael

The mix of the mythic—too many references to mention—with the contemporary political is subtle, creative and powerful: there’s truth and omens, options and uncontrollables.