Cal Massey
Cal Massey is a retired newspaper editor who is not an enemy of the people. His first novel, Own Little Worlds, won the 2020 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel from the Journal of Experimental Fiction and was published by JEF Books in 2022. He and his wife of 46 years, Lynn Pickett Massey, live in Florida. Cal recommends donating to your local Humane Society.
"I can't help you, little one." Jimmy tears up a little himself now with the baby quiet around his finger. "Everybody'd be asking what you doing with a little brand new baby, Jimmy. They'd think I'd done something wrong...
Recent Articles:
Freedom
by Cal Massey
Party Voucher
by Yuan Changming
"Your grown child plays make believe" and "The story you told when you drove down for parents' weekend after I came out"
by Hannah/Hans Kesling
Each Our Own Font
by A Sardine on Vacation
Mask Off
by Sjoerd van Wijk
"Overheard by a Democrat at the RNC...," "A Polygraph...," and "A Series of Active Inquiries in the Wake of Apple's Delivery"
by Jen Schneider
"Bullet Points," "23 Grams," and "Joseph K."
by Howie Good
"Better angels," "The catch," and "Embrace"
by Jeremy Nathan Marks
"DOG FROG GOD" and "Geena"
by Xander Bilyk
"Dance of Women" and "The Wonderful Kandinsky"
by Joan Slatoff
"Accident," "Fear," and "Luck"
by Joan McNerney
Shifts
by Jerome Berglund
Three Visual Poems, September 2024
by Jerome Berglund
Visual Tan-Renga, September 2024
by Kimberly Kuchar and Jerome Berglund
We Are All Such Humans Here
by David Borofka
The Impression
by Cole Steffensen
"The Arachnid's Child" and "Just So You Know"
by Kim Salinas Silva
Sphere of the Present
by Martha Ellen Johnson
Origin Story
by James B. Nicola
"In the Kingdom of Dragons" and "Last Line in the Aisle"
by Tara Campbell
"They Electrocuted a Rogue Elephant," "There is Madness in the Iodine," and "There is a Morbid Organ Grinder"
by Peter J. Dellolio
Spotted Lanternfly
by Jacqueline Jules
Two from the Magnificent Field
by dan raphael
A Virtuous Woman
by Barry Fields
"I'll Call It Blue" and "The Naked Truth"
by Jill Rachel Jacobs
'sweetfish hunt,' 'yesterday,' and 'wisdom'
by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
The Campaign for White Males
by Ethan Goffman
Camp
by Marie-Eve Bernier
"How Wrong," "Let's Make a Deal," and "Shoe House"
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Earth - Woman
by Smeetha Bhoumik
Reflective Discursiveness
by Jeffrey Side
How to Hang an Ayah
by Marianna Marlowe
A Declaration of Independence
by Dominic Rivron
"The AI Poets" and "Trade Wars"
by Michael R. Burch
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun, trans. Michael R. Burch
Geoffrey is without Grace
by Doug Jacquier
Gumshoe Gauntlet
by James Callan
"Ukraine" and "Life after"
by Linda K. Miller