Barbara E. Young Wild Blackberry Jam The morning rose foggy with nothing of the night’s roiling, window-rocking storm left behind, only guitar-pick-shaped petals, ivory, scattered on the porch under the ladderback chair. Barbara E. Young lives on a windy ridge twenty-odd miles west of her Nashville birthplace.
Read MoreAlexandra Egan February 17th On my mother’s birthday Earle and I eat Thai food and he puts his hand on my hair, on my ear, tells me to take antidepressants. Alexandra Egan is a writer and set designer living in Brooklyn.
Read MoreGil Hoy Threw It Away Years Ago I’ve no use for a stainless steel lightweight, corrosive resistant contraption that encumbers my wrist and can’t tell me anything useful anyway: Like when my kids might grow up, my heart will stop beating or the last polar bear will step off the last piece of melting sea […]
Read MoreDevon Balwit In Memoriam in me also, bright sulfur, the flare of a dying empire, the insistence that you notice even as I am going down // in each upturned face a wince, a thrill at the blast not quite close enough to feel Devon Balwit: “But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— [I […]
Read MoreHowie Good The Rise and Fall of Rock Stars The night Elvis died on the toilet he was like a circus without wild animals. Howie Good is on the pavement, thinking about the government.
Read MoreFrom Your Editors One Sentence Poems is taking a short break starting today and resuming publication on July 3. Dale, Elizabeth, & Tony are the editors of One Sentence Poems.
Read MoreChris Callard Cheer Up, Pal When nights are lonesome and days feel phony, think of the poor old abalone. Chris Callard lives in Lakewood, CA, adjacent to the literary and sports center of Long Beach.
Read MoreScott Hughes Will You died two years ago, but since you don’t have a gravesite, I find myself still leaving you messages on social media, digital prayers that I hope reach you through the code of zeroes and ones. Scott Hughes wants you to read some of his other writing at https://www.writescott.com/
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