Unsinging, Fingers rustle, and Exile
by Petra Whiteley, February 2009
"If you could see me,
you'd twist your lovers
to hang me on thick branches
of the ancient sky-tearing oaks."
Loss, The Daughter I Won't Have, and You Might Think I Needed to Talk to My Sister
by Lyn Lifshin, February 2009
"Teeth of fire, your
heart in its cross fire,
any calm about to
be gulped whole"
Audio and Cinematic Poetry by Rick Lupert
February 2009
Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California. Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, a major internet resource for poets.
sullen metamorphosis, our nights, and the stubborn world
by David McLean, December 2008
"the sullen metamorphosis of man to ghost
is just the pallid skin with a few forgotten meanings
written on it, the skin that whispers its twilight
degenerating again, stealing words from the air,"
baseline brain gank, It Implies the Outline of the ECHO, and Worth a Pepsi
by J. D. Nelson, December 2008
"creatures in the hallway
with glass faces
first thing"
Three Poems by Lyn Lifshin
December 2008
"it was never a
quiet Sunday afternoon,
never calm as sky
on an empty bed light"
to my peers and the hand of god castrated me
by Nathaniel Ogle, December 2008
"i've seen no
specialness
in my generation.
nor in myself."
Tumble and The Belt
by Anthony Liccione, December 2008
"And should I smile right
well, then I would have
been prepared to take
another beating, a crack"
Beside the Grave Hole where We Laughed in the Sand
by Goitsione Mogomotsi Mokou, December 2008
"Black under feet. The closing of doors. No airs about the throat. Let us play at the reindeer game. Let us play and pretend. At things not. And the men in their skinny white jeans and skinny white t-shirts and black and yellow the letter. As the seas meet at the shore and the berry bleed to the root. About the light and the coming dark. The closing of doors as the rains and airs move in springs in breaking ground."
Amsterdam
by Louise Landes Levi, December 2008
"beyond
name & form, beyond repetition & non repetition, beyond,
generosity & the heart's inability to be generous, beyond,
the thaw & flow of the river, my old baggage was
gradually dissolving, dissolving on an island"
Two Feet Away and Family Secrets
by P. A. Levy, December 2008
"I was left holding
the headless doll
you called Jayne Mansfield
when the news came"
Lettered Keys.
by Goitsione Mogomotsi Mokou, November 2008
"We stand by waters edge and pray at desert sand as tides they are rising and ships they are sinking. You hold my hand and as I do the crinkling laughter between my toes, I can feel your hand breathe. Red as the blue is pink by skies we call out to yellow poppies where the dead they do lie. In mystic dreams and poems without seams where seemingly we loved as scribbles across the table and heat between. Deep it rise. High it flow."
Disappear and bright
by Randy Thurman, November 2008
"The knock heard at the door
Age must answer it
Nervous confusion welcomes
The lies of great bright light"
News and North Atlantic Treaty Organization
by Dasha Lilith Desir, November 2008
'"combat operations," I'm afraid,
no longer has that enthusiastic positive note,
really objectively speaking.'
between you, me and the freeway, Australia (1 in 3 people), and frustration
by Raymond Grenfell, November 2008
"heater's on. 1am. simplicity in this.
humming to the sound of the machinery of the never-ending war.
always in the distance.
climax dreamt an end to the material."
Three Minutes, Artemisia L., and Reading Curve: A Critical Infatuation with A. A. Attanasio's novel Radix
by Violetta Tarpinian, November 2008
"He took this book away from me and said I would not like it
listen to the sound:
he said I would not like it
hiding the book within his own shelves"
Grandiose Mother, Who Will Save Us?, and At Dawn
by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, November 2008
"When mars is attacked
and earth is the next target,
who will save us,
who will we follow?"
sun/moon, Ingmar Bergman in my dreams #2 "Winter Light," and Forgetting
by Donna Snyder, November 2008
"my body is made up of so much water
you swim like an eel to the water's edge
resurface and find me waiting
my body is painted by the play of light"
Nine Visual Poems by Jim Leftwich and Diana Magallón
October 2008
"become established people poetry opal adjust ahead blew turn glorious of conflict the.
liberation magazines want is away meaning of the sooner.
back commerce are preaching adhere of liquid of U.S."
Three Audio Poems by Belinda Subraman
October 2008
Belinda's own writing has grown to span a vast array of subjects, styles and publications. She has traveled in over twenty countries, lived in Europe for six years and was part of an East Indian family for twenty-two years. These cross-cultural experiences often inform her work, as do her experiences as a Registered Nurse. Her poetry, stories, and art can be found in hundreds of journals, reviews, anthologies, books and chapbooks.
i suppose he's earned it and memorial day
by Justin Hyde, October 2008
"married to a large
raven-faced man
in the hospital
for depression."
