Gonzalinho da Costa I like my tea hot and sweet— hot thermal blooms, sweet billowing mists— suffusing beverage of crow-black herbs, white-petal clouds, distilled memories, prophetic dreams. Gonzalinho da Costa—a pen name—is a management research andcommunication professional who writes poetry as a hobby.
Read MoreGonzalinho da Costa I like my coffee hot and black— hot hornet stings, black squid ink— heady broth of bitter cumin, red pine smoke, dusky forests, blue lightning. Gonzalinho da Costa—a pen name—is a management research andcommunication professional who writes poetry as a hobby.
Read Morejimat achmadi Mendengar nyanyian katak saat mata mulai mengantuk, seekor kunang-kunang menerangi mimpi. Listening to the frog’s song a firefly lights up my dream. jimat achmadi was born in Yogyakarta, writing to unravel himself on a traffic-jam.
Read MoreSteve Klepetar By the River Two girls, at most sixteen, pink hair, blue hair, frayed jean shorts, tee shirts with stenciled names and faces of bands, thin arms glowing in pale sunlight, talk softly, quiet children awed by mallards swimming in ripples not fifty yards from shore. Steve Klepetar lives near the Mississippi River in […]
Read MoreGil Hoy Phantom Limbs Stir the carrots in rabbit stew, fur hats squeak with hunger pangs. Gil Hoy writes poems in Boston, reads Wallace Stevens and tries cases before juries.
Read MoreG. Louis Heath Iowa Gourmet Coffee Shop Nose rings in poetry slam meet seed caps in pinochle game. G. Louis Heath teaches at Ashford University in Clinton, Iowa.
Read MoreSeth Berg Blue Jays They fight like street brawlers painted periwinkle, coniferous punks prettied up for a house show packed with posers. Seth Berg is a hot-sauce-addicted artifact-maker who has written a couple contest-winning poetry collections, Muted Lines from Someone Else’s Memory (2010) and The Aviary (2016) and fathered two munchkins named Oak and […]
Read MoreBrent Goodman Discovery Channel Whale dreams chart our Earth’s curve. Brent Goodman is an MFA poet turned haiku poet turned invisible poet living in Wisconsin’s Northwoods with his foldable mountain bike and three rescued cats.
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