A Poetry Squawk By Laura McCullough Author of Jersey Mercy and Panic. Robert Frost said that poetry is about grief and politics is about grievance, and yet we often come to our poetry with grievances, old and new, personal or global, and it is sometimes easier to speak of them than it is to dig […]
LeVan D. Hawkins I Gotta Dance Head tossed back Hands raised to the heavens Beatific smile on my face My body Works with the rhythm Grooves to the rhythm People on the sidewalk Frown and shake their heads They don’t understand I gotta dance Can’t take no more sorrow Can’t take no more meanness If […]
Davi Walders The Thirteenth Floor And not to have is the beginning of desire. —Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” Enter the clatter and clutter of the thirteenth floor, the chaos of children under clinical light. This is the land where they wait, thin as spidery ferns, in wheel chairs hooked to Critikons feeding […]
Patrick Donnelly Consummatum Est With the certainty theologians claim for the salvation worked by Christ— effects not yet seen, but the end not in doubt— some women look back and know the exact moment they conceived. He brought me home from the baths and fed me takeout Chinese. I remember succulent little bits of egg […]