The Syntax of a Devolving Relationship and Flail.
by Beth Fleeson, October 2008
"I am adjective that you characterize as noun, washing the plates counterclockwise at the sink. Our dialectic possibilities are not unlimited. You say theories of denotation I say extension, naming truth. You say grammatical arrangement. I translate commands and data."
Iyeska and Lost Plumes of the God
by Mickey C., October 2008
"Tourist information
Holds no secret
To the keys
Of identity."
sketches, with no apologies to Jack Kerouac, the blood just isn't red enough, and silver, poison and solitude
by David LaBounty, October 2008
"don't let me
tell her that I don't
have time for
Rush or really
any use for her."
Passengers, At the Gas Station, and War, Not War (Aside)
by Changming Yuan, October 2008
"I speak aloud in tongue
I eat noisily with bamboo sticks
I appear everywhere like locusts
I have recently been wanted by the editing authority"
twin two three thumb, mornings with you, and is she sleeping....i don't think so
by Sara Sutler-Cohen, October 2008
"it doesn't have to make sense
this all this all ... all this all this
it only has to feel like memory borne out of flesh"
Fresh Down the Mountain, Pull Apart, and Fed by Angels
by Dan Raphael, October 2008
"I know where the bagels are buttered.
a town on the coast where 85% of the locals are smokers.
not far from the famous speed trap, yes those numbers move,
for 80 bucks you can spend a night inside a pile of oyster shells"
stories /// sons d'sons (Cecil Taylor - Tony Oxley Duo at the Village Vanguard 7/16-20/08), James Blood Ulmer at Bryant Park (JVC Festival 6/29/94), and confessional
by Steve Dalachinsky, October 2008
"we are faced / defaced
looking into the actions of usurers
we are listening /listed
not listless tho at times one needs
more with than as tentative aftersound"
good news about the airborne resurrection blues, lament, brief encounter (2 star hotel)
by Aryan Kaganof, October 2008
"in the back of the rapidly descending airborne vehicle
a baby was violently screaming
and being screamed back at
by a pair of ruthless incompetents"
Domesticity, The Cosmos Speaks, and Getting Through the Workday
by Chris D'Errico, August 2008
"beyond my weathered concept of the absolute
the vehicle that goes a little less pretty
oh ugly broken nose of time"
Confetti, Breast Milk, and Don't Come to Sing Around Here
by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, August 2008
"Judge, you have to set me free.
You know I brought confetti
To celebrate my release."
Carver Country, Prospects, and In the Big Sky Country
by Sean Patrick Hill, August 2008
"Old mills get new coats
of green paint to blend in,
but one blow and they fold
like cheap suits."
Repercussions, Scabbed and Dangerous, and Consequences
by Cynthia Ruth Lewis, August 2008
"all eyes were riveted on that performance, all
critical decisions delayed, the entire world
revolving around that poised and hovering
blade"
Untimeliness and Best friends
by Robert Louis Henry, August 2008
"We hang arms over shoulders,
Death and I, howling our rough notes,
A restlessness seething in growth,
Cracking hairs split in full fists,
Fair Hearing I and II
by Martha L. Deed, August 2008
"My neighbor, Calamity Jane, was waiting for me at the white picket fence
that divides our yards when I came outside to hang my clothes up on the line,
to shrink my carbon footprint in the rain. CC hailed me between thunderclaps,
her hands clenched around the slats, knuckles white with upset. I know the signs."
At About 4am and Scruples Are Only Useful Sometimes
by Ānanda Selah Ösel, August 2008
"there is still no
roof over the
mountains"
Saladin in the Dragon
by Ryan Undeen, August 2008
'Saladin, in severing,
"Children as their maker made them,
Enter every difference
That instrument can annotate;'
Three Poems from The Book L.
by Louise Landes Levi, August 2008
"found myself in the oscillating warmth of
an ocean I had formerly
neglected"
Selections from ¡Presente!
by Leigh Herrick and Branko Gulin, July 2008
"the bit about the silence and the
bombing of the peace and the
silence and the shelling
and the selling of the bombing"
Route Toward Unease, Of Course, and Greetings
by Felino Soriano, July 2008
"Before the death of you, the ending
symbol was a gratitude echo
retrieving itself from the lips of
a sadistic spill. Held your thought,"
