F. J. Bergmann Vodka over Ice What he read wasn’t a eulogy or a poem, but a highway map, and I could already see the story funneling his adoration of his grandfather into infidelity, obesity and alcoholism fifty years down the road. F.J. Bergmann is tempted away from the virtues of simplicity far too often. […]
Read MoreRon. Lavalette Commute It’s both, they tell him, particle and wave and under the sub-zero winter solstice moon he brushes off the photons and swims to work. Ron. Lavalette collects his many published works at EGGS OVER TOKYO.
Read MoreCorey Mesler on One Sentence Poems.
Read MoreCorey Mesler Into Pain I went up high reaching beyond myself and came down into pain, into the awful military aging of my unpleasant fevered skeleton. Corey Mesler owns a bookstore in Memphis, and writes poetry, short stories and novels.
Read MoreDan Slaten Dream Archeology Long after the first wave of looting ceased the archeologist knew, from experience, there were still treasures to be found closer to the heart of the dream. Dan Slaten writes short stories and poetry in small notebooks and on sticky notes.
Read MoreTricia Knoll Dictionary of Cross-Cultural Vocabulary 10,000 Klingon words for warfare— as if this needs counting. Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet. Her website is triciaknoll.com.
Read MoreJason Heroux Dear North America I love the way your empty shopping carts always fit so perfectly inside each other, and the dark lollipop of your stop sign’s shadow. Jason Heroux’s most recent book is the poetry collection Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines (Mansfield Press, April 2016)
Read MoreBrad Rose Yes, But They’re All Robots (Found Poem—New York Times 1/8/2016) U.S employers added 292,000 workers in December, an impressive sprint capping off a year of solid job growth. Kenneth Patchen’s Poem “The Man Who Was Shorter than Himself,” was written about Brad Rose. Links to Brad’s published poetry and fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com/
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